Lydia Dugdale
- Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
She also serves as Associate Director of Clinical Ethics at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irvine Medical Center. A practicing internist, Dugdale moved to Columbia in 2019 from Yale University, where she previously served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Yale Program on Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion. Dugdale’s scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, medical ethics, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Chicago and completed her internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She studied for her Master of Arts in Religion (ethics concentration) at Yale Divinity School.