Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. Her first book, Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015), provides the theoretical grounding for this current book. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.
The Nancy Weaver Emerson Lectureship in Medical Ethics brings nationally-renowned speakers to Duke University to address important ethical issues in medicine. Established in 1997, the lectureship honors the late Nancy Weaver Emerson, an advocate who spread hope to many and was an unflagging example of how to find the “can” in cancer. Past recipients have included Victoria Sweet, Jeremy Sugarman, and Carl Elliott.