The Marvels of Genetics: Genes for Chesed & Cancer
Featuring Halachik Aspects of Commercial DNA Testing, with Dr J. Loike; BRCA Gene: Medical Issues, with Dr. E. Warner, MD; and BRCA Screening: Halachik Issues, with Rabbi A. Steinberg, MD.
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Meet the speakers
Dr. John D. Loike
John D. Loike is a Professor of Biology at Touro College and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons. He created and runs BioCEP (Biomedical Cross-cultural Education Program) and writes a monthly column on bioethics for The Scientist magazine. He research focuses on the immune system in Parkinson’s disease and also publishes about secular and halachic bioethics and medical ethics. His 6th edition of Science-Based Bioethics was released on January 2019.
Dr. Ellen Warner
Dr. Warner obtained her MD and internal medicine training at the University of Toronto and did a medical and radiation oncology fellowship at the Hadassah Ein Karem in Yerushalayim. Since 1993 she has been a staff medical oncologist at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre and she is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Warner’s clinical practice and research are devoted entirely to patients with breast cancer. She started the first genetic testing program in Toronto for…
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…