Lectures Promote Ongoing
Discussion of Ethical Values

When Theodore J. Stahl, MD, was growing up, his parents, their friends and their colleagues filled his house with discussions about ethical issues of the times. 

Dr. Stahl, today a clinical professor of radiology and medicine at UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), was inspired by the discussions and his parents’ consistent commitment to ethical values.  To honor them and continue the dialogue of ever expanding issues in bioethics, Dr. Stahl and his wife, Eva Bamberger Stahl, MD, established the Mates David and Hinna Stahl Memorial Lecture in Bioethics as a yearly gathering for faculty, students, researchers and the community of clergy, local doctors and the public interested in ethics.

The Stahl Memorial Lecture Endowment was started by Dr. Stahl, his wife, their family, friends and corporations to open a yearly dialog regarding ethical consideration in medical treatment and research.  Past lectures have featured nationally recognized individuals discussing the doctor/patient relationship, managed care and government involvement, live organ transplantation, quality improvement and patient rights.

"My parents lived through extraordinary times that included two major wars, the Depression and the Holocaust.  And while they were contrasts – my mother, warm and lively, my father, dignified and scholarly – they both imparted their ethical values and profound sense of Jewish and secular history and culture. I established this lectureship in their honor because my memory of them is inseparable from their commitment to ethical values,” said Dr. Stahl.