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    March 2007

  • An Insurer’s View of the World: Health Informatics and Personalized Medicine

    Thursday, March 1
    4:00 - 5:30 PM
    HMS New Research Building
    HIM Lecture Room
    77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

    Troyen Brennan, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Aetna Inc. Bioinformatics Grand Rounds.

  • Animals: A Kantian View

    Thursday, March 8
    4:00 PM
    Harvard Yard
    305 Emerson Hall
    25 Quincy Street, Cambridge

    Hilary Bok, PhD, Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory, Johns Hopkins University. Co-sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government, the Department of Philosophy, and the Division of Medical Ethics. For information, Camiliakumari_Wankaner@ksg.harvard.edu.

  • Can Lawyers Produce the Rule of Law? Law-building Projects Abroad

    Thursday, March 15
    4:30 - 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Starr Auditorium
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    Robert Gordon, JD, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series. For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar - Problems That Just Won’t Go Away: Doctors in Danger

    Friday, March 16
    12:30 - 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Clair Mills, MD, Head of Public Health Department, Médecins Sans Frontières-Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

  • Healing Presence: Creating A Culture That Promotes Spiritual Care

    Monday, March 19
    12:00 - 1:00 PM
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Smith Family Room (Dana 1620)
    44 Binney Street, Boston

    Carol Taylor, RN, MSN, PhD, Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University. Sponsored by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. RSVP to steven_joffe@dfci.harvard.edu.

  • Re-Engineering Human Biology: What Should Be the Ethical and Legal Limits?

    Monday, March 19
    5:00 - 6:30 PM
    Harvard Law School
    Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
    1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

    Ronald Dworkin, LLB, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London; Leon Kass, MD, PhD, Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and the Addie Clark Harding Professor of Social Thought and in the College, The University of Chicago; Richard Posner, LLB, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago; Michael Sandel, DPhil, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University; and Elena Kagan, JD, Dean, Harvard Law School, moderator. Sponsored by The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics, Harvard Law School; The Harvar University Program in Ethics & Health; The Ethics and Public Policy Program of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; and with financial sponsorship from The Cammann Fund.

  • The Ethics of Transparency: German Citizenship and the Right Not to Know

    Thursday March 22
    4:00 PM
    HMS Osher Institute
    Landmark Building, Suite 221
    401 Park Drive, Boston

    Stefan Sperling, PhD, Anthropology Research Unit of the Life Sciences, Humbuldt University, Berlin. For information, (617) 384-8550.

  • Professional Responsibility, Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Leadership in Clinical Ethics

    Friday, March 30
    7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
    Boston College Yawkey Center
    Murray Function Room
    140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill

    This day-long conference will provide health care and allied professionals and pre-professional students with the tools to recognize the ethical content of care-giving situations. Sponsored by the Boston College Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics and Connell School of Nursing, in conjunction with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Registration required. For information, gracepa@bc.edu

    April 2007

  • Bridging the Implementation Gap: Why We Can’t Wait

    Tuesday, April 3
    4:30 - 6:00 PM
    Center for Population and Development Studies
    9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA

    Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Social Medicine, HMS; Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH; and Chief, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. For information, (617) 495-2021 or panka_deo@harvard.edu.

  • Humanitarian Obligations in Iraq: Challenges of Medical Relief in War

    Wednesday, April 4
    4:30 - 6:00 PM
    Harvard School of Public Health
    Kresge G3
    677 Huntington Avenue, Boston

    Claude Bruderlein, LLM, Director, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR), HSPH; Skip Burkle, MD, MPH, Former Minister of Health in Iraq for USAID, Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Professor, University of Hawaii School of Medicine; and Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH, Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Professor of the Practice of International Health, HSPH and Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS, moderator. RSVP to elyons@hhi.harvard.edu.

  • Social Change, Eating Disorders, and Youth Risk: The View from Fiji

    Thursday, April 5
    12:00 - 1:00 PM
    McLean Hospital
    de Marneffe Building, Room 132
    115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA

    Anne Becker, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Medicine, HMS. Psychiatry Grand Rounds.

  • Improving Quality and Value for Medicare Beneficiaries

    Monday, April 9
    4:00 - 5:00 PM
    HMS New Research Building
    Amphitheater
    77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

    Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute. Seventh Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture in Health Policy.

  • The Psychological Toll of Hurricane Katrina

    Wednesday, April 11 12:30 - 1:30 PM
    Harvard School of Public Health
    Kresge G2
    677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

    Ronald Kessler, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS. For information and to RSVP,
    (617) 495-9511 or cfoster@hsph.harvard.edu.

  • Notable Books Series at the Countway Library - The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America

    Wednesday, April 25
    5:00 – 7:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA

    Allan M. Brandt, PhD, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, HMS. Book signing and reception to follow presentation. For information, rvogel@hms.harvard.edu.

  • Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health 2nd Annual Conference - Responsibility for Health Ethical Issues

    Thursday, April 26 - Friday, April 27
    9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    HMS New Research Building
    The Conference Center at Harvard Medical
    The Rotunda, 3rd Floor
    77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

    This conference seeks to clarify the issues at stake in debates over responsibility for health and to enlist the methods and theories from a number of disciplines in forging a coherent social response to the issues. No fee. Registration required. Information and registration.

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar - Problems That Just Won’t Go Away: Doctors and Executions

    Friday, April 27
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Ballard Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA

    Robert Truog, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics and Anaesthesia (Pediatrics), HMS and David Waisel, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Children’s Hospital. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

    May 2007

  • The Ackerman Symposium and Lecture: Beating It into Them? Beating It Out of Them? Moral Vales in Medical Education Today

    Monday, May 7
    12:00 - 7:00 PM
    HMS New Research Building
    The Conference Center at Harvard Medical
    77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

    Keynote Speaker: Thomas S. Inui, MD, President and CEO, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Sam Regenstrief Professor of Health Services Research, and Associate Dean for Health Care Research, Indiana University School of Medicine.

  • Medical Ethics Forum – Insuring the Uninsured: Does Massachusetts Have the Right Model?

    Thursday, May 17
    4:00 - 6:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

    Michael Chin, MD, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority; Katherine Swartz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Health Policy and Management HSPH; and Marcia Angell, MD, Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, HMS, Editor-in-Chief, Emerita, New England Journal of Medicine, moderator. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

    June 2007

  • Harvard Bioethics Course

    Wednesday - Friday, June 13 - 15
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

    This course, a combination of lectures and seminar discussions over three full days, although especially designed for members of clinical ethics committees, is open to others interested in ethical aspects of clinical practice including physicians, chaplains, health care administrators, nurses, social workers, therapists, psychologists, and hospital attorneys. Topics to include: Ethics Consultation; Research Ethics; Ethics in End-of-Life Care; Medical Futility; Moral Autonomy; Organizational Ethics in Health Care. Registration required.

    October 2007

  • Intoxicated Consent to Sexual Relations

    Thursday, October 11
    4:30 - 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Starr Auditorium
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    Alan Wertheimer, PhD, Senior Research Scholar, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health;John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Vermont. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series. For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.

  • Partners In Health — 14th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium — If We Fail to Act: The Future of Global Health

    Saturday, October 13
    3:00 - 5:00 PM
    Sanders Theater
    Memorial Hall
    45 Quincy Street, Cambridge

    Speakers will include PIH co-founders Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl, and Danny Glover, renowned both as an actor and an activist on behalf of Haiti and social justice. Tickets which are required but free, will be available beginning September 29 on a first-come, first-served basis and may be reserved by phone (617) 499-2222 or picked up at the Harvard Box Office (1350 Mass. Ave., Cambridge).

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine - Medical Students: How Many Second Chances?

    Friday, October 19
    12:30 - 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Leon Eisenberg, MD, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Emeritus, Department of Social Medicine, HMS. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

  • The 32nd Annual Joseph Garland Lecture — Healthcare Underwater: The Katrina Experience

    Wednesday, October 24
    5:30 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater, 2nd floor
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    James Aiken, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Public Health, LSU Health Science Center; Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness, LSU University Hospital, New Orleans, LA. This lecture is jointly sponsored by the Boston Medical Library and the Massachusetts Medical Society and educational activity is approved for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit. For information, (617) 432-4807 or e-mail Roz Vogel.

  • BWH Ethics Rounds — Face Transplantation: The Ethics of a New Therapeutic Frontier

    Tuesday, October 30
    11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    Connors Center for Women and Newborns, Level L1
    Anesthesia Conference Room
    75 Francis Street, Boston

    Bohdan Pomahac, MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Elizabeth Hohmann, MD, Chair, & Director, Partners IRBs; and Lisa Lehmann, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP at: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/view/EventDetails.aspx?eventID=39197
    or email Pamela Galowitz.

    November 2007

  • What Does Empirical Research on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?

    Thursday, November 8
    4:30 - 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Starr Auditorium
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    Richard Holton, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series. For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine - Faculty Conflicts of Interest

    Friday, November 16
    12:30 - 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Jordan J. Cohen, MD, former President, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

  • Living With a Genetic Cancer Risk Syndrome: A Patient and Parent Perspective

    Monday, November 19
    11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Smith Family Room (Dana 1620)
    44 Binney Street, Boston

    Ms. Luana Locke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Grand Rounds. For information, Steven Joffe, MD.

    December 2007

  • WORLD HEALTH FORUM SERIES — “Leadership on the World Stage: Prescription for Health”

    Wednesday, December 5
    12:00 - 2:00 PM (presentation)
    2:00 - 2:45 PM (reception and discussion)
    Harvard Medical School
    Gordon Hall, Benjamin Waterhouse Room
    25 Shattuck Street, Boston

    John P. Howe, III, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Project HOPE. Hosted by Harvard Medical School’s Office for Diversity and Community Partnership. Co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School’s Student Affairs Office, Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs Office, Office of Enrichment Programs; and Harvard School of Public Health’s Division of Public Health Practice, Office for Educational Programs; Cambridge Health Alliance. Space is limited. Please RSVP by November 28, 2007. Phone: (617) 432-2645; Email: kellyjo_cigman@hms.harvard.edu.

  • Is There a Coherent Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis?

    Thursday, December 6
    4:30 - 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Starr Auditorium
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    Barbara Fried, JD, William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, Stanford University. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series. For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.

  • Human Rights Across Culture Mini-Series — Theorizing and Theologizing the
    Rights of Non-Muslims

    Thursday, December 13
    4:00 - 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Taubman Building, Room 401
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    Andrew March, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University. Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. For more information, mathias_risse@harvard.edu.

  • The Henry Hardy Lecture in Bioethics and Public Policy — Why Is Health Care So Difficult to Reform?

    Thursday, December 20
    8:00 AM
    BIDMC – East Campus
    Sherman Auditorium
    330 Brookline Avenue, Boston

    Theodore Marmor, PhD, Professor of Public Policy and Management & Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Yale University. Co-sponsored by the HMS Division of Medical Ethics and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. For information, rdesilva@bidmc.harvard.edu.