Eric Kodish, M.D., F. J. O’Neill Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethics, Humanities, and Spiritual Care at the Cleveland Clinic, presented the March Research Ethics Grand Rounds, speaking on “Informed Consent in Experimental Medicine: Phase I Trials in Children with Cancer”.
Susan Lederer, Ph.D., Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, presented the February Research Ethics Grand Rounds, speaking on “Making Longevity: Technology, Policy and Ethics in U.S. Health Care”.
Sharon R. Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Anthropology, spoke on “Making Longevity: Technology, Policy and Ethics in U.S. Health Care” at the January Transplant Ethics Conference Series (TECS).
Raymond Barfield, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy, Duke University, spoke on “Why Ethical Decision Making in Complex Pediatric Illness Requires the Art of Story Telling” at the January Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds.
C:B Faculty Associate, Malika Roman Isler, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Social Medicine presented Research Ethics Grand Rounds. She spoke on, “Ethical Challenges in Community-based Research”.
Stuart Youngner, M.D., Chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, spoke on, “The Moment of Death is a Social Construct: Constructed Now to Maximize Organ Procurement” as part of the Transplantation Education Conference Series (TECS).
Visiting scholar Keymanthri Moodley, MBChB, MFamMed, DPhil, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Stellenbosch University, South Africa presented at the Friday Infectious Disease Conference. Dr. Moodley spoke on, “The Ethics of HIV Prevention Research: Experiences in South Africa”.
C:B Core Faculty member Arlene Davis inaugurates Hospital Ethics Committee’s “Consult Learning Lab” series.
Doug Diekema M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, presents joint Pediatrics/Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, “When parents and providers disagree.” more info (pdf) »
C:B Core Faculty member Rebecca Walker and Nancy King (Wake Forest University) publish analysis of “Biodefense Research and the U.S. Regulatory Structure: Whither Nonhuman Primate Moral Standing?” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 21:3 (2011)277-310.
