Contemporary Issues in Organ Transplantation: 4th Annual Jewish Medical Ethics Conference, 2012
Panel discussion held at the 4th Annual Jewish Medical Ethics Conference, Southbury, CT, August 16-19, 2012.
Meet the speakers
Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Prof. Steinberg was born in Hoff, Germany. He studied in the Rabbinic Academy of Yeshivat Harav Kook, Jerusalem after which he studied medicine and completed his internship in the Hebrew-University Hadassa Medical School, Jerusalem.Prof. Steinberg served as a Medical Officer in the Israeli Air Force. He was a resident in the department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek, and the department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx, New York, after which he became a fellow…
Rabbi Dr. David Shabtai
Fellow, Wexner Kollel Elyon at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Professor of Medical Halakhah, Yeshiva University, NY; Author of Defining the Moment: Understanding Brain Death in Halakhah.
Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
Edward Reichman is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor in the Division of Education and Bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, where he teaches Jewish medical ethics. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and writes and lectures internationally in the field of Jewish medical ethics.