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Anticipating issues related to increasing preimplantation genetic diagnosis use: a research agendaRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
Reprod Biomed Online 17:33-42. 2008..Improved understanding of these issues will ultimately enhance the development and implementation of future clinical guidelines and policies...- MDMA ('ecstasy') use, and its association with high risk behaviors, mental health, and other factors among gay/bisexual men in New York CityRobert L Klitzman
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University 1051, New York, NY 10032, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 66:115-25. 2002..g. MSM and community specific interventions) that need to be further explored... - Ethical issues concerning disclosures of HIV diagnoses to perinatally infected children and adolescentsRobert Klitzman
Columbia University, NewYork, NY, USA
J Clin Ethics 19:31-42. 2008 - Preimplantation genetic diagnosis on in vitro fertilization clinic websites: presentations of risks, benefits and other informationRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Fertil Steril 92:1276-83. 2009..To examine information on preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) presented on IVF clinic websites... - Kuru fieldwork in 1981 ... and beyondRobert Klitzman
Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:3646-7. 2008 - Views of the process and content of ethical reviews of HIV vaccine trials among members of US institutional review boards and South African research ethics committeesRobert Klitzman
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032USA
Dev World Bioeth 8:207-18. 2008.... - The impact of social contexts in testing for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: the roles of physicians and othersRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Genet Test Mol Biomarkers 13:269-76. 2009..To elucidate psychosocial and ethical issues faced by adults at risk for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) that have received little attention... - The process of deciding about prophylactic surgery for breast and ovarian cancer: Patient questions, uncertainties, and communicationRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Unit 15, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Med Genet A 152:52-66. 2010..autonomy). These data suggest areas for future research: for example, on how providers decide whether, what and how to communicate about these issues, and how these choices shape treatment decisions... - Views of discrimination among individuals confronting genetic diseaseRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Unit 15, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Genet Couns 19:68-83. 2010..Policies are needed to prevent discrimination in life, long-term care, and disability insurance, not covered by GINA... - Misunderstandings concerning genetics among patients confronting genetic diseaseRobert L Klitzman
Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Genet Couns 19:430-46. 2010..Misunderstandings' persistence, despite realization of their inaccuracy, suggests that providers need to address not just cognitive facts, but underlying emotional issues... - Disclosures of funding sources and conflicts of interest in published HIV/AIDS research conducted in developing countriesRobert Klitzman
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Med Ethics 36:505-10. 2010.... - The use of eggs and embryos in stem cell researchRobert Klitzman
Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics Ethics and Policy Core, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
Semin Reprod Med 28:336-44. 2010..This article addresses these areas and ways of approaching them, to adhere to important ethical principles, while helping to advance research that has the potential to help innumerable patients... - "In sickness and in health"? Disclosures of genetic risks in datingRobert L Klitzman
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 15, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Genet Couns 20:98-112. 2011..This paper, the first to explore several key aspects of disclosures of genetic information in dating, thus suggests needs for public and professional education, and future research in this area... - How local IRBs view central IRBs in the USRobert Klitzman
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive 15, New York, NY, USA
BMC Med Ethics 12:13. 2011..Centralization of IRB reviews have been increasing in the US and elsewhere, but many questions about it remain. In the US, a few centralized IRBs (CIRBs) have been established, but how they do and could operate remain unclear... - "Members of the same club": challenges and decisions faced by US IRBs in identifying and managing conflicts of interestRobert Klitzman
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e22796. 2011..Conflicts of interest (COIs) in research have received increasing attention, but many questions arise about how Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) view and approach these... - Disclosures of Huntington disease risk within families: patterns of decision-making and implicationsRobert Klitzman
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Am J Med Genet A 143:1835-49. 2007..HCWs need to realize that these decisions are multi-faceted. Future research can explore whether, when, how, and how often HCWs raise these issues with individuals... - The roles of family members, health care workers, and others in decision-making processes about genetic testing among individuals at risk for Huntington diseaseRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA
Genet Med 9:358-71. 2007..To understand how individuals at risk for Huntington disease view the roles of others, e.g., family members and health care workers, in decision making about genetic testing... - Patterns of communication between gay and lesbian patients and their health care providersRobert L Klitzman
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York 10032, USA
J Homosex 42:65-75. 2002..To determine whether gay men and lesbians disclose their sexual orientation, and other sensitive behaviors to their primary care physicians; whether they have a chance of finding a gay friendly physician; and what factors are involved... - Intricacies and inter-relationships between HIV disclosure and HAART: a qualitative studyR L Klitzman
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
AIDS Care 16:628-40. 2004..Interventions and studies concerning each of these domains have generally been separate, but need to be integrated, and the importance of relationships between these two areas needs to be recognized... - Challenges and changes in spirituality among doctors who become patientsRobert L Klitzman
Center for Bioethics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 29, New York, NY 10032, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:2396-406. 2005..Increased awareness of these areas could potentially have clinical relevance, strengthening doctor-patient relationships and communication, and patient satisfaction... - Views and approaches toward risks and benefits among doctors who become patientsRobert Klitzman
Center for Bioethics, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 29, New York, NY 10032, USA
Patient Educ Couns 64:61-8. 2006..To understand how views and approaches concerning risks and benefits may be affected by dynamic contexts and processes related to clinical roles and relationships... - Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, FRS on Vermeer: a figment of the imaginationRobert Klitzman
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA
FASEB J 20:591-4. 2006 - Improving education on doctor-patient relationships and communication: lessons from doctors who become patientsRobert Klitzman
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Acad Med 81:447-53. 2006..The author aimed to understand insights that doctors who become patients may gain concerning ways to improve doctor-patient relationships and communication in order to improve medical education... - Disclosures of illness by doctors to their patients: a qualitative study of doctors with HIV and other serious disordersRobert Klitzman
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Patient Educ Couns 64:277-84. 2006..To examine issues concerning doctor's disclosures of their illness to their patients... - "Patient-time", "doctor-time", and "institution-time": perceptions and definitions of time among doctors who become patientsRobert Klitzman
Center for Bioethics, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 29, New York, NY 10032, USA
Patient Educ Couns 66:147-55. 2007..To examine views and experiences of conflicts concerning time in healthcare, from the perspective of physicians who have become patients... - From "Male Bonding Rituals" to "Suicide Tuesday": A qualitative study of issues faced by gay male ecstasy (MDMA) usersRobert Klitzman
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Inst, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Homosex 51:7-32. 2006..Awareness of potential adverse effects varied and was minimized. Appropriate educational and prevention programs are needed to address these issues, and must take into account the specific contexts of these gay men's lives... - "Post-residency disease" and the medical self: identity, work, and health care among doctors who become patientsRobert Klitzman
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Bioethics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Perspect Biol Med 49:542-52. 2006.... - Additional implications of a national survey on ethics consultation in United States hospitalsRobert Klitzman
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:47-8. 2007 - Decision-making about reproductive choices among individuals at-risk for Huntington's diseaseRobert Klitzman
College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
J Genet Couns 16:347-62. 2007..g., first "gambling," then being more cautious). These data have critical implications for genetic counselors and other health care workers and future research, particularly as more genetic tests become available... - It's not just what you say: relationships of HIV dislosure and risk reduction among MSM in the post-HAART eraR Klitzman
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, NY State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
AIDS Care 19:749-56. 2007..Disclosure needs to be addressed in the context of relationship type, partner status and broader risk-reduction strategies... - The ethics police?: IRBs' views concerning their powerRobert Klitzman
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e28773. 2011..Researchers frequently complain about IRBs, but how IRBs perceive and respond to these criticisms is unclear... - Incubation period of human prion diseaseRobert L Klitzman
Lancet 368:913; author reply 914-5. 2006
Research Grants
- Views of Privacy of Genetic InformationRobert Klitzman; Fiscal Year: 2005..The findings of this study can enhance further policy, professional and public education, and future research in this area. ..
- Views and Approaches Toward Research Integrity Among IRBsRobert Klitzman; Fiscal Year: 2007..smaller institutions. We anticipate that the data from this study will serve as a significant foundation in assisting future research and the improvement of Rl through guidelines, education and other capacity building. ..