Meet the Faculty

Stuart G. Finder, PhD joined the faculty of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) to become Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics in July 2007.

Clinically, he is one of CSMC's Clinical Ethics Consultants, and a member and co-chair of the CSMC's Bioethics Committee, and academically, he holds appointments in University of California, Los Angeles - School of Medicine and the American University of Judaism. As a clinician, a teacher, and a researcher, Finder is interested in exploring the complexity and implications of moral experiences as actualized in health care contexts. This includes the entire spectrum of the health care arena, from patient care to clinical and basic sciences research.
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Virginia L. Bartlett, PhD joined the faculty of CSMC to become Assistant Director for the Center for Healthcare Ethics in August 2010. Along with her directorial duties, she is also one of CSMC's Clinical Ethics Consultant. Her primary interests and responsibilities focus on helping patients, families, and care providers identify and address the complex moral concerns that emerge in healthcare settings through Clinical Ethics Consultations. She also integrates questions about moral experience and clinical ethics practices into themes and programs for ethics education. Currently, she is researching how ethics consultations are understood and utilized by patients, families, and healthcare providers.
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Kenneth Leeds, MD is the Associate Director for the Center for Healthcare Ethics and is a Clinical Ethics Consultant at CSMC. He has been an active member of the CSMC's Bioethics Committee for the past 18 years and served as Co-Chair for three of those years.

Dr. Leeds is a board-certified Otolaryngologist (Ears, Nose, Throat) who was in private practice in Beverly Hills for more than 35 years. Now, as a Clinical Ethics Consultant, Dr Leeds is interested in helping patients, their families, friends and care providers address and work through ethical dilemmas and moral distress that may arise in caring for the patient.
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Leon Morgenstern, MD, FACS is the Senior Advisor for the Center for Healthcare Ethics, which he founded in 1995.
Dr. Morgenstern is a board-certified General Surgeon and served as the inaugural Director of Surgery at CSMC for over 30 years. He has held several academic appointments during his long and illustrious career, including Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Ethics at the University of Judaism. Actively retired, Dr. Morgenstern has replaced his stethoscope for a pen and continues to write and publish articles on a wide range of issues associated with surgery, ethics and healthcare.
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