Calendar Archive, January-June 2009

The Harvard Ethics Consortium

When the “Insurance Company” is the Ministry of Health

HMS Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston

RSVP required to Helena_Martins@hms.harvard.edu by Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009
Lunch will be served.

Faculty Seminar (the Division of Medical Ethics, HMS)

Adolescents

Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor
Speaker: Edwin N. Forman, MD
Alan G. Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School, and Director, Pediatric Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program, Hasbro Children’s Hospital

RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
Lunch provided.

Research in Progress Presentation Series

Creating New Life After Death: Assisted Reproduction in Civilian and Military Contexts

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Presenter: Shirley Shalev, PhD
Research Fellow, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

The Harvard Ethics Consortium

Disclosure of Genetic Test Results at Children’s Hospital in Boston

HMS Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston

RSVP required to Helena_Martins@hms.harvard.edu before Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Lunch will be served.

Faculty Seminar (the Division of Medical Ethics, HMS)

Adults with Dementia

Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor
Speaker: Joanne Lynn, MD,
Bureau Chief, Chronic Disease and Cancer, Department of Health, Washington, DC

RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
Lunch provided.

Research in Progress Presentation Series

Truth Telling in the Perioperative Setting

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Michael Nurok, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital Faculty, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

The Harvard Ethics Consortium

Undercover Patients

HMS Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston

RSVP required to Helena_Martins@hms.harvard.edu before Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009
Lunch will be served.

The 2009 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics

HMS, Armenise Building, D Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Paul R. Krugman
PhD, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference
(of the American Society of Bioethics & Humanities)

Bioethics: The New Issues - New Technology, New Ideas, New Challenges

Hosted this year at Harvard University by the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society!
The National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (NUBC) is an annual event bringing together students and speakers from across the country. It is a celebration of undergraduate research and an opportunity to introduce a new generation of students to the field of bioethics. Planned and organized completely by students, this two-day event covers issues of current interest within the field of bioethics with discussions led by experts invited by the hosting students.

Research in Progress Presentation Series

An Intervention to Improve End-of-life Care in Heart Failure: A Proposal for Two Pilot Studies

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Soko Setoguchi, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

Faculty Seminar (the Division of Medical Ethics, HMS)

Patients with Psychiatric Disorders

Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor
Speaker: Rebecca W. Brendel MD, JD
Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS, and Assistant Director, Forensic Fellowship Program, Law & Psychiatry Service, MGH

RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
Lunch provided.

The Harvard Ethics Consortium

HMS Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Topic to be announced.

RSVP required to Helena_Martins@hms.harvard.edu before Wednesday, Apr 1, 2009
Lunch will be served.

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics – Public Lecture Series

Global Democracy: In the Beginning

Harvard University, Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Robert Goodin
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University

For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.
Lectures are free and open to the public.

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics – Public Lecture Series

How to Do Things with People who Aren’t: The Moral Responsibility of the Author

Harvard University, Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Alexander McCall Smith
Novelist and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law, University of Edinburgh

For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.
Lectures are free and open to the public.

The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar

Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients – Patients with Extreme Religious Beliefs (and their children)

Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Robert M. Veatch, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics and former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. Lunch provided.
RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

Research in Progress Presentation Series

Who is really deciding? Testing the limits of shard decision-making in pediatric intestinal transplantation

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Presenter: Daniel Kamin, MD
Fellow, Division of Medical Ethics, HMS; Medical Director, Intestinal Transplantation Program, and staff physician, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital Boston

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

“Ethical Issues in Prioritization of Health Resources”

Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health 4th Annual International Conference

The Inn at Longwood Medical, Longwood Hall, 342 Longwood Avenue, Boston MA

The 2009 Ackerman Symposium on Medicine & Culture: Medical Industry, Medical Education

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School

Amphitheater - Ground Floor, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

Details to follow.

Co-sponsored by Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (HMS); Program in Ethics and Health (HU); Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society (MEDSOC).

The Harvard Ethics Consortium

HMS Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Topic to be announced.

RSVP required to Helena_Martins@hms.harvard.edu before Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009
Lunch will be served.

The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar

Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients – Patients without Surrogates

Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: David B. Clarke, DMin, JD, MPH
Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Decisions.

Details to follow.

Co-sponsored by Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (HMS); Program in Ethics and Health (HU); Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society (MEDSOC).

RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu. Lunch provided.

Research in Progress Presentation Series

Public Health and the Rights of States

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Andras Miklos, PhD
Fellow, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

The Harvard Ethics Consortium

HMS Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Topic to be announced.

RSVP required to Helena_Martins@hms.harvard.edu before Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Lunch will be served.

Research in Progress Presentation Series

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Topic and speaker to be announced

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

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Harvard Bioethics Course

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