This joint division in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health is responsible for conducting research in medical ethics and coordinating Weill Cornell's curricular activities in this area. Areas of scholarship include the integration of ethics into health services, outcomes and policy research, research and health policy advocacy to improve the appropriate medical treatment of patients with brain injury, the ethics of clinical decision-making, the care of the terminally ill, and the ethical dimensions of clinical and basic science research. Research initiatives explore patients' needs for autonomy, appropriate care, and support; issues surrounding reproductive and genetic biotechnologies; and public health ethics and social justice. Clinical faculty also direct a clinical ethics service at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to help patients and their families make difficult care decisions.

The theme of the Division of Medical Ethics Seminar Series for 2011-2012
is Medical Ethics as Seen Through the History of Medicine. All are welcome to attend.

Contact information:

Joseph J. Fins, MD, FACP
E. William Davis Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics,
Departments of Medicine and Public Health
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Public Health
Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry
Director of Medical Ethics and Attending Physician
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center
212-746-4246
jjfins@med.cornell.edu

Kerrine Simone Carter
Administrative Assistant
212-746-4246
kec9045@nyp.org

Mailing Address:
Weill Cornell Medical College
Division of Medical Ethics
435 E. 70th St. 4J
New York, NY 10021