Jacob M. Appel
American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic (born 1973)
Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, medical doctor, lawyer, and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. He is also an authority on the health of United States Presidents.
Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.
Appel coined the term "whitecoat washing" to refer to nations using medical collaboration to distract from human rights abuses.
Education
1996 – Brown University, Bachelor of Arts with majors in English and American literature and in history
1996 – Brown University, Master of Arts
1998 – Columbia University, Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy
2000 – New York University, Master of Fine Arts, fiction writing
2003 – Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor
2009 – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Doctor of Medicine
2012 – Albany Medical College, Master of Science in Bioethics
2013 – Queens College, City University of New York, Master of Fine Arts, playwriting
2013 – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Master of Public Health
Medical training
2009–2013 – Mount Sinai Hospital, medical residency in clinical psychiatry
2013–2014 – Mount Sinai Hospital, medical fellowship in psychosomatic medicine
Academic bioethics
Appel began his career in academic bioethics at Brown University, where he taught until 2005. He now serves on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine Education. He is also the Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and Medical Director of the East Harlem Health Outreach Project's mental health clinic.
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