The Program for Biomedical Ethics has announced its schedule of evening seminars for the upcoming academic year. The Evening Seminar Series is open to the Yale community at no charge. Refreshments will be served; please RSVP to Karen.kolb@yale.edu or 203.737.5943.
Also announced were the dates for the Bioethics Journal Club, which is moderated by Lydia Dugdale and Thomas Duffy. This series is open to Yale faculty; see below for details.
Evening Seminar Series
September 12, 2013
Palliative Care for Infants and Young Children—Enhancing Quality of Life No Matter the Disease Trajectory
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Renee D. Boss MD MHS, Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Berman Institute of Bioethics
October 7, 2013
Medical Ethics Symposium: A Discussion of the New Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care near the End of Life
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
3:30 to 7:30 pm
Nancy Berlinger, PhD Research Scholar at The Hastings Center and teaches ethics at the Yale University School of Nursing. She directed the Hastings Center project that produced the revised and expanded second edition of the Guidelines.
Bruce Jennings, MA Director of Bioethics at the Center for Humans and Nature and teaches ethics at the Yale University School of Medicine. Elected Fellow of The Hastings Center and was a co-author of the first edition of the Guidelines in 1987.
Melissa Kurtz, MSN, MA PhD student at The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She was an intern on the Guidelines project while completing her MSN degree at Yale and was then an expert reviewer of portions of the manuscript.
November 20, 2013
Title: In Search of the True Self
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Joshua Knobe, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Yale University
December 5, 2013
Surgical 'Normalization' for Children Born with Ambiguous Genitalia: Controversies, Consensuses, and the Constant Cultural Conundrum
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Alice Dreger, PhD, Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
January 21, 2014
Ethical Issues, Dementia and Health Policy
Location: Beaumont Room
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Tia Powell, MD, Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics,Director, Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics; Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Division of Bioethics; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
February 25, 2014
TBA
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
March 27, 2014
Bioethics and the Law
Sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, Director, Health Law Institute, Associate Professor of Law, Hamline University School of Law
April 25, 2014
TBA
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
May 22, 2014
Five Faces of Autonomy
Sponsored by the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Rebecca Kukla, PhD, Professor, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Bioethics Journal Club
The Bioethics Journal Club will meet from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the dates listed below. All sessions will be held in the West Pavilion of Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, Room 201, except for the December 9 meeting, which will take place in the Max Taffel Room C & D.
- Sept 23, 2013
- Oct 28, 2013
- Dec 9, 2013
- Jan 6, 2014
- Feb 10, 2014
- Mar 10, 2014
- Apr 7, 2014
- May 12, 2014
A light dinner and refreshments will be served at all sessions. Please RSVP to Karen.kolb@yale.edu or 203.737.5943 so we can arrange the food accordingly.
About the Program for Biomedical Ethics
The Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine provides multidisciplinary leadership regarding the ethical and social aspects of health care and medical research.
Our interdisciplinary team draws upon philosophy, law and social and behavioral sciences to provide expert biomedical ethics consultations for families, researchers, physicians and other health care providers. Additionally, the Program for Biomedical Ethics develops and presents various ethics-related educational programs throughout the academic year for medical, nursing and physician assistant students, the community, Yale faculty as well as local, regional and national health care professionals.