September Ethics Grand Rounds [In-person]

Tuesday, September 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EDT)

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Join us on September 15th, 2026 at 1pm ET for Can ICE Detain Without Doctors?
The Hippocratic Oath in Immigration Detention featuring Chanelle Diaz, MD, MPH in conversation with Division of Ethics faculty Alexis Walker, PhD.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when holding people in civil detention, is bound by a constitutional obligation to provide medical care. Meeting this obligation depends on the participation of physicians, nurses, and other clinicians working within immigrant prisons, most of whom are employed by private prison operators.

This Ethics Grand Rounds examines the structure of medical care inside immigration detention, and potential conflicts of interest when clinicians must be in alignment with company "values and mission,” that may be in tension with a core tenet that physician loyalty belongs to the patient alone.

Dr. Chanelle Diaz will trace how this dual loyalty manifests in practice: chronic disease and psychiatric care routinely neglected, physician clearance for solitary confinement, and the ethically fraught practice of force-feeding competent hunger strikers. Drawing parallels to the documented history of physician participation in Guantánamo Bay, Dr. Diaz asks whether clinicians working inside immigrant prisons provide genuine care or lend the system a veneer of legitimacy — and what obligations of refusal, disclosure, and accountability follow for the profession. This event will be moderated by Dr. Alexis Walker.

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Add to Calendar 2026/09/15 13:00:00 2026/09/15 14:00:00 America/New_York September Ethics Grand Rounds [In-person] Join us on September 15th, 2026 at 1pm ET for Can ICE Detain Without Doctors?
The Hippocratic Oath in Immigration Detention featuring Chanelle Diaz, MD, MPH in conversation with Division of Ethics faculty Alexis Walker, PhD.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when holding people in civil detention, is bound by a constitutional obligation to provide medical care. Meeting this obligation depends on the participation of physicians, nurses, and other clinicians working within immigrant prisons, most of whom are employed by private prison operators.

This Ethics Grand Rounds examines the structure of medical care inside immigration detention, and potential conflicts of interest when clinicians must be in alignment with company "values and mission,” that may be in tension with a core tenet that physician loyalty belongs to the patient alone.

Dr. Chanelle Diaz will trace how this dual loyalty manifests in practice: chronic disease and psychiatric care routinely neglected, physician clearance for solitary confinement, and the ethically fraught practice of force-feeding competent hunger strikers. Drawing parallels to the documented history of physician participation in Guantánamo Bay, Dr. Diaz asks whether clinicians working inside immigrant prisons provide genuine care or lend the system a veneer of legitimacy — and what obligations of refusal, disclosure, and accountability follow for the profession. This event will be moderated by Dr. Alexis Walker.

Would you like to RSVP to attend online, RSVP here. Vagelos Education Center, Rm. 902 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/utX3qa2Za8iGWDsH7) Columbia Division of Ethics MHE_ethics@cumc.columbia.edu false 1440

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