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Dr. Robert Klitzman
@robertklitzman.bsky.social
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Prof. of Psychiatry & Director of the Bioethics MS Program at Columbia University | Author, most recently, of DOCTOR, WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? & DESIGNING BABIES
https://sps.columbia.edu/person/robert-klitzman-md
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How to cope with world upheaval as we begin a new year: My essay in @psychologytoday.com
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#PsychologyToday #MentalHealth #WorldEvents
How to Cope with World Upheaval
Personal Perspective: Perceived threats to global values cause worry and denial.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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U.S. hospitals prioritizing organs for foreign patients, bypassing waitlists. Several hospitals involved refused to comment, raising serious ethical concerns.
#OrganTransplants #Bioethics #TransplantEthics
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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FDA unproven claims of deaths from COVID Vaccine raise ethical concerns
#RFKJr #MAHA #vaccines #antivaxx #Trump #bioethics #pediatrics

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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5 stages of grief for our democracy: My new piece in @thehill.com

thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Grateful for this new review of Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person from the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
doi.org/10.1177/1096...
Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person | Journal of Palliative Medicine
Journal of Palliative Medicine
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November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Thrilled to see several of our former Columbia University Bioethics Master's students at The University of Hong Kong!
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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RFK, Jr. fires NIH scientists who were whistleblowers about public health threats, raising ethical concerns
nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
#bioethics #RFKJr #science #nih #ethics #vaccines
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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What will happen to Obamacare? Huge threat from Congress raises major ethical concerns -- from @nytimes.com
#bioethics #trump #congress #republicans #GOP #taxcuts #healthcare

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...
Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year
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September 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Review in the Hastings Center Report of my new book, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Link to book: amazon.com/Doctor-Will-...

#bioethics #chaplains #spirituality #religion #health #doctors
God 2.0?
Robert L. Klitzman's Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person (Oxford University Press, 2024) offers a fervent apology for the increasingly crucial role of chap...
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September 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Conference in Paris, June 11–12, 2026.
I’ll be speaking there! Abstract submission deadline is 3 weeks from now.

Details: csb.eu.com/conference/

#bioethics #healthcare #refugees #climatechange #AI #Paris
Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference
"Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)
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September 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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The CRISPR Babies: My thoughts in the new Science History Podcast
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/dist...

#bioethics #genetics #healthcare #eugenics
CRISPR: Big Breakthrough, Big Questions
CRISPR is a powerful technology, but altering the genes of children gave us pause.
www.sciencehistory.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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RFK, Jr., Congressional testimony raises many ethical concerns -- from @nytimes.com
nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
#vaccines #antivaxxers #Trump #publichealth #bioethics #measles #polio #healthcare
A Defiant Kennedy Defends Vaccine Changes and C.D.C. Shake-Up
nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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What really causes autism and what we should about it: my essay from the @hastingscenter.bsky.social forum
What Really Causes Autism and What We Should Do About It : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
There are crucial questions about what causes autism and how to prevent and address it.
www.thehastingscenter.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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New AI abilities to 'read' ALS patient's words offers hope, but also raises important neuroethics questions--see @carlzimmer.com's piece in the @nytimes.com
nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
#bioethics #neuroethics #healthcare #neurology #brain #healthpolicy #law
For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Rising tide of fake scientific papers, which may increase due to funding cuts, raises major concerns -- see @carlzimmer.com's piece in @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
#bioethics #MedSky
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Trump launches pilot plan to cover weight loss drugs, but what of the costs of Ozempic? My further thoughts in @newsweek.com from @jesusmesa.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
#bioethics #MedSky #Medicare
Medicare update: Trump admin launching pilot program to cover Ozempic
Drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists were initially developed to treat Type 2 diabetes but have become a cultural phenomenon.
www.newsweek.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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New research suggests that polygenic risk scores predict childhood obesity; but ethical questions arise, given possible misunderstandings of relative risks & other factors.
From @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/h...
#obesity #BigFood #genetics #health #bioethics #ozempic #healthcare
Obesity Prediction Could Be Guided by Genetic Risk Scores
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Problems with ChatGPT in toys: my thoughts in today’s NYT's letter to the editor
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...
#bioethics #ethics #AIethics #ChatGPT
Opinion | Where Have All the Novel-Reading Men Gone?
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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ChatGPT Barbie poses concerns for children's mental health -- from @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
#bioethics #AI #AIethics #Congress #mentalhealth
Opinion | Don’t Let Silicon Valley Move Fast and Break Children’s Minds
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Read more about last week's wonderful conversation with neuroethicist Dr. Joseph Fins here: sps.columbia.edu/news/coma-co...
#bioethics #neuroethics #neuroscience
From Coma to Consciousness: Examining the Ethics and Neuroscience of Brain Injury
Dr. Joseph Fins and Bioethics program director Dr. Robert Klitzman explore new ethical practices for patients in a coma or a minimally conscious state.
sps.columbia.edu
June 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Trump attacking NEJM, Science & other journals, threatening independent science
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#bioethics #science #NEJM
NEJM the latest journal to receive letter from Trump appointed attorney asking about bias
The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for Wash...
www.bmj.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Author @robertklitzman.bsky.social analyzes how regulations can strike a balance between protecting surrogates from exploitation and allowing people who cannot have children to become parents in "Gestational Surrogacy, the Pope and Needs for Regulations."
#Surrogacy
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Independent Articles Gestational Surrogacy, the Pope, and Needs for Regulations Robert Klitzman Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health and Masters of Bioethics Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Abstract As surrogacy grows, many states and countries are enacting or considering relevant regulations, while others oppose it. Ethical, legal and policy questions arise: how to balance the rights of various kinds of parents (e.g., heterosexual and same-sex couples and single individuals) against the rights and well-being of surrogates. Concerns include risks of exploitation, autonomy, benefits of enabling prospective parents to create loving families, and mitigating possible harms through regulations. Though a few instances of abuse have been reported in developing countries, these do not appear to have occurred in developed countries, where robust regulations exist. The limited data available on surrogates in general (i.e., including traditional and non-commercial surrogacy) do not suggest exploitation or trafficking. In 2021, New York State enacted robust regulations allowing commercial surrogacy. Subsequent competing bills have sought to loosen or enhance certain restrictions. These regulations may be a model for commercial surrogacy regulations elsewhere, but certain ethical, legal and policy questions remain (e.g., where to draw the line to prevent trafficking). Additional data and exploration of these challenges are crucial Keywords: assisted reproductive technologies; ethics; policy; surrogacy; religion
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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RFK Jr's vaccine advisory panel contain anti-vaxxers, raising major ethical concerns
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
#bioethics #vaccines #RFKJr #CDC
Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of C.D.C. Vaccine Advisory Panel
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Testing embryos for Alzheimer's, etc?: My thoughts in Inc. Magazine
www.inc.com/ben-sherry/k...
#genetics #bioethics #biotech
This 25-Year-Old Biotech Founder Says His Startup Can 'Optimize' Embryos for Intelligence
Nucleus Genomics founder Kian Sadeghi is making bold claims about his company's genetic testing technology.
www.inc.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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RFK Jr's health report uses bad science thanks to AI -- from @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM