Talks

Light refreshments will be served at 6:30

Robert Califf, MD, MACC, is an Instructor in Medicine in Cardiology and a former intensivist and practicing cardiologist. He served as FDA Commissioner (2016–2017 and 2022-24) and previously held leadership roles at Duke University, including founding director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Vice Chancellor for Clinical and Translational Medicine. He...

The Animal Studies Project, directed by Rebecca Walker, is hosting an Area Workshop at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities on the UNC Campus on Dec. 5, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm.

Director of Early-Career Research, Center for Human Values Professor, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values Princeton University Elizabeth Harman is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values. She serves as Director of Early-Career Research...

What can we learn from America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic?  How should policymakers deal with future pandemics?  In a recent book co-authored with Stephen Macedo, Princeton professor Frances Lee argues that public health experts, policy makers, and the media failed to adequately consider the costs of lockdowns. In a...

Three Identical Strangers is a riveting documentary that traces the stranger-than-fiction, true-life story of three triplets separated at birth who later find each other as adults. Searching for answers, they discover that they were part of a research study designed to assess the power of genetics and social environment on...

Artificial womb technology is a new and groundbreaking technology aimed at helping extremely premature infants (born at 22-24 weeks of gestation) continue to develop in a fetal state. While this technology has shown success in fetal lambs and is now moving towards human trials, questions about the ethical, legal, and...

Zoom Registration required. This is an event of the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs (OACA), hosted by the Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota.

Former Chair Dept of Bioethics, Clinical Center, NIH Former co-chair BRAIN Neuroethics Working Group, NIH Zoom link for the talk. https://zoom.us/j/92324290043?pwd=KmMqubsEhRtjoHVW5PPTWPE9oIjSu2.1 Meeting ID: 923 2429 0043 Passcode: 953179 Dr. Grady is a nurse-bioethicist and a senior investigator who is the former Chief of the Department of Bioethics. Dr. Grady has...

  Teaching Professor Co-Director of Accreditation & Continuous Quality Improvement Dept. of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University In January 2015, Hugh M. Lee joined the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies. His research focuses on health policy and the ethics of substituted decision-making in...