2008-09
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar Series
2008-2009
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)
Robert M. Veatch, PhD, Professor of Medical Ethics and former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.
May 15 – Patients without Surrogates
David B. Clarke, DMin, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Decisions.
