2008 Events Archive
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Demographic Change, Human Capital, and the Demand for Housing: British Evidence
Monday, December 8
Thies Lindenthal, PhD Candidate – Maastricht University. Program on the Global Demography of Aging Fall 2008 Seminar Series. For information, kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Center for Population and Development Studies
1st floor
9 Bow Street, Cambridge -
How to Decide Which Neonates to Treat
Wednesday, December 10
Sadath Sayeed, JD, MD, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS and Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lahey Clinic
Main Auditorium
41 Mall Road, Burlington
December 2008
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Do Family Planning Programs Promote Development? Evidence from a Long Term Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1977-1996
Monday, November 10
Paul Schultz, PhD, Malcolm K. Brachman Professor Emeritus of Economics, Yale University. Program on the Global Demography of Aging Fall 2008 Seminar Series. For information, kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Center for Population and Development Studies
1st floor
9 Bow Street, Cambridge -
BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — High Cost, Low Yield: The Ethics of Prescribing Expensive, Low Benefit Treatments
Friday, November 14
Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health. Sponsored by the Brigham & Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics. Pre-register here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions, 617-732-8590.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Carrie Hall
15 Francis Street, Boston -
Just Health: Current Debates — A conference on Norman Daniel’s recent book
Saturday, November 15
Speakers to include: Shlomi Segall, Andrew Williams, Daniel Hausman, Ezekiel Emmanuel and others. Registration required. No fee. Space limited, register by November 10th.
8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Gordon Hall
25 Shattuck Street, Boston -
Human Weakness and the Limits of Responsibility
Thursday, November 20
Gideon Rosen, JD, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Council of the Humanities, Princeton 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 -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Newborns and Infants
Friday, November 21
Sadath A. Sayeed, JD, MD, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS, and Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston. 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
November 2008
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Neuroscience and Responsibility
Thursday, October 2
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies, Dartmouth College. 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 -
DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Who Decides?
Monday, October 6
Robert Truog, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology & Pediatrics, HMS, and Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston. Sponsored by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Lunch served at 11:45am. Rounds begin at noon. Risk Management CME credits provided. Contact: Steven Joffe, MD, MPH.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Smith Family Room, Dana 1620
44 Binney Street, Boston -
MGH Ethics Forum — “Dancing Around the Truth” — A case study of an adolescent at the end of life, with discussion about truth-telling and cultural influences
Friday, October 10
Panelists: Linda Kimball, RN, MSN, Advanced Clinican, Kathie Pazola, RN, MSN, CPON, Clinical Scholar, Kate Stakes, RN, MSN, CPON, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Rhonda McIntyre, BSN, CPON. Moderator: Ann Hayward-Baxter, Pediatric Chaplain. For information email Alex Cist or Ellen Robinson.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Gray/Bigelow Bldg – Room 432
Sweet Conference Room
55 Fruit Street, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Vulnerable Groups
Friday, October 17
Dan W. Brock, PhD, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Director, Division of Medical Ethics, 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 -
To Die Well: Your Right To Comfort, Calm and Choice in the Last Days of Life
Wednesday, October 22
Sidney Wanzer, MD, Board Member, Oregon Death With Dignity Political Action Fund, and President, Emeritus, Compassion and Choices of Greater Boston. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lahey Clinic
Main Auditorium
41 Mall Road, Burlington -
BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — Healthcare in the Next Administration: An Analysis of the Obama & McCain Proposals
Tuesday, October 28
The Obama Plan: David Cutler, PhD, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University, and Senior Advisor to the Obama Campaign. The McCain Plan: Tom Miller, JD, The American Enterprise Institute. Sponsored by the Brigham & Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics. Pre-register here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions, 617-732-8590.
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Bornstein Auditorium
75 Francis Street, Boston -
Toward a New Theory of Minority Empowerment: Elections and Governance
Thursday, October 30
Heather Gerken, JD, Professor of Law, Yale 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
October 2008
September 2008
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Patients, Families and Clinicians: Struggling With Medical Error
Wednesday, September 10
Thomas Delbanco, MD, Richard A. and Florence Koplow-James L. Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, HMS and BIDMC. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lahey Clinic
Main Auditorium
41 Mall Road, Burlington -
Disempowered by whom? In-laws’ influence on decision making in Indian families
Monday, September 15
Reeve Vanneman, PhD, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland. Program on the Global Demography of Aging Fall 2008 Seminar Series. For information, kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu.
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Center for Population and Development Studies
1st floor
9 Bow Street, Cambridge -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Defining and Determining Competence
Friday, September 19
Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine & Law, and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. 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 -
Human Dignity and Bioethics
Wednesday, September 24
Introduction: Elena Kagan, Dean, Harvard Law School Panelists: Nick Bostrom, Dan Brock, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nussbaum, and Edmund Pellegrino Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen Sponsored by The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. For information visit The Petri-Flom Center website.
5:00 PM
Harvard Law School
Austin North Classroom
June 2008
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Harvard Bioethics Course
Wednesday – Friday, June 11 – 13
This 3 day course is designed for members of ethics committees and others interested in ethical aspects of clinical practice, including ethicists, physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, health care administrators, respiratory and other therapists, patients’ rights officers and representatives, psychologists, risk managers, moral philosophers, hospital attorneys and trustees. The combination of lectures, case discussions and panels cover core information about ethical theories, principles, and methods, key bioethics cases from US courts, evolving standards for ethics consultation, and areas of clinical ethical controversy and consensus. Faculty for the course are drawn from the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and from the Harvard-affiliated hospitals and institutions.
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
May 2008
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The Ackerman Lecture on Medicine & Culture — Self & Non-Self: A Transplant Surgeon and the Medical Humanities
Thursday, May 1
Pauline W. Chen, MD, author, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality. RSVP to Ackerman@hms.harvard.edu.
5:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Who Is the Doctor? Diffusion of Responsibility in Teaching Hospitals
Friday, May 16
Ralph I. Horwitz, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University. 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 Ruth C. Brufsky Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics — Informed Consent: What Works and What Doesn’t
Monday, May 19
Eric Kodish, MD, F. J. O’Neill Professor and Chairman, Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Professor of Pediatrics, Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Grand Rounds. For information, Nicole Santangelo.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dana 1620
44 Binney Street, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Forum — Patients with Passports: Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism
Wednesday, May 21
David Boucher, MPH, FACHE, Assistant Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina and Managing Director, Companion Global Healthcare; I. Glenn Cohen, JD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School and Academic Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School; Maggi Grace, Author, State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist’s True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India and Consultant, who testified before the U.S. Congress on medical travel; Josef Woodman, global consumer healthcare advocate; President, Healthy Travel Company; and Author, Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism; and Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Associate Clinical Professor of Social Medicine, Medical Ethics and Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, moderator. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater, 2nd floor
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
April 2008
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BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — The Ethics of Withdrawing Ventilatory Support in a Patient with High Quadriplegia
Friday, April 4
Richard Martinez, MD, MH, Director, Program in Forensic Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; and Director, Psychiatric Emergency and Forensic Services, Denver Health Medical Center. Sponsored by the Brigham & Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45am. Pre-register here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions, 617-732-8590.
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN-L1
75 Francis Street, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Work Hour Limitations: Benefits and Harms
Friday, April 18
Hasan Bazari, MD, Associate Chief of Medicine and Program Director of Medical Services, MGH. 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
March 2008
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The Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities — Should Medicine Make Us “Better than Well”? Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Wednesday, March 5
Michael J. Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University. Sponsored by the BWH Center for Bioethics. Pre-register here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions 617-732-8590.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Bornstein Family Amphitheater
2nd Floor (Pike) at BWH
near the 45 Francis Street entrance -
The 2008 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics — Individualized Medicine and Universal Health Care
Thursday, March 13
Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
4:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Ethics of Hospital Care by Medical Trainees
Friday, March 21
Marshall A. Wolf, MD, Vice Chair for Medical Education, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 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 -
BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — Ethics, Disparities and Cross-Cultural Care: Identifying and Addressing Key Challenges
Tuesday, March 25
Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, Director, The Disparities Solutions Center; Senior Scientist, The Institute for Health Policy; and Director of Multicultural Education, MGH. Sponsored by the Brigham & Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45am. Pre-register here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions, 617-732-8590.
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN-L1
75 Francis Street, Boston
February 2008
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MGH Ethics Forum — Jewish Law and End of Life Decision Making – A Case Study
Friday, February 8
Presentation and Discussion with Guest Speaker, Craig D. Blinderman, MD, MA, Attending Physician, Palliative Care Services, MGH; and Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Panel discussion lead by Rabbi Ben Lanckton. Sponsored by the MGH Ethics Task Force. No pre-registration required. For more information, acist@partners.org.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sweet Conference Room, GRB 4
55 Fruit Street, Boston -
Markets for Kidneys? The Ethics of the Organ Bazaar — A Symposium on Current Controversies in International Health
Friday, February 8
Topics and Speakers:
1:30 – 5:00 PM
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge – G2
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston- The World Health Organization and the International Organ Trade Dr. Luc Noel – WHO
- Curbing the Sale of Organs Dr. Francis L. Delmonico, The Transplantation Society and New England Organ Bank
- A Workable, Defensible Market for Organs Professor Julio J. Elias, Economist – SUNY
- Payment for Kidneys: The Most Fundamental Concern? Professor Nir Eyal, Division of Medical Ethics and Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
- Is Organ-Selling Inherently Wrong? ‘Kantian’ Objections Professor Samuel Kerstein, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
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The Medical Ethics Forum — Medically Intervening on Behalf of the Fetus: The State of the Science, Ethics and Law
Wednesday, February 13
Russell Jennings, MD, Director, Advanced Fetal Care Center, Children’s Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery, HMS; R. Alta Charo, JD, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison; Dan Wikler, PhD, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, HSPH; and Sadath A. Sayeed, JD, MD, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Social Medicine, HMS and Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, moderator. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
MEC 227
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Mentors and Tormentors: Ethical Issues in Faculty Conduct
Friday, February 15
Edward M. Hundert, MD, Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics, HMS, former President, Case Western Reserve University. 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 2008 Lawrence Lader Lecture on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights — The Baby Business: What’s Wrong with the Current Market for Reproductive Medicine and How to Make it Better
Tuesday, February 26
Debora L. Spar, PhD, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
4:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
January 2008
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MGH Ethics Forum — Ethics, Disparities and Cross-Cultural Care: Identifying and Addressing Key Challenges
Friday, January 11
Presentation and Discussion with Guest Speaker, Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, Director, The Disparities Solutions Center; Senior Scientist, MGH Institute for Health Policy; and Faculty, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Sponsored by the MGH Ethics Task Force. No pre-registration required. For more information, acist@partners.org.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Yawkey 2-210
55 Fruit Street, Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Industry Sponsorship of Continuing Medical Education
Friday, January 18
Martin A. Samuels, MD, Neurologist-in-Chief and Chair, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 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 BWH Center for Bioethics Ethics Rounds — Allowing the Dying to Donate: A Call for Change in the Ethics of Organ Donation
Tuesday, January 29
Thos Cochrane, MD, MBA, Staff Neurologist, BWH and Instructor in Neurology, HMS. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45am. Please pre-register for this event here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions, (617) 732-8590.
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Anesthesia Conference Room
Level L-1 of the Center for Women and Newborns (Connors Center)
75 Francis Street, Boston