Kristina Orfali
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center
Research
Kristina Orfali is Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonantology. She has worked in a cross cultural perspective on patient's hospital experiences and on clinician and family decision making in intensive care units. Her more recent work focuses on ethical dilemmas and international variations in medical prognosis in neonatology, a particular emphasis being put on the links between decision theory and empirical results. Another line of research, pursued with colleagues from behavioral sciences, relates to the negative psychological consequences of choice in life and death contexts. Trained as a sociologist in France, Kristina Orfali has been an Assistant Professor in Medicine and Assistant Director at the MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics a the University of Chicago and Directeur de Recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. As an ethicist she is a member of the Morgan Stanley CHONY ethics committee.
See Also
- Seed grant: Risk Perception and Life and Death Decision Making in Medicine
- Featured publication: The View from Here: Bioethics and Social Science
