Meet Our Team
Leadership
Faculty and Staff
Ashley J Moyse, PhD
- Director, Columbia Character Cooperatives, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Justin R Hawkins, MAR, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Justin R. Hawkins received his PhD (distinguished) 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.
Celina Durgin, MA
- 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.
Advisors
- Akhil Gupta, MBA
Former Chairman and Senior Managing Director India at the Blackstone group - Louis Kim, MBA
Tech Executive - Arnold Lisio, MD
Retired internist at Columbia University Medical Center from 1961-2015 - John Moon, PhD
Morgan Stanley
Adjunct Professor of Business, Columbia Business School - Anne Moore, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
- Joyeeta Dastidar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Clinical Ethicist - Ruth Fischbach, PhD
Professor of Bioethics - Katherine Fischkoff, MD
Jose M. Ferrer Associate Professor of Surgery (in Anesthesia) at the Columbia University Medical Center
Chair, Quality and Patient Safety for the Department of Surgery
Chief Ethics Officer, Department of Surgery - Robin Goland, MD
J. Merrill Eastman Professorship of Clinical Diabetes
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Co-Director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center - Linda S. Golding, MA, BCC
Staff Chaplain
Coordinator, Pastoral Services Milstein Hospital
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Masters in Bioethics - Walkiria R. Jimenez-Loo, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Jane Kang, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Rheumatology Fellowship - Robert Klitzman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program
Member, Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics - Erika Landau, MD, MSc, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Ryan Lawrence, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry - Melissa Moschella, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics - Gerald W. Neuberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
Senior Clinical Ethicist - Kristina Orfali, PhD
Professor of Bioethics - Elvira Parravicini, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program - Kenneth Prager, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director of Clinical Ethics - Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, MD
Lecturer, Core Faculty, Masters of Bioethics Program - Cortessa Lynn Russell, MD
Lecturer, Core Faculty, Masters of Bioethics Program - Brian Scully, MD, MA
Associate Professor of Medicine - David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Medical Nutrition
Associate Clinical Ethicist - Jeremy R. Simon, MD, PhD, FACEP
Assistant Clinical Professor of Clinical Medicine - Eve E. Slater, MD, FACC
Professor of Clinical Medicine - Rabbi Mychal Springer
Manager Clinical Pastoral Education