Dr. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv, is a research scholar at the Hastings Center, an independent, nonprofit bioethics research institute located in Garrison, New York. Her research and...view moreDr. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv, is a research scholar at the Hastings Center, an independent, nonprofit bioethics research institute located in Garrison, New York. Her research and teaching focuses on health care ethics, related topics in public health ethics and in human rights, and ethics education for health care professionals, including chaplains. Dr. Berlinger is the project director for the forthcoming revision of the
Hastings Center guidelines on end-of-life care and has a special interest in ethical issues related to cancer as a chronic illness. She teaches health care ethics to graduate students at the Yale School of Nursing. She serves on the Bioethics Committee at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, and on the Board of Directors of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition. Dr. Berlinger is the author of After Harm: Medical Error and
the Ethics of Forgiveness and coauthor of "Ethical Dilemmas and Spiritual Care Near the End of Life," in Living with Grief: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care.view less