.jpg "Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, FACLP, DFAPA photo")
Associate Director, Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel MD, JD, FACLP, is President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and Past President of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (2018-2019), of which she served on the Board from 2010 to 2020.
Dr. Brendel is Director of the Master of Bioethics Program and Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. She bases her clinical and forensic psychiatry practice at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Director of Law and Ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior. She is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brendel is also admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.
Dr. Brendel is a Distinguished Fellow of the APA. She served as Chair of the APA Ethics Committee from 2019 to 2021 and Chair of the APA Ad Hoc Workgroup on Ethics (2014-2015) and is currently Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards and an appointed member of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA).
She is a past Councilor and Ethics Committee Member of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. She has also served on the Massachusetts Bar Association Health Law Section Council and Mental Health Law Committee and in consultative roles to the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court. Informed by her medical, legal, and ethics training and experience, Dr. Brendel writes, teaches, sits on journal editorial boards, and lectures nationally and internationally on critical topics at the intersection of psychiatry, ethics, human rights, and law.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2022
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
