Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Address:

Columbia University,

College of Physicians & Surgeons

161 Fort Washington Avenue
Herbert Irving Pavilion 310
New York, NY 10032

Phone: 212-305-5535

Kenneth Prager, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Director, Clinical Ethics
Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee

Clinical Interests:

Dr. Prager is interested in treating a full range of pulmonary illness including asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, sarcoidosis and pulmonary neoplasms. Dr. Prager also serves as the director of clinical ethics for the hospital addressing a wide variety of medical ethics issues: end-of-life topics; patient capacity; conflict resolution; organ transplant issues, etc.

Education and Positions:

Columbia College, B.A., 1964
Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1968
Medical Internship: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Chief Medical Resident: Billings Hospital, University of Chicago

Honors:

B.A., Cum Laude, Columbia College, 1964
Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College, 1964
Rafael Award for Medicine, Sanz Medical Center, Netanya, Israel, 1984
Fellow, American College of Physicians
One of New York City's Best Internists/Pulmonologists, Castle Connoly Guide: How to Find the Best Doctors, New York Metro Area, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001-05.
One of New York City's Best Pulmonologists, "The Best Doctors in New York," New York magazine, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center House Staff Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching--Senior Faculty, 1999-2000
Marqui's Who's Who in America, 2003-08.
Guide to America's Top Physicians 2003, Consumers Research Council of America
Physician on the Year Award, 2003, Department of Nursing, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, May 2006

Alfred Markowitz Service Award, Society of Practitioners, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, June, 2006

Ewig Clinical Education Award, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, 2007-08

Selected Publications:

Prager K. Alcoholism and the American Indian. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. 1972;46:20-25.

Prager K. Primary extra-genital cutaneous gonorrhea. Archives of Dermatology. 1973;107:112.

Prager K. Soviet health care's critical condition. The Wall Street Journal. Editorial page. Jan. 29, 1987.

Prager K. "What? physicians won't treat AIDS?" The New York Times. Op-Ed page. October 23, 1987.

Prager K. Medicare meddling. The New York Times. Op-Ed Page. September 12, 1988.

Prager K. How CPR can threaten the desperately ill. The Wall Street Journal. Editorial page. March 9, 1989.

Prager K. Israeli health care is saving Palestinian lives. The Jewish Week. December 22, 1989, p. 25.

Grewal R, Prager K, Austin J. Long term survival in non-encapsulated primary liposarcoma of the mediastinum. Thorax. 1993;48:1276-77.

Prager K. The failure of out patient treatment of asthma among the indigent. RT The Journal for Respiratory Care Practitioners. 1995;8:14.

Prager K. "For everything a blessing." A Piece of My Mind column, JAMA. 1997;277:1589.

Prager K. "The List." A Piece of My Mind column, JAMA. 2001;285:2692.

Prager K, Oz M. Proposed Policy for Ventricular Assist Device Removal. Ann Thorac Surg 2002; 73:1688. Letter

Prager K. Medical Ethics Issues in the Elderly. In: Edwards N, Maurer M, eds. Cardiac Surgery in the Older Patient. New Jersey: Humana Press; 2002:

Edwards N, Prager K. Nothing is fair or good alone. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2003; 125:23-4. Editorial.

Prager, K. "Alice's Husband." A Piece of My Mind column. JAMA. 2003;289:2333