Dr. Arthur Zitrin with the Center’s founding director, Dr. Bill Ruddick
The NYU Center for Bioethics was launched in September 2007 with a Chair endowed by Dr. Arthur Zitrin.
Dr. Zitrin, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Bioethics, was for over 40 years a prime mover in ethics education at the NYU Medical Center.
Dr. Zitrin has co-written and produced several films that capture portraits of important figures in medicine, as well as address issues of bioethics and history. View these works below.