Robert Klitzman is an America psychiatrist, bioethicist, and author who was born in 1958. He attended Princeton University and then worked for a Nobel Prize winner conducting research in Papua New Guinea. He later graduated from Yale Medical School and completed his medical internship and psychiatric residency at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York. Klitzman is currently a professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He co-founded and co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, is the director of the Masters in Bioethics program, and the director of the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. Klitzman has published eight books and co-authored over 100 journal articles and chapters on critical issues in bioethics. He has earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Aaron Diamond Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and MacDowell. He served on the Department of Defense’s US Army Medical Research and Material Command Research Ethics Advisory Panel and is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the Empire State Stem Cell Commission, the HIV Prevention Trials Network, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a regular contributor to CNN and The New York Times.
Robert Klitzman
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Robert Klitzman worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…