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OVERVIEW FACULTY STAFF PROGRAMS STUDENTS CALENDAR DIRECTIONS LINKS	Videos Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds International Human Rights Narratives and Women’s Health David Barnard, PhD, JD Professor, Department of Medicine Director, Institute to Enhance Palliative Care Adjunct Professor, School of Law Center for Bioethics and Health Law University of Pittsburgh Why Sociology Matters in Bioethics Linda J. Morrison, PhD Department of Sociology and Graduate Center for Social & Public Policy Duquesne University October 2, 2008 Ethical and Legal Challenges of Decision Making During Pregnancy: Intact and Impaired and Intact Capacity Frank A. Chervenak, MD Director of Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine New York Hospital – Cornell Medical College September 23, 2008 Reconceptualizing and Managing Incidental Findings of Genetic Research Lisa S. Parker, PhD Associate Professor of Human Genetics Director of Graduate Education, Center for Bioethics and Health Law University of Pittsburgh September 11, 2008 “Making Medical Decisions for Children: Is the Best Interest Standard Really Best?” Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center-Seattle April 17, 2008 The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources: A New View Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics National Institutes of Health March 6, 2008 “Caring for Organs or for Patients? Ethical Concerns about the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006)” Michael DeVita, MD Professor of Critical Care and Internal Medicine February 7, 2008 “Engaging Science to Bridge a Chasm: Ethics and Belief in the Policy Debate Over Using ‘Spare Unwanted IVF Embryos’ for Stem Cell Research” Gerard Magill, PhD The Vernon F. Gallagher Chair for Integration of Science, Theology, Philosophy and Law; Professor of Health Care Ethics Duquesne University November 29, 2007 Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry: "Legal & Policy Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic" Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD C. Boyden Gray Associate Professor of Health Policy and Law Harvard School of Public Health November 8, 2007 "Functional Status Outcomes of ICU Survivors: The Role of Empirical Data in Ethical Analysis" Howard Degenholtz, PhD Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management Graduate School of Public Health October 25, 2007 Thornburgh Lecture: "Why I Only Give Take-Home Exams: A Disability Perspective" Ruth Colker Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law Michael E. Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University September 27, 2007 "Balancing Hope and Honesty: What Do Doctors Say?" Anthony Back, MD Professor of Medicine University of Washington January 25, 2007 "In/Appropriate Intimacies, Invisible Labor: Challenges in Nursing and Ethics" Lisa C. Huebner, Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh February 1, 2007 "Early Stopping of Clinical Trials for Efficacy: An Ethical Dilemma and a New Approach" Julia Slutsman, PhD Cancer Prevention Fellow National Cancer Institute March 1, 2007 "Family Pressures on Young Women at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer" Rebekah Hamilton, PhD, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing March 15, 2007
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