Dr. Joseph J Fins MD
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505 E 70th St # Ht-4 New York NY, 10021Rating
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Dr. Joseph J. Fins is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he also serves as Professor of Medic ...
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Acts of omission and commission in pain management: the ethics of naloxone use.
- Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon.
- Protecting vulnerable research subjects without unduly constraining neuropsychiatric research.
- Commentary: Professionalism and pain management.
- Clinical pragmatism, ethics consultation, and the elderly patient.
- Assisted suicide compared with refusal of treatment: a valid distinction?
- A proposed ethical framework for interventional cognitive neuroscience: a consideration of deep brain stimulation in impaired consciousness.
- Development of a palliative education assessment tool for medical student education.
- Principles in palliative care: an overview.
- Gaining insight into the care of hospitalized dying patients: an interpretative narrative analysis.
- Communication in intensive care settings: the challenge of futility disputes.
- PAHO's progress.
- Bioethics with portfolio.
- The rationing of health care: a doctor's dilemma.
- Across the divide: religious objections to brain death.
Awards
- Comprehensive Examinations, College of Letters, Wesleyan University 1981 High Honors
- Wesleyan University 1982 B.A. with Honors
- 1989 Visiting Scholar, The Hastings Center
- 1993, 1993 Visiting Professor of Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Universida
- 1993 GTE Visiting Scholar in Technology and Ethics, Luzerne County Communi
- 1995 Honorary Academic Advisor to CETIN (Ethics Committee for Clinical Inv
- College of Letters, Wesleyan University 1995 Philip Hallie Memorial Lecture
- Institute for the Study of Humanities and Bioethics Eugenio Maria de 1995-2000 Honorary Member of the Advisory Board
- 1996 Honorary Editorial Committee, Perspectivas Bioeticas en las Americas
- 1997-1998 Quality Care at the End of Life Commission, Office of the Attorney Ge
- 1997-2000 Project on Death in America Soros Faculty Scholar
- 1998-1999 Hope College, Hampden Sydney College
- Linfield College, Furman University, Health Advocacy Award, New York 1998, 1998, 1998, 1998 Grinnell College
- North Shore University Hospital 1998 Maxim Brettler Lecture on Medical Humanities
- Faculty of Medicine, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany 1998 Dies Academicus Lecturer
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University (Medicine, Patients, Soci 2000 Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2000-2012 Selected, Who's Who in America, Edition
- 2000 Harold Coppersmith Memorial Lecture, NYU Downtown Hospital
- 2000-2002 Commissioner, appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton, White
- 2001-2003 Selected, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Edition
- 2001-2004, 2001, 2001 Selected, Who's Who in the World, Edition
- The HealthCare Chaplaincy 2001 Wholeness of Life Award
- 2002, 2002, 2002, 2002, 2002 Selected, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Edition
- 2002 Lori Ann Roscetti Memorial Lecture on Ethical and Humanitarian Issues
- 2003 John J. Travers, M.D. Memorial Lecture, Mercy Medical Center
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital 2003 Individual Service Excellence Award
- 2003-2004 Selected, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Edition
- John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Medical Humanities, Institute f 2004 University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
- 2004-2005, 2004 Visiting Professor, Fordham Law School
- 2004 Lyon Daughters Memorial Lecture, The Rochester Academy of Medicine
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University (Medicine, Patients Socie 2004 Award for Teaching Excellence
- Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leaders 2005 Fellow
- Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2005 The David Thomasma Memorial Lecture
- 2005 Institute of Medicine Exploratory Meeting on Disorders of Consciousne
- 2006 American Osler Society John P. McGovern Annual Award Lecture
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University (Advanced Basic Science) 2006 Award for Teaching Excellence
- Visiting Professor of Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine Philipps 2006 University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- 2007-2010 Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, The Robert Wood Johnson
- 2007 Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, Arts and Science Essay Contes
- The Hastings Center, 2007 Fellow
- 2008 Bruce Hedges Memorial Lecture, The Payne Whitney Clinic, Department o
- Distinguished Lecturer in Bioethics, 2008 University of California, School of Medicine at Davis
- 2008-201 Member, Deep Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry: Guidance for Responsibl
Treatments
- Medical Ethics
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