Columbia Unveils New Bioethics Center
Inaugural event to explore the present, future of bioethics
WHAT: The opening of the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, the first multidisciplinary center of its kind in New York City. Columbia will officially launch the center with a lecture by renowned sociologist and medical ethicist Renee C. Fox, Ph.D., Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fox will take this opportunity to provide an in-depth analysis and overview of current and future directions in bioethics.
WHY: Scientific and technological advances are rapidly transforming health, contemporary culture, and society—generating a number of medical, ethical, philosophical, legal, political, and other types of issues that are best explored through interdisciplinary analysis. Columbia therefore has opted to establish a multidisciplinary center that will address these questions in a comprehensive fashion—bringing together experts from different schools and academic disciplines to examine and clarify the emerging bioethical issues of the new millennium.
WHO: *Ruth Fischbach, Ph.D., MPE, director, Columbia University Center for Bioethics; professor of bioethics in psychiatry and public health, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) and the Mailman School of Public Health. *Robert Klitzman, M.D., co-director, Columbia University Center for Bioethics; assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, P&S; associate professor of clinical sociomedical sciences, Mailman School of Public Health.
WHEN: Thursday, April 25, 2002 (Refreshments will be served at 4:30 p.m., followed by Dr. Fox’s presentation at 5 and a reception immediately afterwards. RSVP requested.)
WHERE: The Faculty Club College of Physicians & Surgeons 630 West 168th Street, 4th Floor
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