2009 Events Archive
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The Changing Health Care Landscape and What We Can Do in Response to a Challenging Environment
Wednesday, October 7
James Roosevelt Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Tufts Health Plan. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lahey Clinic
Main Auditorium
41 Mall Road, Burlington -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Reforming the Health System: Politics, Policy, And Ethics
Friday, October 16
John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, Peggy Y. Thomson Professor (Chair) for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences; Professor of Community and Family Medicine (Epidemiology) and of Medicine; and Founder and Director Emeritus, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School. 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 — Consequences of Unprofessional Behavior in Trainees
Monday, October 19
Maxine Papadakis, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, University of California San Francisco. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Grand Rounds. For information, please contact Nicole Santangelo.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Smith Family Room, Dana 1620
44 Binney Street, Boston -
The Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities — Cultural Competence: Poetry and the Importance of Voice in the Experience of Illness
Tuesday, October 20
Rafael Campo, MA, MD, DLitt (Hon), Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS, and Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs; Director, Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 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
Large Anesthesia Conference Room
Level L-1 of CWN (Center for Women and Newborns) building at BWH -
The Imperative to Act Against Poverty: A Conversation with Peter Singer and Richard Stearns
Thursday, October 22
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University and Author, The Life You Can Save, and Richard Stearns, President, World Vision, and Author, The Hole in Our Gospel. Moderated by Aviva Argote, Executive Director, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Hosted by The Hauser Center for Nonprofits Organizations at Harvard University and Harvard Book Store. Free and open to the public; tickets are not required. Space is available for journalists who RSVP in advance. Please contact Laura Blank.
4:00 – 5:30 PM
First Parish Church
3 Church Street, Cambridge
(corner of Mass Ave and Church St)
For more information,
http://hausercenter.org/iha/archives/138
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2388 -
BWH Center for Bioethics Rounds — Is It Always Wrong to Perform Futile CPR?
Thursday, October 29
Robert D. Truog, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics & Anaesthesia (Pediatrics); Director of Clinical Ethics, Division of Medical Ethics, HMS; Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism & Ethical Practice; and Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston. 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
Bornstein Auditorium
45 Francis Street, Boston -
Ethical Issues at the Interface of Medicine and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Wednesday, September 16
Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, Professor of Law and Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, HSPH. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lahey Clinic
Main Auditorium
41 Mall Road, Burlington -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Reforming the Health System: Politics, Policy, And Ethics
Friday, September 18
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect, columnist, and author, Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency. 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 -
Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series — The Ethical Conundrum of Incidental Findings in Clinical & Translational Research
Monday, June 1
Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Hospital Ethicist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Attendance at this session is eligible for 1 hour of Risk Management CME credit. For more information, Michelle Wright.
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Simches Research Building
Simches Auditorium, 3rd Floor
185 Cambridge Street, Boston -
Harvard Bioethics Course
Wednesday – Friday, June 17 – 19
The Harvard Bioethics Course is a non-credit 3 day program of lectures and seminars for health professionals and others interested in continuing education about clinical ethics. It 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 who are experts published in the specialty areas in which they teach, including bioethics, moral philosophy, medicine and health care. Register here.
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Patients without Surrogates
Friday, May 15
David B. Clarke, DMin, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Decisions. 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 -
DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds — Difficult Conversations in Oncology: a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Monday, May 18
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, RN, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 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 -
How to Do Things with People who Aren’t: The Moral Responsibility of the Author
Thursday, April 16
Alexander McCall Smith, Novelist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law, University of Edinburgh. THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE STARTING THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009. Tickets are free and can be obtained in person at the Harvard Box Office at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue or by calling 617.496.2222 (there is a nominal fee for tickets obtained by phone). There is a ticket limit of 1 per person. Tickets are valid until 4:15pm on the day of the lecture; ticket holders should claim their seats by that time. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series. For information please visit www.ethics.harvard.edu or 617-495-1336.
4:30 PM
Sackler Museum Auditorium
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Patients with Extreme Religious Beliefs (and their children)
Friday, April 17
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. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Countway Library
Minot Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health 4th Annual International Conference — Ethical Issues in the Prioritization of Health Resources
Thursday, April 23 – Friday, April 24
This year’s conference will address ethical issues in priority-setting in health care. The conference will begin with three detailed case studies drawn from recent experiences in developed and developing countries. Subsequent speakers will identify ethical issues arising in these and other priority-setting dilemmas and will explore possible resolutions. Speakers will include health officials, health policy analysts, physicians, economists, philosophers, and lawyers. No fee. Registration required. Information and registration.
8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
The Inn at Longwood Medical
Longwood Hall
342 Longwood Avenue, Boston -
The 2009 Ackerman Symposium on Medicine & Culture — Medical Industry, Medical Education
Thursday, April 30
Please visit ackerman.harvard.edu for details. 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).
1:00 – 6:00 PM
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Amphitheater – Ground Floor
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston -
DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds — The Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Best Supportive Care Studies in Oncology
Monday, March 9
Nathan I. Cherny, MBBS, FRACP, FRCP, Norman Levan Chair of Humanistic Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director, Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. 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 -
The 2009 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics — Health Care Now?
Tuesday, March 10
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.
4:00 PM
***NEW LOCATION***
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
at Harvard Medical School (New Research Building)
Amphitheater, Ground Floor
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston -
Stem Cell Research, IVF and the Culture Wars: Medical Ethics and the Catholic Voice in American Politics
Wednesday, March 11
John Patrick Whelan, MD, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics, HMS, and Pediatric Rheumatologist, MGH. Co-sponsored by the BWH Center for Bioethics, the Division of Reproductive Medicine, the Division of Genetics and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Pre-register here. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions, 617-732-8590.
12:00 – 1:15 PM
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Room 350, Third Floor
77 Ave Louis Pasteur, Boston -
MGH Ethics Forum — Ask “Dr. Manners:” Etiquette and Ethics: Can you have one without the other?
Friday, March 13
Panelists: Michael W. Kahn, MD; Donna Lawson, RN; and Katherine Treadway, MD. Moderator: Alex Cist, MD. For information, Alex Cist.
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 — Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
Friday, March 20
Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS, and Assistant Director, Forensic Fellowship Program, Law & Psychiatry Service, 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 -
Conceiving the Pill: Modern Contraception in Historical Perspective
Thursday, March 26
This program will place the history of contraceptive technology over the past half-century in its social, pharmaceutical and global health contexts. Panel speakers include, Margaret Marsh, PhD, Interim Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden; Wanda Ronner, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, PhD, Professor, Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, History of Health Sciences Program, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UCSF; and George Zeidenstein, Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Center for Population and Development Studies, HSPH. The program is open to all, but space is limited. RSVP to ARM@hms.harvard.edu. Additional information and a downloadable flyer for posting are available here. Sponsored by The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library of Medicine.
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Countway Library
Minot Room, 5th Floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston -
Health Insurance in Nicaragua: A Randomized Evaluation of Enrollment and Effects of Insurance
Monday, February 2
Rebecca Thornton, PhD, University of Michigan. Program on the Global Demography of Aging Spring 2009 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 -
Access to HPV Vaccines: Human Rights and Global Health
Saturday, February 7
Sponsored by Boston University School of Law and Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society, Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society. For more information, ajlmsymposium@gmail.com.
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Adults with Dementia
Friday, February 13
Joanne Lynn, MD, Bureau Chief, Chronic Disease and Cancer, Department of Health, Washington, DC. 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 -
Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care
Friday, February 27
Dan Brock, Professor, HMS and Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health; I. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School and The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics; and Holly Fernandez Lynch, Hogan & Hartson Washington DC, former Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow and Author of Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise, MIT Press 2008. Sponsored by The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. For information, The Petrie-Flom Center.
3:00 PM
Harvard Law School
Pound Hall, Room 334
1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge -
Why Transparency is an Ethical Imperative
Wednesday, January 14
Paul F. Levy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lahey Clinic
Main Auditorium
41 Mall Road, Burlington -
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients — Adolescents
Friday, January 16
Edwin N. Forman, MD, Alan G. Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School, and Director, Pediatric Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program, Hasbro Children’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 — Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support: Must Doctors Never Kill?
Tuesday, January 20
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 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
Anesthesia Conference Room (Level L-1 of the CWN building at BWH)
75 Francis Street, Boston -
DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds — Religious Refusals of Life-Saving Medical Intervention: Keeping Your Eye on the Ball
Monday, January 26
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Ethics, Seattle Children’s Hospital . 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