Robert Klitzman

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Robert Klitzman (born July 1, 1958) is an American psychiatrist and bioethicist.

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Biography

Early life

Robert Klitzman was born on July 1, 1958. He attended Princeton University, where he studied with Clifford Geertz. He then worked for Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, who had received the Nobel Prize for work on Kuru, a prion disease. Klitzman then conducted field research on Kuru in Papua New Guinea. [1]

He attended Yale Medical School, and completed his medical internship and psychiatric residency at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and what is now the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Career

Klitzman is currently a professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. [2] He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, is the director of the Masters in Bioethics program, [3] and the director of the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. [4]

He has published nine books and authored or co-authored over 150 academic journal articles and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics including: genetics, [5] stem cells, [6] ethics of assisted reproductive technologies, [7] neuroethics, [8] HIV prevention, [9] recreational drug use, [10] research ethics, [11] and doctor-patient relationships. [12]

His research on the experiences of physicians when they become patients shed important light on ways of improving doctor-patient relationships. [13] [14]

He has been widely cited as an authority on ethical issues concerning genetic testing for Huntington's disease, [15] breast cancer, [16] genetic discrimination, [17] medical privacy, [18] epidemics of HIV and prion diseases such as Kuru, [19] and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or "Mad Cow" disease), [20] death and dying, [21] stem cell research, [22] and spirituality and medicine. [23] [24]

His books include When Doctors Become Patients, [25] A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship, In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist, Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women With HIV, [26] The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease, [27] with Ronald Bayer, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS, [28] which was a finalist for a 2004 Lambda Literary Award, [29] Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Other Genetic Journeys, The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe, and Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children. [30] [31] [32]

He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, [33] the Russell Sage Foundation, [34] the Commonwealth Fund, [35] the Aaron Diamond Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, [36] and served on the Department of Defense’s US Army Medical Research and Material Command Research Ethics Advisory Panel. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, [37] a member of the Empire State Stem Cell Commission, [38] HIV Prevention Trials Network, [39] and the Council on Foreign Relations, [40] and is a regular contributor to the New York Times [41] [42] and CNN. [43]

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References

  1. ↑ Klitzman, R., Alpers, M., Gajdusek, D.C. The natural incubation period of kuru and the episodes of transmission in three clusters of patients. Neuroepidemiology, 3: 3 20.
  2. ↑ "Robert L. Klitzman | Our Faculty | Mailman School of Public Health". Mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM. "Robert Klitzman | School of Continuing Education". Ce.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Hiv Center". Hivcenternyc.org. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  5. ↑ Klitzman, R., Thorne, D., Williamson, J., Marder, K. The roles of family members, health care workers and others in decision-making processes about genetic testing among individuals at risk for Huntington’s disease. Genetics in Medicine, 9(6): 358-371.
  6. ↑ Klitzman, R. The Use of Eggs and Embryos in Stem Cell Research. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, 28(4): 336-344.
  7. ↑ Klitzman, R., Zolovska, B., Folberth, W., Chung, W., Sauer, M., Appelbaum, P. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis on in vitro fertilization clinic websites: presentations of risks, benefits and other information. Fertility and Sterility. 92(4): 1276-1283.
  8. ↑ Fisher, C.F., Chin, L., Klitzman, R. Defining Neuromarketing: Practices and Professional Challenges. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 18(4): 230-237.
  9. ↑ Klitzman, R., Exner, T., Kirshenbaum, S.B., Remien, R., Ehrhardt, A.A., Kelly, J.A., Weinhardt, L.S., Catz, S. Johnson, M.O., Morin, S.F., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Lightfoot, M., & Charlesbois, E. It’s not just what you say: Relationships of HIV disclosure and risk reduction among MSM in the post-HAART era. AIDS Care, 19(6): 749-756.
  10. ↑ Klitzman, R., Pope, HG, Hudson, J. MDMA (“ecstasy”) abuse and high-risk sexual behaviors among 169 gay and bisexual men. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157: 1162-1164.
  11. ↑ Krosin, M., Klitzman, R., Levin, B., Cheng, J., Ranney, ML. Problems in comprehension of informed consent in rural and peri-urban Mali, West Africa. Clinical Trials, 3(3): 306-313.
  12. ↑ Klitzman, R. Improving education on doctor-patient relationships and communication: Lessons from doctors who become patients. Academic Medicine, 81(5): 447-453.
  13. ↑ http://www.pugetsoundhealthalliance.org/news/documents/HealthcaredisconnectUSAToday2-20-08.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  14. ↑ Parker, Tara (8 February 2008). "When Doctors Become Patients - NYTimes.com". Well.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  15. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (21 January 2003). "CASES; Questions That Have No Answers - New York Times". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  16. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (17 January 2006). "Genetic Testing Creates New Versions of Ancient Dilemmas". The New York Times.
  17. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (9 May 2006). "The Quest for Privacy Can Make Us Thieves". The New York Times.
  18. ↑ "Robert Klitzman, M.D.: 'Just Sign the Form': Informed Consent, Medical Research and You". Huffingtonpost.com. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  19. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (13 May 2003). "CASES; With Disease, Fear Knows No Cultural Boundaries - New York Times". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  20. ↑ McNeil Jr, Donald G. (23 June 2006). "Study Suggests More Deaths From Mad Cow Disease". The New York Times.
  21. ↑ "Robert Klitzman, M.D.: Death Panels, Dignity, and You". Huffingtonpost.com. 26 April 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  22. ↑ "Stem Cell Research Funding Halt". CBS News.
  23. ↑ "Robert Klitzman, M.D.: Praying for Doctors and Patients". Huffingtonpost.com. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  24. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (24 March 2008). "Prayer, Faith and Doctors - NYTimes.com". Well.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  25. 1 2 Gilsdorf, Janet R. (20 March 2008). "Review: When Doctors Become Patients by Robert Klitzman". N Engl J Med. 358: 1309–1310. doi:10.1056/NEJMbkrev59469.
  26. ↑ "AIDS". JAMA. 279 (15): 1222. 1998. doi:10.1001/jama.279.15.1222-JBK0415-2-1.
  27. ↑ Borkan, Jeffrey M. (1998). "Book Review the Trembling Mountain: A personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow disease by Robert Klitzman. 333 pp. New York, Plenum, 1998. $27.95. 0-306-45792-X". New England Journal of Medicine. 339 (22): 1646–1647. doi:10.1056/NEJM199811263392219.
  28. ↑ Waldner, L. K. (2004). "Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 292 (2): 277–278. doi:10.1001/jama.292.2.277.
  29. ↑ "Lambda Literary Award Finalists - 2003".
  30. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (2015). The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0199364602.
  31. ↑ Angell, Marcia (3 December 2015). "Medical Research on Humans: Making It Ethical". New York Review of Books. 62 (19).
  32. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (2019). Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0190054472.
  33. ↑ "Robert Klitzman | Guggenheim Foundation". gf.org. Archived from the original on 3 August 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  34. ↑ "Robert Klitzman | Russell Sage Foundation". Russellsage.org. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  35. ↑ "When Doctors Become Patients The Health Care Experience of HIV Infected Physicians". The Commonwealth Fund. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  36. ↑ "Research Library" (PDF).
  37. ↑ "American Psychiatric Association".
  38. ↑ "Ethics Committee". Stemcell.ny.gov. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  39. ↑ "HIV Prevention Trials Network". Hptn.org. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  40. ↑ "Council on Foreign Relations".
  41. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (7 March 2016). "Should Therapists Analyze Presidential Candidates?". The New York Times.
  42. ↑ Doctors Fail to Address Patients' Spiritual Needs, 13 August 2015
  43. ↑ "CNN Profiles-Robert Klitzman". CNN .
  44. 1 2 A Year-long Night. Expansion Press. 15 September 2013.
  45. 1 2 3 Klitzman, Robert; Bayer, Ronald (13 April 2005). Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS . JHU Press. ISBN   0801881919.
  46. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (2008). When Doctors Become Patients. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN   978-0195327670.
  47. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (March 2012). Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing . Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN   978-0199837168.
  48. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (2015). The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0199364602.
  49. ↑ Klitzman, Robert (2019). Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0190054472.
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