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    April 2012

  • The 2012 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics: “New Health System – New Professionalism”

    Thursday, April 12
    4:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    MEC Amphitheater
    260 Longwood Avenue, Boston

    Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, Former President and CEO, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics.

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — “The Massachusetts Health Law: How Is It Working?”

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

    JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

  • The 2012 Ackerman Lecture on Medicine & Culture: “Who Is Responsible for the Culture of Medicine?”

    Tuesday, April 24
    4:00 – 6:00 PM
    Harvard University
    Radcliffe Gymnasium
    10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge

    David S. Jones, MD, PhD, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, HMS. RSVP to Meredith Bircher.

  • Non-Aryan Physicians in Nazi Germany and the United States

    Wednesday, April 25
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    Laurel Leff, MD, Associate Professor of Journalism School of Journalism, Northeastern University. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.

    • March 2012

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — “The ‘Morning After Pill’: Should It Be Sold to Adolescents Over-the-Counter?”

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

    Michael F. Greene, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, HMS, and Chief of Obstetrics, MGH. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

  • Is Medical Technology Overused?

    Wednesday, March 21
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    David Jones, MD, PhD, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.

    • February 2012

  • The Roger Allan Moore Lecture on Values and Medicine: Ethical, Religious, and Cultural Perspectives — “On Resentment and Ressentiment”

    Friday, February 3
    4:00 – 6:00 PM
    Harvard Medical School
    Gordon Hall, Waterhouse Room
    25 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Didier Fassin, MD, MPH, PhD. Sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. For information, contact Seth Hannah or 617-432-0715.

  • Clinical Trials: Is Corporate Sponsorship Compatible with Credibility?

    Thursday, February 16
    5:30 PM
    Harvard Law School
    Wasserstein Bldg., Room 2012
    1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

    Drummond Rennie, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series 2011-2012. Lectures are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available. Visit http://ethics.harvard.edu/ for details.

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — “Institutional Blindness to Unethical Faculty Behavior”

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

    Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School and Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

  • Practicing Medicine in the Age of Googling, Friending and Tweeting

    Wednesday, February 29
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    Benjamin C. Silverman, MD, Director of Psychopharmacology, McLean Center at Fernside, and Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.

    • January 2012

  • Bodies at Risk: Testing and Regulating Synthetic Chemicals in People

    Wednesday, January 18
    12:15 – 1:00 PM
    Lahey Clinic
    Main Auditorium
    41 Mall Road, Burlington

    Arthur A. Daemmrich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Lahey Medical Ethics Lecture Series. For information, www.lahey.org/ethics.

  • The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar — “Where Are All the Primary Care Physicians?”

    Friday, January 20
    12:30 – 2:00 PM
    Countway Library
    Ballard Room, 5th Floor
    10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Allan H. Goroll, MD, MACP, Professor of Medicine, HMS and Physician of the Medical Service, MGH. Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics. RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.