The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health
is delighted to host its First Visiting Scholar,

Dr. Robert Klitzman, Columbia University, on April 7- 8th, 2008

Robert Klitzman, MD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He co-founded, and for five years co-directed the Center for Bioethics, and is currently the Director of the Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center. He has extensively studied and published on ethical, social, and psychological issues in medicine and psychiatry, including issues of privacy and disclosure of genetic and other medical information; reproductive technologies; stigma and discrimination related to HIV infection; neuroethics; issues of medical education and doctor-patient communication; and ethical issues that arise in conducting research in other cultures. His books include: A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship; In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming A Psychiatrist; Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV; The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease; Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS, and most recently, When Doctors Become Patients. He was recently named a gubanatorial appointee to the New York State Stem Cell Commission, and has received numerous awards for his work, including a Burroughs-Wellcome Fellowship (for Future Leaders in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association), an Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellowship, a Picker-Commonwealth Scholar Award, a Visiting Scholar Award at the Russell Sage Foundation, Fellowships at Yaddo, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residence. APRIL 7, 7:30pm

Public lecture and book signing by Dr. Klitzman at the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, 36th and Walnut

“Double Lives: When Doctors Become Patients”

APRIL 8: 8:30-10:30am

Joint program with Center for AIDS Research & Penn AIDS Awareness, in Dunlop Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School

8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Public lecture and program
“Our Guinea Pigs Abroad?: IRBs, Ethics and Experimentation in the Developing World” APRIL 8: 1:30-3:00pm