Research



Craig Blinderman, MD

Abrams DC, Prager K, Blinderman CD, Burkart KM, Brodie D. Ethical dilemmas encountered with the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adults. Chest. 2014 Apr;145(4):876-882.

Blinderman CD, Billings JA. Comfort Care for Patients Dying in the Hospital. N Engl J Med. 2015 Dec 24;373(26):2549-61.

Nakagawa S, Berlin A, Blinderman CDEnd-of-Life Preferences Should Be Discussed Routinely before High-Risk Surgery. J Palliat Med. 2019 Jan;22(1):9.

Nakagawa S, Fischkoff K, Berlin A, Arnell TD, Blinderman CDCommunication Skills Training for General Surgery Residents. J Surg Educ. 2019 Sep - Oct;76(5):1223-1230.

Lu E, Blinderman CD. Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced CKD: Moving Beyond the Status Quo. Kidney Med. 2019 Nov 1;1(6):335-337.

Nakagawa S, Takayama H, Takeda K, Topkara VK, Yuill L, Zampetti S, McLaughlin K, Yuzefpolskaya M, Colombo PC, Naka Y, Uriel N, Blinderman CD. Association Between "Unacceptable Condition" Expressed in Palliative Care Consultation Before Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation and Care Received at the End of Life. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 May 25:S0885-3924(20)30429-2.

Lee J, Abrukin L, Flores S, Gavin N, Romney ML, Blinderman CD, Nakagawa S. Early Intervention of Palliative Care in the Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Jun 5:e202713.

Nakagawa S, Abrukin L, Blinderman CD. Time-Critical Goals of Care in the Emergency Department During COVID-19: A Three-Stage Protocol. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Jun 17:10.1111.

Blinderman CD. Narrative Palliative Medicine: Understanding and Honoring the Unique Values and Goals of Our Patients. J Palliat Med. 2020 Jun;23(6):744-745.

Periyakoil VS, Blinderman CD, Schechter WS. Longitudinal Coaching and Decision Support Provided by a Patient-Family Liaison Promotes Goal-Concordant Care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Aug 27. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16684.

Nakagawa S, Berlin A, Widera E, Periyakoil VS, Smith AK, Blinderman CD. Pandemic Palliative Care Consultations Spanning State and Institutional Borders. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Aug;68(8):1683-1685.

Shalev D, Nakagawa S, Stroeh OM, Arbuckle MR, Rendleman R, Blinderman CD, Shapiro PA. The Creation of a Psychiatry-Palliative Care Liaison Team: Using Psychiatrists to Extend Palliative Care Delivery and Access During the COVID-19 Crisis. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Sep;60(3):e12-e16.

Periyakoil VS, Blinderman CD, Schechter WS. Longitudinal coaching and decision support provided by a patient-family liaison promotes goal-concordant care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020 Sep;68(9):1933-5.

Cao EL, Blinderman CD, Cross I. Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities. 2021 Jun 8:1-4.

Joyeeta Dastidar, MD

Odden, A, Dastidar JG.  How Do I Determine if My Patient has Decision-Making Capacity? The Hospitalist. 2011 Aug; 8. Dastidar JG, Jiang M. Categorization, Characterization, and 5-Year Mortality of Medicine High Utilizer Inpatients. Journal of Palliative Care. 2018 Jul;33(3) 167-174.

Dastidar JGAbleist Biases. Narrating Patienthood: Engaging Diverse Voices on Health, Communication, and the Patient Experience. 2018 Nov 26:259.

Dastidar JG. On Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life: Grieving the Stillborn Baby. American Journal of Bioethics. 2019 Dec 2;19(12) 74-77.

Dastidar, JG. The Ethics of ‘Volunteering’ Clinicians to Fight COVID 19.  Doximity Op Med. 2020 May 5.

Dastidar, JGBalancing COVID-19 Quantity and Quality of Care via Geographic Distribution: a Matter of Social Justice and Pragmatism in New York City. Bioethics. 2020, May 26.  

Dastidar, JG. Beyond Translating Ethical Norms Into Practice – Integrating Implementation and Assessment Mindsets. Am J Bioeth. 2020 May; 20(4):92-93.

Fischkoff K, Neuberg G, Dastidar J, Williams EP, Prager KP, and Dugdale L. Clinical Ethics Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic Surge at a New York City Medical Center. J Clin Ethics. Fall 2020; 31(3): 212-218.
 
Dastidar JG. When Imaging Data Contradict Patient Self-report, How Should Clinicians Proceed?  AMA J Ethics. 2021 July 1; 23(7):E5249. Special theme issue on Illness, Visibility and Measurability.

Dastidar JGA Real-World Ethical Analysis of Contingency Measures Enacted for Crisis Standards of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Am J Bioeth. 2021 Aug; 21(8): 22-24.

Fischkoff D, Prager K, Dastidar J, Dugdale L, Neuberg G, Nemeth S, Fischkoff K. Ethical Framework to Guide Decisions of Treatment Over Objection. J Am Coll Surg.  2021 Oct; 233(4): 508-516.e1.

Dastidar JG. The Dual Role of the Faciliator as Emotional Support and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel: Psychological Perspectives and a Call for the Ethical Separation of Services. Carework and Medical Travel, Cecilia Vindrola ed. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR

Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well, ed. L. Dugdale, MIT Press, 2015. Paperback edition 2017.

Hetzler PT, Dugdale LS. Academic Physician Perspectives on the Legalization and Practice of Physician-Assisted Suicide. Connecticut Medicine 2016, Oct. (80)9:559-61.

Dugdale LS. We don't have enough doctors to support ObamaCare. The Hill. Oct. 31, 2016.

Dugdale LS, Might doctors be inclined to facilitate the deaths of patients they don’t like? KevinMD.com. Nov. 10, 2016.

Dugdale LS, Will black lives matter to death with dignity act? The Hill. Jan. 23, 2017.

Dugdale LS, Desecularizing Death. Christian Bioethics 2017, 23 (1): 22-37.

Dugdale LS, Re-Enchanting Medicine. JAMA Internal Med 2017, Jun 26.

Dugdale L, Ars moriendi – the art of dying. Scene Magazine. Oct. 2017, 42(9):30.

Dugdale LS, and Sulmasy DP, Religion and Spirituality within Internal Medicine. In Spirituality and Religion within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice, Eds. Balboni MJ, and Peteet JR. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Dugdale LS, Callahan D. Assisted Death and the Public Good. South Med J. 2017 Sep;110(9):559-561.

Dugdale L, Patient as GiftHastings Center Report, Jul/Aug 2019:4-5. 

Dugdale LDoctors should heal patients, not kill them. Assisted suicide makes us agents of deathUSA Today. Sep. 25, 2019.

Dugdale LS, Lerner BH, Callahan D. Pros and Cons of Physician Aid in DyingYale J Biol Med. 2019 Dec 20;92(4):747-750.  

Hetzler PT 3rd, Nie J, Zhou A, Dugdale LS. A Report of Physicians' Beliefs about Physician-Assisted Suicide: A National Study. Yale J Biol Med. 2019 Dec 20;92(4):575-585.

Dugdale LS, A Call to Ordinary HeroismFirst Things 2020 Apr. 7. 

Lee, WW, Sulmasy, LS; American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee (including Dugdale LS), American College of Physicians Ethical Guidance for Electronic Patient-Physician Communication: Aligning ExpectationsJ Gen Int Med (2020). Jun. 22. 

Sathi C, Dugdale L, A Call for Ethical Treatment of Those on Cruise ShipsBioethics.net. Mar. 12, 2020. 

Dugdale LS, Snyder EA, Is Flattening the Curve Bad for Health? The Hill. Mar. 26, 2020. 

Dugdale LS, Pandemic, Aging, and Agency, Psychology Today 2020 Jun. 25. 

Dugdale LSThe Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom. HarperOne. July 2020.

Dugdale L, Your Prescription: Look at Art, Spirituality & Health 2020 August 11. 

Dugdale LS, The Living and Dying of Oliver SacksPsychology Today 2020 Sept. 19. 

Dugdale L, The One Who CaresSpirituality & Health 2020 Nov./Dec. 

Fischkoff K, Neuberg G, Dastidar J, Williams EP, Prager KP, and Dugdale LClinical Ethics Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic Surge at a New York City Medical Center. J Clin Ethics. Fall 2020; 31(3): 212-218.

 

Dugdale LS, COVID-19: Lonely Dying and Dying Alone, Psychology Today 2021 Apr. 5.

Dugdale LS, Braswell H, Instacash: The Ethics of Leveraging Medical Student Status on Instagram. Academic Medicine.  April 2021 - Volume 96 - Issue 4 - p 507-51.

Dugdale LS, On Wasting the Pandemic, Psychology Today 2021 May 10.

DeCamp M, et al., including Dugdale LS, Ethical and Professionalism Implications of Physician Employment and Health Care Business Practices: A Policy Paper From the American College of Physicians, Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jun;174(6):844-851.

Rockwern B, et al. including Dugdale LS, Health Information Privacy, Protection, and Use in the Expanding Digital Health Ecosystem: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians, Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jul;174(7):994-998.

Dugdale LS, Regarding the Balbonis’ Hostility to Hospitality. Syndicate Online. Aug. 10, 2021.

Eberly JB and Dugdale LS, On Beauty and Medical Ethics. Hektoen International. Summer 2021.

Dugdale LS, Vaccines don’t ultimately prevent death. We must prepare. Austin American-Statesman. Sept. 19, 2021.

Fischkoff D, Prager K, Dastidar J, Dugdale L, Neuberg G, Nemeth S, Fischkoff K. Ethical Framework to Guide Decisions of Treatment Over Objection.  J Am Coll Surg.  2021 Oct; 233(4): 508-516.e1.

Sathi C, Dugdale LS, Ethical Arguments for Providing Access to Mental Health Care through Longitudinal Relationships, International Journal on Homelessness, Fall 2021, (online first): page 1-8.

Dugdale LS, Healing Holiday Loneliness, One Neighbor at a Time, Psychology Today 2021 Dec. 17.

Katherine Fischkoff, MD

Fischkoff K, Marshall MF, et. al. Society of Critical Care Medicine Crisis Standard of Care Recommendations for Triaging Critical Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic. April 2020.

Fischkoff K, Nakagawa S, Blitzer D, Naka Y. An ethical justification for the withdrawal of ventricular assist devices. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020;160(1):e5.

Maves R, Downar J, Dichter JR, Hick JL, Devereaux A, Geiling JA, Kissoon N, Hupert N, Niven AS, King MA, Rubinson LL, Hanfling D, Hodge Jr. JG, Marshall MF, Fischkoff K, Evans LE, Tonelli MR, Wax RS, Seda G, Parrish JS, Truog RD, Sprung CL, Christian MD on behalf of the ACCP Task Force for Mass Critical Care. Triage of Scarce Critical Care Resources in COVID-19 An Implementation Guide for Regional Allocation. Chest. April 23, 2020.

Blitzer D, Regen S, Fischkoff D, Fischkoff, K. Why Health Care Workers Should Receive Priority Care for Covid-19. Hastings Center Bioethics Forum. Published online May 8, 2020.

Argenziano M, Fischkoff K, Smith C. Surgery Scheduling in a Crisis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2020 June 4; 582:e87.

Aziz S. Arabi YM, Alhazzani W, Evans L, Citerio G, Fischkoff K, Salluh J, Meyfroidt G, Alshamsi F, Oczkowski S, Azoulay E, Price A, Burry L, Dzierba A, Benintende A, Morgan J, Grasselli G, Rhodes A, Moller MH, Chu L, Schwedhelm S, Lowe JJ, Bin D, Christian M. Managing ICU surge during the COVID-19 crisis: Rapid Guidelines. Intensive Care Medicine. Jun 8 2020.

Fischkoff K, Neuberg G, Dastidar J, Williams EP, Prager KM, Dugdale L. Clinical Ethics Consultations during the COVID-19 Pandemic Surge at a New York City Medical Center. Journal of Clinical Ethics. 2020 Fall;31(3):212-218.

Fischkoff K, Derrington SF, Heith KS, Oxman D, Sheherd D, Marshall MF. Donation After Circulatory Death with Normothermic Regional Perfusion, a brief ethical analysis. Critical Connections, Spring 2021; 32-33.

Bustan S, Nacoti M, Fischkoff K, et al. COVID 19: Ethical Dilemmas in Human Lives. Accepted for Publication by Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.  J Eval Clin Pract. 2021 Jun;27(3):716-732.

Fischkoff D, Prager K, Dastidar J, Dugdale L, Neuberg G, Nemeth S, Fischkoff KEthical Framework to Guide Decisions of Treatment Over Objection.  J Am Coll Surg.  2021 Oct; 233(4): 508-516.e1.

Linda S. Golding, MA, BCC

Golding, LS. and Dixon, W. Spiritual Care for Non-Communicative Patients: A Guidebook. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.

Jane Kang, MD

Berman, J, Aizer J, Bass A, Davidson A, Dwyer E, Fields T, Kang JS, Kerr LD, Krasnokutsky-Samuels S, Lazaro DM, Schwartzman-Morris JS, Paget SA, Pillinger MH. Fellow Use of Medical Jargon Correlates Inversely with Patient and Observer Perceptions of Professionalism: Results of a Rheumatology OSCE (ROSCE) Using Challenging Patient Scenarios. Clinical Rheumatology 2016 Aug;35(8):2093-9.

Kang, JS. Ethical Ruminations of a Rheumatologist: Autoimmunity is an Important Consideration for Immunotherapy Trials. American Journal of Bioethics 2018 Apr;18(4):75-76.

Kang, JS. Ethics and Industry Interactions: Impact on Specialty Training, Clinical Practice, and Research. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America 2020 Feb;46(1):119-133.

Ryan Lawrence, MD

Lawrence RE, Perez-Coste MM, Bailey JL, DeSilva RB, Dixon LB. Coercion and the Inpatient Treatment Alliance. Psychiatr Serv. 2019 Dec 1;70(12):1110-1115.

Lawrence RE, Appelbaum PS, Lieberman JA. A historical review of placebo-controlled, relapse prevention trials in schizophrenia: The loss of clinical equipoise. Schizophr Res. 2021 Mar;229:122-131.

Lawrence RE, Appelbaum PS, Lieberman JA. Are Placebo-Controlled, Relapse Prevention Trials in Schizophrenia Research Still Necessary or Ethical? JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 Jul 1;76(7):673-674.

Melissa Moschella, PhD

Moschella M. Complexity of Defining Death: Death is Not the Absence of All Biological Life, Journal of Medical Ethics 43, 11 (Nov 2017) 754-755.

Moschella M. Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Crisis of Public Trust. Christian Bioethics 24, 2 (June 2018) 133–150.

Moschella M. The Human Organism is Not a Conductorless Orchestra: A Defense of Brain Death as True Biological Death. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (Sept 2019).

Gerald W. Neuberg, MD

Fischkoff K, Neuberg GW, Dastidar J, Williams E, Prager K, Dugdale L. Clinical ethics consultation during the COVID-19 epidemic surge at a New York medical center. J Clin Ethics. 2020. 3:212-8.

Fischkoff D, Prager K, Dastidar J, Dugdale L, Neuberg GW, Nemeth S, Fischkoff Fischkoff D, Prager K, Dastidar J, Dugdale L, Neuberg G, Nemeth S, Fischkoff K. Ethical Framework to Guide Decisions of Treatment Over Objection.  J Am Coll Surg.  2021 Oct; 233(4): 508-516.e1.

Kristina Orfali, PhD

Orfali K. Extreme Prematurity: Creating Iatrogenic Lives, American Journal of Bioethics. 2017, 17 (8); 34-36.

Paul E, Kohlberg B, Orfali K. Growing Discomfort with Comfort Care for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Why We Should Still Defer to Parental Wishes. American Journal of Bioethics. 2017, 17 (7): 67-68.

Orfali K. Putting the Principle of Human Dignity to the Test: A “Useless” Concept from an American Perspective?. The Reality of Human Dignity in Law and Bioethics 2018 (pp. 203-217). Springer, Cham.

Feuillet –Liger B., Orfali K, (Eds), The Reality of Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law: Comparative Perspectives, Springer, Ius Gentium Series, 2018

Orfali K, A Journey through Global Bioethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2019, September.

Orfali K, What triage issues reveal: ethics in Covid-19 pandemic in Italy and FranceJournal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2020 Nov. Issue 9: pp.1–5.

Orfali K, Triage criteria: medically, ethically or socially defined?, The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 21. no.11, 77-79. 2021.

Guttman KF, Orfali K, Kelley AS, Measuring quality communication in the neonatal intensive unit, Pediatric Research. 2021.

Chiappori P.A., Orfali K. Racial Justice and Economic Efficiency Both Require Ending the War on Drugs, The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 21,Issue 4 pp.35-37, 2021.

Orfali K. Getting to the Truth: Ethics, Trust, and Triage in the United States versus Europe during the Covid-19 Pandemic ", The Hastings Center Report, January 2021.

Orfali K. « La religion, le corps et le credo de la liberte aux Etats-Unis » [Religion, Body and Liberty in the USA pp. 155-168] in Aurelien Rissel & B. Feuillet-Liger (eds.), Corps et religions, Panorama International , Presses Universitaires de Rennes (PUR), 2021.

Orfali K. and De Vries R., Chapter 5, Bioethics: A Study in Sociology in Cockerham W. (ed.). The New Companion to Medical Sociology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp.82-100. 2021.

Kenneth Prager, MD

Tolchin B, Willey J, Prager K. Education Research: A case-based bioethics curriculum for neurology residents. Neurology 2015;84;e91-e93.

Choi HA, Fernandez A, Jeon SB, Schmidt JM, Connolly ES, Mayer S, Claassen J, Badjatia N, Prager KM, Lee K. Ethnic Disparities in End-of-Life Care After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2015. 22:423-428

Prager,K. Non heart-beating donation: the ethical challenges involved,in Halakhic Realities. In: Collected Essays on Brain Death, ed. Zev Farber, Maggid Books, 2015, pps.107-113 

Karel-Bart C, Prager KHealth Care Ethics Consultation in the United States. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2016; 18:475-478.

Hardart GE, Labriola MK, Prager K, Morris MC. Consent for organ donation after circulatory death at US transplant centers. AJOB empirical bioethics. 2017 Jul 3;8(3):205-10.

Rubin J, Prager K, Guide to Considering Nonpsychiatric Medical Intervention Over Objection for the Patient Without Decisional Capacity. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, April 5, 2018.

Prager K. Lessons From a Goses, Conversations, Journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, Spring 2018.

Abrams D, Pham T, Burns K, Combes A, Curtiss JR, Mueller T, Prager KM, Serra A, Slutsky A, Brodie D, Schmidt M. Practice Patterns and Ethical Considerations in the Management of Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients: An International Survey. Critical Care Medicine. 2019.

Kornfeld DS, Prager K. The Clinician as Clinical Ethics Consultant: An Empirical method of Study. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 30, no.2. 2019. p96-108.

Mulaikal TA, Nakagawa S, Prager K. ECMO Bridge to No Recovery, Pushing the Limits of Patient and Family Autonomy: When is Enough Enough? Circulation, 2019.139:428-430.

Smok D, Prager KThe ethics of neurologically complicated pregnancies. In: Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Neurology and Pregnancy: Pathophysiology and Patient Care. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier. 2020, 227-245.

Fins Joseph J, Prager K. Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19: The Response of Two Ethics Consultation Services in New York City. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, fall 2020.

Prager K, Fins Joseph J. The Covid-10 Crisis and Clinical Ethics in New York City. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, fall 2020.

Fischkoff K, Neuberg G, Dastidar J, Williams Erin P., Prager K, and Dugdale L. Clinical Ethics Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic Surge at a New York City Medical Center. The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 2020.

Prager, K. The Best Physicians Are Destined for Hell. In: Sheldon Rosenfeld and Daniel Sulmasey eds. Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During and After the Holocaust. Lanham, Maryland, Roman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020.

Prager K, Dagi Glass L, Wang M, Chen R, Liebmann J, Cioffi G. Ophthalmology and Ethics in the COVID-19 Era. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021.224:158-162

Fischkoff D, Prager K, Dastidar J, Dugdale L, Neuberg G, Nemeth S, Fischkoff KEthical Framework to Guide Decisions of Treatment Over Objection.  J Am Coll Surg.  2021 Oct; 233(4): 508-516.e1.

David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN

Seres DS, The FDA crackdown on dietary supplements is inadequate. The Hill. Feb 21, 2019.

Seres DSEvidence-based medicine requires no evidence, it seems. The Hill. Mar. 23, 2019.

Seres DS, Are Eggs Good or Bad for you? The Hill. May 9, 2019.

Anderson D, Seres DS. Ethical considerations in nutrition support because of provider bias (invited review). GI & Hepatology News. June 12, 2020

Barrocas A, Schwartz DB, Hasse JM, Seres DS, Mueller CM. Ethical Framework for Nutrition Support Resource Allocation During Shortages: Lessons From COVID-19. Nutr Clin Pract. 2020;35(4):599-605.

Jeremy Simon, MD, PhD

Simon J, Kraus C, Rosenberg M, Wang D, Phillips E, Derse A: "Futile Care"—An Emergency Medicine Approach: Ethical and Legal Considerations. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2017; 70:707-713.

Simon J. The Case of the Meddling Mother. SAEM Pulse. 2019; 34(2):28-29 

Simon J. Conceptualizing diseasesCMAJ. 2019; 191: E507-E508

Shaikh A, Simon J. Saving Grandpa?. In Baker E, ed., Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. 2020. 

Simon J. The Drunken Drug Lord. In Baker E, ed., Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. 2020. 

Zaidi S, Simon J. The Reluctant Consultant. In Baker E, ed., Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. 2020. 

Bustan S, Nacoti M, Botbol-Baum M, Fischkoff K, Charon R, Made L, Simon J, Kritzinger M. COVID-19: Ethical Dilemmas in Human Lives. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2021 Jun;27(3):716-732.

Simon J. COVID-19 and the Problem of Clinical Knowledge. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 2021; 43:52. doi: 10.1007/s40656-021-00405-7

Simon J. Introducing philosophy of medicine: three new books. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Forthcoming.