Weight Discrimination and Weight Stigma: Impact on Patient Health and Healthcare
Panel discussion on weight discrimination and weight stigma: impact on patient health and healthcare co-sponsored by Columbia's Bioethics Program and the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics of the Department of Medicine.
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Speakers
Rebecca Puhl, Deputy Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at University of Connecticut
Dr. Rebecca Puhl is Deputy Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at UConn. Dr. Puhl is responsible for identifying and coordinating research and policy efforts aimed at reducing weight bias.
Dr. Puhl earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Yale University. She has conducted research on weight bias for 15 years and has published numerous studies on weight-based bullying in youth, weight bias in health care and the media, interventions to reduce weight bias, and the impact of weight stigma on emotional and physical health.
Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, M.D., Lecturer, Core Faculty, Master's of Bioethics
Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, M.D. is an internist with a research interest in human subjects research ethics and in community engagement. Her research interests, in part funded with support from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) ELSI program, have included early phase clinical trial research, the concept of ownership of biologic samples collected for research, and the notion of consent in human subjects research. In 2006 her involvement with community outreach regarding science, research, and ethics resulted in a year-long contract with NHGRI to develop a model community engagement plan around genetics. Dr. Rothschild taught medical ethics, healthcare financing, and research ethics in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001 to 2008. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y. studying the moral underpinnings of healthcare finance decision-making. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lydia Dugdale, M.D., MAR; Advisory Board Member, Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University
Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR is the Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. Her first edited book Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press) provides the theoretical grounding for her latest book The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom (HarperOne).
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