Maurice D Steinberg Editor

Maurice D. Steinberg, M.D., is Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist, Associate Director of the C-L Psychiatry Service, and Director of Fellowship Programs in C-L Psychiatry at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He has been the Chairman of the APA's subcommittee on Psychiatric Aspects of Life Sustaining Technology since its inception in 1992, and Chairman of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine's Task Force on Bioethics and the Role of the Psychiatrist, since 1993. He was a member of the APA's committee on C-L Psychiatry and Primary Care Education from 1989 to 1995. Dr. Steinberg has chaired or presented papers at numerous symposia of the APA, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the American Psychosomatic Society on issues of limiting medical treatment, physician-assisted suicide and bioethics, as well as teaching psychiatry to primary care physicians. Stuart J. Youngner, M.D., is Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Clinical Ethics Progam at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr. Youngner has had a long interest in the interface between psychiatry and ethics in end-of-life care and has written and spoken widely on topics including: DNR decisions, clinical ethics consultation, advance directives, definitions of death, and ethical issues in organ retrieval and transplantation. He served as President on the Society for Bioethics Consultation from 1994-1997 and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Youngner is currently conducting research on end-of-life decisions in Cuba where he holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Advance Medical Sciences in Havana.