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February 2007
February 28, 2007
4:30 – 6:30 pm
Separability and the Principle of Personal Good
Weyma Lübbe, Chairwoman, Department of Philosophy, Leipzig University.
Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine
2nd Floor Conference Room
641 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. RSVP to (617) 432-5950, or email Ethics_Health@harvard.edu.
February 15, 2007
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Race, Gender, Science - Still Questions After All These Years
Anne Fausto-Sterling, PhD, Professor of Biology and Gender Studies, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Chair, Faculty Committee on Science & Technology Studies, Brown University. Introduction by Evelynn Hammonds, PhD, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard University. Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series.
Harvard University
Sherman-Fairchilds Room 102
7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering group and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.
March 2007
March 30, 2007
7:45 am – 5:00 pm
Professional Responsibility, Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Leadership in Clinical Ethics
A daylong conference designed to prepare practitioners to facilitate good patient care. This conference will provide health care and allied professionals with the tools to recognize the ethical content of care-giving situations and increase understanding of available strategies and resources to assist both in the decision-making process and resolution of problems.
Event page with schedule
Registration page
Murray Function Room, Yawkee Center, Boston College
Presented by Boston College’s Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics and the William F. Connell School of Nursing,
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals
March 29 - 30, 2007
Data Fabrication and Falsification: How to Avoid, Prevent, Detect and Report
Featuring: Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
How does the journal evaluate data integrity? When does photo manipulation become misconduct?
Case study and discussion of the University of Vermont case. Also panel discussions of institutional policies, whistleblower issues and data Integrity issues.
The Conference Center at Harvard Medical
Amphitheater - Ground Level
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston , MA 02115-5727
Co-Sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and several of the Harvard Teaching Hospitals.
March 22, 2007
4:00 pm
The Ethics of Transparency: German Citizenship and the Right Not to Know
Stefan Sperling, PhD, Anthropology Research Unit of the Life Sciences, Humbuldt University, Berlin
Harvard Medical School Osher Institute Landmark Building, Suite 221
401 Park Drive, Boston
For information: (617) 384-8550
March 19, 2007
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Re-Engineering Human Biology: What Should Be the Ethical and Legal Limits?
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan will moderate a debate between panelists Professor Ronald Dworkin, Professor Leon Kass, Professor Michael Sandel, and Judge Richard Posner on what should be the ethical and legal limits of the application of new biotechnologies that offer power to enhance human biology. Some questions to be debated are whether new technologies should be used only to cure disease, or also to enhance our muscles, minds, memories, and moods; does the growing ability to choose the sex and other traits of our children enlarge human freedom, or raise the specter of a new eugenics?
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School; The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health; and The Ethics and Public Policy Program of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. With financial support from The Cammann Fund.
Please contact petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu with any questions.
March 19, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Healing Presence: Creating A Culture That Promotes Spiritual Care
Dana-Farber Ethics Grand Rounds
Featuring Carol Taylor, RN, PhD, Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Smith Family Room (Dana 1620)
44 Binney Street, Boston
Sponsored by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
RSVP to steven_joffe@dfci.harvard.edu
March 16, 2007
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Problems That Just Won’t Go Away: Doctors in Danger
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar
Clair Mills, MD, Head of Public Health Department, Médecins Sans Frontières-Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu
March 16, 2007
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Research Subjects' Views of Post-Trial Obligations: Qualitative Results from the EPIC Study
(EPIC: Experience of Participants in Clinical Trials)
Bioethics Research In Progress Presentation Series
Neema T. Sofaer, PhD and Carrie Thiessen
Ballard Room, 5th floor, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
10 Shattuck St, Boston, MA
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics. RSVP to: ethics_health@harvard.edu or call: 617-432-5950
March 15, 2007
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Can Lawyers Produce the Rule of Law? Law-building Projects Abroad
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series
Robert Gordon, JD, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
Kennedy School of Government Starr Auditorium
79 JFK Street, Cambridge
For information, (617) 495-1336 or www.ethics.harvard.edu.
March 15, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Stress, Support, and Survival with Cancer
Andrea and Harvey Rosenthal Lecture
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Division of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
David Spiegel, MD, Jack, Lulu & Sam Willson Professor in the School of Medicine, Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
The Jimmy Fund Auditorium
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA
This lecture is sponsored by a generous gift from Andrea and Harvey Rosenthal, both of whom are dedicated to the advancement of learning and caring in providers.
For further Information or to RSVP contact: venus_watson@dfci.harvard.edu or 617-582-7859
March 14, 2007
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Reproductive Technology and the Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
Brigham and Women's Hospital Ethics Rounds
Dov Fox, PhD, MSc
Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford
Dov Fox received his BA from Harvard and MSc and DPhil in Political Theory from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His articles in the field of bioethics have appeared in peer-reviewed journals of politics, philosophy, and law. He has held fellowships with the President's Council on Bioethics and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
The Pathology Conference Room
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston
(This conference room is on the 3rd floor of the Amory building at BWH -- the Amory elevators are next to the main entrance of the hospital at 75 Francis Street.)
Co-sponsored by The BWH Center for Bioethics and the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
Contact Pamela Galowitz (pgalowitz@partners.org ) for more information.
March 8, 2007
4:00 pm
Animals: A Kantian View
Hilary Bok, PhD, Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory, Johns Hopkins University
Harvard Yard
305 Emerson Hall
25 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government, the Department of Philosophy, and the Division of Medical Ethics
Contact Camiliakumari_Wankaner@ksg.harvard.edu for information
March 6, 2007
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Do I Know You? Coping and Compassion in the Face of Deception
Schwartz Center Rounds
Schwartz Center Rounds are jointly sponsored by the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics. They are open to all Brigham and Women's hospital staff. For more information contact Pamela Galowitz (pgalowitz@partners.org).
March 1, 2007
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Bioinformatics Grand Rounds, Harvard Medical School
An Insurer's View of the World: Health Informatics and Personalized Medicine
Troyen Brennan, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Aetna Inc.
New Research Building
HIM Lecture Room
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
April 2007
April 26 and 27, 2007
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health 2nd Annual Conference
This conference seeks to clarify the issues at stake in debates over responsibility for health and to enlist the methods and theories from a number of disciplines in forging a coherent social response to the issues. No fee. Registration required. For information and to register: Responsibility for Health: Ethical Issues
Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, 77 Av. Louis Pasteur, Boston
April 13, 2007
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care Faculty Seminar
Left Holding the Bag? The Limits of Resuscitative Measures for a Child at Home"
Reservations are necessary to reserve lunch. Please RSVP to venus_watson@dfci.harvard.edu
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney Street - Boston MA
Smith Building, Room 308-309
April 9, 2007
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
From Discovery to Delivery: The Impact of University/Biotech Licensing Agreements on Access to Medicines in the Developing World (Panel discussion)
Each year, 10 million people die because they did not have access to existing medicines. The high price of patented medicines is a major contributor to this problem, especially the developing world. Universities, dedicated to the public good, research and patent many of the most needed medicines but license their patent rights in exchange for royalties to pharmaceutical companies that develop drugs and block access to low-cost generic alternatives in the developing world. Join noted scientists, university administrators, IP lawyers and public health experts in a discussion of how university licensing practices can be changed to promote greater global access to university-researched medicine.
Panelists include: Isaac Kohlberg, Associate Provost and Chief Technology Development Officer, Harvard University; Amy Kapczynski, Intellectual Property Lawyer and Founder of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines; William Rodriguez, Associate Director of International Operational Research, Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS; Liza Vertinsky, Associate, Wolf Greenfield & Sachs P.C. Moderated by: Talha Syed, Academic Fellow, the Petrie-Flom Center
Pound Hall, room 335, Harvard Law School
Sponsor: Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, in collaboration with Ethics Law and Biotechnology (ELaB), and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)
E-mail: kgoldstein@law.harvard.edu
April 9, 2007
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Improving Quality and Value for Medicare Beneficiaries
Seventh Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture in Health Policy.
Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute.
HMS New Research Building Amphitheater
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
April 4, 2007
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Humanitarian Obligations in Iraq: Challenges of Medical Relief in War
Claude Bruderlein, LLM, Director, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR), HSPH; Skip Burkle, MD, MPH, Former Minister of Health in Iraq for USAID, Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Professor, University of Hawaii School of Medicine; and Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH, Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Professor of the Practice of International Health, HSPH and Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS, moderator.
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge G3
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP to elyons@hhi.harvard.edu.
April 3, 2007
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Bridging the Implementation Gap: Why We Can't Wait
Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; and Chief, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge
For more information call (617) 495-2021 or panka_deo@harvard.edu
April 3, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A Story of Unrelenting Pain: Finding Meaning and Providing Comfort
Schwartz Center Rounds
Schwartz Center Rounds are jointly sponsored by the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics. They are open to all Brigham and Women's hospital staff. For more information contact Pamela Galowitz (pgalowitz@partners.org)
May 2007
May 31, 2007
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities: Sex Selection and Genetic Enhancement
David Heyd, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Fellow, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.
Bornstein Amphitheater
Brigham and Women's Hospital
45 Francis Street, Boston
Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Register for Wiese Lecture
For more information contact pgalowitz@partners.org
May 18, 2007
9:00 - 10:30 am
Bioethics Research in Progress
"The Ethics of Banking Leftover Newborn Spots"
Julie Richer, MD, Fellow in Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, Medical Genetics Resident, University of Manitoba
This talk will explore the conceptual similarities and differences between biobanking and the retention, storage & use for research of leftover newborn spots. Results of an empiric survey of the attitudes and perceptions of Canadian Medical Geneticists towards storage & research uses of leftover newborn spots will also be presented.
The Bioethics Research in Progress series provides a forum for faculty, fellows, and students interested in bioethics to present ongoing research and receive constructive feedback. We meet on the third Friday of each month from 9-10:30 AM. If you are interested in presenting your research in the future please email Lisa Lehmann: llehmann1@partners.org
Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library
Harvard Medical School
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA
Breakfast will be available.
Please RSVP: ethics_health@harvard.edu or call: 617-432-5950
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics
May 17, 2007
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Medical Ethics Forum – Insuring the Uninsured: Does Massachusetts Have the Right Model?
Michael Chin, MD, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority; Katherine Swartz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Health Policy and Management HSPH; and Marcia Angell, MD, Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, HMS, Editor-in-Chief, Emerita, New England Journal of Medicine, moderator.
Harvard Medical School, MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics.
RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
May 14, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Ethics of Getting Experimental Drugs off Protocol
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Grand Rounds
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Emanuel will focus on the issues raised by the Abigail Alliance, which is campaigning for a policy of access to experimental agents for life-threatening conditions before regulatory approval.
Dana 1620
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney St.
Boston, MA 02115
May 8, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Treatment Decisions for Incapacitated Patients: How Should They Be Made and Why?
Brigham and Women's Hospital Ethics Rounds
David Wendler, PhD
Head, Unit on Vulnerable Populations, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Nation Institutes of Health Clinical Center
2006-07 Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University
One Brigham Circle, Room 4-002B
1620 Tremont Street, Boston
Co-sponsored by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics and Division of Aging
May 7, 2007
The Ackerman Symposium and Lecture: Beating it into them? Beating it out of them?
MORAL VALES IN MEDICAL EDUCATION TODAY
Keynote Speaker: Thomas S. Inui, MD, President and CEO, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Sam Regenstrief Professor of Health Services Research, and Associate Dean for Health Care Research, Indiana University School of Medicine. Symposium will include 3 panels: 1) A case study of a program to enhance relational and communication skills; 2) Standardized Patients in Medical Education: Part of the Solution, or Part of the Problem? 3) "Competencies" and the Problem of Evaluation: Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts and Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted.
New Research Building
Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School
May 2, 2007
5:30 pm - -6:45 pm: Introduction and Film Screening
6:45 pm - 7:30 pm: Panel discussion and Q&A
Cultures in Collision: Islam and Western Medicine
A film screening of Hold Your Breath, a PBS documentary followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, physicians, and community representatives. Hold Your Breath reveals the complexities of cross-cultural communication in contemporary America through the dramatic journey of Mohammad Kochi, a refugee from Afghanistan who has been diagnosed with gastric cancer.
Harvard New Research Building Amphitheatre
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
Co-sponsored by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard Medical School, and Active Voice
June 2007
June 13, 14 and 15, 2007
The Annual Harvard Bioethics Course
This course, a combination of lectures and seminar discussions over three full days, although especially designed for members of clinical ethics committees, is open to others interested in ethical aspects of clinical practice including physicians, chaplains, health care administrators, nurses, social workers, therapists, psychologists, and hospital attorneys. Topics to include: Ethics Consultation; Research Ethics; Ethics in End-of-Life Care; Medical Futility; Moral Autonomy; Organizational Ethics in Health Care.
Registration required. For information and to register: http://medethics.med.harvard.edu/.
Harvard Medical School, MEC Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
September 2007
September 21, 2007
9:00 - 10:30 am
Bioethics Research in Progress
"Morally and legally valuing newborn life: a few enduring problems "
Sadath A. Sayeed, JD, MD, Instructor in Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
The Bioethics Research in Progress series provides a forum for faculty, fellows, and students interested in bioethics to present ongoing research and receive constructive feedback. We meet on the third Friday of each month from 9-10:30 AM. If you are interested in presenting your research in the future please email Lisa Lehmann: llehmann1@partners.org
Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library
Harvard Medical School
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA
Breakfast will be available.
Please RSVP: ethics_health@harvard.edu or call: 617-432-5950
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics
September 26, 2007
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health Presents:
Human Nature, Moral Status, and Enhancement
Allen Buchanan, Professor of Public Policy Studies and Philosophy, Duke University
651 Huntington Avenue - Francois Xavier Bagnoud Building
7th Floor Conference Room
Harvard School of Public Health
Sponsored by the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (http://peh.harvard.edu)
Refreshments will be provided.
RSVP: 617-432-5950 or ethics_health@harvard.edu
October 2007
October 2 & 3, 2007
The Stem Cell Summit
An integral part of this two-day program is our planned Ethics and Public Policy poster session (http://www.thestemcellsummit.com/pdf/PosterSession.pdf ) which is being organized by Alan Jakimo of Sidley Austin LLP.
Hynes Convention Center
Boylston Street, Boston
Sponsored by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the Genetics Policy Institute and Burrill Life Sciences Media Group
For more information: http://hsci.harvard.edu
October 11, 2007
4:30 pm
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series
"Intoxicated Consent to Sexual Relations"
John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Vermont; Senior Research Scholar, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
For more information visit www.ethics.harvard.edu
October 12-14, 2007
Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and Center for Palliative Care Present
Practical Aspects of Palliative Care: Integrating Palliative Care into Clinical Practice
Course directors: J. Andrew Billings, MD and Susan D. Block, MD
Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston
Cambridge, MA
For more information click title of program above.
October 30, 2007
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Face Transplantation: The Ethics of a New Therapeutic Frontier
Brigham and Women's Hospital Ethics Rounds
Panel: Bohdan Pomahac, MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, BWH
Elizabeth Hohmann, MD, Chair & Director, Partners IRBs
Lisa Lehmann, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Bioethics, BWH
Only three partial face transplants have been performed worldwide. Brigham and Women's Hospital recently became the second US hospital to announce plans to undertake this rare and hotly debated procedure. Our panel will explore the ethical and clinical implications of this decision and this procedure.
Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:45 am. Please register in advance (click here).
Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN L-1
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston
Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
For more information contact pgalowitz@partners.orgSeptember 2007
November 2007
November 8, 2007
4:30 pm
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series
"What Does Empirical Research on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?"
Professor Richard Holton, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
For more information visit www.ethics.harvard.edu
November 20, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
"Patient Advocacy and Public Policy: The Case of Newborn Screening"
Diane Paul, Visiting Scholar, The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health; Professor Emerita, University fo Massachusetts
641 Huntington Avenue, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Harvard Medical School
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
RSVP: (617) 432-5950 or ethics_health@harvard.edu
For more information: peh.harvard.edu
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