Paul Stuart Appelbaum (born 1951) is an American psychiatrist and a leading expert on legal and ethical issues in medicine and psychiatry.
Appelbaum has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,[1] and is a Hastings Center Fellow.
"[3] He then became assistant professor of psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
[8] Since moving to Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons in 2006, Appelbaum has focused on the medical, ethical and legal aspects of human genetic research.
[9] He leads the Center for Research on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics.
[11] [12] [13] The New York Times describes him as "a professor of psychiatry at Columbia who has published widely on medical ethics and the law.