Robert Klitzman

Prof. of Psychiatry & Director of the Bioethics MS Program at Columbia University | Author, most recently, of DOCTOR, WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? & DESIGNING BABIES

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My Podcast on Genetic Engineering Transforming Research Ethics & Designing Babies #bioethics #crispr #designing babies https://t.co/RsQaZfOJGR

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On CNN: My thoughts on the disappearing congressman due to medical problems

https://t.co/OTr844MEWS

#bioethics #healthprivacy #HIPPA #government #democracy #publicresponsibility #publicservice #transparency

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I am pleased to announce I am scheduled to be on CNN live tomorrow am at 9:15 am, discussing how political leaders should handle disclosures of their medical information.
(That's the time CNN is now planning, though the specific time may shift)

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Presidential health disclosures: My thoughts in The New Republic

https://t.co/L072GKtzNB

#healthcare #transparency #medicaldisclosure #government #medicalethics #ethics #mentalhealth #trump #biden #drugs #finasteride

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Presidential health disclosures: My thoughts in today's Washington Post

https://t.co/nJvasPyhDX

#healthcare #transparency #medicaldisclosure #government #medicalethics #ethics #mentalhealth #trump #biden #drugs #finasteride

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Psychedelic use in adolescents?: Robert Klitzman's thoughts in Scientific American

https://t.co/Ysv4BHD5pn

#psychedelics #psilocybin #hallucinogenics #healthcare #mentalhealth #depression #autism #ptsd #bioethics #trump #rfkjr #nih #informedconsent #neurodevelopment #drugs

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So sorry to hear about the passing of David Rosner, an extraordinary historian of public health, and a member of the board of the Columbia University Masters of Bioethics program.

https://t.co/nqBHaOWfM2

#Bioethics #publichealth #history #healthcare #historyofmedicine

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How has Trump hampered the new Ebola crisis?:   Article by our recent Columbia colleague Craig Spencer

https://t.co/k1B4TctKv7

#bioethics #CDC #healthcare #Africa #pandemic #infectiousdisease #medicine #globalhealth #USAID
#Ebola #covid

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How the Opioid crisis is older and broader than Oxycontin, and needs better approaches

https://t.co/2VFENoGzxX

#healthcare #bioethics #Purdue #pharmaceuticalcompanies #policy #addiction #MAHA

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Why no FDA or CDC leader or Surgeon General?  Absence poses many ethical & policy concerns

https://t.co/ibOFj2YM5s

#FDA #CDC #Trump #RFKJr #bioethics #drugs #drugsafety #heatlhcare

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Rapidly rising fake citations in published medical literature raise major ethical concerns

https://t.co/zvN5Icf0p1

#research #researchethics #bioethics #AI #AIethics #science #policy #researchfraud #researchintegrity #NIH

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FDA censoring data showing vaccines' effectiveness, raising major ethical concerns

https://t.co/F08hrzCJkP

#vaccine #RFKJr #FDA #antivax #Trump #Covid #shingles

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AI is helping to make bioweapons, raising major bioethical concerns.
#AI #Genetics #syntheticbio #medicalethics #healthcare

https://t.co/CVKoJCI2e3

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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.

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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: https://t.co/fjvKPulQNK

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💡 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: https://t.co/3qq6i2giYU

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How to cope with world upheaval as we begin a new year: My essay in @PsychToday
https://t.co/hSYGqZGo3x

#PsychologyToday #MentalHealth #WorldEvents

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U.S. hospitals prioritizing organs for foreign patients, bypassing waitlists. Several hospitals involved refused to comment, raising serious ethical concerns.
#OrganTransplants #Bioethics #TransplantEthics
https://t.co/YfEwqmhMLg

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FDA unproven claims of deaths from COVID Vaccine raise ethical concerns
#RFKJr #MAHA #vaccines #antivaxx #Trump #bioethics #pediatrics

https://t.co/3fLjtl1OqT

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5 stages of grief for our democracy: My new piece in @thehill
https://t.co/5mgxI8GmOP

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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.
https://t.co/9RKBd2flGQ