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Kenneth Prager, M.D.

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Dr. Kenneth Prager is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of Clinical Ethics and Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of Columbia University Medical Center.

Prager was educated at Columbia College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago. Prager was Assistant Surgeon and Acting Medical Director at the U.S. Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Eagle Butte South Dakota from 1969-1971.
 
Prager held clandestine medical clinics in the Soviet Union during a visit in 1986, and later set up the first U.S. - Soviet medical student exchange program between Columbia P&S and the First Moscow Medical Academy. In addition to his pulmonary practice, Dr. Prager is heavily involved in teaching pulmonology and medical ethics to medical students, house officers and nurses. His writings on medicine and medical ethics have appeared on the Op-Ed pages of  The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as in medical journals and textbooks. Prager is a regular guest lecturer for the Ben Gurion University M.D. Program in International Health and Medicine in collaboration with Columbia University Health Sciences.
 
Prager has received several teaching awards, is regularly listed in various Best Doctors publications, and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 2006.

(Profile posted Nov. 2006.)