Speakers for this panel include: Rebecca Walker PhD, Social Medicine, Bioethics, Philosophy, UNC Jean Cadigan PhD, Social Medicine, Bioethics, UNC Gary Gala MD FACS, Psychiatry, UNC
In March 2018, bioethicist Dr. Beth Epstein PhD RN, FAAN, will be visiting the Center for Bioethics to offer workshops on moral distress in health care. This event will be the first in a series around this subject. There will be three interactive and engaging workshops, open to all health care professionals practicing at UNC. … Read more
Speakers for this panel include: Sara Scarlet MD, General Surgery, UNC Sarah Fotheringham JD, Associate General Counsel, UNC Health Care Paul Ossman MD MPH, Internal Medicine, UNC Elizabeth Dreesen MD, General and Acute Care Surgery, UNC
The All of Us Research Program, a keystone of the Precision Medicine Initiative, aims to assemble a cohort of one million or more people to accelerate research and improve health. Central to the program’s aims is ensuring that the cohort is representative of the diversity of those living in the United … Read more
As biomedical research generates ever-growing requirements for large sample sizes, it has increasingly depended on biorepositories to provide biosamples and data. These large collections decrease the time and expense required to answer important research questions, however, a single biorepository is often inadequate. As big data questions have come to play a central role in medical … Read more
Our health care system’s shift from a fee-for-service to a value based repayment models has placed considerable emphasis on the quality of health care. However, collectively or individually, patients, clinicians, and health care organizations may vary in their views of what constitutes high quality health care. It is in this context that quality improvement aims … Read more
Wylie Burke, MD, PhD is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington, Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Medical Genetics). Her work focuses on the ethical and policy implications of genetic information in research and health care. She co-directs the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network, a research partnership involving … Read more
Alicia Yamin is Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Adjunct Lecturer on Law and Global Health at Harvard University, Panelist on the UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the SDGs (EWEC), and Global Fellow at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation in Norway. The 2017 Health and Human Rights Lecture is sponsored … Read more
A special joint presentation offered by Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, Adult Schwartz Center Rounds, and Pediatric Schwartz Center Rounds.
