Tia Powell

Tia Powell is an American psychiatrist and bioethicist. She is Director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics (http://www.montefiore.org/prof/bioethics/)and a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York. Previously, she was executive director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law and director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

Powell graduated from Harvard University and Yale Medical School.

In 2007, she chaired a workgroup that developed New York State guidelines to allocate ventilators during a flu pandemic.^[1] She has served on a number of committees for the Institute of Medicine, especially focusing on ethical issues in the management of public health disasters.^[2]

External links

• Allocation of Ventilators in an Influenza Pandemic, Report of New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, 2007.
• Guidelines for Epidemics, The New York Times, March 26, 2008
• The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing

References

1. ↑ Tia Powell, Kelly C. Christ, Guthrie S. Birkhead. Allocation of Ventilators in a Public Health Disaster. Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Preparedness. Report
2. ↑ Institute of Medicine, Committee on Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers Against Novel H1N1, Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers Against Novel H1N1: A Letter Report, National Academies Press, 2009. See also, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Guidance for Standards of Care in Disaster Situations, Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for use in Disaster Situations: A Letter Report, National Academies Press, 2009.