Background
Kantor, Jay Eliott was born on October 3, 1940 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Beatrice (Millman) Kantor.
Kantor, Jay Eliott was born on October 3, 1940 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Beatrice (Millman) Kantor.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, CUNY, 1979.
Instructor, University of Illinois, Chicago, CUNY, and Hunter College, Long Island U., 1966-1979;
grant design, grant writer department philosophy and medicine, New York University Medical School, 1982-1983;
member of faculty, Downstate Medical Center State University of New York, 1982, 85-87;
member of faculty, Brookdale Hospital, 1982;
preceptor of medical ethics, Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, since 1981;
philosopher-in-residence, Forensic Psychiatry Superior vena cava syndrome, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, since 1981;
from adjunct assistant professor to associate professor philosophy, New York University School Medicine and New York University College Arts and Sciences, 1986-1987, 88-89;
research associate, New York University School Medicine and New York University College Arts and Sciences, 1987-1988;
from adjunct assistant professor to adjunct associate professor psychiatry, New York University School Medicine and New York University College Arts and Sciences, since 1986. Consultant to hospital ethics committee Veterans Administration Hospital., Castlepoint, since 1992. Member hospital ethics committee Veterans Administration Hospital., Brooklyn, since 1988, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, since 1995, Bellevue Hospital, since 1987.
Founder, member hospital ethics committee Veterans Administration Hospital., St.Albans, New York, 1987-1989. Consultant staff ethicist New York State Task Force onLife and the Law, 1990. Chairman hospital ethics committee Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hospital, Montrose, New York, 1986-1993, chairman, since 1993.
Lecturer in field.
Member APA, New York Citizens' Committee for Health Care Decisions (trustee since 1993), Society Boethics Cons.
Married Elaine Moscowitz (divorced July 1970). 1 child, Lia.