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Merrimon Lecture: Seven Assumptions that Drive Too Much Health Care

March 5, 2015
Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Lecture 2015 March 5 @ 12pm – 1pm. Bondurant Hall G100, UNC School of Medicine. Free and open to the public Co-sponsored by: UNC Center for Bioethics School of Medicine Merrimon Lectureship Center for Excellence in...

REGR: The Ethics of Clinical Research During an Epidemic: Lessons from Ebola

February 19, 2015
Talk 2015 February 19 @ 12pm – 1pm. Research Ethics Grand Rounds. Annette Rid, King’s College. The 2014 Ebola epidemic in west Africa is the most severe and largest documented to date. It is also the first epidemic in which the use of experimental vaccines and specific treatments for Ebola...

CEGR: Involving Children in Important Medical Decisions

February 5, 2015
Talk 2015 February 5. Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds. Steven Joffe, UPenn. Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds is pleased to collaborate with the Department of Pediatrics to host a two-day visit with Dr. Joffe. In this Grand Rounds Dr. Joffe describes the development of children’s capacity to offer voluntary informed consent and...

Published in JLME: The fiduciary relationship model for managing clinical genomic “incidental” findings

January 6, 2015
Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 42 (4): 576-89. This paper examines how the application of legal fiduciary principles (e.g., physicians’ duty of loyalty and care, duty to inform, and duty act within the scope of authority), can serve as a framework to promote management of clinical genomic...

Juengst presents at Brocher Foundation workshop on genomic sovereignty

December 1, 2014
http://www.brocher.ch/en/

Toby Schoenfeld discusses paying research volunteers

November 20, 2014
https://bioethics.unc.edu/regr/

Abraham Nussbaum discusses “the clinician as a technician”

November 6, 2014
https://bioethics.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/785/2014/10/CEGR-2014-November.pdf

Juengst organizes ASBH/ASHG joint session on genome sequencing issues on behalf of NIH CEER Consortium

October 18, 2014
http://www.asbh.org/uploads/files/meetings/annual/pdfs/ceer_program.pdf

Larry Gostin delivers 2015 UNC Health and Human Rights lecture

October 3, 2014
http://global.unc.edu/events/unc-health-human-rights-lecture-lawrence-o-gostin-imagining-global-health-with-justice/

Jeff Baker discusses the history of autism

October 2, 2014
https://echo2.med.unc.edu:8443/ess/echo/presentation/a7867b00-a1fb-40b2-9018-2a27e241bcf6 https://bioethics.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/785/2014/09/CEGR-2014-October.pdf