About The Einstein Cardozo Bioethics programs focus on practical work in bioethics, including consultation, mediation, and research ethics. Mindful of our home in New York City, we address the challenges that affect a racially and ethnically diverse urban population. We offer a year-long Certificate, as well as a Master of Science in Bioethics. Our approach to Bioethics is grounded in clinical work, as a legacy of the pathbreaking Clinical Bioethics work of Nancy Dubler and colleagues at Montefiore. Professor Dubler started one of the earliest Clinical Bioethics Consultation services in the US, which remains among the most active. The Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics houses the education programs, as well as the Bioethics Committee and a host of related Bioethics programs. Learn More Our Mission Our goal is to provide bioethics training that will improve clinician knowledge and skill, empower patients, and promote the development of ethically sound healthcare policy. We offer training programs to meet the needs of health and legal professionals, including those who serve on ethics committees, institutional review boards, and other health-related decision-making bodies that make ethically complex assessments. Our History Our bioethics programs are among the earliest in the US, and began in 1995 with the Certificate Program, a collaboration between Montefiore and Columbia University, founded by bioethics pioneers Nancy Dubler and the late David Rothman. The Master of Science in Bioethics started in 2010 under the direction of Tia Powell, in collaboration with Ed Stein and Cardozo Law. Our programs have always featured a rich academic mix of medicine, law, philosophy, and narrative. In any given class, students may read a Supreme Court decision, a clinical case and a short story. Faculty over the years include a Who’s Who of bioethics and the medical humanities in America: Rita Charon, Barron Lerner, Jeff Blustein, the late John Arras and Adrienne Asch, and many others. Among our hundreds of alumni are many leaders in healthcare ethics who credit the program with dramatically changing the direction of their career. Clinical ethics has always been a strength of the program, drawing upon the thousands of cases and faculty experience from Montefiore Medical Center. Student Spotlight Our students include doctors, lawyers, nurses, social workers, a range of other professionals, law and medical students and recent college graduates. They have as a common goal the desire to understand and balance the relationship between complicated medical issues and choices and the firmly held values of patients, families and providers. Pablo Cuartas Read Pablo's Interview Jessica A. Rosh Read Jessica's Interview Learning Objectives The goal of the Masters' Program and the Certificate Program is to train future and current professionals to translate bioethical theory into practice, with a focus on service-oriented aspects of bioethics; these include clinical bioethics consultation, health care ethics policy and the ethical practice of research involving human subjects. Our Curriculum Our integration of narrative approaches, consultation and mediation skills, along with legal and public health expertise, provides a carefully thought-out and unique approach to bioethics education. Learn More Our Faculty and Staff With our notable faculty and diverse, multidisciplinary programming, we provide the teaching and interactive experiences that allow healthcare and legal professionals to be leaders in the expanding field of bioethics. Elizabeth Chuang, MD, MPH Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics Dr. Chuang is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Dr. Chuang’s research and pedagogy focuses on clinician communication with patients and families in the setting of terminal illness and the bioethical implications of providing end-of-life care to marginalized communities. Her research and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding have garnered national recognition, and she is a sought-after speaker on disparities in end-of-life care and has numerous publications in the field. She teaches Research Ethics and has lectured on the implications of structural and institutional racism for health disparities research. She has also published and lectured on Crisis Standards of Care and ethical problems in scarce resource allocation. She formerly practiced Palliative Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center for more than a decade. View Profile Lauren Flicker Director, Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics and Associate Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics Lauren Sydney Flicker teaches Death & Dying, Personhood, Reproductive Ethics and the Law, and Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Her scholarship focuses on reproductive ethics, ethical issues in end of life care, and ethics consultation. Prior to joining the Center for Bioethics, Professor Flicker was a fellow in the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics, a multi-institutional program administered by the Cleveland Clinic. In 2010, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and an adjunct professor at Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University of Philadelphia. She formerly practiced law at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in New York. View Profile Paola Nicolas Paola Nicolas, Ph.D, M.B.E, HEC-C, is Assistant Director for the Bioethics Education Programs at Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics. She is also assistant professor in the Biomedical Ethics & Humanities Program at New York Medical College, School of Medicine (NYMC). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, a Certificate in bioethics from Columbia University and a M.B.E. from Montefiore-Einstein School of Medicine. Prior to NYMC, she was a clinical ethics fellow at Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and got accredited as a health care ethics consultant (HEC-C). She taught philosophical ethics and bioethics at University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Fordham University, New York University, City University of New York and Montefiore-Einstein School of Medicine. Her areas of research are clinical ethics, European bioethics & Feminist Bioethics. She is particularly dedicated to address healthcare disparities and increase awareness regarding diversity issues. In addition, Paola Nicolas is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm) and passed the “agrégation de philosophie” (the most competitive examination in philosophy in France). AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Philosophy, European Bioethics, Feminist Bioethics. View Profile Stacy Govan Center and Programs Manager Stacy Govan specializes in finance, tax and grant administration as well as the management of clinical services and educational programs. She has been an Associate at H & R Block for several years and has worked at Lehman College's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Tia Powell Senior Associate Tia Powell is recognized for her work in ethics education, end of life care, organ transplantation, ethics consultation and ethics policy, especially regarding public health disasters. She has served on several Institute of Medicine workgroups related to disaster response and planning, including becoming co-author of its 2009 report on standards of care in disasters, and co-chair of its current study on access to antibiotics in case of anthrax attack. She was also co-author of the landmark 2007 Chest series of articles on disaster preparation, and has served on the 2010 CDC workgroup assessing pediatric implications of disaster policies. She was formerly the Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, which functions as New York State’s Governor-appointed bioethics commission. She founded the Ethics Consultation Service at Columbia Presbyterian in 1992, and has provided bioethics expertise to numerous groups, including the New York State Cardiac Advisory Committee, the Empire State Stem Cell Ethics Committee, and the federal Secretary's Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections (SACHRP). She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Powell is a member of the original faculty of the Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, and has delighted in teaching bioethics for nearly twenty years. View Profile Nancy N. Dubler Senior Associate Nancy Dubler lectures internationally on a range of bioethics issues, most particularly bioethics mediation and human subjects research. She founded and directed the Bioethics Consultation Service at Montefiore Medical Center (1978-2008) as a support for analysis of difficult clinical cases presenting ethical issues in the health care setting; this service uses mediation as its primary intervention. She also founded and directed the Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities (1995 to 2008). She is the author of numerous articles and books on ethical issues in research with human subjects, termination of care, home care and long-term care, geriatrics, adolescent medicine, prison and jail health care, and AIDS. Her recent books are: Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, with Carol Liebman, Vanderbilt University Press (2011); Ethics for Health Care Organizations: Theory, Case Studies, and Tools, with Jeffrey Blustein and Linda Farber Post (2002); The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects, with Coleman, Menikoff and Goldner (Lexis/Nexis, 2005); and Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees, with Post and Blustein (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007). She is currently Consultant for Ethics at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the nation’s largest public hospital system. View Profile Alan Fleischman Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health Alan Fleischman has published and lectured extensively in many areas of perinatal medicine and has been a pioneer in the field of bioethics and research ethics, emphasizing the rights of individual patients and the responsibilities of health care professionals and organizations. His positions have included, for Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Center Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Director of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics. He became Senior Vice President and Medical Director of the March of Dimes Foundation where he developed multiple clinical and research initiatives to prevent preterm birth, infant mortality and birth defects. Dr. Fleischman has been a consultant to the National Institute of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is an elected Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hastings Center and an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was also a founding member of the New York State Governor's Task Force on Life and the Law (Bioethics Commission) and served for 27 years. View Profile Danielle Spencer Danielle Spencer is the author of Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity (Oxford University Press, 2020) and co-author of Perkins-Prize-winning The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (OUP, 2017). Academic Director of the Columbia University Master of Science in Narrative Medicine Program, her scholarly and creative work appears in diverse outlets, from The Lancet to Ploughshares. Spencer’s scholarly interests include narrative ethics as well as speculative fiction and bioethics. Formerly artist/musician David Byrne’s Art Director, Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is a 2019 MacDowell Fellow and 2020 Yaddo Fellow. www.daniellespencer.com View Profile Carolyn P. Neuhaus, PhD Carolyn P. Neuhaus, Ph.D. is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center. She explores philosophical and ethical questions that arise throughout biomedical research and medical practice, from the philosophical foundations of the use of animals in biomedical research to the development of digital medicine and use of AI in healthcare. Prior to joining The Hastings Center, she was Rudin Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics of NYU School of Medicine, and received her PhD in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. View Profile Adira Hulkower Adira Hulkower is chief of the Bioethics Consultation Service at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to bioethics consultation, Prof. Hulkower teaches bioethics to the medical students and medical residents. Prof. Hulkower’s research interests include ethical issues in safe discharge planning, narrative ethics, and advance care planning. Prior to joining the Center for Bioethics Prof. Hulkower was a trial and appellate attorney for the Legal Aid Society, where she represented children in abuse, neglect and juvenile delinquency cases. She received her JD from the Benjamin N Cardozo school of law and her Masters in Bioethics from Columbia University. View Profile Edward Stein Edward Stein is a Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law in New York City and the Director of the Gertrud Mainzer Program in Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from M.I.T. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA Law School and UC-Hastings School of Law and was the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before arriving at Cardozo, he taught philosophy at Yale University, NYU, Williams College, and Mount Holyoke College. He also clerked for Judge Dolores Sloviter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Stein’s research interests include legal and philosophical topics related to families, sexual orientation, bioethics, cognition, and science. He has written extensively on these and other legal, philosophical, and scientific topics and is the author of two books, The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, both published by Oxford University Press, and the editor of an anthology, The Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy, published by Routledge. View Profile Angela Rossetti Ms. Rossetti is a senior biopharmaceutical executive who brings more than 20 years of industry experience. As of March 28, 2022, she was elected to the board of Aethlon Medical Inc. a medical technology company focused on developing products to diagnose and treat life and organ threatening diseases. She has served as a strategic consultant to Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since October 2021, and prior to this was a consultant to Celgene Corporation. From June 2015 through July 2017, Ms. Rossetti held the position of Executive Vice President of Cell Machines, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel protein therapies where she assisted with the commercialization of technology for hemophilia and other diseases. Ms. Rossetti has held a number of positions within pharmaceutical commercial development, marketing, communications and finance, including Vice President of a Global Commercial Medicine Team at Pfizer Inc., where she led a global smoking cessation campaign. Shje is also a charter member of the Biopharmaceutical lndustry Bioethics Forum, initiated by Eli Lily in 2016. Ms. Rossetti currently holds positions as an adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical and Pharmaceutical Ethics at New York Medical College and an Adjunct Associate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Ms. Rossetti graduated from Einstein-Cardozo Bioethics Program with an M.S. in Bioethics. She received an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Biology and English from the University of Pennsylvania. View Profile