Medical Ethics
Press Coverage
Press Releases
- Oath Shirt Raises Funds for Scholarship (April 21, 2008)
- Health Care & Human Rights: A World in Need (February 11, 2008)
- Patient Experience Valuable for Doctors (January 28, 2008)
- Two Federal Public Health Grants Awarded to Weill Cornell Medical College (January 16, 2008)
- Dr. Nicholas Schiff Receives Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience (December 13, 2007)
- Bookstore Swears By New Shirt (September 24, 2007)
- Weill Cornell Research Ethics Consultation Service: Collaboration that Goes Beyond Regulation (September 14, 2007)
- Medical Mentors, Past and Future (September 10, 2007)
- Patient with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in "Minimally Conscious State" Shows Functional Improvement After Deep Brain Stimulation (August 2, 2007)
- Dr. Joseph Fins Awarded Prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award for Research Into Brain Injury (June 7, 2007)
- Efforts by Dr. Joseph Fins Leads to Passage of the New York State Palliative Care and Training Act (June 4, 2007)
- Medical Research Scientists Make Ethical Value Judgments in Research, Whether They Are Aware of It or Not (May 14, 2007)
- JOSEPH J. FINS, MD, TO BECOME LOCAL GOVERNOR FOR NATIONAL DOCTORS’ GROUP (March 19, 2007)
- Experts Urge More Research, Awareness of "Minimally Conscious State" (March 9, 2007)
- Under Oath: Medical Ethics Seminar Explores the Relevance of the Hippocratic Oath in Today's Medicine (February 12, 2007)
- Dean Gotto and Dr. Joseph Fins Discuss Medical Ethics (March 6, 2006)
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Study Examines Loved Ones' Role as Proxies for Terminally Ill (February 28, 2005)
- Improving the Transition to End-of-Life Care (November 18, 2005)
- Dean Gotto Unveils Revised Hippocratic Oath for New Generation of Weill Cornell Graduates (July 1, 2005)
- Dr. Joseph Fins Delivers Inaugural "Humanism at the Cross-Roads" Address (May 3, 2004)
- Severely Brain Injured Deserve More Research, Says Weill Cornell Physician-Ethicist (April 1, 2003)
- Weill Medical College Establishes Faculty Associates Program in Medical Ethics (March 18, 2002)
- Dr. Joseph J. Fins, Leading Medical Ethicist, Receives Wholeness of Life Award From Healthcare Chaplaincy (November 28, 2001)
- Weill Cornell Forms New Division of Medical Ethics (March 20, 2001)
Media Coverage
- "Hard Choices." Article featuring Clinical Ethics Service in Spring 2008 Weill Cornell Medicine.
- Dana Foundation hosted event: "Discusson of the Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation." Panel discussion at the First Annual Meeting of the Neuroethics Society (November 13, 2008)
- Halifax Chronicle Herald: "Lessons from the Injured Brain: Bioethics meets Neuroscience." Lecture presented as part of Dalhousie University's Novel Tech Ethics Colloquium (September 25, 2008)
- Diario Medico: "Literatura para ponerse en la piel del enfermo." Dr. Rodriíguez del Pozo's lesson to medical students in Qatar. (September 18, 2008)
- Inaugural plenary lecture to the new Canadian National Core for Neuroethics in Vancouver, British Columbia: "Canadian Origins of Neuroethics: Historic Contributions of Drs. William Osler and Wilder Penfield." (September 11, 2008)
- Hastings Center Report: "Web of Care: How will the Electronic Medical Record Change Medicine?" (September-October, 2008)
Interviews regarding Terri Schiavo and Disorders of Consciousness March 2005:
- MSNBC, "Connected Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley." A Live interview: March 21, 2005
- CBS Evening News. Taped interview with Elizabeth Kaledin: March 21, 2005
- WCBS-TV News. Taped interviews with Dr. David Marks: March 21, 2005; March 22, 2005
- WABC-TV News. Taped interview with NJ Burkett March 21, 2005
- PRI/NPR Radio, "To the Point." Live interviews: March 21, 2005; March 22, 2005
- CNN-TV, "Lou Dobbs Tonight." Live interviews: March 21, 2005; March 22, 2005; March 24, 2005; March 31, 2005
- Univision Spanish TV News. Taped interview in Spanish: March 24, 2005
- CBS,"Sunday Morning." Taped interview with Marcia Tichner: March 25 for broadcast March 27, 2005.
- Russian Channel One News. Taped interview: March 25, 2005 for broadcast March 27, 2005.
- Brasilian Globovision News. Taped interview: March 25, 2005 for broadcast March 27, 2005.
- Print Media/Internet:
- Nature.com
- Nature
- The New York Times
- The New York Times: Week in Review
- The New York Times: Science Times
- The Chicago Tribune
- The Boston Globe
- Reuters
- Time
- Newsday
- ABC.com
- Health Day News
- Background:
- CNN, News Night with Aaron Brown
- CNN, Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta
- CBS 60 Minutes II
- The New York Times
- Newsweek
Interviews on late recovery from the minimally conscious state and axonal sprouting: Ethical and Policy Implications.
- Benedict Carey. The New York Times. Front page article July 4, 2006.
- Canadian Broadcasting Company "As it Happens with Christopher Thomas." Taped interview broadcast July 4, 2006.
- Brasilian Globovision News. Taped interview July 6, 2006.
Interviews on Science publication indicating signs of awareness in a subject in the persistent vegetative state:
- Benedict Carey. The New York Times. Front page article September 8, 2006.
- Rob Stein. The Washington Post. September 8, 2006.
- Judy Graham. The Chicago Tribune. September 8, 2006.
- Thomas H. Maugh II and Karen Kaplan. The Los Angeles Times. September 8, 2006.
- NPR "All Things Considered." Taped and Broadcast, September 8, 2006.
- CNN. Anderson Cooper 360. Taped interview September 12, 2006 for broadcast September 14, 2006.
Selected Interviews as co-author of 2 August 2007 Nature paper on Deep Brain Stimulation in the Minimally Conscious State. (Background and/or attribution)
- Tom Hayden. Nature for "Making of a Paper" featured in August 2, 2007 issue. July 25, 2007.
- Rachel Bowden. Science Museum of London. July 25, 2007.
- Helen Phillips. New Scientist. July 27, 2007.
- BBC-TV News. July 27, 2007.
- Malcom Ritter. Associated Press. July 30, 2007.
- Mandy Gardner. Health Day. July 30, 2007.
- NPR "All Things Considered." Taped interview with Nell Boyce on July 30, 2007.
- NBC Nightly News. Taped interview on July 31, 2007.
- CBS Evening News. Taped interview on July 31, 2007.
- WCBS-TV News. Taped interview on July 31, 2007.
- Nature World-Wide Audio Press Conference. August 1, 2007. (Multiple media-outlets.)
- Benedict Carey. The New York Times. August 1, 2007.
- PBS. "The Charlie Rose Show." Broadcast August 2, 2007.
- Jeff Kluger. Time Magazine. August 3, 2007.
- W-Radio. Bogota, Colombia. Live Interview in Spanish. August 4, 2007.
- Wayne Laugesen. The National Catholic Register. August 10, 2007
- Jessica Dziedzic. Neurology Reviews. August 23, 2007.
Other Interviews
- WVFF-NBC TV News. Taped Interview on public lecture as Riley Fellow at Furman University. Broadcast, April 20, 2005.
- CNNSpanish. Taped interview on proposed legislation to modify federal rules related to stem cell research. Broadcast May 24, 2005.
- NPR "All Things Considered." Taped interview regarding Terri Schiavo's autopsy results. June 15, 2005.
- KARN Radio. Interview related to Medical Humanities Grand Rounds delivered at University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences. Taped January 31, 2007 for broadcast February 1, 2007.
- WABC-TV News. Taped interview on the ethical and policy implications of stem cells obtained from reprogramming of mice skin cells. Broadcast June 7, 2007.
- Joanne Kenen. Kaiser Media Fellow in Health. Interviewed regarding end-of-life care and health care reform. July 27, 2007.
- Jerome Groopman, M.D. for The New Yorker magazine essay "Silent Minds" of October 15, 2007 on disorders of consciousness, neuroimaging and emerging therapeutics. Interviews and e-mail exchanges June - October 2007.
