November 2009
November 3, 2009
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Schwartz Center Rounds at BWH
"The Voice of the Night Shift: Providing Care While the Hospital Sleeps"
Schwartz Rounds are a unique, multidisciplinary forum focused on optimizing compassionate patient care through an exploration of the human dimensions of health care.
Schwartz Rounds are organized by the BWH Center for Bioethics with the support of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center.
They are open to all hospital staff.
Lunch is served beginning at 11:45 am. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions (ext. 2-8590)
Anesthesia Conference Room (L-1 of CWN building)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
November 4, 2009
12:00 - 2:00 pm
"Taxing Choices: How to be a Liberal Egalitarian about Health Insurance"
Keith Hyams, Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Exeter, 2009 Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
Lunch will be available. Please RSVP: ethics_health@harvard.edu or call: 617-432-5950.
641 Huntington Avenue
1st floor conference room
Harvard Medical School
November 12, 2009
4:30 pm
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture, Harvard University
"From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg – How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts. What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?"
Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General, New York
This is a ticketed event.
Tickets are free and can be obtained in person at the Harvard Box Office at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets are also available by phone for a fee by calling 617.496.2222.
There is a ticket limit of 2 per person. Tickets are valid until 4:15pm on the day of the lecture; ticket holders should claim their seats by that time.
Emerson Hall 105
Harvard University
The public lecture series was established in the Center's first year through the generosity of philanthropist Obert J. Tanner. Lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
November 12, 2009
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Cabot Primary Care Lecture Series, David Eliot Memorial Lecture
"Will You Be My Doctor No Matter What Happens? A Case-Based Approach to Understanding Partnership and Nonabandonment"
Timothy Quill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also the Director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care and a Board certified palliative care consultant in Rochester, NY
Sponsored by the Primary Care Division in collaboration with The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care and The John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
Reception will start at 6:00 pm outside of the Cannon Room located on the 1st floor of Building C, room 116. Lecture will start at 7:00 pm in the Cannon Room. All medical students, residents and faculty are cordially invited.
PLEASE RSVP: chanelle_mars@hphc.org or (617) 509-9987
Harvard Medical School
Cannon Room, Building C, Room116
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
November 18, 2009
12:30-2:00 PM
Bioethics Research in Progress
“Making Funding Decisions for High-Cost Cancer Care: The Case of Herceptin in New Zealand”
Elizabeth Fenton, PhD, Fellow, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
The Bioethics Research in Progress series is a monthly forum for faculty, fellows, and students interested in bioethics to present ongoing research and receive constructive feedback.
Sponsored by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics and the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
Lunch will be available. Please RSVP: pgalowitz@partners.org or call: 617-732-8590.
Harvard Medical School
Countway Library – Ballard Room – 5th floor
25 Shattuck Street, Boston
October 2009
October 6, 2009
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Schwartz Center Rounds at BWH
"The Unexpected Journey to Heart Transplantation: One Young Patient's Story"
Schwartz Rounds are a unique, multidisciplinary forum focused on optimizing compassionate patient care through an exploration of the human dimensions of health care.
Schwartz Rounds are organized by the BWH Center for Bioethics with the support of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center.
They are open to all hospital staff.
Lunch is served beginning at 11:45 am. Contact Pamela Galowitz with questions (ext. 2-8590)
Anesthesia Conference Room (L-1 of CWN building)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
October 8, 2009
4:30 pm
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture, Harvard University
"Institutional Corruption"
Lawrence Lessig, Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics; Professor, Harvard Law School
This public lecture series was established in the Center's first year through the generosity of philanthropist Obert J. Tanner. Lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Starr Auditorium
Harvard Kennedy School
October 20, 2009
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities
"Cultural Competence: Poetry and the Importance of Voice in the Experience of Illness"
Rafael Campo, MA, MD, DLitt (Hon), Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Director, Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sponsored by the BWH Center for Bioethics. Contact Pamela Galowitz for more information.
Large Anesthesia Conference Room
Level L-1 of CWN (Center for Women and Newborns) building
Brigham and Women's Hospital
October 21, 2009
12:30-2:00 PM
Bioethics Research in Progress
“When Disclosure Fails: An Empirical Investigation of Unbiased Advice as The Key to Patient Protection”
Christopher Robertson, Academic Fellow and Lecturer on Law. Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
The Bioethics Research in Progress series is a monthly forum for faculty, fellows, and students interested in bioethics to present ongoing research and receive constructive feedback.
Sponsored by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics and the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
Lunch will be available. Please RSVP: pgalowitz@partners.org or call: 617-732-8590.
Harvard Medical School
Countway Library – Ballard Room – 5th floor
25 Shattuck Street, Boston
October 27, 2009,
5:00 pm
Rashi Fein on A Century of Debate
"Historical Perspectives on Universal Health Care"
Rashi Fein, Professor of Economics of Medicine, Emeritus, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical Schhol and author of Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy and (with Julius Richmond MD) The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out
Sponsored by the HMS Center for the History of Medicine
Refreshments (pizza) will be available. All are welcome. Please register at ARM@hms.harvard.edu
Minot Room (5th floor)
Countway Library of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
October 29, 2009
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Center for Bioethics Grand Rounds
"Is It Always Wrong to Perform Futile CPR?"
Robert D. Truog, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics & Anaesthesia (Pediatrics), Director of Clinical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism & Ethical Practice, Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Sponsored by the BWH Center for Bioethics. Contact Pamela Galowitz for more information.
Bornstein Amphitheater
45 Francis Street
Brigham and Women's Hospital
October 29, 2009
4:30 pm
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Public Lecture
"The Entanglement of Scholars in the Global Tobacco Epidemic"
Robert Proctor, Professor of the History of Science, Stanford University
The public lecture series was established in the Center's first year through the generosity of philanthropist Obert J. Tanner. Lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Starr Auditorium
Harvard Kennedy School
June 2009
June 17, 18, 19, 2009
Harvard Bioethics Course
This 3 day course is designed for members of ethics committees and others interested in ethical aspects of clinical practice, including ethics consultants, physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, health care administrators, respiratory and other therapists, patients’ rights officers and representatives, psychologists, risk managers, moral philosophers, hospital attorneys and trustees.
The combination of lectures, case discussions and panels cover core information about ethical theories, principles, and methods, key bioethics cases from US courts, evolving standards for ethics consultation, and areas of clinical ethical controversy and consensus.
Faculty for the course are drawn from the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and from the Harvard-affiliated hospitals and institutions who are experts published in the specialty areas in which they teach, including bioethics, moral philosophy, medicine and health care. Please feel free to forward this announcement to others who may be intrested.
Harvard Medical School
MEC Amphitheater, 2nd floor
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
REGISTER HERE:
http://medethics.med.harvard.edu/education/bioethics/registration/
May 2009
May 18, 2009
12:00 - 1:00 pm
DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds
"Difficult Conversations in Oncology: a Cross-Cultural Perspective"
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, RN, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Smith Family Room, Dana 1620
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lunch will be served at 11:45; Rounds will begin at noon
Risk Management CME credits will be provided
Contact: Steven Joffe, MD, MPH with questions
May 20, 2009
12:30 – 1:30 pm
"The FDA and the Declaration of Helsinki: Which Principles Should Govern Experiments with Human Subjects?"
Dr. Robert Temple, Director of the Office of Medical Policy of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Acting Director of the Office of Drug Evaluation
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health - Kresge 502
Open to all. Refreshments provided. Please RSVP.
April 2009
April 23 - 24, 2009
The Fourth Annual International Bioethics Conference
Ethical Issues in Prioritization of Health Resources
Harvard Medical School
The Inn at Longwood Medical
Longwood Hall, 342 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Registration required – No fee – Space limited.
April 30, 2009
1:00 - 6:00 PM
The 2009 Ackerman Symposium on Medicine & Culture
“Medical Industry, Medical Education”
The 2009 Ackerman Symposium on Medicine & Culture gathers together national leaders from academic medicine, industry, CME programs, and professional organizations to investigate the historical roots and current structure of industrial support of continuing medical education.
The goal of this half-day symposium is to produce a productive conversation among the many stakeholders involved and attempt to map possible paths forward. As on-going physician education remains fundamental to the vitality of the medical profession, this subject is of vital importance to all concerned with the state of contemporary medical education and practice.
For program details and registration, please visit www.ackerman.harvard.edu
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School Amphitheater, Ground Floor
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
This symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Sponsored by:
Division of Medical Ethics (HMS)
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (HMS)
Program in Ethics and Health (HU)
Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society (MEDSOC)
March 2009
March 9, 2009
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Grand Rounds
"The Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Best Supportive Care Studies in Oncology"
Nathan I. Cherny, MBBS, FRACP, FRCP, Norman Levan Chair of Humanistic Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Smith Family Room, Dana 1620
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lunch will be served at 11:45; Rounds will begin at noon
Risk Management CME credits will be provided
Contact: Steven Joffe, MD, MPH
March 10, 2009
4:00 pm
The 2009 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics
"Health Care Now?"
Paul R. Krugman, PhD, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Harvard Medical School
Armenise Building, D Amphitheater
210 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
For more information, 617-432-2570.
RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.
March 11, 2009
12 – 1:15 pm
Stem Cell Research, IVF and the Culture Wars: Medical Ethics and the Catholic Voice in American Politics
John Patrick Whelan, MD, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Pediatric Rheumatologist, Mass General Hospital
Lunch will be served (please RSVP to pgalowitz@partners.org)
New Research Building, room 350 (3rd floor)
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School (also called the New Research Building)
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
The Stem Cell Program Ethics Conference is a gathering of researchers and clinicians involved in stem cell research that encourages open conversation and reflection on the ethics of stem cell research. It is co-sponsored by the BWH Center for Bioethics, the Division of Reproductive Medicine, the Division of Genetics and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
March 12, 2009
12:00 - 1:00pm
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care presents
The Annual Andrea and Harvey Rosenthal Lecture in Palliative Care
“What Does Person-Centered Care Mean?”
Eric J. Cassell, MD, Clinical Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Smith Family Room, Dana Building, D1620
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA
Lunch will be provided.
Please RSVP to Venus Watson: 617-582-7859 or e-mail: venus_watson@dfci.harvard.edu
March 13, 2009
12:00 - 1:00 pm
MGH Ethics Forum
Ask "Dr. Manners:" Etiquette and Ethics: Can you have one without the other?
Panelists: Michael W. Kahn, MD; Donna Lawson, RN; and Katherine Treadway, MD
Moderator: Alex Cist, MD
ARTICLE ATTACHMENT: Michael W. Kahn, "Etiquette Based Medicine" N Engl J Med 358:19 May 8, 2008. www.nejm.org
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sweet Room: Gray-Bigelow 4th floor
Contact: acist@partners.org
March 13-14, 2009
Bioethics: The New Issues - New Technology, New Ideas, New Challenges
Conference sponsored by the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
Hosted this year at Harvard University by the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society.
The National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (NUBC) is an annual event bringing together students and speakers from across the country. It is a celebration of undergraduate research and an opportunity to introduce a new generation of students to the field of bioethics. Planned and organized completely by students, this two-day event covers issues of current interest within the field of bioethics with discussions led by experts invited by the hosting students.
Open to the Public. For full information visit: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/bioethics/nubc2009.html
March 18, 2009
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Bioethics Research in Progress Seminar
Soko Setoguchi, MD
"Cardiovascular Disease and End of Life Care"
Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
Ballard Room – 5th floor
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 Wednesday of each month. If you are interested in presenting your research in the future please email Lisa Lehmann: llehmann1@partners.org
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics
March 24, 2009
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health presents: An Informal Discussion with WHO Official on Organ-selling
Luc Noel, MD, Coordinator of Clinical Procedures at the World Health Organization; and Frank Delmonico, MD, Professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School, Emeritus professor of renal transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical Director, New England Organ Bank
Countway Library, Ballard Room, 5th floor
Harvard Medical School, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA
Please RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu
February 2009
February 25, 2009
12:30 – 2 pm
Bioethics Research in Progress Seminar
Michael Nurok, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
“Truth Telling in the Perioperative Setting”
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 Wednesday of each month. If you are interested in presenting your research in the future please email Lisa Lehmann: llehmann1@partners.org
Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
Ballard Room – 5th floor
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics
February 27, 2009
7:30 am – 4:30 pm
6th Annual Interdisciplinary Ethics Resource Program
This day-long program is designed to teach nurses and other healthcare providers how to identify, better understand and begin to resolve ethical problems that arise in the course of patient care. Participants will learn from ethics leaders through large group presentations and case-based breakout groups. Topics will include the identification of key ethical principles, strategies for resolving ethical dilemmas and a review of institutional ethics resources.
Clinicians of all disciplines are welcome and encouraged to attend.
This program is free and open only to clinicians from MGH, DFCI, BWH, & Boston College.
Lunch will be provided.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Bornstein Family Amphitheater, 75 Francis Street, Boston
(click for program and registration information)
January 2009
January 20, 2009
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Bioethics Rounds
Tuesday, January 20
12:00 – 1:00 pm
"Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support: Must Doctors Never Kill?"
Dan W. Brock, PhD, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
Anesthesia Conference Room, Level L-1 of the CWN building at BWH
Lunch will be served beginning at 11:45.
Please pre-register for this event.
Sponsored by the BWH Center for Bioethics.
January 21, 2009
12:30-2:00 PM
Bioethics Research in Progress
"Creating New Life After Death: Assisted Reproduction in Civilian and Military Context"
Shirley Shalev, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Division of Medical Ethics, 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 Wednesday of each month from 12:30-2:00 PM. If you are interested in presenting your research in the future please email Lisa Lehmann: llehmann1@partners.org
Sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics
Ballard Room, 5th floor of the Countway Library of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Please RSVP: ethics_health@harvard.edu or call: 617-432-5950
Lunch will be available.
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