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FACULTY SEMINAR

Decision Making for Incompetent / Vulnerable Patients

  • September 19 – Defining and Determining Competence
    Paul Appelbaum, MD, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine & Law, and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University.
  • October 17 – Vulnerable Groups
    Dan Brock, PhD, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Director, Division of Medical Ethics, HMS.
  • November 21 – Newborns and Infants
    Sadath Sayeed, JD, MD, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS, and Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital.
  • January 16 – Adolescents
    Edwin N. Forman, MD, Alan G. Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School, and Director, Pediatric Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program, Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
  • February 13 – Adults with Dementia
    Joanne Lynn, MD, Bureau Chief, Chronic Disease and Cancer, Department of Health, Washington, DC.
  • March 20 – Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
    Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS, and Assistant Director, Forensic Fellowship Program, Law & Psychiatry Service, MGH.
  • April 17 – Patients with Extreme Religious Beliefs (and their children)
    TBA
  • May 15 – Patients without Surrogates
    TBA
  • Faculty Seminar Series 2007-2008