 In 1999, he founded and became the first editor-in-chief of "The American Journal of Bioethics".In 2005, he moved to Union University in Albany, New York, as the John Balint, M.D.Professor of Medical Ethics and became director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College which had been founded in 1993 as the Center for Medical Ethics Education and Research by Balint.