Health Ethics Podcast

If we demand informed consent for individuals, why don't we demand it for all of society? In this episode,  Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Brian Patrick Green about technology and societal informed consent.  Brian Patrick Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and teaches AI ethics in Santa Clara University’s Graduate Scho...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Jamie Carlin Watson, clinical ethicist for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics. Watson is the author of several books, including: A History and Philosophy of Expertise: The Nature and Limits of Authority (Bloomsbury, 2022), Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury 2020), and Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinic...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Philip Alberti, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) senior director of health equity research and policy, and founding director of the Center for Health Justice . Dr. Alberti's work is fueled by the belief that solutions to health injustice exist within communities themselves, and that the path to better health goes beyond medical car...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Frederic W. Hafferty, professor of medical education at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the author of “Into the Valley: Death and the Socialization of Medical Students” (Yale University Press); “The Changing Medical Profession: An International Perspective” (Oxford University Press), with John McKinlay; “Sociology and Complexity S...

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Joel Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Bioethics Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Reynolds is especially concerned with...

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles Binkley, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, the director of Bioethics for the health network’s Central Region, and also an associate professor of Surgery at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine on his recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, “From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm – Quality of Life, Disability...

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Eli Adashi . Dr. Adashi served as the Fifth Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, and is presently a tenured Professor of Medical Science with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Since 2008, Adashi has undertaken to focus on matters of policy at the nexus of medicine,...

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to bioethicist, Dr. Nancy Berlinger. Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY. Her current research focuses on ethical and societal challenges arising from population aging; the bioethics of migration, and responding to and learning from t...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Rui Nunes, professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. Professor Nunes is also the president and founder of the Portuguese Association of Bioethics and is a member of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. His most recent book is "Healthcare as a Universal Human Right: Sustainability in Global...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Scott Schweikart, JD, MBE, Senior Research Associate at the American Medical Association and legal editor of the AMA's Journal of Ethics. They discuss AMA's COVID-19 Ethics Guidance website ( https://www.ama-assn.org/topics/covid-19-ethics-guidance) in addition to issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy, physicians as models of good health behavior, a...

In Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community, a panel of experts discusses respect for individual conscience and decision making and how to balance this with the health needs of communities. Considerations of conscientious objection, vaccine hesitancy, and the role of philosophical and religious concerns in requesting exemptions are to be discussed. Recorded on February 10, 2022. Pane...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Cindy Smalletz on her work in narrative medicine, and how narrative medicine has impacted her practice of Occupational Therapy. Cindy Smalletz, MS, MS, MA is Program Director for the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Most recently, she completed an MS...

As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, we turn to the stories and depictions – narrative and graphic – behind COVID with the hope of gaining a better understanding of its impact and how we may move forward ethically. Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about narrative and graphic medicine in the time of COVID. Panelists: Cindy Smalletz, M...

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Kirk A Johnson on the impact COVID has had on American understanding of systemic racism, as well as the factors that influence vaccine hesitancy and mistrust in people of color. Dr. Kirk A Johnson a Professor at Montclair State University who teaches courses in Justice Studies, Medical Humanities, Bioethics, Global Issues, and Religion. He rece...

The questions relating to medical equipment disposal and decommissioning are many and varied. In this episode, host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Jennifer Orth about her work as the lead of Re-MERGE, Reprocessing Medical Equipment: Rotarian Research Group for the Environment, through the International Rotary Fellowship of Healthcare Professionals. Jennifer is a Biochemistry and Philosophy doubl...

In this episode, Host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Sherry Greenberg, Associate Professor at Seton Hall University College of Nursing and nurse practitioner faculty consultant on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community initiative.

Dr. Bryan Pilkington in conversation with Mark Fuller Sewell, MD, a specialty care physician board certified in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology.

Featuring Emma Goldberg, author of "Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic" and writer for The New York Times; Nick Cozzarelli, medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; and Alex Tannenbaum, medical student at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

COVID Ethics Series Podcast host Dr. Bryan Pilkington sits down with Dr. Maryanne Giuliante, Advanced Practice Provider Manager for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Westchester Regional Network in West Harrison, NY, and a triple board certified as a bioethicist, an Adult Nurse Practitioner, and an Advanced Nurse Executive. In this episode, Dr. Giuliante speaks of her experience as a COVID...

Host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Father Colin Kay, Vice President for Mission and Ministry at Seton Hall University, on the concept of "Social UNdistancing," spirituality and community health during COVID, religious exemptions, and more.

In Expertise in the Time of COVID: Who has it? Who should have it?, a panel of experts discusses the roles that authority, information literacy, and reasoning in situations of uncertainty have in responding ethically to a pandemic. In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel about the importance of expertise and how it has played out in the time of COVID. Panelists...

On Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well with Dr. Lydia Dugdale was recorded live on Thursday, April 29. The event's co-sponsors were the Center for Catholic Studies, the IHS Library, with IHS Bioethics. The event was moderated by Dr. Bryan Pilkington. Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia Uni...

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Denice Ochola, MPH, a Contact Tracer with NYC Health + Hospitals.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Tade Ayeni, the Director of Diversity and Equity at Hackensack School of Medicine.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington discusses ethical issues associated with COVID-19 challenge trials with Seton Hall Law Professor Carl Coleman.