2011-2012 Visiting Scholars Program
The UNC Center for Bioethics hosts an active program of visiting scholars, who can be available to C:B faculty associates, student groups, and other NC bioethics programs while on campus to speak in one of our several seminar series. Visits are being planned for the 2011-2012 academic year for the scholars below:
| Visitor | Date | Event | Topic | Co-Sponsor |
| Nancy M P King, J.D. | 9/9/11 | Clincial Ethics Grand Rounds | “Why Don’t We Agree About End of Life Decisions? And What Can We Do About It?” | UNC Hospital Ethics Committee |
| Jill Fisher, Ph.D. | 10/20/11 | Research Ethics Grand Rounds | “Recruiting Patients for Pharma: Private-Sector Physicians and Contract Research” | The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute |
| Doug Diekema, M.D. | 11/3/11 | Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds | “When Parents and Providers Disagree:Understanding and Responding to Conflicts in the Care of Children” | UNC Hospital Ethics Commitee/Dept. of Pediatrics |
| Stuart Youngner, M.D. | 12/14/11 | Transplant Education Conference Series (TECS) | The Moment of Death is a Social Construct: Constructed Now to Maximize Organ Procurement” | UNC Transplantation Service |
| Ray Barfield, MD, Ph.D. | 1/6/12 | Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds | “Why ethical decision making in complex pediatric illness requires the art of story telling, even if you don’t like stories” | UNC Hospital Ethics Committee |
| Christine Grady, M.S.N., Ph.D. | 1/19/12 | Research Ethics Grand Rounds | “Enduring Lessons from the Guatemalan studies” | The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute |
| Sharon Kaufman, Ph.D. | 1/25/12 | Transplant Education Conference Series (TECS) | “Making Longevity: Technology, Policy and Ethics in U.S. Healthcare” |
Department of Social Medicine |
| Susan Lederer, Ph.D. | 2/17/12 | Research Ethics Grand Rounds | “Beyond the Bombshell: Henry Beecher’s “Ethics and Clinical Research” (1966) Revisited” | Bullitt History of Medicine Club |
| Eric Kodish, M.D. | 3/15/12 | Research Ethics Grand Rounds | “Informed Consent in Experimental Medicine: Phase I Trials in Children with Cancer” | The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute |
