Tia Powell

Tia Powell
Born (1957-05-07) May 7, 1957 (age 67)
Chevy Chase, Maryland
EducationHarvard College (BA)
Yale University (MD)
Websitehttps://www.tiapowellmd.com/
External media
Audio
audio icon How to Live a Joyful Life after a Dementia Diagnosis Ep. 42, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, June 16, 2022
Video
video icon Einstein On: Clinical Bioethics: Dr. Tia Powell, December 11, 2012

Tia Powell is an American psychiatrist and bioethicist. She is Director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and of the Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics Program, as well as a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York.[1] She holds the Trachtenberg Chair in Bioethics and is Professor of Epidemiology, Division of Bioethics, and Psychiatry.[2] She was director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City from 1992-1998, and executive director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law from 2004-2008.[3]

Powell graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College and Yale Medical School.[4]

Powell has served on a number of committees for the Institute of Medicine, especially focusing on ethical issues in the management of public health disasters.[5] She worked with the Institute of Medicine on 5 separate projects related to public health disasters, including as co-chair of the IOM report on antibiotics for anthrax attack.[6] She has bioethics expertise in public policy, dementia, consultation, end of life care, decision-making capacity, bioethics education and the ethics of public health disasters.[7]

As executive director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, Powell initiated development of guidelines for the allocation of ventilators in New York State, in the event of a crisis.[8] With Guthrie S. Birkhead, Powell co-chaired a 2007 workgroup that developed draft guidelines for New York State for the allocation of ventilators in the event of an influenza pandemic.[9][10][11][12] This became the foundation for New York State's 2015 Ventilator Allocation Guidelines.[13][8]

Dementia Reimagined

In 2019, Powell published Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End through Penguin Random House.[14] Dementia Reimagined combines medicine and memoir, discussing both the history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease and the emotional and ethical issues involved in dealing with it in an elderly family member.[15] One of the historical figures she discusses is Solomon Fuller, a black doctor whose research at the turn of the twentieth century anticipated important aspects of current medical knowledge about dementia.[16]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (27 March 2017). Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-309-45299-1. Retrieved 17 May 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Faculty Profile: Patricia (Tia) Powell, M.D." Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  3. ^ Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations; Altevogt, Bruce M.; Stroud, Clare; Hanson, Sarah L.; Hanfling, Dan; Gostin, Lawrence O. (2009). "Committee Biographical Information". Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations: A Letter Report. National Academies Press (US).
  4. ^ Reynolds, Joel Michael; Wieseler, Christine (30 May 2022). The Disability Bioethics Reader. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-58721-0.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Tia Powell | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  7. ^ Duan, Christy (3 April 2019). "Q&A with Physician-Writer Patricia (Tia) Powell - SDN". Student Doctor Network. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  8. ^ a b New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (2015). Ventilator Allocation Guidelines (PDF). New York State Department of Health.
  9. ^ Roos, Robert (30 April 2007). "New York group offers plan for rationing ventilators in pandemic | CIDRAP". www.cidrap.umn.edu. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  10. ^ Dean, Cornelia (25 March 2008). "Guidelines for Epidemics: Who Gets a Ventilator?". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  11. ^ Appel, Jacob M. (28 July 2009). "The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing". HuffPost. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  12. ^ Roxland, Beth E.; Han, Susie A.; Birkhead, Guthrie (March 2011). "Public Engagement on New York State's Plan for Allocating Ventilators During a Pandemic". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 57 (3): 308–309. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.09.016. ISSN 0196-0644. PMID 21353914.
  13. ^ Han, SA; Koch, VG (December 2020). "Clinical and Ethical Considerations in Allocation of Ventilators in an Influenza Pandemic or Other Public Health Disaster: A Comparison of the 2007 and 2015 New York State Ventilator Allocation Guidelines". Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 14 (6): e35 – e44. doi:10.1017/dmp.2020.232. PMC 7403745. PMID 32660660.
  14. ^ "How to make the lives of those with dementia joyful". Yale Medicine Magazine. 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  15. ^ Gross, Terry (May 21, 2019). "'Dementia Reimagined' Asks: Can There Be Happiness For Those With Memory Loss?". Fresh Air. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  16. ^ "DEMENTIA REIMAGINED | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 19 May 2023.