Klitzman is currently a professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
[4] He has published nine books and authored or co-authored over 150 academic journal articles and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics including: genetics,[5] stem cells,[6] ethics of assisted reproductive technologies,[7] neuroethics,[8] HIV prevention,[9] recreational drug use,[10] research ethics,[11] and doctor-patient relationships.
[23][24] His books include When Doctors Become Patients,[25] A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship, In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist, Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women With HIV,[26] The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease,[27] with Ronald Bayer, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS,[28] which was a finalist for a 2004 Lambda Literary Award,[29] Am I My Genes?
: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe, and Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children.
He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association,[37] a member of the Empire State Stem Cell Commission,[38] HIV Prevention Trials Network,[39] and the Council on Foreign Relations,[40] and is a regular contributor to the New York Times[41][42] and CNN.