George Hardart

Dr. George Hardart, MD, MPH, is the Director of Pediatric Clinical Bioethics for the Center for Bioethics and an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics. He has a Masters in Public Health from Harvard and an MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School.

He has published on a range of clinical issues related to pediatric critical care, including intracranial hemorrhage in ECMO patients, shock in pediatric cardiac surgery, and post-pyloric feeding in critically ill children. He is a medical ethicist who chairs the Pediatric Ethics Committee and runs the Pediatric Ethics Consult Service at Columbia. Hardart’s primary research focus is in both theoretical and clinical bioethics, particularly related to ethical issues in critical care, medical decision-making, and organ transplantation.

His awards include the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at the Children's Hospital Boston, the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and the Fellowship in Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.