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Lynn A. Jansen, RN, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor of Medicine and
Asst. Director, Bioethics Institute

Email:

ljansen@svcmcny.org

Address:
Bioethics Institute
Rm 101 Administration Bldg.
Valhalla, NY 10595

Personal Profile:

Please note that my current email address is ljansen@svcmcny.org I do not check the NYMC email


Professional Interests:

Dr. Jansen studied political theory at Columbia University and earned her Ph.D. 1997. She completed her post-doctoral training in clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago (2000). She is also a Registered Nurse with nearly twenty years of clinical experience. Dr. Jansen is a Senior Medical Ethicist at The John J. Conley Department of Ethics at St. Vincent’s Manhattan, and is a member of the Ethics Committee at the NY Foundling Hospital in New York City. She has published articles on medical ethics and research ethics. She is the assistant editor for Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics.

Education Profile:

Post Graduate Studies:  Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago

Graduate Degree:  Ph.D.

Graduate Degree Institution:  Columbia University

Undergraduate Institution:  Nova Southeastern University


Selected Bibliography:

Jansen, Lynn A. (Editor) Death in the Clinic (Rowman & Littlefield: 2005)

Jansen, Lynn A. “No Safe Harbor: The Problem of Complicity and the Practice of Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 29 (Feb 2004) 61-75.

Jansen, Lynn A. “A Closer Look at The Bad Deal Trial: Beyond Clinical Equipoise.” The Hastings Center Report 35;5 (2005):29-36.

Jansen, Lynn A. “Hastening Death and the Boundaries of the Self.” Bioethics 20:2 (2006):105-111.

Jansen, Lynn A. “The Problem with Optimism in Clinical Trials," IRB: Ethics and Human Research July-August (2006) 13-19.

Curriculum vitae and additional publications