2026 Emerson Lecture

Lydia Dugdale, MD, author of "The Lost Art of Dying" will deliver the Trent Center's 2026 Emerson Lecture on Thursday, March 26th. Dr. Dugdale is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University and author of "The Lost Art of Dying". Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. Her first book, Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015), provides the theoretical grounding for her current book. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.