2007 Events Archive
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WORLD HEALTH FORUM SERIES — “Leadership on the World Stage: Prescription for Health”
Wednesday, December 5
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.
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 -
Is There a Coherent Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis?
Thursday, December 6
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.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government
Starr Auditorium
79 JFK Street, Cambridge -
Human Rights Across Culture Mini-Series — Theorizing and Theologizing the Rights of Non-Muslims
Thursday, December 13
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.
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government
Taubman Building, Room 401
79 JFK Street, Cambridge -
The Henry Hardy Lecture in Bioethics and Public Policy — Why Is Health Care So Difficult to Reform?
Thursday, December 20
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.
8:00 AM
BIDMC – East Campus
Sherman Auditorium
330 Brookline Avenue, Boston -
What Does Empirical Research on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?
Thursday, November 8
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.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government
Starr Auditorium
79 JFK Street, Cambridge -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Faculty Conflicts of Interest
Friday, November 16
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.
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Countway Library
Minot Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
Living With a Genetic Cancer Risk Syndrome: A Patient and Parent Perspective
Monday, November 19
Ms. Luana Locke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Grand Rounds. For information, Steven Joffe, MD.
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Smith Family Room (Dana 1620)
44 Binney Street, Boston -
Intoxicated Consent to Sexual Relations
Thursday, October 11
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.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government
Starr Auditorium
79 JFK Street, Cambridge -
Partners In Health — 14th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium — If We Fail to Act: The Future of Global Health
Saturday, October 13
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).
3:00 – 5:00 PM
Sanders Theater
Memorial Hall
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Medical Students: How Many Second Chances?
Friday, October 19
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.
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Countway Library
Minot Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
The 32nd Annual Joseph Garland Lecture — Healthcare Underwater: The Katrina Experience
Wednesday, October 24
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.
5:30 PM
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater, 2nd floor
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
BWH Ethics Rounds — Face Transplantation: The Ethics of a New Therapeutic Frontier
Tuesday, October 30
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.
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 -
Harvard Bioethics Course
Wednesday – Friday, June 13 – 15
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.
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
The Ackerman Symposium and Lecture: Beating It into Them? Beating It Out of Them? Moral Vales in Medical Education Today
Monday, May 7
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.
12:00 – 7:00 PM
HMS New Research Building
The Conference Center at Harvard Medical
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston -
Medical Ethics Forum – Insuring the Uninsured: Does Massachusetts Have the Right Model?
Thursday, May 17
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.
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
Bridging the Implementation Gap: Why We Can’t Wait
Tuesday, April 3
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.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge -
Humanitarian Obligations in Iraq: Challenges of Medical Relief in War
Wednesday, April 4
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.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge G3
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston -
Social Change, Eating Disorders, and Youth Risk: The View from Fiji
Thursday, April 5
Anne Becker, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Medicine, HMS. Psychiatry Grand Rounds.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
McLean Hospital
de Marneffe Building, Room 132
115 Mill Street, Belmont -
Improving Quality and Value for Medicare Beneficiaries
Monday, April 9
Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute. Seventh Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture in Health Policy.
4:00 – 5:00 PM
HMS New Research Building
Amphitheater
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston -
The Psychological Toll of Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday, April 11
Ronald Kessler, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS. For information and to RSVP, (617) 495-9511 or cfoster@hsph.harvard.edu.
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge G2
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston -
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
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.
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Countway Library
Minot Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health 2nd Annual Conference – Responsibility for Health Ethical Issues
Thursday, April 26 – Friday, April 27
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.
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 -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar – Problems That Just Won’t Go Away: Doctors and Executions
Friday, April 27
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.
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Countway Library
Ballard Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
An Insurer’s View of the World: Health Informatics and Personalized Medicine
Thursday, March 1
Troyen Brennan, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Aetna Inc. Bioinformatics Grand Rounds.
4:00 – 5:30 PM
HMS New Research Building
HIM Lecture Room
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston -
Animals: A Kantian View
Thursday, March 8
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.
4:00 PM
Harvard Yard
305 Emerson Hall
25 Quincy Street, Cambridge -
Can Lawyers Produce the Rule of Law? Law-building Projects Abroad
Thursday, March 15
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.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government
Starr Auditorium
79 JFK Street, Cambridge -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar – Problems That Just Won’t Go Away: Doctors in Danger
Friday, March 16
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.
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Countway Library
Minot Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
Healing Presence: Creating A Culture That Promotes Spiritual Care
Monday, March 19
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.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Smith Family Room (Dana 1620)
44 Binney Street, Boston -
Re-Engineering Human Biology: What Should Be the Ethical and Legal Limits?
Monday, March 19
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.
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Harvard Law School
Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge -
The Ethics of Transparency: German Citizenship and the Right Not to Know
Thursday March 22
Stefan Sperling, PhD, Anthropology Research Unit of the Life Sciences, Humbuldt University, Berlin. For information, (617) 384-8550.
4:00 PM
HMS Osher Institute
Landmark Building, Suite 221
401 Park Drive, Boston -
Professional Responsibility, Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Leadership in Clinical Ethics
Friday, March 30
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
7:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Boston College Yawkey Center
Murray Function Room
140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill