​Program in Women and Children's Bioethics

Faculty

  • George Hardart, MD, MPH

    Professor of Pediatrics

  • Marilyn Morris, MD, MPH

    Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics 

  • Maya Sabatello, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Clinical Bioethics

  • Helen Towers, MD

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC

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  • 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 Vagelos 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.

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  • Jeff Edwards, MD

    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC

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  • Mary Tresgallo, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC

    Assistant Professor of Nursing at CUMC 

    Mary Tresgallo, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC

  • Kristina Orfali, PhD

    Professor of Bioethics (in Pediatrics) at CUMC