Navigating Ethical Frontiers: Gender-Affirming Care, Abortion, & HIV

Hyrbid Event: 

In-Person: 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032,
Multipurpose Room, 6602 or Zoom

Guest Speaker:

Robert Klitzman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians &
Surgeons, Columbia University
Associate Director, Development Core,
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies

Overview:

Robert Klitzman, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and directed the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center for 10 years. He has  published over 180 scientific journal articles, nine books, and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics including genetics, neuroethics, HIV prevention, research ethics, and doctor-patient relationships.

Learning Objectives:

1. List at least two recent policies that restrict access to abortions and to gender affirming care.
2. Describe researchers and clinicians’ methods and interventions to effectively respond to these policies’ effects and implications.
3. Identify at least two ethical, psychological, social, and/or medical effects of these policies on affected individuals.

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Continuing Education Information

This learning activity fulfils the NYSED professional ethics requirements for NYS licensed psychologists and social workers. This live activity is designated for a maximum of 1 CE credit(s).

Psychologists: Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Columbia University Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0168. Columbia University Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers: Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0732. Columbia University Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Please direct any questions about CE credit to Psych.CE@nyspi.columbia.edu.