Kenneth Prager is an American physician. He is Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Director, Clinical Ethics and Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee at the Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 Medical Center.

Prager is a 1964 graduate of Columbia College and a 1968 graduate of Harvard Medical School.

Prager is the brother of radio commentator Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. He is noted for his conservative political and social views emanating from conservative Judeo-Christian values. He holds that there is an "American Trinity" of essential principles,...

 and the father of Wall Street Journal reporter Joshua Prager

Joshua Prager (writer)

Joshua Harris Prager is an American journalist and author. His book The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World, is about the Shot Heard 'Round the World, a famous 1951 baseball playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York...

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Prager has occasionally written newspaper op-eds on medical ethics.

Honors and awards

• Rafael Award for Medicine, Sanz Medical Center, Netanya, Israel, 1984

• Fellow, American College of Physicians

• 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

Outside sources

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/pulmonary/3Faculty%20Pages/Prager/Prager%20Page.htm