Talks

Many medical advances rely on Phase I trials that enroll healthy participants to test the safety of new therapies. This event brings together experts on clinical trial policy to discuss healthy participants’ experiences and good trial governance. Registration Required Presenters:  Jill Fisher, PhD Professor of Social Medicine UNC School of...

Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.

In traditional predictive genetic testing, single gene variants are analyzed to determine whether individuals are at high risk of developing disease. The vast majority of diseases, however, are polygenic—caused by many different genes. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) hold promise to predict risk for complex diseases like heart disease or diabetes...

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Elizabeth Barnes is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Her research interests are divided between metaphysics, social philosophy, feminist philosophy, and ethics. She is particularly interested in the places where these topics overlap. Elizabeth wrote a book on disability and recently finished writing a book about...

Dr. Gooding is an adolescent medicine specialist in the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for eight years, serving as faculty adviser to medical education student projects and co-chairing the HMS Wellness and Mental...

    Please register by Monday, October 10th. In care for people with terminal illness and severe disabilities, the most impressive achievements of modern medical science meet our deepest human concerns about how to handle suffering, what happens when we die, and what it means to live a good life. Cases that...

Hybrid Zoom Link New and emerging healthcare technologies—including whole genome sequencing, wearables, and AI assisted treatments—offer innovative possibilities for realizing the right to health. These technologies hold the potential for automatizing certain processes to free up time for healthcare professionals to spend with patients, detecting disease more accurately and swiftly, and furthering access in remote communities. However, digital...

The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Health Equity Research Intensive (HERI) is offering a collaborative learning workshop as a space for participants to co-create a definition of inclusive and equitable health research and generating innovative solutions toward achieving inclusive research. This workshop is Tuesday, Sept 27, 1 –...

Senior Investigator, Department of Bioethics at the N.I.H. Clinical Center https://irp.nih.gov/pi/scott-kim Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.