Department of Internal Medicine

General Internal Medicine Faculty

Lauris Christopher Kaldjian, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Program in Biomedical Ethics, Carver College of Medicine

Dr. Kaldjian's clinical interests include general internal medicine and infectious diseases. His research focuses on clinical ethics, ethics education, d isclosure of medical errors, professionalism, religious beliefs in medical practice and ethics, end-of-life issues, and dementia and life-sustaining treatment decisions. Dr. Kaldjian is also the Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities. [view the website]

Honors, Awards, and Organizations

Teacher of the Year Award, Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Yale University School of Medicine, 1998
Fellow, American College of Physicians
Member, Society of General Internal Medicine
Member, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2002-2006
Collegiate Teaching Award, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 2005

Lauris Kaldjian photo

Medical School:
University of Michigan

Residency:
Yale University

Fellowship:
Yale University

Recent Publications

Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Rosenthal GE, Tripp-Reimer T, Hillis S. An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians’ willingness to disclose medical errors. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 (in press).
Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Rosenthal GE, Tripp-Reimer T, Hillis S. An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errors. Journal of General Internal Medicine (provisionally accepted).
Jones EW, Kaldjian LC, Forman-Hoffman V. Factors associated with gastrostomy tube feeding in dementia: a structured literature review. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2006 (in press).
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Links of Interest:

Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities

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