Last updated on:
8/29/2007 |
Author: ProCon.org
Eric J. Cassell, MD Biography
- Title:
- Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Weil Medical College of Cornell University
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“When terminally ill patients request assistance in dying because of their suffering, and their request meets commonly endorsed safeguards, their request should be honored.”
“When Suffering Patients Seek Death,” Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice, 2004
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to end-of-life issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to end-of-life. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Clinical Professor of Public Health, Weil Medical College of Cornell University
- Attending Physician, The New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Fellow and Member, Board of Directors, The Hastings Center
- Practicing Internist for over forty years
- Lecturer, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Commissioner, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Washington, DC, 1996-2001
- Member, President’s Bioethics Advisory Commission, 1997-2001
- Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumnus Achievement Award, New York University College of Medicine, 2000
- Former U.S. Public Health Service Fellow
- The Hammond Award, American Medical Writers Association, New York Chapter, 1988
- Doctor of Humane Letters, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1985
- Member, New York County Medical Society
- Member, Medical Society of the State of New York
- Member, American Medical Association
- Member, American Public Health Association
- Education:
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- MD, New York University College of Medicine
- MA, Columbia University, 1950
- BA, Queens College, 1950
- Other:
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- None found
