Joseph J. Fins, M.D., F.A.C.P. is Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University where he serves as Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Fins is Director of Medical Ethics New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center, and a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University. He also serves as Physician-Ethicist-in-Residence at the HealthCare Chaplaincy in New York City and has been a Visiting Professor in Medical Ethics at The Complutense University in Madrid. A practicing internist at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Fins chairs the hospital's ethics committee and teaches medicine and clinical ethics to Cornell medical students and house staff.

His current scholarly interests include ethical issues at the end-of-life and palliative care, research ethics in neurology and psychiatry, medical education and methods of ethics case consultation. Dr. Fins is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Managemen as well as The Oncologist and has served as Abstracts Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Editor of the Department of Bioethics for Cancer Investigation.

His current research projects include:

• Co-Principal Investigator, Establishing a Faculty Associates Program in Medical Ethics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2001-2004, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
  
  
• Principal Investigator, Expanding the Faculty Associates Program in Medical Ethics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2001-2004, The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation
  
  
• Principal Investigator, Fidelity, Wisdom and Love: Patients & Proxies in Partnership, 2002-2004, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
  
  
• Co-Principal Investigator, Mending the Brain, Minding Our Ethics, 2003-2005, The Dana Foundation
  
  
• Investigator, Cornell ACISR (Advanced Center for Intervention and Services Research) for Late Life Depression, 2003-2008, NIMH
  
  
• Principal Investigator, Neuroethics and Disorder of Consciousness, 2005-2010, The Buster Family Foundation
  
  
• Senior Scientific Consultant, Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, 2003-2008, NIMH