The Greenwall Foundation
SPOTLIGHT
Kornfeld Program in Bioethics and Patient Care
May 2008
May 2008
Raymond C. Barfield, MD, PhD, and Robert L. Klitzman, MD, have been named the first two Kornfeld grantees.
Dr. Barfield’s $53,676 award will support his project, Bridging Medicine, Design, and Ethics to Enable Advance Care Planning and Meaningful Assent in Pediatric Phase I Trials. The project builds on the PI’s expertise in interactive media-based decision-making aids in order to create a tool aimed at enhancing a child’s ability to prioritize and express goals and preferences in the context of decision-making about Phase I trials near the end of life. The envisioned instrument is called the Compass.
Dr. Klitzman’s $49,991 award will support research in Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD): Challenges in Ethics and Care. This study will examine how physicians and patients view and approach the complex ethical and clinical issues posed by PGD, a technology that can help lower the number of children born with birth defects and disabilities, but also raises fear of designer babies and eugenics.
A five-year commitment of $1,000,000 from The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation underwrites $200,000 per year of grantmaking. The program is administered without charge by Greenwall as a service to the philanthropic community and the field of bioethics.
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