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    December 2008

  • Demographic Change, Human Capital, and the Demand for Housing: British Evidence

    Monday, December 8
    4:30 – 6:00 PM
    Center for Population and Development Studies
    1st floor
    9 Bow Street, Cambridge

    Thies Lindenthal, PhD Candidate – Maastricht University. Program on the Global Demography of Aging Fall 2008 Seminar Series. For information, kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu.
  • How to Decide Which Neonates to Treat

    Wednesday, December 10
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    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.

    November 2008

  • Do Family Planning Programs Promote Development? Evidence from a Long Term Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1977-1996

    Monday, November 10
    4:30 – 6:00 PM
    Center for Population and Development Studies
    1st floor
    9 Bow Street, Cambridge

    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.
  • BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — High Cost, Low Yield: The Ethics of Prescribing Expensive, Low Benefit Treatments

    Friday, November 14
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Carrie Hall
    15 Francis Street, Boston

    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.
  • Just Health: Current Debates — A conference on Norman Daniel’s recent book

    Saturday, November 15
    8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    Gordon Hall
    25 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Speakers to include: Shlomi Segall, Andrew Williams, Daniel Hausman, Ezekiel Emmanuel and others. Registration required. No fee. Space limited, register by November 10th.
  • Human Weakness and the Limits of Responsibility

    Thursday, November 20
    4:30 – 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Starr Auditorium
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Newborns and Infants

    Friday, November 21
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Ballard Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    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.

    October 2008

  • Neuroscience and Responsibility

    Thursday, October 2
    4:30 – 6:00 PM
    Kennedy School of Government
    Starr Auditorium
    79 JFK Street, Cambridge

    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.
  • DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Who Decides?

    Monday, October 6
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Smith Family Room, Dana 1620
    44 Binney Street, Boston

    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.
  • 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
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Massachusetts General Hospital
    Gray/Bigelow Bldg – Room 432
    Sweet Conference Room
    55 Fruit Street, Boston

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Vulnerable Groups

    Friday, October 17
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    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.
  • To Die Well: Your Right To Comfort, Calm and Choice in the Last Days of Life

    Wednesday, October 22
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    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.
  • BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — Healthcare in the Next Administration: An Analysis of the Obama & McCain Proposals

    Tuesday, October 28
    12:00 – 1:30 PM
    Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Bornstein Auditorium
    75 Francis Street, Boston

    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.
  • Toward a New Theory of Minority Empowerment: Elections and Governance

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

    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.

September 2008

  • Patients, Families and Clinicians: Struggling With Medical Error

    Wednesday, September 10
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    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.
  • Disempowered by whom? In-laws’ influence on decision making in Indian families

    Monday, September 15
    4:30 – 6:00 PM
    Center for Population and Development Studies
    1st floor
    9 Bow Street, Cambridge

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Defining and Determining Competence

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

    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.
  • Human Dignity and Bioethics

    Wednesday, September 24
    5:00 PM
    Harvard Law School
    Austin North Classroom

    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.

June 2008

  • Harvard Bioethics Course

    Wednesday – Friday, June 11 – 13
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    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.

May 2008

  • The Ackerman Lecture on Medicine & Culture — Self & Non-Self: A Transplant Surgeon and the Medical Humanities

    Thursday, May 1
    5:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    Pauline W. Chen, MD, author, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality. RSVP to Ackerman@hms.harvard.edu.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Who Is the Doctor? Diffusion of Responsibility in Teaching Hospitals

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

    Ralph I. Horwitz, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
  • The Ruth C. Brufsky Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics — Informed Consent: What Works and What Doesn’t

    Monday, May 19
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Dana 1620
    44 Binney Street, Boston

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Forum — Patients with Passports: Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism

    Wednesday, May 21
    4:00 – 6:00 pm
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater, 2nd floor
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    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.

April 2008

  • BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — The Ethics of Withdrawing Ventilatory Support in a Patient with High Quadriplegia

    Friday, April 4
    11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
    Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN-L1
    75 Francis Street, Boston

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Work Hour Limitations: Benefits and Harms

    Friday, April 18
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    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.

March 2008

  • The Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities — Should Medicine Make Us “Better than Well”? Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

    Wednesday, March 5
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Bornstein Family Amphitheater
    2nd Floor (Pike) at BWH
    near the 45 Francis Street entrance

    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.
  • The 2008 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics — Individualized Medicine and Universal Health Care

    Thursday, March 13
    4:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Ethics of Hospital Care by Medical Trainees

    Friday, March 21
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    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.
  • BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — Ethics, Disparities and Cross-Cultural Care: Identifying and Addressing Key Challenges

    Tuesday, March 25
    11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
    Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN-L1
    75 Francis Street, Boston

    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.

February 2008

  • MGH Ethics Forum — Jewish Law and End of Life Decision Making – A Case Study

    Friday, February 8
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Massachusetts General Hospital
    Sweet Conference Room, GRB 4
    55 Fruit Street, Boston

    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.
  • Markets for Kidneys? The Ethics of the Organ Bazaar — A Symposium on Current Controversies in International Health

    Friday, February 8
    1:30 – 5:00 PM
    Harvard School of Public Health
    Kresge – G2
    677 Huntington Avenue, Boston

    Topics and Speakers:
    • 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
    Symposium Chairperson: Professor Daniel Wikler, HSPH and The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. Co-sponsored by The Harvard University Program in Ethics & Health and The Department of Population and International Health, HSPH. Free and open to the public. RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.
  • The Medical Ethics Forum — Medically Intervening on Behalf of the Fetus: The State of the Science, Ethics and Law

    Wednesday, February 13
    4:00 – 6:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC 227
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Mentors and Tormentors: Ethical Issues in Faculty Conduct

    Friday, February 15
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    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.
  • 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
    4:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    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.

January 2008

  • MGH Ethics Forum — Ethics, Disparities and Cross-Cultural Care: Identifying and Addressing Key Challenges

    Friday, January 11
    12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Massachusetts General Hospital
    Yawkey 2-210
    55 Fruit Street, Boston

    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.
  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine – Industry Sponsorship of Continuing Medical Education

    Friday, January 18
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Minot Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    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.
  • 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
    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

    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.