Calendar of Events
March 31, 2008
17th Annual LHAS Medical Ethics Update 2008
25th Annual Messer Lecture -
“How Financial Conflicts of Interest Endanger Our Profession”
Keynote Speaker: Jerome P. Kassirer, MD
Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine
Keynote address 9:00 a.m. Scaife Hall – Auditorium #5
Go to http://ccehs.upmc.edu for further information
April 17, 2008
Annual Donald N. Medearis Lecture
Visiting Professor – Department of Pediatrics and
Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Department of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle)
“Ashley Revisited: Reflections of Clinical Ethics”
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Auditorium
April 17, 2008
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Making Medical Decisions for Children: Is the Best Interest Standard Really Best?
12:00-1:00 p.m.
113 School of Law
2008 Anne C. Sonis Memorial Lecture
“Health Care: Solutions Without Borders”
Karen Davis, PhD
President, The Commonwealth Fund
12:00 Noon
S120 Biomedical Science Tower (BST)
Reception to follow in Room S100A (BST)
May 13-14, 2008
Sixth Annual Meeting
Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium
Carnegie Museum of Art
“Seeing, Making, Healing:
Art, the Arts and Creativity in Medicine and the Medical Humanities”
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Welcoming Remarks Introduction of the Exhibit
Douglas Fogle, Curator
Carnegie International 2008
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Hors d’oeuvres reception and tours of exhibit
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
(10:15-11:30 a.m. – Concurrent Session I)
Employing Visual Design to Support an Ethical Decision Making Process Regarding High Risk Clinical Trials in Pediatric Oncology
Michael Schmidt
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
University of Memphis
You: the Empowered Patient
Kimberly R. Myers, PhD
Penn State College of Medicine
Penn State University
The Art of Tracking and The Art of Medicine: Learning to See and Connect
Charles Perakis, DO
Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency
11:45-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Art and Socio-Cultural Agency: New Relationships Between the Museum and Society
Jessica Gogan
Assistant Director for Education and Interpretation
The Andy Warhol Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum at Niteroi, Brazil
1:15-2:30 p.m. (Concurrent Session II)
Nano-Narratives: Teaching Undergraduate Ethics with 55 Word Stories
Janet Grover
Mt. Aloysius College
The Language of Pain
David Biro, MD, PhD
SUNY Health Science Center
Teaching Medicine and Literature: Interdisciplinary Studies and Monsters
Panel: Sylvia Pamboukian, PhD, Robert Morris University; Laura Polanec, University of Pittsburgh;
Jennifer Beno, Robert Morris University; Rebecca May, Carnegie Mellon University
2:45-4:15 p.m. (Concurrent Session III)
Bodies as Evidence: Photography and Injury in the History Survey
Ed Slavishak
Susquehanna University
Excavating the Text through Visual Images: Un-Covering Identity in the Film “Elephant Man”
Emily S. Passow, PhD
Drexel University
Physicians’ Response to “Wit”
Panel: Aimee Biller, David Orenstein, Janet Squires, Jennifer Yang
University of Pittsburgh
4:15-5:00 p.m.
Tea and Planning Meeting
For further information please contact Janet Malis at jem11@pitt.edu or call
412-647-5700.
If you have any items you wish to have
included in the calendar, including national or regional bioethics
conferences, please contact Beth Ann Pischke at 412-648-7120.
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