Faculty

George Hardart, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics (in Pediatrics)
John Driscoll, MD
Special Lecturer; Reuben S. Carpentier Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Dr. John Driscoll is the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chair of Pediatrics Emeritus at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Prior to becoming Chairman of Pediatrics he was the Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from 1973 to 1992. In 1978 he founded, and was the first Chair of, the Neonatal Ethics Committee at Babies Hospital, one of the first pediatric ethics committees in the US. He continued to chair that committee, which reformed as the Pediatric Bioethics Committee in 1984, until 1996. After stepping down as department chair in 2007, Dr. Driscoll completed a fellowship in medical ethics at Harvard University Medical School in 2008. He then returned to Columbia University, where he is once again the Chair of the Pediatric Bioethics Committee.