University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City
IAUSA
52242
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Kaldjian is Director of the Program in Bioethics and Humanities, and Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. His research interests are in the areas of clinical ethics, physician-patient communication, and the role of philosophical and religious beliefs in clinical decision making. His projects have focused on surrogate decision making for patients with dementia towards the end of life, the relationship between goals of care and patients’ end of life treatment preferences, physician disclosure of medical errors, ethics education, and the integration of personal beliefs and professional ethics in clinical practice. From 2002-06 his research was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, and from 2008-10 his work has been funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Dr. Kaldjian practices general internal medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and in the College of Medicine he directs the Healthcare Ethics, Law and Policy course for second-year medical students.