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CURRICULUM VITAE Date of Preparation: January 25, 2017 CURRICULUM VITAE Date of Preparation: January 25, 2017 KENNETH PRAGER 1. PERSONAL DATA Birth date: January 3, 1943 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Marital Status: Married, 4 children Office Address: Columbia University Medical Center, Atchley-Irving Pavilion, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10032 2. EDUCATION AND TRAINING College: Columbia, B.A., 1964 Medical School: Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1968 Internship: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 1968-69 Residency: CPMC, Internal Medicine, 1971-72 Chief Medical Resident: University of Chicago, Department of Medicine, Billings Hospital, 1972-73 3. MEDICAL LICENSURE New York State, 1969 # 104006 4. MEDICAL BOARD SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION American Board of Internal Medicine, 1973 5. MILITARY SERVICE Senior Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service Indian Hospital, Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, 1969-70 Assistant Surgeon and Acting Medical Director, U.S. PHS Indian Hospital, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, 1970-71 6. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Medical Association American College of Physicians, Fellow American College of Chest Physicians Medical Society of the State of New York American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 7. HONORS New York State Regents Medical School Scholarship, 1964 B.A. Cum Laude, Columbia College, 1964 Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College, 1964 Rafael Award for Medicine, Sanz Medical Center, Netanya, Israel, 1984 Fellow, American College of Physicians Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine One of New York City's Best Pulmonologists, "The Best Doctors in New York," New York Magazine, 1991; 1998; 1999; 2007; 2008 One of New York City's Best Internists/Pulmonologists, Castle Connoly Guide: How to Find the Best Doctors for You and Your Family, New York Metro Area, 1994, 1997, 1999-2016. Guide to America’s Top Physicians 2003-6, Consumers’ Research Council of America Best Doctors in America 2003-2016 Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2003-14 Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2009-12 National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals 2004-05 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Housestaff Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, Senior Faculty, 1999-2000 Department of Nursing “Physician of the Year Award 2003,” New York- Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Award of Appreciation, New York Organ Donor Network, April 2005 The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, Columbia University P&S Graduation, May 2006 Alfred Markowitz Service Award, NY Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Center, Society of Practitioners, June, 2006 Ewig Clinical Education Award, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, 2007-2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Society of the Alumni of New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, November 14, 2012 Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2015 Academy of Clinical Excellence, Columbia University College of physicians and Surgeons, 2017 8. COMMUNITY HONORS Rafael Award for Medicine, Sanz Medical Center, Netanya, Israel, 1984 Service Award, Moriah School of Englewood, January 11, 1986 Guardian of Israel Award, Boys Town Jerusalem, June 2, 2003 Ruth Swift Service Award; Cong. Ahavath Torah; Englewood, N.J.; June 2009 Tikun Olam Award, Yeshivat Chovevey Torah Rabbinical School March, 2011 9. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Clinical Instructor in Medicine, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1972-73 Associate in Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1973-75 Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia P&S, 1975-88 Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia P&S, 1989-99 Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia P&S, 1999-2007 Professor of Clinical Medicine, 2007-2013 Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center 20013- Faculty Associate, Columbia University Center for Bioethics, 2003-2015 Director of Clinical Ethics, Columbia University Center for Bioethics, 2007-2015 10. HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Attending Physician, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1973-88 Associate Attending Physician, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1989-99 Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital, 1999- Director of Medical Ethics, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Center, June 1998- Co-Director Center for Supportive Care and Clinical Ethics 2013- 11. HOSPITAL AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, 1994- Member Pediatric Medical Ethics committee, 1994- Associate Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, 1992-94 Member, Pastoral Care Advisory Board, 2004-2010 Member, Executive Committee Society of Practitioners, 1995-2012 Medical Resident Selection Committee, 1978-2003 Member, Institutional Review Board, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, April-May, 1997 Member, Psychiatric Institute Institutional Review Board, May 1998-Feb. 1999 Member, Admissions Committee, Ben Gurion University of the Negev M.D. Program in International Health, 1997- Executive Committee of the Administrative Council, Columbia University Center for Bioethics, 2004- Director of the Meltzer Medical Ethics Fellowship, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2012- Senior Faculty Learning Environment Advisor, Department of Medicine 2015- 12. TEACHING Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; New York Presbyterian Hospital: Instructor, Introduction to the Patient Pulmonary Attending In-Patient Pulmonary Consult Service 1980- Pulmonary Attending CPMC AIDS/TB Unit Pulmonary Attending Medical ICU CPMC Pulmonary Pathophysiology Instructor Columbia P&S Lecturer, Pulmonary Subjects, Medical Housestaff, Presbyterian Hospital Medical Preceptor 4th Year Columbia P&S Students Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy Instructor Pulmonary Fellows Attend on Pulmonary Consult Service one month per year supervise and teach fellow, residents and medical students Discussant at Morning Report for Medical Residents Chief of Service Rounds, Department of Medicine 1995-2010 Guest Lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev M.D. Program in International Health and Medicine; Beer Sheva, Israel; Pulmonary pathophysiology course; Lectures on medical ethics, 1999-2014 13. ETHICS TEACHING Annual introductory medical ethics lectures to first and second year P&S students—part of Foundations of Clinical Medicine series Annual lecture: Ethics for Nurses to first year class nursing school, Columbia School of Nursing Series of lectures on clinical ethics to students in the Columbia University Masters in Bioethics program 2012- Introduction to Clinical Ethics lecture to journalism students, Columbia School of Journalism 2010-13 Developed and taught elective in clinical ethics for fourth year Columbia P&S students, monthly 2005-12 Columbia University Center for Bioethics Gold Foundation Ethics for Lunch Seminar Series: 1-2 presentations and discussions annually of difficult cases from the CUMC Ethics Committee, October 2003- (attended by all interested disciplines in medical center as well as members of the surrounding community) Critical Care Grand Rounds, CUMC, twice annual discussion of difficult medical ethics cases at Critical Care Grand Rounds, 2002- Luncheon Ethics Rounds with P&S students on medicine rotation (twice per rotation) 2011- Ethics Rounds with P&S students on surgery rotation (twice per rotation), 2010- Annual Grand Rounds discussion of difficult ethics cases: Departments of ophthalmology, urology, cardiac electrophysiology, emergency medicine Annual Introduction to Clinical Ethics Lectures to residents and fellows in departments of medicine, pulmonology, critical care medicine, oncology, obstetrics-gynecology, cardiology, neurology, nephrology Annual Introduction to Medical Ethics Lecture to social work interns at Columbia and Cornell medical centers Director of the Meltzer Medical Ethics Fellowship for Medicine Residents, CUMC, 2012- Assisted neurology fellow in developing a program for ethics seminars for neurology house staff CUMC 2013—article describing program published in Neurology Lectures on Pulmonary Subjects Columbia Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds: Anaerobic Pulmonary Infections, 1980 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds: Malignant Mesothelioma, 1984 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds: Current Medical Practice in the USSR, Personal Observations, 1986 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds: Ethics and Economics in the ICU, 1990 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds: The Failure of Out Patient Treatment of Asthma, 1994 Harlem Hospital Grand Rounds: Current Management of Asthma, 1995 Lecturer, Pulmonary Review for Internal Medicine Recertification Course, 1995 Chronic Pulmonary Disease—When is it GERD? CME Seminar NYC GERD Network, “The Extraesophageal Manifestations of GERD,” October 1, 2003. 13. OTHER PROFESSIONAL and COMMUNIAL ACTIVITIES Past reviewer for Chest, publication of the American College of Chest Physicians Reviewer British Medical Ethics Board of Health, Englewood, New Jersey, 1989-1992 Chairman, Medical Advisory Board, Sanz Medical Center, Netanya, Israel 1984- Policy Advisor, American Council on Science and Health, 1994-2010 Board of Directors, American Council on Science and Health, 2001-2010 Member, Board of Directors, Halachic Organ Donor Society, 2011- Member, Board of Directors, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, 2012- Selected Lectures on Medical Ethics "The Doctor's Dilemma-Ethical
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