Bioethics Committee

The Role of Bioethics Committees

Cedar-Sinai Medical Center's Bioethics Committee is a standing committee of the Cedar-Sinai Medical Staff. Its membership, however, is multidisciplinary, drawing individuals from all elements of healthcare services within the medical center, including, but not limited to, representatives from the faculty and voluntary medical staffs, nursing services, social services, administration, chaplaincy, various ancillary care staffs, and faculty of the Center for Healthcare Ethics. In addition, the committee includes representatives from the lay public.

The function of the Bioethics Committee is to advise on matters consistent with the Medical Center's Administrative Policy and Procedures Manuel listed in Article XIX of the Rules & Regulations Regulation Specific duties of the Committee include:

• Advise in the formulation of Medical Staff Rules and Regulation and Policy & Procedures documents pertaining to ethical considerations within the Medical Center.
• Provide a forum for discussion of ethical considerations associated with the Medical Center's clinical, educational, and research mission
• Foster awareness of ethical issues and concerns within the Medical Center by assisting in the creation and implementation of educational and informational programs and activities.

In special instances, the Bioethics Committee may serve as a resource for the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, which is the clinical service arm of the Center for Healthcare Ethics.

The Bioethics Committee is led by a Chairman who is appointed in accordance to Medical Staff Rules and Regulation. The Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics serves as the committee's Co-Chair.

Current Officers (2010-2011)

Chair Zab Mosenifar, MD IM/Pulmonary Critical Care

Co-Chair Stuart Finder, Ph.D Center for Healthcare Ethics

Vice - Chair Irving Lebovics, DDS Dentistry Program

Current Members

ADMINISTRATION:
Kirsten Hopper, MBA, MA - Service Line Manager (Weight Loss)
Phyllis Winston, RN, Esq -  Risk Management

CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE ETHICS:
Virginia Bartlett, Ph.D. - Assistant Director
Kenneth Leeds, MD - Associate Director
Leon Morgenstern, MD - Senior Advisor

CHAPLAINCY:
Rabbi Jason Weiner
(Father Lester Avestruz, Denise LaChance, M.Div)

COMMUNITY:
Caron Broidy
Peter B. Gruenberg, MD ( Psychiatry & Psychoanalysis)
Jeffery Pomerance, MD, MPH (retired - Neonatology)
Tom Weinberger, MBA, MA

MEDICAL STAFF:
William S. Binder, MD - Pediatrics /Neonatology
Anthony Chin, MD - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rena Falk, MD -  Medical Genetics
Pamela Fenton, MD -  Obstetrics & Gynecology
Daniel J. Fink, MD -  Internal Medicine
Joel Geiderman, MD - Co-Director, Emergency Medicine
Howard S. Goldberg, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care
Dani Hackner, MD - Critical Care Medicine
Richard M. Handwerger, MD - Opthamology
Carol H. Hurvitz, MD - Pediatrics/Hem-Onc
Carole Jordan-Harris, MD, MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology
Larry Maldonado, MD - General Internal Medicine (Critical Care)
Eve Newhart, MD - General Internal Medicine
Brady Rosen , MD - General Internal Medicine
Edward Seferian, MD - Pediatrics ( Medical Affairs)
Richard Sukov, MD - Radiology
Nicholas Szumski, MD, Ph.D - Neurology
Michael Van Scoy-Mosher, MD -  Hematology Oncology
Alan Weinberg, MD - IM/Cardiology

NURSING STAFF:
Harmin Abrahamian, RN, CNIV, CNOR, OR/Anes.
Traci Babcock, GNP, MS - 8SCCT-ICU
Donna Bias, RN - Clinical Coordinator, Center for International Health
Linda Gorman, RN - Clinical Nurse Specialist, Palliative Care
Rita Hand, GNP - Palliative Care
Janet Kimble, CCRN - Pediatrics Pulmonary
Ellen Mack, RNC, MN -  Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, NICU
Bernie Mendiondo, RN - Nurse Manager (CICU/CSICU)
Anne Rosenblatt, RN, MSN - Lead Clinical Coordinator (BMT)
Naomi Tashman, RN -7NE

OTHER CARE STAFF:
Eskedar Gobeze, RN - Patient Relations
Catherine "Kate" Jonas, LMFT, BCETS, SEASONS GIOP
Lydia Limenes, RN - Case Management
Samantha Stewart, LCSW - Case Management./Social Work
Lidia Toledo, RN, MSN - Patient Relations

HOUSE STAFF:
Christian Balzer, MD - Medicine
Hugh Davis, MD - Medicine
Seper Dezfoi, MD - Medicine
Angela Dunn, MD - Obstetrics and Gynecology
Christine Saad, MD - Obstetrics and Gynecology
Andrrew Shubov, MD - Medicine
Niki Tank, MD - Medicine