Event: The Intersection of Faith and Ethics in Healthcare

March 24, 2009

The Healthcare Ethics and Law (HEAL) Institute of 
Samford University’s 
McWhorter School of Pharmacy
2009 Annual Conference

The Intersection of Faith and Ethics in Healthcare

Friday April 17, 2009
8:25 am-3:30 pm
Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama

The conference’s invited speakers, who will each be receiving the Pellegrino Medal for excellence in clinical ethics,  include: Karen Lebacqz, is professor emeritus of theological ethics at the Pacific School of Religion who has written extensively on professional ethics, bioethics and ethical theory; and Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D., a general internist and philosopher who holds the Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, and serves as professor of medicine and director of the bioethics institute of New York Medical College.   The conference brochure, which includes the program schedule with individual presentation titles can be found at www.samford.edu/heal. Continuing education credit will be offered in medicine, pharmacy and nursing.  The conference will be held on Samford University’s campus in Birmingham.

ASBH members pay no registration fee.

Please contact Lori Bateman (information below) with any questions.

Lori Bateman
Program Manager, HEAL
Healthcare Ethics and Law Institute
McWhorter School of Pharmacy
Samford University
800 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, AL 35229
[email protected]
(205) 335-7434