L.S. Dugdale

L.S. Dugdale, MD, MAR, a physician and medical ethicist, is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. Prior to her 2019 recruitment to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion -- both at Yale School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Dugdale completed her medical residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her book THE LOST ART OF DYING is written for a broad audience and builds on her earlier academic volume DYING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. She lives in NYC with her husband and daughters.