Dr. Dugdale will discuss topics in biomedical ethics with faculty and students at St. John Fisher University.  In particular, she will address her book "The Lost Art of Dying" which is used as text by students in a research writing course.  Members of the community interested in attending should reach out to Dr. Ontiveros for details (fontiveros-llamas@sjf.edu).

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

St. John Fisher University

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​​​​Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

A practicing internist, Dr Dugdale moved to Columbia in 2019 from Yale University, where she previously served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics. Her scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, the role of aesthetics in teaching ethics, moral injury, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. Dr Dugdale attended medical school at the University of Chicago, completed residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and holds a MAR in ethics from Yale Divinity School.​​​

(Columbia University site)

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