Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children

The Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics is pleased to announce the upcoming lecture: "Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children with Dr Robert Klitzman."

Robert Klitzman, MD, is Director of Columbia's Masters of Bioethics Program, and a member of the Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics. A prolific writer, he will be speaking on his newest book, Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children, published this year by Oxford University Press. Books will be available for purchase.

Since the first "test tube baby" was born over 40 years ago, In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies. The possibilities of this rapidly developing technology are astounding--especially in the United States. As these possibilities are increasingly realized, physicians in many specialties, from OB/GYN and pediatrics to genetics, internal medicine, and psychiatry, along with potential parents and policymakers, face complex and critical questions about the use--or possible misuse--of ARTs.

Dinner will be served.

Please RSVP to er277 [[at]] cumc [[dot]] columbia [[dot]] edu (er277[at]cumc[dot]columbia[dot]edu).