Course Director
Ruth L. Fischbach, Ph.D., M.P.E.
Guest Faculty
Kathy L. Hudson, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, Genetics and Public Policy Center, Berman Bioethics Institute & Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D., President & CEO, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York
Kenneth Offit, M.D., M.P.H., Chief, Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine and Public Health, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York
Gladys E. Maestre, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Zulia, Venezuela; Research Associate, Columbia University Sergievsky Center, New York, New York
Columbia University Medical Center &
New York State Psychiatric Institute Faculty
Lawrence Amsel, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry; Director of Dissemination Research for Trauma Treatment and Studies; Associate for Medical Education at The Hastings Center
Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health
Heather Butts, J.D., M.P.H., M.A., Institutional Review Board (IRB), Regulatory Specialist
Mary Byrne, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H., F.A.A.N., Professor of Clinical Nursing
Wendy K. Chung, M.D., Ph.D., Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine; Director of Clinical Genetics
Amy Fairchild, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor; Assistant Director, Scholarly and Academic Affairs, Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health
Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D., Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; Hatch Professor; Professor of Pharmacology in the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Ruth L. Fischbach, Ph.D., M.P.E., Professor of Bioethics; Director, Center for Bioethics
Robert Fullilove, Ed.D., Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences; Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs; Co-Director of the Community Research Group
George Gasparis, CUMC Institutional Review Board (IRB) Executive Director
Deborah S. Hasin, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Public Health
Robert Klitzman, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Marianne J. Legato, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine; Founder and Director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine
Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine; Head, Division of Molecular Genetics; Co-Director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
Barron H. Lerner, M.D., Ph.D., Angelica Berrie Gold Foundation Assistant Professor of Medicine & Public Health
John Loike, Ph.D., Co-Director for Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Karen S. Marder, M.D., M.P.H., Kerlin Professor of Neurology in the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute
Joyce Plaza, M.S., M.Be., Deputy Director, Center for Bioethics
Ruth Ottman, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology in Neurology and the Sergievsky Center
Victor B. Penchaszadeh, M.D., M.Sc., Professor of Genetics and Public Health
Ruby Senie, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences
Scott A. Small, M.D., Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Neurology
Zena Stein, M.D., Professor Emeritus in Public Health; Special Lecturer in Epidemiology
David H. Strauss, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Chairman, Institutional Review Board; Director, Office of Human Subjects Research
Dorothy Warburton, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Genetics & Development
Myrna Weissman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology; Chief, Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology
Nancy Wexler, Ph.D., Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology; President, Hereditary Disease Foundation
Jennifer Williamson-Catania, M.S., C.G.C., Senior Staff Associate/Genetic Counselor, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain