Jane S. Kang, MD, MS
Dr. Kang is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and a bioethicist with a Master of Science in Bioethics from Columbia University. She is actively involved in teaching and training medicine residents and rheumatology fellows at CUIMC, and was Fellowship Program Director in the Division of Rheumatology for a decade. She was named an Ewig Clinical Scholar at CUIMC for her work in teaching and education and received a Fellowship Training Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF).
Dr. Kang has a longstanding interest in exploring and addressing industry interactions and industry funded research and has been an invited speaker regarding ethical considerations in rheumatology research. As Chair of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee, Dr. Kang updated and revised the organization’s Code of Ethics, created Conflict of Interest Principles for volunteer leaders and updated their disclosure process. She was also awarded the RRF Clinician Scholar Educator Award, which supported her work in creating a bioethics curriculum for rheumatology fellows to address industry interactions.
Her other ethics projects include exploring participant preferences for the return of research results and investigating researchers’ views on returning incidental findings. Dr. Kang currently serves on the RRF Clinician Scholar Educator Advisory Panel and ACR Board of Directors.