Faculty

Participating Faculty

David Alfandre, M.D.

Joseph Goldfarb, Ph.D.

Jean Hermele, M.S.

Kurt Hirschhorn, M.D.

Thomas Kalb, M.D.

Michael Newton, M.D.

Lynne D. Richardson, M.D.

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair for Academic, Research and Community Programs, Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Tel: (212) 659-1653
E-mail: lynne.richardson@mssm.edu

Dr. Richardson holds Bachelor of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Life Sciences and Management, and an M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM). Her Post-Doctoral training included a research fellowship with the AAMC Health Services Research Institute. Dr. Richardson is a nationally recognized expert in health services research and research ethics. She is currently Principal Investigator of "Community VOICES" (Views On Informed Consent In Emergency Situations), an NHLBI-funded project to study community perspectives on the ethics of research without consent in emergency conditions. She has served on peer review panels for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.

Margaret Smirnoff, R.N., F.N.P., M.S., M.P.H.

Ms. Smirnoff is an experienced clinician, researcher and nurse-ethicist. She has worked with diverse populations throughout her career, particularly the economically and educationally underserved: HIV+ patients, the incarcerated, people with tuberculosis, and asthmatics in an area of high prevalence. Currently she builds upon this experience as a Research Subject Advocate in the General Clinical Research Center with responsibility to safeguard the rights of human subjects involved in clinical research. She also keeps her clinical hand current by acting as a research nurse practitioner for two NIH funded complimentary / alternative medicine clinical trials. She has been recognized for her interest in biomedical ethics by her appointment to the Hospital Ethics Committee representing the Department of Nursing. She has taught bioethics to both undergraduate nursing students and medical students. She is a co-investigator of the Community Voices Study (Views on Informed Consent in Emergency Situations).

Randolph Steinhagen, M.D.

Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Associate Professor, Surgery / Colo-Rectal Surgery
Tel: (212) 241-9289
E-mail: randolph.steinhagen@mssm.edu

Dr. Steinhagen is an active clinical surgeon, who has had a long interest in bioethics. He has been involved in teaching the ethics curriculum to medical students at all levels of education and to the surgical residents. In the past, when Mount Sinai was offering a Masters degree in biomedical ethics combined with CUNY, he was an involved faculty member. Dr. Steinhagen serves on the hospital-wide Ethics Committee and on the Ethics Committee for the Department of Surgery.

James Strain, M.D.

Ilene Wilets, Ph.D.

Randi Zinberg, M.S.