Calendar of Events
February 7, 2008
Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds
“Caring for Organs or for Patients?
Ethical Concerns about the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006)”
Michael DeVita, MD
Professor of Critical Care and Internal Medicine
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Room 113 School of Law
February 28, 2008
Visiting Professor – Graduate School of Public Health
and the Center for Bioethics and Health Law
M. Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute
Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
“The Controversy Over Complicity of
Health Professionals in Abuse Post-9/11 Interrogation Tactics”
12:00-1:00 p.m.
GSPH – G23 Parran Hall
March 6, 2008
Visiting Professor – Department of Medicine and
Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health – Department of Clinical Bioethics
Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds
“The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources: A New View
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Room 113 School of Law
March 7, 2008
Tisherman Lecture – Medicine Grand Rounds
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health – Department of Clinical Bioethics
“Beyond Band Aids: Curing the Sick American Health Care System”
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
7th Floor – Montefiore Hospital – LHAS Auditorium
March 25, 2008
The Teaching of Ethics: An Open Discussion
Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education
Facilitator: Valier Swigart, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
12:00-1:30 p.m.
815 Alumni Hall
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
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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