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Conference 2015 September 18 @ 8:30 am – 5 pm. Saying no: Exploring the ethical dimensions of refusals in healthcare. Refusals take place across the spectrum of healthcare–from the clinician who refuses to offer treatment believed to be futile, non-beneficial or inappropriate; the patient who spurns a proposed discharge plan;...

Legislative support for physician aid-in-dying (PAD) in the United States has risen steadily in recent years. Five states currently authorize physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a mentally competent, terminally ill, adult patient for the purpose of ending the patient’s life, provided that certain preconditions are met....

It is fitting that the release of our annual report corresponds with the implementation phase of the Carolina Value Initiative. The Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) and the Clinical Ethics Services it supports are representative of the institution’s dedication to the care of its patients and education of its clinicians. The...

Anne Lyerly and her team receive a notice of award for their NIH R01 grant, Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS: Seeking Equitable Study. The PHASES project aims to develop immediate, ethically acceptable strategies to conducting research on HIV treatment and prevention during pregnancy. PHASES will focus on three specific areas of HIV...

Mara Buchbinder has been selected for a Greenwall Faculty Scholars Award for her study, Clinical Ethics, Communication, and Physician Aid-in-Dying. Legislative support for physician aid-in-dying in the United States has risen steadily in recent years: five states have legalized the practice, while six additional states considered proposals in their 2014 legislative...

Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, John M. Conley, Arlene M. Davis, Marcia Van Riper, Rebecca L. Walker & Eric T. Juengst. The American Journal of Bioethics 15 (7): 3-14. Advances in genomics have led to calls for developing population-based preventive genomic sequencing (PGS) programs with the goal of identifying genetic health risks in...

Eric Juengst kicks off the ELSI 2.0 conference with his talk, Lost in “Translation”. ELSI2.0 aims to encourage international collaboration and discussion around the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of research in the Life Sciences. ELSI2.0 joins forces with the HeLEX Centre at the University of Oxford to host this...

Research Ethics Grand Rounds. Laura M. Beskow, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, Duke Clinical Research Institute. The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHR) will make an unprecedented amount of information available for health-related research. Although clinical records have long been used for research, the scope of the information...

Rebecca Walker presents on virtue perspectives on animal research at City University of Hong Kong. Animal research is, and has historically been, a subject of deep moral controversy. Some are adamantly opposed to all uses of animals in research and others are dedicated to research on animal “models” in the...

Gabriel Lázaro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Genomics and Society at UNC-Chapel Hill. Gabriel holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from New York University, where he studied the neurobiology of fear-motivated actions and emotional memory. He obtained a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law...