Joseph Fins
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Dr. Joseph Jack Fins (b. 1959) is Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College where he serves as Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. Dr. Fins is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. His writings in medical ethics and health policy have focused on palliative care, rational approaches to ethical dilemmas and the development of "clinical pragmatism" as a method of moral problem-solving drawing upon the American pragmatic tradition of William James and John Dewey. His more recent work has been in neuorethics and disorders of consciousness following severe brain injury.
Dr. Fins has been a Visiting Professor in Medical Ethics at The Complutense University in Madrid and has been a recipient of a Soros Open Society Institute Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Award and a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Visiting Fellowship. In July 2000, Dr. Fins was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.
Dr. Fins graduated from Wesleyan University in 1982, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees, and from Cornell University Medical College. After an internship at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Dr. Fins completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship in general internal medicine at The New York Hospital. He is the author of "A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life's End" published by Jones and Bartlett (2006).
A practicing internist at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Fins is a Governor-Elect of the American College of Physicians.
