Dr. Towers is a member of the Pediatric Ethics Committee and serves as Chair of the Subcommittee for Education. She works as a pediatric ethics consultant at CUMC. She is a member of the Bioethics Section of the AAP. In 2008 she was awarded a certificate in Bioethics and Medical Humanities from the Cardozo Law School in collaboration with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has lectured on ethics to both postgraduate nursing students and residents. She has been Chair of the Bereavement Committee at MSCHONY that organizes hospital wide conferences on end of life issues. Her interests include communication with families in times of stress and she has co-presented workshops at the national AAP meeting on the Delivery of Bad News to Parents.