Program for Humanities in Medicine
Thursday, September 22 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)
The History and Future of Harm Reduction
Maia Szalavitz
Author, Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction; Contributing Opinion Writer, New York Times
Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Yale School of Medicine;
Medical Director, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Moderator: Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH
Writer in Residence, Yale University School of Medicine
Wednesday, November 30 (5:00 – 6:30 pm)
The Morris Dillard Lecture
Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools: A Roundtable Discussion
Christopher D.E. Willoughby, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and Health, Pitzer College; Author, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
Panelists:
Liana DeMarco, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow, History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Sean Smith, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow, History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Nientara Anderson, MD
Psychiatry resident, Yale Department of Psychiatry
Chinye Ijeli
Medical student, Yale School of Medicine
Moderators: John Warner, PhD and Anna Reisman, MD
Stay tuned for details about the location of the lecture and how to register.
Program for Biomedical Ethics
All seminars are 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm via Zoom unless otherwise indicated.
Tuesday, September 6
Bioethical Aspects of Abortion and Abortion Law
I. Glenn Cohen, JD
James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Deputy Dean; Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Jennifer A. Herdt, MA, PhD
Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale University Divinity School
Sarah Hull, MD, MBE
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine
Katherine Kratschel, JD
Lecturer in Law, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School;
Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale University
Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA
Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics and Yale Pediatric Ethics Program, Yale School of Medicine
REGISTRATION LINK
Wednesday, September 28
Are we Measuring the Right Outcomes after Preterm Births?
Hosted jointly with the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program.
Annie Janvier, MD, PhD
Professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Ethics, University of Montreal; Neonatologist, Clinical Ethicist and Researcher, CHU Sainte-Justine
Thuy Mai Luu, MD, MSc
Head, Research Axis - Fetomaternal and Neonatal Pathologies, CHU Sainte-Justine; Pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine;Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal
Rebecca Pearce, MS
Parent Partner, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada; High School Vice Principal, Villa Maria High School; Pursuing a PhD in Science and Mathematics Education Research Group of the Faculty of Education at McGill University;Chair, Family Advisory Committee for the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation
Thursday, October 6
Mistrust and Misinformation in Medicine—Causes and Consequences
Hosted jointly with the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program.
Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medical College; Contributor, The New Yorker; Director of Policy Dissemination, Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership
Wednesday, October 19
Pandemics, Politics, and Medical Ethics
Scott Rivkees, MD, Professor of Practice; Vice Chair, Health Services, Policy and Practice,
Brown School of Public Health; Former State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health of Florida
This link has details about Program for Biomedical Ethics events scheduled for November and December.