Bioethics News Archive <<Back to Bioethics News & Impact Stories Category - Any -AlumniFacultyImpacts and InsightsIn the CommunityIn the MediaKnowledge BaseOffice of the DeanPress ReleaseResearch & PublicationsSchoolStaffStudent In the Media Letter to the Editor: Public Health Questions The New York Times recently published Bioethics Program Director Dr. Robert Klitzman's letter to the editor in response to Pamela Paul's op-ed, "When Public Health Loses the Public." (The New York Times) Faculty, In the Media The Life-and-Death History Lesson That Doctors Aren’t Learning An interview with M.S. in Bioethics Program Director Robert Klitzman about bioethical atrocities during the Holocaust. (CNN) Faculty, In the Media Deleting Homosexuality From the DSM: 50th Anniversary Bioethics Program Director Robert Klitzman writes about fighting stigma and how to combat anti-LGBTQ+ policies today. (Psychology Today) Faculty, In the Media What I Learned About Aging and Purpose From Lauren Bacall Bob Klitzman, M.S. in Bioethics program director, writes how Bacall showed him how aging well requires maintaining our ideals. (Psychology Today) Alumni An “Intoxicating Blend of Working Professionals” How do SPS alumni become successful entrepreneurs? Here are their stories. Faculty Bioethics Assistant Professor Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Psilocybin Research The brief brings forth scientific evidence of the hallucinogen’s potential to treat suffering at the end-of-life. Faculty, Impacts and Insights Dr. Katrina Armstrong Discusses Distrust and Disparities in Health Care The Irving Medical Center CEO shared insights from her thirty-year career researching distrust in health care. Alumni A Columbia Gap Year Medical student Elizabeth Ng (right) took a chance on the SPS program in Bioethics. Here’s what she learned. Student From Physician to Patient Bioethics student Dr. Judy Fine-Edelstein confronts her own life-threatening disease. Student Bioethics Student Dr. Maya Dahan Co-Authors Neonatal Outcomes Op-Ed in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Journal Cognitive biases affect the way clinicians view neonatal outcomes, which, she writes, influences decision making. Faculty Is Depression Really Caused by a Chemical Imbalance? Columbia's M.S. in Bioethics Program Director Dr. Robert Klitzman weighed in on the bombshell new study. Student Career Design Lab Success Stories: Students Land Positions at Fidelity Investments, Johnson & Johnson, and the United Nations “Surrounding myself with people who work to support my growth and maintaining those great relationships really helped.” Load More Index accordion-expand-all Expand All 2019 December 3 JAMA Letter from Bioethics Alum Revisits Research on Separating Adopted Twins at Birth December 3 On the Learn for Life Podcast: Bioethics Academic Director Dr. Robert Klitzman December 3 Dr. Robert Klitzman Urges Regulatory Action on Gene Editing in Carnegie Council Podcast November 26 Bioethics Alum’s Medical Startup Secures Agreement for NASA Tech November 15 Science Writers Celebrate Bioethicist Dr. Robert Klitzman’s ‘Designing Babies’ November 12 Arjun Mann: Building a Strong Foundation For Medical School October 28 Scott Korotkin: An Ethical Path to Medical School October 21 Bioethics Academic Director Robert Klitzman on the Need for a Sperm Donor Registry September 17 "Designing Babies" by Dr. Robert Klitzman September 8 Alumna Bela Fishbeyn Leads the American Journal of Bioethics September 5 Bioethics Advisory Board Member to Lead Health Care Ethics at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs September 3 Before Med School, Bioethics Student Ali Schulz Is Writing Vital Work on Ethical Treatment in Nursing Homes August 16 Research Ethics Challenges at Universities August 16 Research Involving Terminal Cancer Patients Causes Controversy August 16 Genetic Engineering is Transforming Research Ethics July 30 Physician Aid-in-Dying Laws Spread Throughout U.S. July 23 Dr. Seth Waldman’s Quest for Ethics in Pain Management May 20 Dr. Robert Klitzman, Top Experts to Explore Ethics in Biotech Venture Investing May 6 Dr. Craig Blinderman Discusses the Ethics of Palliative Care May 6 Katrina Hui Applies Bioethics in Medical School and Beyond May 6 Marilyn Eshikena: Science and Beyond May 6 Jane Kang: At CUMC, Paying Forward Her Bioethics Knowledge May 6 Molly Lucas, Bioethics Student, Researches Addiction May 6 Getting a Job and Getting Into Med School with a Bioethics Degree March 18 Dr. Robert Klitzman: "Smart" Pills are Here and We Need to Consider the Risks January 3 Kira Peikoff and Robert Klitzman on Home Genetic Testing 2018 November 29 Dr. Robert Klitzman: Gene-Editing Claim is a ‘Slippery Slope to Designer Babies’ September 28 The Five Biggest Bioethical Issues of the Next Five Years September 24 SPS Welcomes Inaugural Master’s Cohorts in San Francisco August 29 Should You Clone Your Dog? August 1 David N. Hoffman Testifies on Proposed Medical Aid in Dying Bill July 31 Robert Klitzman: The Terminally Ill Should Be Allowed To Die July 13 Five Things to Know Before You Take a Home Genetic Test May 16 Dr. Robert Klitzman Analyzes 104-Year-Old's Doctor Assisted Suicide May 7 Dr. Robert Klitzman on New Depression Diagnostic Tests February 2 How Psychiatrists Can Best Help Our Country in the 2018 Election January 25 The First Cloning of Primates Poses Profound Ethical Questions January 9 Talks@Columbia Season 4 Launches 2017 October 17 Online Option Now Available for Bioethics Master’s Program June 6 Charlie Gard and the Difficulties of Life and Death Medical Care May 8 Four SPS Alumni and Students Awarded Fulbright Grants April 21 Robert Klitzman on the Risks of Becoming the Next Henrietta Lacks March 9 New Robert Klitzman Bioethics Paper on IVF February 22 The Secret to President Donald Trump's Success: Blame February 20 Bioethics Alumna Kaitlyn Arbour Honored at Tulane 2016 December 19 Bioethics Student Interview: Why Obamacare Isn't a Solution December 6 Bioethics Makes New Connections in China December 5 With Fertility Innovations, New Bioethical Questions Arise November 7 Dr. Mark Sauer on IVF in The New York Times October 27 Bioethics Certificate Student to Speak at Oxford October 6 Can a Baby Have Three Parents? August 30 Robert Klitzman on EpiPen's Price Hike August 11 Robert Klitzman on the Ethics of Human-Animal Embryos August 5 Robert Klitzman in the New York Times August 3 Why Donald Trump's Rhetoric Is Dangerous June 10 FASEB Journal on Klitzman's Ethics Police: "This is an important book." June 8 Robert Klitzman Celebrates the Life of Neurologist Oliver Sacks June 2 ‘The Ethics Police’ Asks Who Regulates Medical Research June 2 Did “VIP Syndrome” Play a Role in Prince’s Death? May 23 Extraordinary Columbians Honored With Awards at Graduation May 23 Should You Take a Genetics Test? May 20 Preparing to Succeed Today: School of Professional Studies Celebrates Its First Graduating Class May 9 Health Affairs Reviews ‘The Ethics Police?’ May 7 Bioethicists Discuss Gene Editing's Deadly Potential April 29 Robert Klitzman Talks Gene Editing on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson April 20 Do Ethicists Hinder HIV Prevention Research? April 20 Ten Students Awarded Innovation Scholarships April 20 Bioethics Alumna Kira Peikoff on IVF Embryo Testing April 4 How Goldman Sachs Drives Culture Change in the Financial Industry April 3 Are “VIP” Patients Worth Breaking Hospital Protocols? March 29 Seven Tips on Publishing Your Bioethics Article March 11 6 Tips on Applying to Graduate School March 7 Klitzman on Diagnosing the Presidential Candidates March 4 Robert Klitzman and Bioethics Students Publish Journal Article March 1 Klitzman on IVF and Choosing a Child’s Sex March 1 Dr. Mark Sauer on the Ethics of Choosing a Baby's Sex February 17 Robert Klitzman on Gene Editing February 15 Connecting Business and Academia in the Hub of Miami February 15 Voices in Bioethics Announces Partnership With Chinese University of Hong Kong February 15 Robert Klitzman on the Threat of Bioterrorism February 11 Program Director Robert Klitzman’s Latest Book Reviewed by BioNews February 9 Sharyn O’Halloran’s Three Pillars for SPS Academic Excellence February 8 TD Magazine Reviews Dean Jason Wingard’s Latest Book, Learning to Succeed February 1 Alumna Kira Peikoff: NASH is a Health Threat February 1 Three Major Changes in the New Normal Market January 26 Robert Klitzman: The Fraught Role of IRBs January 22 From Columbia to Outer Space January 19 Robert Klitzman On Examining Ethical Review Boards January 14 Bioethics Director Robert Klitzman: Charlie Sheen and Attitudes About AIDS January 13 Organizational Strategy and Learning: The Birth of Comcast University 2015 December 11 Kira Peikoff Writes on CPR in The New York Times December 7 Robert Klitzman on Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Donald Trump December 7 Dr. Robert Klitzman on the Numinous Side of Medicine December 1 Dr. Robert Klitzman Weighs in on Medical Intern Study November 17 Publishers Weekly Lauds Klitzman’s Book on IRBs November 16 Bioethics Alumnus Obiora N. Anekwe Writes Children’s Book November 16 The New York Review of Books Explores Klitzman's Latest Book November 2 Robert Klitzman and Joseph Fins Discuss Patients in Liminal States of Consciousness November 2 Dr. Klitzman: In Incurable Cases, the Best We Can Do Is Provide Comfort October 26 Klitzman: Compensations for Egg Donors Raise Risks of Eugenics October 19 Klitzman: Are Pharma Prices Unethical? October 14 Dr. Klitzman on Genetic Tests in Psychiatry October 9 Robert Klitzman on Ohio Proposal to Ban Down Syndrome Abortions October 6 Dr. Klitzman: Genetic Tests Don’t Tell All September 14 Dean: We’re Training the Leaders of Tomorrow August 24 Robert Klitzman: Human Subject Research and Its Discontents July 22 Klitzman: Home DNA Kits May Not Offer Ancestry Answers July 1 Dr. James Colgrove Talks Vaccination Ethics for Voices in Bioethics Podcast June 8 Bioethics Director Explores the Power and Limits of IRBs May 13 Dr. Klitzman: Why I Wanted to Investigate IRBs May 11 With Modern Families, New Ethical Questions Arise April 17 Dr. Klitzman Debuts His New Book “The Ethics Police?” April 6 Klitzman: When Violating Patient Confidentiality is Necessary April 2 Klitzman: After Germanwings, a Reconsideration of Patient Confidentiality April 1 Klitzman on CNN: Should doctor have told co-pilot's employer of problems? March 25 Bioethics Director Recommends How We Should Address Subway Germs – and Fears March 24 Robert Klitzman on Discovering One’s Ancestry Through Genetic Testing March 18 Dr. Robert Klitzman on Genetic Testing and Cheating the System February 25 How to Game a Job Search February 12 On Anti-Vaxxers: Robert Klitzman Explores the Legacy of Public Health Backlashes February 10 Robert Klitzman: Three Parents, One Baby? Not at All February 9 Robert Klitzman: How Fraud Underlies Anti-Vaccine Claims February 6 Robert Klitzman: Three-Parent Babies? “It’s More of a Transplant.” February 6 Robert Klitzman: Doctor, Have You Had Your DNA Tested? February 3 Bioethics Student Kira Peikoff: No Smoke, but Haze Around E-Joint January 14 Bioethics Program Director Discusses the Troubling Implications of Genetic Sequencing 2014 December 19 2014’s Best Videos from the School of Professional Studies October 31 Getting Into Graduate School: What Do Admissions Directors Seek in an Application? October 21 On HuffPost Live, Robert Klitzman Addresses the Ethical Issues That Surround Discussions of Ebola October 9 Careers in Bioethics: Jonathan Haidt Discusses Sanctity Versus Care September 5 Robert Klitzman Explores the Connection Between Culture, Rituals, and Disease Transmission August 22 Bioethics Director Robert Klitzman on the Spiritual Needs of Cancer Patients August 19 Bioethics Director Comments on the Ethics of Treating Ebola with Experimental Drugs August 13 On ABC News, Robert Klitzman Explores the Ethics of New Ebola Treatment July 22 Dr. Robert Klitzman Named 2014 Hastings Center Fellow July 3 Bioethics Professor Dr. Robert Klitzman Calls Facebook Mood Manipulation Study "Scandalous" June 25 Prof. David Rosner, Expert on Lead Poisoning, Speaks With The Baltimore Sun July 11 Moving Closer to Genetically Engineered 'Designer Babies' June 10 Genetics In Court Is a Very Messy Business May 11 Making Organ Donations Worthwhile April 28 First Stem Cells Cloned From Diabetes Patient, Thanks to Egg Donors April 25 Infertility, Endured Through a Prism of Race April 24 As Mixed-Status HIV Couples Weigh Risks, More Choose to Conceive the Old-Fashioned Way April 8 Fearing Punishment for Bad Genes March 20 Dr. Wendy Chung Delivers TED2014 Talk on Autism and Genetics March 18 New Health Law Is Sending Many Back to School March 16 Shop For a Cause: Each Item Has a Story at Accompany Boutique March 7 New Task Force on Personalized Medicine Takes Interdisciplinary Approach March 6 Northwestern U. Gets Renewed Grilling Over Unauthorized Tests on Patients March 3 Research to Save Lives February 22 Is Genetic Testing Humans Playing God? February 11 Reading a Newborn’s DNA January 15 Bioethics Student’s Artwork Chosen for ‘Academic Medicine’ Cover January 3 Kira Peikoff and Robert Klitzman on Home Genetic Testing 2013 December 31 I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results December 20 The Limited Effects of Angelina Jolie’s Efforts to Educate the Public About Breast Cancer Risk December 19 The Ethics and Controversies of Collecting DNA Information December 19 How Much is Too Much to Know About Your Own DNA? December 18 The FDA vs. 23andMe: A Lesson for Health Care Entrepreneurs December 9 What to Consider Before Undergoing a DNA Test December 9 The Case for Tolerating E-Cigarettes November 22 Robert Klitzman on Using Donor-Developed Embryos for IVF November 12 Bioethics Alumnus Starts E-Commerce Site for Ethical Fashion September 6 Cancer Gene Sequencing Raises New Medical Ethics Issues September 2 Henrietta Lacks' Genes and All of Yours? August 27 Does Progress Breed Mental Illness? August 7 Can We Control Our Own Genetic Destiny? July 24 How Much Should Patients Know About Their Own Genome? July 9 My Genome and Me June 4 The Problems with Money and Medical Testing May 21 Patent Protections Impede Public Health April 29 Debating the Ethics of Paying Donors for Organs April 16 Dr. Robert Klitzman Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship April 15 Recognizing the Anniversary of the Human Genome Map April 5 Online Bioethics Certification Program Debuts in September April 2 The Pros and Cons of "Designer Babies" April 2 Correcting Myths of the Left Brain and Right Brain February 8 Making Portraits Out of DNA January 6 Insights vs. Myths About the Brain January 6 How Do We Define Death? 2012 December 20 Am I My Genes? Medical Privacy For Royalty and the Rest of Us August 10 Many Egg-Donor Recruiters Ignore Ethical Standards July 28 Is Depression Inherited? July 2 A Court Allows Payment for Bone Marrow. Should People Be Able to Sell Their Parts? June 11 Bioethics and Fetal Genetic Testing Make National News May 31 The Doctor Will See Me...When? Patients, Patience and Care May 17 Success Story: Bioethics Student Wins Fulbright Scholarship May 14 Are We Our Genes? May 8 Have You Missed An Event With Our Bioethics Program Lately? May 7 Sharing Office Cubicles... And Diagnoses April 30 Don’t Mind Us Snooping Through Your Genes April 10 Genes and Autism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly April 3 Am I My Genes: Why Do I Have These Genes? Questions of Fate, Free Will, and Genetics April 2 UPDATED: Dr. Robert Klitzman's newest book, "Am I My Genes?" positively reviewed February 27 Bioethics Program Director Robert Klitzman on the NPR program Talk of the Nation January 20 When Scientists Lie 2011 November 30 World AIDS Day 2011: Entering The Fourth Decade Of HIV September 11 The Uses and Misuses of 9/11 August 15 Pathogens May Change, but the Fear Is the Same May 19 DNA Test Picks Child's Sport May 17 Can a Blood Test Determine How Long People Will Live? May 4 Organ Donations and Facebook: The Perfect Match? May 3 My Sister, My Grief February 24 Family Pushes for Change in Donor Compensation January 18 Two of New York’s Killers on the Run 2010 December 10 The New Frontier of Surrogate Pregnancy December 1 Master of Science in Bioethics Program Hosts First Online Information Session November 19 Who Made Me? The Ethical Issues That IVF Families Face August 30 Conservatives Killing Research That Could Potentially Save Millions of Americans August 24 Scientists Dismayed by Stem Cell Research Ruling August 11 Be Part of the Solution June 21 Ethical Implications of HIV/AIDS May 20 Creating Synthetic Life: Your Questions Answered May 14 'Just Sign the Form': Informed Consent, Medical Research and You April 25 Death Panels or Dignity, and You... May 17 Praying for Doctors and Patients 2009 December 9 New Masters Programs Added in Sustainability and Bioethics November 24 President Obama Establishes New Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues October 14 IVF Websites Often Mum on Embryo Gene Test Risks August 27 When the Patient Is a V.I.P. July 22 New York’s Recent Policy Shift Could Make it the Stem Cell Capital of the Country June 26 New York State Allows Payment for Egg Donations for Research June 12 Mastering Bioethics: Science Dilemmas Yield Demand for New Degree
In the Media Letter to the Editor: Public Health Questions The New York Times recently published Bioethics Program Director Dr. Robert Klitzman's letter to the editor in response to Pamela Paul's op-ed, "When Public Health Loses the Public." (The New York Times)
Faculty, In the Media The Life-and-Death History Lesson That Doctors Aren’t Learning An interview with M.S. in Bioethics Program Director Robert Klitzman about bioethical atrocities during the Holocaust. (CNN)
Faculty, In the Media Deleting Homosexuality From the DSM: 50th Anniversary Bioethics Program Director Robert Klitzman writes about fighting stigma and how to combat anti-LGBTQ+ policies today. (Psychology Today)
Faculty, In the Media What I Learned About Aging and Purpose From Lauren Bacall Bob Klitzman, M.S. in Bioethics program director, writes how Bacall showed him how aging well requires maintaining our ideals. (Psychology Today)
Alumni An “Intoxicating Blend of Working Professionals” How do SPS alumni become successful entrepreneurs? Here are their stories.
Faculty Bioethics Assistant Professor Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Psilocybin Research The brief brings forth scientific evidence of the hallucinogen’s potential to treat suffering at the end-of-life.
Faculty, Impacts and Insights Dr. Katrina Armstrong Discusses Distrust and Disparities in Health Care The Irving Medical Center CEO shared insights from her thirty-year career researching distrust in health care.
Alumni A Columbia Gap Year Medical student Elizabeth Ng (right) took a chance on the SPS program in Bioethics. Here’s what she learned.
Student From Physician to Patient Bioethics student Dr. Judy Fine-Edelstein confronts her own life-threatening disease.
Student Bioethics Student Dr. Maya Dahan Co-Authors Neonatal Outcomes Op-Ed in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Journal Cognitive biases affect the way clinicians view neonatal outcomes, which, she writes, influences decision making.
Faculty Is Depression Really Caused by a Chemical Imbalance? Columbia's M.S. in Bioethics Program Director Dr. Robert Klitzman weighed in on the bombshell new study.
Student Career Design Lab Success Stories: Students Land Positions at Fidelity Investments, Johnson & Johnson, and the United Nations “Surrounding myself with people who work to support my growth and maintaining those great relationships really helped.”
