Talks

Meet the Speakers – Adjoa Boateng Evans, MD, MPH Rimma Osipov, MD, PhD Terrence Holt, MD, PhD Learning Objectives Upon completion of the symposium, you will be able to: Identify personal and professional narratives to identify sources of meaning, purpose, and alignment within one’s medical practice. Analyze the role of...

OBJECTIVES 1. To understand how abortion laws and policies are impacting the ability to provide comprehensive reproductive health care. 2. To describe ethical challenges that abortion bans raise for physicians. 3. To identify tangible solutions for supporting and improving professional wellbeing among clinicians engaged in reproductive healthcare. Zoom – Click...

Light refreshments will be served at 6:30

Merrimon Lecture Slides Highlights from the 47th Merrimon Lecture 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...

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 Add to Calendar Zoom Webinar  Passcode:056864 Handout for talk Sometimes someone does something heroic that they don’t have to do:  a passerby runs into a burning...

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.