About Us
Founded in 2020, the Empire State Bioethics Consortium is a not-for-profit membership organization of scholars, researchers, and practitioners dedicated to addressing ethical issues and inequities in health and health care across New York State.
Our Mission
The mission of the Empire State Bioethics Consortium is to identify and respond to health-related ethical issues faced by all individuals, families, populations, and communities in New York State, and those entrusted with their care, with an emphasis on remediating inequalities in health care and public health.
We address ethical issues and inequities in health and health care across New York State. Join Us
Background
See
Robert N. Swidler, Timothy Kirk, Amy Scharf and Louis Voigt, The Empire State Bioethics Consortium: A Collaborative Response to Health Care Ethics Challenges of the Pandemic and More, NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal, Vol. 27, No.2 (2022), p.70.Joseph J, Fins, M.D. Is Deliberative Democracy Possible During a Pandemic? Reflections of a Bioethicist, 41 J. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 216, at 222-223 (2021)
ESBC Leadership
Timothy W. Kirk, Ph.D. HEC-C is a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, York College specializing in healthcare ethics with an emphasis on hospice and palliative care. He has a secondary academic appointment in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Kirk is also an HCEC board-certified ethics consultant in hospice care and courtesy faculty in the palliative care research institute of MJHS Health System. Together with Bruce Jennings, he is the editor of Hospice Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014).
TIMOTHY W. KIRK, Ph.D. HEC-C
PRESIDENT
RENEE MCLEOD-SORDJAN
PRESIDENT-ELECT
MARGIE HODGES SHAW
SECRETARY
NICK MERCADO
TREASURER
ESBC Directors
Howard Finger, M.D.
Jorge Rivera-Agosto
David Kaufman, M.D.
Robert Klitzman, M.D.
Amy Scharf
Kara Simpson
Louis Voigt
B. Corbett Walsh