Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Director, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Co-Director of Clinical Ethics, NewYork-Presbyterian Milstein Hospital

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia’s NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. A practicing internist, her scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, the role of aesthetics in teaching ethics, moral injury, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. Dugdale attended medical school at the University of Chicago, completed residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and holds a MAR in ethics from Yale Divinity School.

Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
McDonald Scholar
Director, Columbia Character Cooperatives

Ashley Moyse, PhD, is the Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and McDonald Scholar. He is also the Director of the Columbia Character Cooperatives, an initiative of the CCME, and a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Ashley was educated in the applied sciences, bioethics and health policy, and moral philosophy and theology with interest in medical ethics and humanities. His essays can be found in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Christian Bioethics, Religions, Journal of Population Ageing, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. He has also co-edited several volumes, including Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion (Routledge 2019) and has authored three books, including Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World (Anthem 2022). His research interests and scholarly expertise concern philosophies of health and illness, medical ethics and moral formation, philosophies of technology, and the existential and ethical dimensions of aging and dying. Ashley joined the Center in 2022.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Instructor, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Beatriz Desanti de Oliveira, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is part of the Hospitalist group in the Division of General Medicine. She earned her BA in Molecular Biology at Princeton University and received her medical degree at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons - Columbia University. She completed her internship, residency and chief residency at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She has a special interest in medical education in ethics and end-of-life care. She joined the Center in 2023.

McDonald Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medical Ethics, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Jonathan Cahill earned his PhD in 2021 from Boston College, a MA in Ethics and Society from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. Prior to his doctoral work, he was a Research Assistant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with a research focus on the well-being of physicians-in-training. His research interests include moral injury in healthcare professionals and the social dimensions of clinical ethics. His publications include Ruptured Selves: Moral Injury and Wounded Identity (Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2023) and Repairing Moral Injury Takes a Team: What Clinicians Can Learn from Combat Veterans (Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023). He joined the Center in 2021.

Staff Associate, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Justin R. Hawkins will receive his PhD in ethics from Yale University in 2024. He holds an MAR in the Philosophy of Religion from Yale Divinity School and a BA in Government from Georgetown University. At Yale he was part of the teaching team for the Life Worth Living program, and received a Prize Teaching Fellowship for outstanding undergraduate teaching. His research interests include virtue ethics (especially the virtue of magnanimity), disability theory, bioethical questions related to Down Syndrome, and the dignity of persons with profound cognitive disabilities. He joined the center in 2024.

Program Manager, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Charlene Sathi completed her HBSc at the University of Toronto with a double major in Human Biology: Health & Disease and in Philosophy: Bioethics. She earned her MS in Bioethics at Columbia University and proceeded to work as a Clinical Research Coordinator on a Tuberculosis Clinical Trial at Columbia’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, in conjunction with the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has published articles in the American Journal of Bioethics’ blog Bioethics Today, Voices in Bioethics, the International Journal on Homelessness and the Journal of Eating Disorders. Charlene’s primary research interests are in the ethics of homeless health care. She joined the Center in 2020.

Program Manager, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Celina Durgin earned a BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from The King's College in 2015 and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2018. She is interested in moral injury, the limits of patient autonomy, and the role of the phenomenology of illness in medical ethics. Between college and graduate school, she wrote and edited for a political magazine in Manhattan, and after completing her MA, she worked in the editorial department of a marketing company in Boston. From 2020 to 2023, she helped build and operate a startup educational nonprofit called the Center for Hebraic Thought, co-founding and editing its magazine and podcast. Celina has professionally edited a wide range of scholarly and journalistic articles and books. She joined the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in 2023.