Stewart Fleishman, MD
Director of Cancer Supportive Services, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York
Stewart B. Fleishman, MD is the Director of Cancer Supportive Services at the Continuum Cancer Centers of New York: Beth Israel and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, and the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Continuum Hospice Care-Jacob Perlow Hospice. He currently is the Vice Chair of the Quality of Life Sub-Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, and has been an active investigator in cancer symptom control throughout his career. Dr. Fleishman has also served as the Chair of the Bioethics Committee at the North Shore-LIJ Health System for seven years, and now is the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Continuum-Jacob Perlow Hospice Care. He also serves as a Network Surveyor and Liaison Physician for the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Prior to attending medical school he had taught High School Biology and General Science for the New York City Department of Education. He is Board Certified in both Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Psychiatry/Neurology.
The genius in the program is the bringing together of the lawyer into the medical clinic where these problems surface, which enables the doctor to include the legal remedy as part of the medical treatment. No longer is the doctor limited by the scope of his practice, and the lawyer is introduced to the problem in its most apparent manifestation.
David W. Hilgers, Chair of ABA’s Health Law Section