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Ruth L. Fischbach, PhD, MPE
Ruth L. Fischbach is Professor of Bioethics and Director and Co-founder of the Center for Bioethics. She is a faculty member both in the Department of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Prior to arriving at Columbia, Dr. Fischbach served from 1998 to 2001 as Senior Advisor for Biomedical Ethics in the Office of the Director of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health. Here she participated in many federal interagency committees designed to protect the rights and welfare of research participants.
While at the NIH, she produced Bioethics Resources on the Web, a useful Web site resource for the research community and two guidance documents: Protection of Participants in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Research Involving Individuals with Questionable Capacity to Consent: Points to Consider. She received an NIH Award of Merit for her efforts in establishing the Tuskegee Center for Bioethics. Preceding her service at the NIH, Dr. Fischbach was a bioethicist/ medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Social Medicine and the Division of Medical Ethics from1990 -1998. She was Director of the Program in the Practice of Scientific Investigation. At Washington University from 1983 - 1990, as an Assistant Dean, she headed the Ethics Program and founded the Humanities in Medicine Program.
Her research interests and scholarly publications have focused on decisions around the end of life, autonomy of the elderly, communication between patients and healthcare professionals, pain assessment and management, and the experiences of research participants, particularly as they relate to privacy and informed consent.
Her current work focuses on research ethics and contemporary issues in bioethics including: neuroethics, stem cell research, and advances in assisted reproductive technology.
At Columbia, Dr. Fischbach is a member of the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) Institutional Review Board (IRB), the CUMC Ethics Committee, the Children's Hospital of New York (CHONY) Ethics Committee, the University Stem Cell Consortium, the University’s Stem Cell Oversight Committee, the Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center at Columbia and the NY State Psychiatric Institute, and the Advisory Board for the Center for the Study of Science and Religion. Beyond Columbia, Dr. Fischbach serves on the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Medical and Professional Advisory Council and Gold Foundation Honor Society, and the Population Council IRB. Dr. Fischbach is a member of the Board of Directors of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) and the Morris Jumel Mansion in historic Washington Heights.
Recent publications include:
 Along with Joyce Plaza, she is the co-author of two Web-based Distance Learning educational programs: Conflicts of Interest, and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research
Fischbach RL. Conflicts of interest and threats to the conduct of clinical research. SoCRA Source. 2003;37:16-19.
Fischbach GD and Fischbach RL. Stem cells: science, policy, and ethics. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2004; 114:1364-1370.
Fischbach RL and Fischbach GD. The Brain Doesn’t Lie. American Journal of Bioethics. 2005 :5 ;54-55.
Morris MC, Fischbach RL, Nelson RM, Schleien, CL. A paradigm for inpatient resuscitation research with an exception from informed consent. Critical Care Medicine. 2006: 34: 2567-2573.
Gonzalez D and Fischbach RF. Harmonizing Regulations for Biomedical Research: a Critical Analysis of the U.S. and Venezuelan Systems. Developing World Bioethics. 2006: October: 1471-1481.
Morris MC, Fischbach RL, Nelson RM, Schleien CL, A paradigm for inpatient resuscitation research with an exception from informed consent. Critical Care Medicine. 2006 Oct: 34(10): 2567-2575.
Di Tillio-Gonzalez D and Fischbach RL. Harmonizing Regulations for Biomedical Research: A Critical Analysis of the U.S. and Venezuelan Systems. Developing World Bioethics. 2006 Oct 13. ISSN 1471-8731 (print); 1471-8847 (online).
Morris MC., Besner D, Vazquez H, Nelson R, Fischbach RL. Parental Opinions about Clinical Research. Journal of Pediatrics. 2007 Nov; 151(5):532-7. 537.el-5. Epub 2007 Aug 23.
Fischbach, RL. Clinical Bioethics: Bringing Resolution to Conflict in Patient Care. P&S. 2007;27:48.
Fischbach RL and Valentine MA: Depression and Domestic Violence. In: Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. New York: Routledge, 2007:238-240.
Fischbach RL and Valentine MA: Cross-cultural perspectives in Domestic Violence. In: Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. New York: Routledge, 2007:216-219.
Fischbach RL and Loike JD. Post Mortem Fatherhood: Life After Life. Lancet. In Press, Jan 2008.
Simon J and Fischbach RL. Doctor, Please turn off my LVAD. Hastings Center Report. In Press, Jan 2008.
Fschbach RL, Fischbach GD. Neuroethicists Needed Now More Than Ever. Am J Bioeth. Jan-Feb 2008;8(1):1-3 |
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