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Past Event

Navigating Ethical Frontiers: Gender-Affirming Care, Abortion, & HIV

October 26, 2023
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
America/New_York
Hybrid Event New York State Psychiatric Institute- MultiPurpose Room

Hyrbid Event: 

In-Person: 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032,
Multipurpose Room, 6602 or Zoom

Guest Speaker:

Robert Klitzman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians &
Surgeons, Columbia University
Associate Director, Development Core,
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies

Overview:

Robert Klitzman, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and directed the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center for 10 years. He has  published over 180 scientific journal articles, nine books, and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics including genetics, neuroethics, HIV prevention, research ethics, and doctor-patient relationships.

Learning Objectives:

  1. List at least two recent policies that restrict access to abortions and to gender affirming care.
  2. Describe researchers and clinicians' methods and interventions to effectively respond to these policies' effects and implications.
  3. Identify at least two ethical, psychological, social, and/or medical effects of these policies on affected individuals.

RSVP: 

Advance registration encouraged. Click HERE to register for this event.

Contact Information

Columbia Psychiatry Continuing Education Program