Robert Klitzman, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Sociomedical Sciences)

Director, Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core, HIV Center,
NYSPI

 

 

I am the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program, and the Director of the Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center, and a member of the Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, and co-founded and for five years co-directed the Center for Bioethics. I have written seven books, and numerous articles drawing on multi-disciplinary methods to examine ethical, psychological and social issues in a variety of contexts in medicine and psychiatry. Specifically, I have examined decision-making concerning HIV disclosure, genetic testing, reproductive choices among individuals at risk for genetic disorders, Institutional Review Boards, and other topics.

Education and Training

Undergraduate:  Princeton, BA, 1980
Medical School:  Yale, MD, 1985
Board Certifications:  Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, (Psychiatry), l990.

Specialties

Contact information

Address:
Mailman School of Public Health
Room 323  Unit/Box:
722 West 168th St.
New York, NY   10032

Phone: 212 543 3710
Fax: 212 543 6003
rlk2@columbia.edu

research summary

Ethical, psychological, social and policy aspects of decision-making among patients, providers and others concerning genetics, HIV, research, assisted reproductive technologies, and other areas.

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Publications

1. Klitzman R: Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing,  Oxford University Press,  NY,   ,  2012

1. Klitzman R, Bayer R: Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS,  Johns Hopkins Univeresity Press,   ,  2003

1. Klitzman R: In A House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist,  Simon and Shuster,  NY,   ,  1995

1. Klitzman R: The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals and Mad Cow Disease,  Perseus,  NY,   ,  1998

1. Klitzman R : When Doctors Become Patients,  Oxford University Press,  New York,   ,  2007