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C:B sponsors and hosts “ELSI 2.0:  Towards an International Collaboratory for Genomics and Society Research,”  a Satellite Workshop to the 2012 International Association of Bioethics meetings in Rotterdam, Netherlands. more information »

UNC medical student Marley Burns was selected as this year’s student editor for the Virtual Mentor journal by the A.M.A. Congratulations, Marley!

Sofia Gruskin, J.D., M.A., Director of the Program on Global Health and Human Rights, University of Southern California, presented the 1st Annual UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture, addressing, “A Rising Imperative:  Human Rights in Global Health.” more information »

C:B Core Faculty member Arlene Davis, R.N., J.D.,  participated on the Health Law Careers Practitioner Panel as part of the Carolina Health Law Organization’s discussion on the state of health care law and how health reform will affect different areas of practice.

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).