Biography
Topics
Education
Editorial Boards
Columbia Affiliations
Other Affiliations
Member, Research Ethics Advisory Panel, US Dept. of Defense
Member, Ethics Working Group, HIV Prevention Trials Network
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Honors & Awards
Areas of Expertise
Select Urban Health Activities
Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing: Dr. Klitzman's recent book, Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing, based on in-depth interviews with individuals who have or are at risk of a variety of genetic diseases, examines their views of privacy, decisions about genetic testing, participation in research, disclosures to family members and others, etc.
When Doctors Become Patients: Dr. Klitzman's book, When Doctors Become Patients, is based on a series of in-depth interviews with 70 physicians who became patients due to a variety of serious illnesses. The book examines how these individuals change their views of risks and benefits, doctor-patient relationships and interactions, end of life care, spirituality, and other issues.
Select Global Activities
Ethics of HIV Vaccine Trials: IRB Members' Views, South Africa, Thailand: Dr. Klitzman is interviewing IRB members in the US, South Africa, Thailand, and elsewhere
Select Publications
Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Klitzman, R., The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe(Oxford, 2015)
Klitzman, R., Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing(Oxford, 2012)
Klitzman, R., When Doctors Become Patients(Oxford, 2008)
Klitzman, R., The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals and Mad Cow Disease(Plenum, 2008)
Klitzman, R., A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship(Penguin, 1990)
Klitzman, R., In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist(Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Klitzman, R., Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV(Ivan R. Dee, 1007)
Klitzman, R., and Bayer, R., Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
Klitzman, R., Appelbaum, P., To Protect Human Subjects, Review What Was Done, Not Proposed Science. 2012 March 30; 335(6076): 1576-7