ESBC Leadership

ABOUT US

PRESIDENT

Timothy W. Kirk, Ph.D. HEC-C is a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, York College specializing in healthcare ethics with an emphasis on hospice and palliative care. He has a secondary academic appointment in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Kirk is also an HCEC board-certified ethics consultant in hospice care and courtesy faculty in the palliative care research institute of MJHS Health System. Together with Bruce Jennings, he is the editor of Hospice Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Founded in 2020, the Empire State Bioethics Consortium is a not-for-profit membership organization of scholars, researchers, and practitioners dedicated to addressing ethical issues and inequities in health and health care across New York State.

ESBC Directors

Howard Finger, M.D.

Jorge Rivera-Agosto

David Kaufman, M.D.

Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Amy Scharf

Kara Simpson

Louis Voigt

B. Corbett Walsh