Joseph Fins, MD Biography
- Title:
- Chief of Medical Ethics Division, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Hospital
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“I think you know, with the pope’s illness and with Terri Schiavo, we’re brushing up against our mortality, our collective mortality. Modern medicine has a way of preserving life and deluding us into thinking that we’re not going to die. And I think the lesson is we all will, and we have to prepare and have discussions with our loved ones so they’re prepared to make decisions for us.”
CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight, Mar. 31, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Chief, Medical Ethics Division, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Hospital
- Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Associate for Medicine, The Hastings Center
- Physician-Ethicist-in-Residence, HealthCare Chaplaincy, New York City
- Editorial Board, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Associate Editor, Cancer Investigation
- Advisory Board Member,Metropolitan New York Ethics Committee Network at the New York Academy of Medicine
- Member of the Advisory Board, New York Citizens’ Commission on Health Decisions
- Member, Health and Public Policy Committee of the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians
- Adjunct Member, Association of the Bar on the City of New York, Health Law Committee
- Member, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Ethics Committee
- Fellow, American College of Physicians
- Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
- New York State Attorney General’s Commission on Quality Care at the End of Life1997-1998
- Education:
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- Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
- Residency, Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
- MD, Cornell University Medical College, 1986
- BA, Wesleyan University, 1982
- Other:
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- Appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, July 2000
- Recipient, Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Award
- Recipient, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Visiting Fellowship
- Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Trustee Advisor, Princeton University Bioethics Forum
- Recipient, Health Advocacy Award of the New York Society of Patient Representatives
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