Columbia University Bioethics

How do we guide health care provider organizations in protecting the rights of clinicians and patients as New York's MAiD Law is implemented in exam rooms and at the bedside? Join us May 19, 2026 at 6 p.m. ET over zoom to learn more. Register here: sps.columbia.edu/events/new-yor…

Rapidly rising fake citations in published medical literature raise major ethical concerns nature.com/articles/d4158… #research #researchethics #bioethics #AI #AIethics #science #policy #researchfraud #researchintegrity #NIH

AI is helping to make bioweapons, raising major bioethical concerns. #AI #Genetics #syntheticbio #medicalethics #healthcare nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/…

FDA censoring data showing vaccines' effectiveness, raising major ethical concerns nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/… #vaccine #RFKJr #FDA #antivax #Trump #Covid #shingles

We were delighted to welcome Professor Julie Chen from The University of Hong Kong to campus this week, meeting up with our own HKU students in our MS Bioethics program. We’re grateful for her visit and look forward to continued collaboration between Columbia and HKU.

When decisions about artificial nutrition arise at the end of life, how do we decide what’s right? Join us on Mar. 23 as Dr. David Seres and Dr. Barbra Rothschild discuss clinical ethics cases in end-of-life care. Register: eventbrite.com/e/between-a-ro…

💡 When clinical judgment and AI predictions point in different directions, what happens next? Join @DataSciColumbia, @ColumbiaMed, & @Columbia_SPS on Feb. 9 as expert speakers unpack this consequential frontier in modern medicine. Register: eventbrite.com/e/when-clinica…

5 stages of grief for our democracy: My new piece in @thehill thehill.com/opinion/health…

Grateful for this new review of Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person from the Journal of Palliative Medicine. doi.org/10.1177/109662…

Automation Complacency: AI-Induced Abdication of Medical Decision-Making Join us Thursday, Nov 13, for a virtual panel featuring our very own Prof. David N. Hoffman. RSVP 👉 sps.columbia.edu/events/automat… #Bioethics #AIinHealthcare #AutomationBias #EthicalAI

Thrilled to see several of our former Columbia University Bioethics Master's students at The University of Hong Kong!

📢 Deadline extended! Submit your 250-word (max) abstract for “Existential Threats and Other Disasters” by Oct 22 (11:59 PM CET)! 💡 csb.eu.com/conference/cal… 🗓 June 11–12, 2026 | Reid Hall, Paris, France. #Bioethics #AIethics #PublicHealth #Columbia

Columbia Bioethics will co-host “Existential Threats and Other Disasters” in Paris, June 11-12, 2026 — with our Program Director @RobertKlitzman, M.D., as a keynote speaker! 💡Submit abstracts ASAP csb.eu.com/conference/cal… 📝Register csb.eu.com/conference/reg… #Bioethics #AIethics

RSVP for our upcoming event this Thursday featuring Frank T. Walsh, Jr., Acting Medicaid Inspector General of New York State, and moderated by our own faculty member David Hoffman, J.D.! 🗓 Thursday, 10/16 at 6PM ET (online) 🔗 sps.columbia.edu/events/meeting… #bioethics #PublicHealth

Review in the Hastings Center Report of my new book, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ha… Link to book: amazon.com/Doctor-Will-Yo… #bioethics #chaplains #spirituality #religion #health #doctors

Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Conference in Paris, June 11–12, 2026. I’ll be speaking there! Abstract submission deadline is 3 weeks from now. Details: csb.eu.com/conference/ #bioethics #healthcare #refugees #climatechange #AI #Paris

The CRISPR Babies:  My thoughts in the new Science History Podcast sciencehistory.org/stories/distil… #bioethics #genetics #healthcare #eugenics

RFK, Jr., Congressional testimony raises many ethical concerns -- from @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/… #vaccines #antivaxxers #Trump #publichealth #bioethics #measles #polio #healthcare

What really causes autism and what to do about it?: my essay from the @hastingscenter forum thehastingscenter.org/what-really-ca…