Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen featuring Robert Klitzman, M.D.
February 27 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
On Thursday, February 27, Dr. Robert Klitzman, Director of the M.S. in Bioethics program at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, will join Emmy Award-winning writer Randy Cohen on Cohen’s public radio podcast Person Place Thing.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that is important to them.
Cohen’s conversation with Dr. Klitzman will be recorded in front of a live audience and released as a podcast episode at a later date. Free and open to the public.
About the speakers
Robert Klitzman, M.D. is a professor of psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the director of the online and in-person Bioethics master’s and certificate programs at Columbia University. He has written over 180 scientific journal articles, ten books, and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics regarding doctor-patient relationships and communication, research, genetics, mental health, pandemics, and other areas.
Dr. Klitzman has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Aaron Diamond Foundation, The Hastings Center, and The Rockefeller Foundation. He has been a gubernatorial appointee to the Empire State Stem Cell Commission and the Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network and has served on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Research Ethics Advisory Panel. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, CNN, and Psychology Today.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
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