Appointments:
Director
Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics
Certificate and Masters Programs in Bioethics

Chief
Bioethics Committee for Montefiore Medical Center

Professor
Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health
Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Education:
BA, Harvard University
MD, Yale Medical School
Residency, Psychiatry, Columbia Presbyterian
Fellowship, Consultation-Liaison, Columbia Presbyterian

Lauren Flicker

Appointment:
Assistant Professor

Epidimeology and Population Health

Associate Director 

Certificate and Masters Program in Bioethics
Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics

Education:
BA, Law and Society,Oberlin College
MBE, Bioethics,University of Pennsylvania
JD, University of Pennsylvania

Contact:
lflicker@montefiore.org
718.920.4630

Bio:
Lauren Sydney Flicker teaches Policy Writing, Reproductive Ethics & 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, Ms. Flicker 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.

Stacy Govan

Appointment:
Center and Programs Manager
Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics

Education:
BS, Accounting, Lehman College, CUNY
MS, Taxation, Baruch College, CUNY

Contact:
sgovan@montefiore.org
718.920.4630

Bio:
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.

Nancy N. Dubler 

Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics

Professor Emerita 

  Department of Family and Social Medicine
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Education:
BA, Barnard College
LLB, Harvard Law School

Contact:
nancyadubler@gmail.com
212.362.3649

Bio:
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.

Alan Fleischman

Appointments:
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Education:
BS, City College of New York
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Pediatric Residency, John Hopkins Hospital
Fellowship in Perinatal Physiology, National Institute of Health
Royal Society of Medicine Fellowship in Perinatology, Oxford University

Contact:
arf@fleischman.net  

Bio:
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.

David N. Hoffman

   Appointments: 

Adjunct Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
Clinical Instructor, Albert Einstein Colege of Medicine
Lecturer, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Education:
BA, Political Science, University of Buffalo
JD, SUNY Buffalo Law School

Contact:
davhoffm@einsteinmed.org 

646.522.6363

Bio:
David N. Hoffman is a health care attorney and clinical ethicist, and is the Chief Compliance Officer for PAGNY, P.C. (the Physician Affliate Group of New York), where he supports the medical staff of six New York City Health + Hospitals facilities in ethical practice and legal compliance.  David has written on a variety of healthcare subjects including use of medical imaging technology in litigation, equal protection rights of physicians, and regulatory responses to the emerging physician shortage, and has served on and advised hospital ethics committees and institutional review boards.  He was a member of the faculty of the Montefiore Medical Center/N.Y.U. Pilot Certificate Program on Human Research Subject Protection.  David is a volunteer member of the Surrogate Decision-making Committee of the New York State Department of Health, Commission on Quality of Care/Justice Center.  He served as the Chair of the Committee on Bio-ethical Issues of the Association of teh Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY), and as a member of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association.  He previously served as the Legislative Liaison for the Special Committee on Medical Malpractice at ABCNY, where he authored the Association's policy statement on the National Practitioner Databank.  He also chaired the ABCNY Sub-Committee on human transplant organ procurement.  Mr. Hoffman completed the pilot post-graduate program in Bio-Ethics and the Medical Humanities, of Columbia University/Montefiore Medical Center. 

Elizabeth Kitsis

Appointments:
Director of Bioethics Education (for medical students)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Medicine (Rheumatology)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Education:
BS, Tufts University
MD, Cornell University Medical College
MBE, University of Pennsylvania

Contact:
elizabeth.kitsis@einsteinmed.org
718.430.4242

Bio:
Elizabeth Kitsis's research and teaching focuses on pharmaceutical ethics and conflict of interest, as well as ethical issues related to physician shadowing. Before arriving at Einstein, she was a vice president at Pfizer Inc, where she introduced a course on research ethics. As Director of Bioethics Education at the medical school, she develops and leads the bioethics curriculum for Einstein students, and also conducts research on bioethics learning. She is a member of Einstein's Bioethics Committee, the Institutional Review Board, and the Committee on Conflict of Interest. A practicing rheumatologist, she is also a member of the American College of Rheumatology Committee on Ethics and Conflict of Interest.

Carol B. Liebman

Appointments:
Founder, Mediation Clinic
Director, Negotiation Workshop
Columbia Law School

Clinical Professor of Law
Columbia Law School

Education:
BA, Wellesley College
MA, Rutgers University
JD, Boston University School of Law

Contact:
cliebman@law.columbia.edu
212.854.8557

Bio:
Carol Liebman is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer in conflict resolution, and has taught negotiation and mediation in Vietnam, Israel, Brazil and China. She has mediated cases involving medical malpractice, discrimination, family issues, public agencies, community disputes, business conflicts and educational institutions. She has designed and presented mediation training for The Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities; New York’s First Department, Appellate Division, Attorney Disciplinary Committee; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and high school students, parents and teachers. Her positions have included membership in New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (2003-2009) and co-principal investigator for the Demonstration Mediation and ADR Project, a part of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania (http:/medliabilitypa.org) funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. She is the co-principal investigator for the Mediating Suits Against Hospitals (MeSH) study and co-authored, with Nancy Dubler, Bioethics Mediation, A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, (2004; Revised and Expanded Edition, Vanderbilt University Press, 2011). 

Hannah I. Lipman

Appointments:
Director of Bioethics

Hackensack University Medical Center 

Education:
BA, Economics, Northwestern University
MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
Fellowship, Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center
Fellowships in Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Mount Sinai

Contact:
hlipman@montefiore.org
718.920.4630

Bio:
Hannah Lipman specializes in ethics consultation, bioethics education and ethics issues arising in geriatrics and cardiology. She is a graduate of the Montefiore-Einstein Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and as chief of the Bioethics Consultation Service leads a multidisciplinary team of professionals who help health care providers, patients and families resolve ethical dilemmas. She honed her skills in ethics education after receiving a HRSA-funded Geriatric Academic Career Award to develop geriatrics informed curricula in surrogate decision-making, and teaches bioethics to a variety of learners focusing on communication skills, conflict resolution, surrogate decision making and caring for patients without capacity who refuse treatment. She is currently piloting a multi-institutional study on the ethical implications of ICD therapy, and is also the co-chair of the system-wide work group charged with implementing the Family Health Care Decisions A Ruth Macklin

Appointments:
Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Education:
BA, Philosophy, Cornell University
PhD, Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University

Contact:
ruth.macklin@einsteinmed.org
718.430.3574

Bio:
Ruth Macklin is an internationally recognized expert in international bioethics and global health ethics. She has been teaching and doing research in bioethics since 1971 and has been a member of the Einstein faculty since 1980. She is author or editor of eleven books and has published more than 200 articles in scholarly and professional journals. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and serves on two committees at the World Health Organization: the HIV Vaccine Advisory Committee and the Research Proposal Review Panel in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research. For the past ten years she has been director or co-director of an NIH Fogarty International Center training program in research ethics in Latin America. She is a past president of the International Association of Bioethics, and past chair of the Ethics Review Committee at UNAIDS and the external Ethics Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Edward Reichman

Appointments:
Department of Emergency Medicine
Jacobi Medical Center

Professor
Clinical Emergency Medicine
Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Education:
BA, Yeshiva University
Rabbinic Ordination, Yeshiva University
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Residency in Emergency Medicine, Jacobi/Montefiore

Contact:
ereichman@montefiore.org
718.920.5731

Bio:
Ed Reichman's work is devoted to the interface of medical history and Jewish law. He writes and lectures widely in the field of Jewish medical ethics, and has combined his teaching with sustained mentorship at Yeshiva's Student Medical Ethics Society, since its inception in 2005. He is the recipient of a Kornfeld Foundation Fellowship, and has been a member of the advisory boards of the Institute for Genetics and Public Policy, the New York Organ Donor Network, the Halakhic Organ Donor Society, and the Rabbinical Council of America.

Danielle Spencer

Appointments:
Faculty, Columbia University Program in Narrative Medicine

Education:
BA, Yale University
MS, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

Contact:
spencer@caa.columbia.edu

 

Bio:
Danielle Spencer is a Faculty member of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, as well as the Einstein-Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics program in New York. Spencer presents regularly at medical humanities and bioethics conferences and has been published in The Lancet, WIRED, Creative Nonfiction, Esopus and The Hungarian Review.  She also worked as artist/musician David Byrne's Art Director for many years, as well as with photographer Nan Goldin, and studied literary theory in Paris.  Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University.

Edward Stein

Appointments:
Vice Dean
Director, Program in Family Law, Policy and Bioethics
Cardozo School of Law

Professor of Law
Cardozo School of Law

Education:
BA, Philosophy; Computer Science, Williams College
PhD, Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JD, Yale Law School

Contact:
estein2@yu.edu
212.790.0310

Bio:
Ed Stein specializes in family law, sexuality, gender and the law, and bioethics. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, he taught in philosophy departments at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College and New York University. In 2001-02, he clerked for Judge Dolores Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal, philosophical and scientific topics, including 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, as well as the editor of Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy. His current research focuses on issues at the intersection of family law and sexual orientation. He maintains a web site and a blog for the Huffington Post