CURRICULUM VITÆ Gregory K. Todd ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine 1/05 4/12 New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Old Westbury, NY Assistant Professor 6/05 10/08 Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY Assistant Professor 10/08 4/12 SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Brooklyn, NY Associate Professor Department of Clinical Sciences Florida State University College of Medicine 4/12 - present HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS Attending Physician, Firm Director & Senior Associate Program Director 5/05 4/12 & Internal Medicine Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY Attending Physician Program Director, FSU Internal Medicine Residency Program 5/12 - present Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Tallahassee, FL EDUCATION B. A. Murray State University 8/74 5/78 Murray, KY J. D. University of Dayton School of Law 9/78 6/81 Dayton, OH M. D. Ross University School of Medicine 8/97 4/01 Portsmouth, Dominica POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING Categorical Resident Internal Medicine 7/01 6/04 Chief Resident, 7/04 5/05 Brooklyn, NY Certificate Program 9/06 5/07 Bioethics and the Medical Humanities Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The Benjamin Cardozo School of Law Page 1 of 5
CERTIFICATION American Board of Internal Medicine 10/04 Valid through December 2014 Hospice and Palliative Medicine 11/10 Valid through December 2020 LICENSURE Physician New York State No. 233575 Florida No. ME112483 Attorney at law District of Columbia No. 358951 2004 present 3/2012 - present 1981 - retired New York State No. 2054955 1986 - present HONORS/AWARDS Attorney at law 1979 1981 Law Review and Articles Editor, University of Dayton Law Review 1979 American Jurisprudence Award: Contracts 1980 American Jurisprudence Award: Federal Practice and Procedure Physician 5/06 Nursing Partnership Award Nurses Week, OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS American College of Physicians 7/01 present Associate, Member, now Fellow New York ACP 2/07 4/12 Preliminary and Final Judge, Poster Competitions 07/08 4/12 Member, NYACP Bioethics Committee 10/09 4/12 t Member, NYACP Hospitalist Task Force 07/10 4/12 Chair, NYACP Associates Committee Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine 5/05 present Member 4/10, 4/11, 4/12 Moderator, Problem Residents workshop at Chief Residents Meeting New York Special Interest Group APDIM 10/08 4/12 Counsel 9/05 4/12 Infection Control Committee 12/05 4/12 Bioethics Committee Founding Member - Bioethics Consultation Service 10/05 Radiology Internal Review Committee Page 2 of 5
10/10 Urology Internal Review Committee 9/05 present Relevance Reviewer general internal medicine American Board of Internal Medicine 6/06 present Member American Society of Bioethics & Humanities 11/07 12/09 Peer reviewer Journal of General Internal Medicine TEACHING ACTIVITIES 7/02 present Noon Conference: Bioethics Program Annotated lecture series representing the spectrum of topics in the bioethics curriculum. 1. Introduction to Law and Medicine Overview of licensure, abandonment and good Samaritan laws. Introduction to the 4 Boxes of an ethics consultation. 2. Introduction to Law and Medicine, part II Decisions at the end of life; Review living will, Health Care Proxy and Surrogate; Methods for evaluating Futility; Considering futility as a process rather than a status. 3. Informed Consent Historical and cultural reference; Autonomy and introduction to decisional capacity. 4. Bioethical Issues Affecting the Elderly Review of decisional capacity and prognosis with examples of fall; Restraints, chemical and physical, and their limitations and concerns 5. Decisions at the End of Life Covers the limitations of Full and Partial Codes; Withholding vs. withdrawing treatment; Surrogates and Health Care proxies. Review futility. Introduction to Palliative Care 6. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Review of the Rule of Double Effect; use Physician Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia as examples where Double Effect does not apply. Double Effect protects pain management with its foreseeable but unintended consequences. 1/05 Noon Conference: Decisional Capacity The four components of capacity; Sliding-Scale capacity and enigmatic refusal of treatment. 1/05 Noon Conference: Journal Club Kappa and other measures of interoperator reliability. 3/05 Noon Conference: Journal Club Surveys and Questionnaires. 4/05 Noon Conference: Death & Dying Case-based presentation of the various issues that arise at the end of life including living wills, health care proxies and other surrogates, withholding and Page 3 of 5
withdrawing life sustaining treatments, nutrition and hydration and the Rule of Double Effect. 10/05 Noon Conference: Decision Analysis Case-based presentation reviewing the concepts of sensitivity and specificity when applying serial tests to support a diagnosis. Also reviews the five questions for any journal article. 11/05 Noon Conference: Journal Club The concept of Power in statistical analysis 12/05 Noon Conference: Journal Club Reviewed Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention; One and 2-tailed p values; Overlapping error bars and the difference between Efficacy and Effectiveness. 2/06 Noon Conference: Medicine & Law Case-based review of the legal concepts of duty to treat, abandonment and Good Samaritan laws; the ethical objective of veracity and the limitations of therapeutic privilege. The impact of medical errors, adverse events and their relationship to litigation. An overview of the concept of informed consent, Living Wills and Health Care Proxies. Integrate the medical and legal requirements of Restraints. Appreciate the limitations of the Rule of Double Effect. 4/06 Noon Conference: Cultural Competency Case-based review of the concept of culture, the factors affecting the expression of culture, a patient-based, subjective meaning of illness, adverse effects of cultural misunderstanding and methods of negotiating care with cultural sensitivity. 5/06 Noon Conference: Cultural Competency Case-based overview of cultural origins of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Transgender (LGBT) individuals; medical issues relevant to LGBT and techniques on eliciting an accurate sexual history in a culturally sensitive manner. 6/06 Noon Conference: Journal Club Five questions to ask about clinical evidence 8/06 Noon Conference: Law & Medicine 11/06 Noon Conference: Journal Club Overview of meta analysis 12/06 Noon Conference: Journal Club Variables and frequency distribution characteristics 3/07 Noon Conference: Journal Club Overview of cohort studies POSTERS & PUBLICATIONS M Kantrowitz, M Hecht, G Todd, A Yacht Total Care Management: A novel Curriculum for Teaching Chronic and Transitional Care to Internal Medicine Residents (Abstract submitted to APDIM for Spring Poster Competition.November, 2011) H. Menkoff, G. Todd Treatment as Prevention: Physicians Obligations to Patients and to the Public. Submitted for publication. Page 4 of 5
S. Pathak, H. Pathak, AGM Pennal, L Lutwick, G Todd Globicatella sanguinis a Novel Agent of Iatrogenic Meningitis. Poster presented at 10 th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Meeting 2010. P. Chandra, G. Todd Bisphosphonates Causing Jaw Osteonecrosis: Prevention is Better Than Cure. 2007 New York Chapter ACP Downstate Scientific Meeting, March 24, 2007 Poster Competition H.B. Punukolu, M. Sibery, A. Parala, M. Modem, B. Paris, G. Todd. The Case of a 77 year old man with progressive memory loss, bilateral lower extremity weakness and weight loss. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2006; 54(4): S117. Note, Ohio Opts Out of the Federal Bankruptcy Exemption Laws, H. B. 674, 5 U. Day. L. Rev. 461 (1980) INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS 9/21/04 Grand Rounds Department of Surgery Practical Ethics for Surgeons A review of informed consent, decisional capacity and surrogates. Includes end-of-life and DNR issues germane to surgeons, with cases and examples. 8/16/05 Grand Rounds Bedside Ethics Case-based presentation concerning the importance of morals, ethics and laws in clinical medicine; capacity and informed consent; the use and limitation of restrains; and indications for advance directives and DNR orders. 4/25/06 Morbidity & Mortality Conference Withholding vs. Withdrawing and Out-of-Hospital DNRs. A discussion of the minority position held by certain members of the orthodox Jewish faith concerning the distinction between withholding care and withdrawing care in the context of inappropriate intubation in the presence of an Out-of-Hospital DNR. 5/02/07 The Second Annual Palliative Care Conference Department of Emergency Medicine Myths in End of Life Care Page 5 of 5