Lydia Dugdale, M.D., MAR, is a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was the associate director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding co-director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist, focusing on end-of-life issues, the role of aesthetics in teaching ethics, moral injury, and the doctor-patient relationship.
Dr. Dugdale edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century and is author of The Lost Art of Dying. She attended medical school at the University of Chicago, completed residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and holds a MAR in ethics from Yale Divinity School. Lydia lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.