• The Wall Street Journal features a letter to the editor from Dr. Tia Powell and colleagues challenging the views presented in a recent article, which questioned the current means used to determine brain death and the organ donation process in the U.S.
• U.S. News & World Report (via HealthDay) interviews bioethicist Tia Powell about a new study that found advanced directives, also known as living wills, are very important in shaping care provided to patients, and furthermore reduce the costs of end-of-life, which accounts for more than a quarter of Medicare spending last year (October 2011).

• Applications for our Master of Sciences in Bioethics Program and Certificate Program are being accepted for Fall 2012 on a space-available basis. 
• Applications for our summer internship are also now being accepted for summer 2012. Kindly complete the attached application and email to bioethics@montefiore.org along with your CV and any letters of recommendation.  Click here for application. 
  

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•   Institute of Medicine issues a report on staging antibiotics availability during anthrax attacks. Tia Powell, director of the Center for Bioethics and its graduate programs, served as vice-chair of the committee drafting the report.

Tia Powell, director of the Center for Bioethics and its graduate programs, served as vice-chair of the committee drafting the report.

• Los Angeles Times interviews Tia Powell about the ethical and medical issues surrounding the use of robotic pets as companions for the elderly.

• Certificate Program Reunion takes place in March. Melissa Kurtz writes about the event and keynote address by Mirai Chatterjee of SEWA.

• President Obama announces appointments to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. The Commission will be chaired by Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, and co-chaired by James Wagner, President of Emory University.

• Tia Powell, M.D., director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics and director of the Einstein-Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics Program, presents at the 2011 Organ Donor Bioethics Symposium.

• Voices in Bioethics: In a special feature — Using Bioethics to Improve Healthcare — our faculty and students discuss the need for rigorous education in the field and the unique aspects of bioethics collaboration at Einstein, Cardozo and Montefiore.