In this guest blog post, alumna Jane Dwinell describes how her husband Sky Yardley’s experience with Alzheimer’s Disease led to their blog and co-authored memoir of his illness: Alzheimer’s Canyon: One Couple’s Reflections on Living with Dementia. _______________________ In 2013,… Read More
Pediatric Gene Therapy Ethical Challenges in Clinical Trials – Lesha Shah MD
Bioethics in Our Dynamic Healthcare System
Clarkson University’s Graduate Blog has a post, “Bioethics in Our Dynamic Healthcare System,”about the Bioethics Program; check it out here!
Justice and Vaccination Priority: A Response to CDC and NASEM Proposals
By Rosamond Rhodes, PhD Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Associate Director of The Bioethics Program. This blog post originally appeared at Bioethics.net. As vaccine… Read More
Can Suicide Ever Be Rational?
By Al O. Giwa, LLB, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Dr. Giwa is completing his last year of the Bioethics MS at Clarkson on the Clinical Ethics track.… Read More
Giving a Tough Diagnosis
by Sara Wolfson DNP APRN GNP-BC Department of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care Certificate in Clinical Ethics Yesterday, I sat down with a 73 year-old woman and her family to break the news that she had been diagnosed with mild… Read More
Supervised injection: A way to curb overdose deaths
By Clair Hughes Ms. Hughes is pursuing a graduate certificate in bioethics at Clarkson. By now, the nation’s opioid problem is well known. An explosion in the use of heroin and other injected drugs has fueled a record number of… Read More
Can doctors become agents of social change in Mexico?
By Jorge Herrera, CECYPE General Director (Clínica de Enfermedades Crónicas y de Procedimientos Especiales), Graduate of the CREEI Program, Student of the Master of Science of Bioethics of Research – Clarkson University Irma is a Mazatec indigenous, poor among the… Read More
An End in and of Themselves
By Hannah Krystal Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, class of 2021 B.A. Literature, Yale University Ms. Krystal is a studying for a Master of Science in Bioethics in the Clinical track During anatomy laboratory today, I saw my… Read More
E-H-ARRGH: The Frustrating Costs and Benefits of the Electronic Health Record
By Jami Starr, MD Dr. Starr will complete her graduate certificate in Health Policy & Law in spring 2017. The concept of electronic medical recordkeeping was first introduced in the late 1960’s but it did not really become established until… Read More