Jewish Medical Ethics 2016 -Classic Topics with a New Twist (session 2)
9:00– 9:30 – Abortion: New issues in abortion - Rabbi A. Steinberg MD
9:30 -10:00 – Autopsy: Use of modern technologies – Rabbi A. Glatt MD
10:00-10:30 - Pulling the plug - Deactivating a pacemaker in terminal patient - Dr I. Bezdow 10:30-11:00 – Q & A panel discussion
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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. Aaron Glatt
Rabbi Aaron E. Glatt, MD, MACP, FIDSA, FSHEA is the Associate Rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere. He is an international lecturer on medical ethics and Jewish law, has authored several hundred scientific journal articles, book chapters and presentations, including the book Visiting the Sick and Women in the Talmud, and is the Director of the Medical Halacha (Jewish Law) Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He is also an adjunct Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics at the…
Dr. Ira Bedzow
Ira Bedzow, Ph.D. is assistant professor of medicine and director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College, and he is Senior Scholar of the Aspen Center for Social Values. Dr. Bedzow received his Ph.D. from Emory University, an M.A from Touro College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Princeton University. He is also an Orthodox rabbi (yoreh yoreh and yadin yadin). Dr. Bedzow is editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal En Route and…