2010 Webinar Event
for Fertility Clinics, Adoption Agencies and Attorneys

Health Law in the Domain of Health Care Ethics
REGISTER ON-LINE: http://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=ETHI31E&OID

Our March 6, 2010 ethics symposium will explore relationships between medical and legal ethics in the context of healthcare. The format of our day-long symposium involves both large group plenary sessions and small-group workshops. The venue is the San Ramon Valley Conference Center in San Ramon, California.  Our conference aims to foster moral community and collegiality, and to promote understanding of clinical ethics in the service of humane patient care.

Continuing education units are offered to physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, chaplains and pastors.  Visit the Registration Site and consult the attached flyers for more information about continuing education units and the Symposium. If the link does not work, copy it and paste it into your internet browser.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

R. Alta Charo, J.D., is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, where she is appointed to the law and medical school faculties.  She will speak on Ethics and Epigenetics.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Kate Scannell, MD, FACP, Director, KP Northern California, TPMG Department of Medical Ethics will open the Symposium, welcoming guests and presenting The Year in Bioethics.

Elizabeth Pendo, JD, BA, is a Professor of Law at St. Louis University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri.  The title of Professor Pendo’s presentation is Caring for Patients with Disabilities.

Kelly Dineen, JD, RN, is Assistant Academic Dean and Instructor of Law at St. Louis University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri.   The title of her talk is Moral Disengagement in the Undertreatment of Pain.

Jennifer S Bard, JD, is a Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law and a returning symposium speaker. Professor Bard will address the Symposium about the topic of Medical Futility.

Event: Harvard Bioethics Course
June 16-18, 2010

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA.

This three 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, human rights officers and patient 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.

Contact Information: 617-432-2570 dme@hms.harvard.edu

Registration is now open for the 6th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Art of Ethics in Portland, Oregon, USA.

May 11-14,  2010. 

Portland Art Museum.

The theme for the 2010 conference is “the art of ethics,” to reflect the reality that clinical ethics consultation, like clinical practice, is both an art and a science. It also reflects the principle venue for the Conference: the Portland Art Museum.

www.ethics2010.org

 Click on “Program” to see the accepted abstracts, and don’t miss the travel and registration discounts available.

ethics@providence.org
www.providence.org/ethics

Please join the Center for American Progress for a special presentation:

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics

January 7, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Admission is free.

RSVP to attend this event

Featured panelists:

Sam Berger, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; Co-Editor, Progress in Bioethics
Michael Tomasky, Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Clay Risen, Managing Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Kathryn Hinsch, Founder and Board President, Women’s Bioethics Project; Contributor Progress in Bioethics
Marcy Darnovsky, Associate Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society; Contributor Progress in Bioethics

Moderated by:

Jonathan Moreno, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Editor-In-Chief, Science Progress, Co-Editor, Progress in Bioethics

President Obama pledged in his inaugural address to “restore science to its rightful place.” He followed this up with a presidential memorandum of scientific integrity to accompany his executive order restoring funding for embryonic stem cell research. On November 24, another executive order established the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and just days ago, the NIH announced the approval of 13 new human embryonic stem cell lines for federally funded research.

After more than a decade of conservatives’ dominance of public bioethical debate, progressive bioethics is finally in ascendance. Editors Joanthan Moreno and Sam Berger map this new landscape with Progress in Bioethics, an anthology featuring contributions from progressive and nonprogressive bioethicists alike. They tackle substantive policy issues such as stem cell research, conscience clauses, and health care reform. More generally, they discuss the meaning of progressive bioethics, its place in the political arena, its stance toward biotechnology, and its interplay with religion. And most importantly, they seek to apply the fundamental progressive values of social justice, critical optimism, and practical problem solving—values that are needed now more than ever to restore ideological balance to the politics and policy of the life sciences.

Please join CAP and Democracy: a Journal of Ideas for a lively panel discussion led by Jonathan Moreno, Senior Fellow at CAP, Editor-In-Chief of Science Progress, and co-editor of Progress in Bioethics.

January 7, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Space is extremely limited. RSVP required.
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed.

Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.

Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Map & Directions

Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center

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For more information, call 202-682-1611.

Health Care Ethics in the 21st Century

Providence Health Care’s 2nd Annual Health Ethics Seminar

Conference Centre, 2nd Floor, 1190 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC

April 19 to April 22, 2010

Providence Health Care Ethics Services is offering their second annual
Health Ethics Seminar April 19 to April 22, 2010. Titled “Health Care
Ethics in the 21st Century”, this intensive four day course offered by
leaders in bioethics, law and medicine has been designed to help
clinicians as well as leaders identify and resolve ethical issues
arising in the clinical and organizational contexts of healthcare.

Participants will join an expert faculty to explore the following topics:
• Introduction to Bioethics
• Ethics, Law and Morality
• Organizational Ethics
• Resource Allocation & Public Policy
• Medical Decision Making
• Cultural Diversity in Health Care
• End-of-Life Care
• Moral Distress
• Ethics Consultation
• Professional Ethics

Please click on the link to download a program and a registration form:
http://www.providencehealthcare.org/ethics%5Fservices/health-ethics-seminars.html
Or email June at: jmonthatawil@providencehealth.bc.ca or call 604-806-9952.

On April 29-30, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, MO will be hosting a symposium on Pediatric Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine.  A full afternoon session will be dedicated to presentations and discussions revolving around the Ethical Issues related to developing infrastructure for a pediatric personalized medicine program.  Topics include Ethical and Legal Barriers to Pediatric Bio-banking Initiatives, Critical Issues of Consent, Assent, and Distributive Justice in Pediatrics, Ethical Implications of Pediatric Genomics from a Regulatory Perspective, Pediatric Implications for Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomics, and Challenges Facing Implementation of Personalized Medicine from a Japanese perspective.  Speakers include Skip Nelson, John Lantos, and Kyle Brothers.  For more information, please contact Mrs. Melonie Clifton at 816-234-3059 or mclifton@cmh.edu.

International Conference on Bioethics Education: “Contents, Methods, Trends”, Zefat, Israel (May 2-5, 2010)

The Conference is designed to offer a PLATFORM for the exchange of information and knowledge and to hold discussions, lectures, workshops and an exhibition of program and databases.]

The Main Conference Topics:

• Bioethics Education: General, Objectives, Teaching Methodology
• Levels of Teaching, Status of the Programs, Evaluation of Students
• Study Resources, References & Material

The Conference is organized by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics [Haifa], The Zefat Academic College, The International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, and is supported by the Israel National Commission for UNESCO

Abstracts of approximately 250 words are invited for oral and poster presentations. The deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2010.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE SECRETARIAT:

Tel. +972-2-6520574

Fax +972-2-6520558

seminars@isas.co.il

www.isas.co.il/bioethics2010

This announcement is transmitted through the UNESCO Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs). The GEObs is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics and technology ethics. The system currently comprises six databases on ethics experts, ethics institutions, ethics teaching programmes, ethics related legislation and guidelines, codes of conduct and resources in ethics. For more information, please visit the observatory’s website at: www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs

Call for Papers
“Love at the End of Life”
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
Extended Deadline: March 1, 2010

How does the understanding of love change with the death and dying experience? This area explores films that deal with love in the end of life experience for the dying, caregivers and their loved ones. Love at the End of Life can explore many themes related to love, including love for oneself in the face of existential suffering, or a new understanding of love in the face of one’s mortality. There are a wide range of films to explore in this area in a cross-section of genres, ranging from successful box office films such as Love Story (1970) and Whose Life is it, Anyway? (1982) to documentaries such as to more recent films such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals that examine all forms and genres of films featuring love at the end of life. Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

*   Love and Sacrifice in Pediatric End of Life (e.g. Lorenzo’s Oil)
*   Love and Family at the End of Life (e.g. Marvin’s Room, My Life, Philadelphia)
*   Closure and Forgiveness at the End of Life (e.g. Magnolia, Truly, Madly, Deeply)
*   Love and Existential Suffering in the film, “Wit:
*   Love and the End of Life Experience in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
*   The Dying Friend: (e.g. Silverlake Life, The Doctor, Fried Green Tomatoes; Amadeus)
*   Assisted Suicide Requests and Euthanasia: (e.g. Arsenic and Old Lace, Dax’s Case, The Sea Inside? Million Dollar Baby)
*   Love and Death in times of War (Schindler’s List; Apocalypse Now, M*A*S*H)
*   Documentary Films About End of Life (e.g. Silverlake Life: The View From Here (1993)

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail only to the area chair:

M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bioethics
Director, Program for Bioethics
University of Kentucky
Email: msrose2@email.uky.edu

Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education is pleased to announce a new Master of Science in Bioethics which, pending approval by the University Senate, plans to accept the first class beginning in fall 2010.

The M.S. in Bioethics will provide students with the training to work professionally on issues in bioethics, and will ground them in historical, philosophical, legal, and social science approaches and models for addressing bioethics. It will prepare students to work in various capacities within this new and ever-growing field, and will include a concentration in global bioethics – the first of its kind in the United States.

Our upcoming information session is the perfect opportunity to meet the faculty and learn more about the program.

Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: The Hilton Times Square hotel
www.ce.columbia.edu/bioethics

Does Genetics Matter? Help, Hype and the New Horizon of Epigenetics
Progress Educational Trust
Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ, UK
18 November 2009 - 9.30am-5pm

As genetics vies with stem cells for centre stage in human biomedical research, there are dangers of both overselling future benefits (for example, the power of personal genomics) and overlooking past triumphs (for example, help for families threatened by serious monogenic/Mendelian disease). PET’s 2009 annual conference will provide a critical examination of the current state of play in human genetics. It will be the first public event to address epigenetics before a mixed lay and specialist audience, and will feature exciting new insights into the epigenetic capture of early developmental experience and how this might explain the link between fetal/childhood adversity and later risk of adult disease.

For more information

Open Call For Abstracts: Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?
Uppsala, Sweden, 14-16 June 2010
Abstract submission deadline: February 15

This conference is divided into three themes, one for each day of the conference. Each theme has three keynote presentations that will be followed by oral presentations in parallel sessions.

Monday June 14:
Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?

Tuesday June 15:
What is the role of informed consent in medical research?

Wednesday June 16:
Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?

We wanted to be a little provocative but, as the examples of questions indicate, we expect input both regarding “medical ethics as unduly bureaucratic” and “researchers as lazy when they complain about this alleged bureaucracy”.

We think that both ideology and prudence may in practice play a role both in clinical decision-making and in medical research ethics, but think that medical ethics, and the patients, would benefit from a clearer understanding of their relationship and their proper roles.

We welcome presentations on medical research ethics as well as clinical ethics and encourage both empirical and theoretical contributions including discussions about different philosophical approaches to these issues.

The abstracts will be peer reviewed and a notification of acceptance is due in March 2010. On this basis we invite scholars of all disciplines and medical practitioners to submit abstracts. Submission deadline February 15, 2010.

Call for abstracts

Conference website: medical-ethics2010.crb.uu.se

2nd International Congress on Responsible Stem Cell Research
Adult Somatic Stem Cells: New Perspectives

November 26-28, 2009
Monaco
Event Website: http://www.fumax.it/aimuff/ASSCuff/index.html

“Gaps (and Gasps!) in Medical-Ethical Reasoning: From Ethical Theory to Medical Practice”

Heidi Malm, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
Loyola University Chicago

Thursday, October 29, 2009
2:30 - 4:00 pm Eastern

Part of the MEDICINE: MIND THE GAP NIH seminar series “Bridging the gap between evidence and practice”

Seminar is free and open to the public
Live and archived videocast: http://videocast.nih.gov

Stem Cell Therapies
“From the Lab to the Bedside”
“Demystifying” innovations and advancing the commercialization of Alberta’s emerging technologies

Calgary - November 25
Kerby Centre 7-9:30 pm

Edmonton - November 26
Central Lion’s Seniors Recreation Centre 7-9:30 pm

Each of the two public events are designed to engage Albertans in a patient-focused dialogue to demystify  stem cell therapies. The forums have been designed to resolve three objectives:

1) to increase public and patient awareness of stem cell therapies,  its implications on health care delivery and their potential in preventing and treating degenerative diseases,
2) to establish Alberta’s bio-tech sector as a world leader in the development of stem cell technologies, and
3) to prepare Alberta for the early delivery of stem cell therapy.

Registration begins October 1st

To register or for more information

October 9, 2009, 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Bioethics Topic: Physician-Assisted Suicide
Keynote Speaker: D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Panel Discussion:
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Former State Senator Thomas Colantuono
Colleen McCormick, CRNA, M.A. (Bioethics)

$45/pp
Ballroom
Radisson Hotel Manchester
700 Elm Street, Manchester NH 03101

To register, call 603-995-1182.

Organizers: Kristina Orfali, Columbia University, USA, ko2145@columbia.edu
and Raymond DeVries, University of Michigan, USA, rdevries@umich.edu
Medical research and clinical care pose complex ethical issues for citizens in both the industrialized and the developing world.   Varied economic, political, social, cultural and historical contexts shape the definitions and proposed solutions to these ethical problems.   The broad theme of this session is the history, evolution, and social functions of bioethics work around the globe and across cultures.

The ASBH annual meeting will take place October 15-18, 2009 in Washington, DC

Register before September 11 and save $50.

Meeting Brochure and Hotel

Room reservations can be made now. Reservations will be taken at the group rate on a first-come, first-served basis until the group rate room block is full at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. To obtain the special rate, make your reservation early and be sure to mention that you are attending the ASBH meeting. The special rate expires September 4, 2009, or when the negotiated room block has been filled. After that time, higher rates may apply.

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Reservations: 202/737-1234
Hotel: 202/737-1234
Rate: $235 single/double
Cutoff date: September 4, 2009
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