Louis Voigt
Speaker; Chair, Ethics Committee; Associate Attending Physician, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Louis Voigt is a graduate of the State University of Haiti School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship training in Pulmonary Disease at New York Methodist Hospital and fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He holds a Masters of Bioethics degree from Columbia University and certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Anesthesiology at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center he is an Associate Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Critical Care Medicine, the Chairperson of the Ethics Committee, and the Medical Consultant for Advanced Cardiac Life Support by the American Heart Association. Current research interests include ethical issues surrounding end of life care, decisional capacity, advance directives, decision-making processes for critically ill patients, and ICU-related complications such as delirium.