Julia Kolak is a Fellow at the Montefiore Einstein Center for ​Bioethics where she works on the Clinical Ethics Consultation ​Service. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra ​Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and has served as ​faculty for Einstein Cardozo’s Master of Science in Bioethics as ​well as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Epidemiology ​& Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ​in New York. She is the former Senior Medical Ethics Fellow and ​consultant at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and ​completed her PhD at the Graduate Center of New York (CUNY). ​Her work in the philosophy of science and normative and ​ clinical bioethics is primarily focused on the limitations of ​biomedical knowledge and the jockeying of the limit–​descriptively and normatively–of our scientific capabilities in ​medicine.

Research

Medical Ethics

Central areas of interest:

• Clinical Ethics
  
• Decisional Capacity & Autonomy
  
• Genomics & Reproductive Medicine
  
• Psychiatric Ethics
  
• Public Health Ethics
  
• Reserach Ethics
• Placebo-controlled research
  
• Institutional Oversight/Industry Sponsored Research
• Equipoise
• The philosophical and moral foundations of bioethics
• Standardization of Healthcare Ethics Consultation
• Medical Education & Bioethics Education/Training
• Institutional/Organizational Ethics
• Artifical Intelligence and Digital Technology in Healthcare
  

Philosophy of Psychiatry | Philosophy of Medicine

Central areas of interest:

• History of the DSM
  
• Psychiatric Classification | Medical Nosology
  
• Validity and Reliability / Psychometrics
• Theories of Health and Disease
• Medical Necessity
  

Health Law & Policy

Central areas of interest:

• Emergency Medicine Treatment and Active Labor ​Act (EMTALA)
  
• Post-Dobbs Abortion Legislation
• NY State Family Health Care Decisions Act ​ (FHCDA)
• Federal Policy for the Protection of Human ​Subjects (45 CFR 46).
• Psychadelic Assisted Therapy and Regulation
  

Empirical Philosophical Bioethics

Central areas of interest:

• Exploring discrepancies in the conceptual use of important terms arising ​in clinical ethics consultations to facilitate shared decision making, reduce ​litigation, and promote equitable health outcomes
  
• Bridging the methodology and research aims of empirical and normative ​bioethics, experimental philosophy, and the social sciences/medical ​humanities to incorporate the perspectives and lived experience of ​stakeholders

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