Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

10/20/2026

🗞️⚖️ What should happen after the state attempts an ex*****on and fails? Dr. Dugdale's latest for The Dispatch considers Christa Pike’s case through the lenses of law, ethics, justice, and human dignity.

Read the piece here:

A second ex*****on attempt strains legal and ethical standards.

10/19/2026

NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨🗞️ | We’re thrilled to see the Columbia Character Cooperative (CCC) highlighted in The Healer’s Heartache: Reforming Medicine from the Rough Ground in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Congrats, team!

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10/06/2026

🗞️ Dr. Dugdale joined an international team of scholars to examine how bioethics can move beyond addressing exclusion toward cultivating "epistemic imagination" in conversations about aging, disability, care, and dying.

Check out her co-authored article here:

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 10, 2026)

10/05/2026

🥳. Today is finally here! See you tonight at 5pm in Vagelos Education Center (104 Haven Ave), Room 401.

🗓🎟 Mark your calendars for our Annual Lisio Lecture on Oct 5 @ 5pm! We are looking forward to hearing one of Columbia's greatest surgeons, Dr. Craig Smith, discuss "A Three-Body Problem: Morals, Ethics & Professionalism".

Grab your free ticket to the lecture and reception here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-three-body-problem-morals-ethics-and-professionalism-tickets-1998555236512?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/02/2026

Monday's the day! Get your free ticket ASAP for Dr. Craig Smith's lecture on A Three-Body Problem: Morals, Ethics & Professionalism.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-three-body-problem-morals-ethics-and-professionalism-tickets-1998555236512

09/29/2026

📖 What if one of the remedies for many of our modern challenges is something as simple and enduring as reading?

Read Dr. Dugdale's new essay, The Literacy Cure, on literacy, meaning, and the ways stories shape our understanding of the world and each other:

I grew up in southwest Michigan in a working-class family. My father worked as plant manager at a steel and wire factory, and my mother stayed home with the four of us children. My parents valued good education and prioritized teaching us to read at an early age. They applied for scholarships for us...

09/25/2026

We were honored to host Dr. Venters in the past and are thrilled to see him delivering the 2026 Stubing Memorial Lecture on Confinement and Care: The Ethics of Health Care Behind Bars on Nov 16 in NYC and online.

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Health care in carceral settings raises important ethical questions around access to care, patient autonomy and consent, clinician loyalty and conflicts of interest, public health responsibilities, and the gap between community and correctional health, among others.

09/23/2026

🗓🎟 Mark your calendars for our Annual Lisio Lecture on Oct 5 @ 5pm! We are looking forward to hearing one of Columbia's greatest surgeons, Dr. Craig Smith, discuss "A Three-Body Problem: Morals, Ethics & Professionalism".

Grab your free ticket to the lecture and reception here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-three-body-problem-morals-ethics-and-professionalism-tickets-1998555236512?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/22/2026

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09/04/2026

🚨🗞️ New York's medical aid-in-dying law is now in effect. Read the below The New York Times article featuring comments from Dr. Dugdale:

A group run by doctors is helping terminally ill patients fulfill the legal requirements to die on their own terms.