Tia Powell Explained

Tia Powell
Birth Date:7 May 1957
Birth Place:Chevy Chase, Maryland
Education:Harvard College (BA)
Yale University (MD)
Website:https://www.tiapowellmd.com/

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

Notes and References

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

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