2010 - 2015 Events

2010

September 17, 2010
**Center for Bioethics & Health Law Colloquium
“A Nursing Perspective on End of Life Care”
Theresa Brown, PhD, RN
Oncology Nurse, UPMC Shadyside Hospital
12:00-1:30 p.m.

September 23, 2010
The First Rita M. McGinley Symposium
"Exploring Social Justice for Vulnerable Populations: The Face of the Elderly"
Duquesne University - Power Center Ballroom

September 24, 2010
"The Ethical Dimensions of Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster DNA Identification of the Missing"
Jay D. Aronson, PhD
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
GSPH - A115 - Crabtree Hall

September 28, 2010
CF Reynolds Medical History Society
"With Every Accompaniment of Ravage and Agony: Pittsburgh and the Influenza of 1918-1920"
Jim Higgins, PhD
Professor of History
Kutztown University
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 - Scaife Hall

September 30, 2010
“The Ethics of Vaccine Mandates for Health Care Workers”
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics Director
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
GSPH - G23 – Auditorium
**Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“The Ethics of Face and Limb Transplantation”
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
1:00-3:00 p.m.

September 17, 2010
**Center for Bioethics & Health Law Colloquium
“A Nursing Perspective on End of Life Care”
Theresa Brown, PhD, RN
Oncology Nurse, UPMC Shadyside Hospital
12:00-1:30 p.m.

September 23, 2010
The First Rita M. McGinley Symposium
"Exploring Social Justice for Vulnerable Populations: The Face of the Elderly"
Duquesne University - Power Center Ballroom

September 24, 2010
"The Ethical Dimensions of Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster DNA Identification of the Missing"
Jay D. Aronson, PhD
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
GSPH - A115 - Crabtree Hall

September 28, 2010
CF Reynolds Medical History Society
"With Every Accompaniment of Ravage and Agony: Pittsburgh and the Influenza of 1918-1920"
Jim Higgins, PhD
Professor of History
Kutztown University
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 - Scaife Hall

September 30, 2010
“The Ethics of Vaccine Mandates for Health Care Workers”
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics Director
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
GSPH - G23 – Auditorium

**Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“The Ethics of Face and Limb Transplantation”
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
1:00-3:00 p.m.

October 1, 2010
**Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“Rhetoric and Trust in Biomedical Life: Competing Characters in a Breast Cancer Research Misconduct Controversy”
Lisa Keranen
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Communication
University of Colorado Denver
12:00-1:30 p.m.

October 8, 2010
"Our Habitual Lives: How the Brain Makes and Breaks Habits"
Ann M. Graybiel, PhD
Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience
Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00 a.m.
7th Floor - Lecture Hall - Alumni Hall

October 14, 2010
Medical Education Grand Rounds
“Teaching Clinical Reasoning”
Jerome P. Kassirer, MD
Distinguished Professor – Tufts University School of Medicine
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
LR #3 – Scaife Hall

October 28, 2010
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry
"Legal and Ethical Issues in Medical Treatment of Children with Variations of Sex Anatomy"
Anne Tamar-Mattis
Executive Director Advocates for Informed Choice
Noon - 1 p.m.
Room 109 (first floor) – School of Law

October 28, 2010
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“Current Issues in Research Ethics and Human Subjects Protection Involving Children with Variations of Sex Anatomy”
Anne Tamar-Mattis, JD
2:30-4:00 p.m.

October 29, 2010
University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology Conference
"Beyond the IRB: New Frontiers in the Ethics of Qualitative Research"
9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
2400 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

November 2, 2010
17th Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture
"A Perfect Storm: The Short History of Physician Assisted Suicide"
Ian Dowbiggin, PhD
Professor of History
University of Prince Edward Island

November 12 - 13, 2010
National Conference on the Past, Present and Future of the PSDA, Nutrition, Hydration and Palliative Care
Kansas City, MO
Details at PracticalBioethics.org

November 29, 2010
Current Topics in Health Economics and Policy Series
"The Growing Phenomenon of Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals: Implications for Medicare"
Jeremy Kahn, MD, MS
University of Pittsburgh
109 Parran Hall
4:00-5:30 p.m.

November 30, 2010
Visiting Professor – OB/GYN & Reproductive Sciences and Center for Bioethics and Health Law
"Paying Women to Donate Eggs for Research: Politics, Ethics and Science"
Robert Klitzman, MD
7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
Magee Women’s Hospital Auditorium

November 30, 2010
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
"When Doctors Become Patients"
Robert Klitzman, MD
300 Medical Arts Building
12:00-1:30 p.m.

2011

January 25, 2011
CF Reynolds Medical History Society
"Christian Barnard and the Story of Heart Transplantation"
David Cooper, MD, PhD, FRCS
Professor of Surgery
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 - Scaife Hall

February 25, 2011 **
Visiting Professor Colloquium
“Doctors as Stewards: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go?”
Susan Dorr Goold, MD, MHSA, MA
Professor of Internal Medicine & Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Medicine
12:00-2:30 p.m.

March 25, 2011
Center for Philosophy of Science Lecture Series
"Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry"
Kenneth Kendler, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Psychiatry
3:30 p.m.
817 Cathedral of Learning

April 7, 2011
 Medearis Lecture – Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
“Decision-Making in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Ethics Considerations”
Alexander A. Kon, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Naval Medical Center – San Diego

April 28, 2011
Center for Healthcare Ethics – Duquesne University
“Medical Ethics in an Era of Bioethics”
Edmund Pellegrino, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics
Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Georgetown University Medical Center
1:00 p.m.
Power Center Ballroom – Duquesne University

September 13, 2011
The Health Services Research Seminar Series
Center for Research on Health Care
VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
“Global Bioethics”
Henk ten Have, MD, PhD
Professor & Director, Center for Health Care Ethics – Duquesne University
12:00 noon
305 Parkvale Building

September 19, 2011
Center on Race and Social Problems School of Social Work
“Disparities in Healthcare for Minorities: Institutional or Personal?”
Jeannette South-Paul
Department of Family Medicine Professor and Chair
12:00-1:30 p.m.
2017 Cathedral of Learning – University of Pittsburgh

September 20, 2011
Department of Critical Care Medicine Lecture Series
“ECMO and Ethical Conflicts in Randomized Controlled Trials”
Robert D. Truog, MD, MA
Children’s Hospital of Boston
Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism & Ethics Practice
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine
12:00 noon
Room 1105AB – Scaife Hall

Center for International Legal Education
University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Visiting Lecture Series
“Do Human Rights Have a Future?”
William F. Schultz
Senior Fellow in Human Rights Policy at the Center for American Progress
5:30 p.m.
The University Club – Ballroom A (123 University Place)

September 21, 2011
Department of Critical Care Medicine Lecture Series
“Ethical Tensions in Organ Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD)s”
Robert D. Truog, MD, MA
Children’s Hospital of Boston
Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism & Ethics Practice
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine
12:00 noon
Room 1105AB – Scaife Hall

September 27, 2011
CF Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
"Tracing the Body: The Atomic Energy Commission's Radioisotope Program and the Emergence of Nuclear Medicine, 1945-1960"
Angela Creager, PhD
Professor of History, Princeton University
6:00 PM
LR #5 - Scaife Hall

September 30, 2011
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“Working for Health and Human Rights in Malawi: Student Reports from the Field”
Facilitator: David Barnard, PhD
Students: Sarah Beaver (Law); Megan Crouch (Law); David Rohlfing (Law); Natalie Henderson (PH)
12:00-1:30 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building – Center for Bioethics and Health Law

October 6, 2011
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry
"What Remains of Charity Care After Health Reform? Community Obligations of Nonprofit Hospitals"
Jessica Berg, JD, MPH
Professor of Law, Bioethics, and Public Health
Associate Director, Law-Medicine Center
Case Western Reserve University
12:00 noon
Teplitz Courtroom - School of Law - Ground Floor

Center for Bioethics & Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium *
"All for One and One for All: Does Individual Informed Consent Have a Place in Public Health?"
Jessica Berg, JD, MPH
2:30-4:00 PM
G-46, School of Law

October 11, 2011
Global Health Film Series
"Zelal"
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Lecture Room 1, Scaife Hall
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

October 12, 2011
Global Women’s Health Lecture Series
"Surgical Challenges in Low-Resource Settings"
Frederic Price, MD
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Magee-Women's Hospital - Conference Room 2700 (second floor)

October 17, 2011

Current Topics in Health Economics and Policy Series – GSPH
“Research on Increasing Participation in the Organ Donor Registry”
Howard Degenholtz, PhD
4:00-5:30 p.m.
109 Parran Hall – Graduate School of Public Health

October 25, 2011

Visiting Professor Bioethics/Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Services
"The Experience of Seeking Abortion in the US: Access, Protestors, Ultrasound Viewing and Later Abortion"
Diana Green Foster, PhD
University of California - San Francisco
7:30 AM

Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium *
Diana Green Foster, PhD
 “The Challenges and Importance of Studying the Experience of Abortion in the US”
12:00-1:30 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building – Center for Bioethics and Health Law

October 27, 2011
Visiting Professor Bioethics/Graduate School of Public Health
"Accountability for Preventable Maternal Death"
Rebecca Cook, MPA, JD
Chair in International Human Rights Law
University of Toronto
12:00-1:00 PM
G-12 - School of Law - Ground Floor

October 27-28, 2011
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) National Conference on Conflict of Interest in the Practice of Medicine & Medical Research
Co-chaired by David Orentlicher, MD, JD, Indiana University School of Law and
Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
University of Pittsburgh - University Club

November 1, 2011
18th Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture
"Gut Feelings and Technical Precision: Thinking About the History of Cystic Fibrosis"
Susan Lindee, PhD
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
6:00 PM
LR #5 - Scaife Hall

November 3, 2011
The Ninth Cooper Lectureship – Medicine Grand Rounds
“Rationing: Lessons from Organ Transplantation”
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Emanuel & Robert Hart Director of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
8:00 a.m.
Herberman Conference Center/AuditoriumUPMC Cancer Pavilion – Second FloorUPMC Shadyside – 5230 Centre Avenue

November 18, 2011
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
"Should Parents Lose Custody of Their Obese Children?"
Jason Byron
PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Science
MA candidate in Bioethics
Clinical Ethicist at UPMC Shadyside
Facilitated by Lisa Parker, PhD
12:00-1:30 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building

2012

January 20, 2012
Visiting Professor in Medicine/Bioethics and Health Law – Tisherman Lecture
"The Other End of the Stethoscope: Autonomy or Paternalism?"
Peter Ubel, MD
Sanford School of Public Policy
School of Medicine
Duke University
11:00 a.m.
LHAS 7th Floor Auditorium

Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium**
"Partisan Psychology and the Ethics of Controlling Health Care Costs"
12:30-2:00 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Bldg.

January 24, 2012
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
"Sigmund Freud: Neurologist"
John Delaney, MD, Dr.P.H.
Psychiatrist/Neurologist
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 - Scaife Hall

February 23, 2012
The Pitt Health Policy Institute Special Lecture
"Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform"
Paul Starr, PhD
Noon
Auditorium 6 - Scaife Hall

February 23, 2012
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
"The Worldwide Fusarium Keratitis Epidemic of 2004-2006: What Would Dr. John Snow and the Reverend Henry Whitehead Have Done?"
John Bullock, MD, MPH, MSc
Infectious Diseases/Epidemiologist
Wright State School of Medicine
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 - Scaife Hall

March 1-4, 2012
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics - 21st Annual Meeting
Cincinnati, OH
For more information go to http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/annualmeeting.html

April 5, 2012
Medearis Lecture – Visiting Professor Pediatrics
Mark Mercurio, MD
Yale Pediatrics
“Ethical Considerations and Decision-making at Borderline Viability”
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Auditorium - Rangos Conference Center
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium**
Mark Mercurio, MD
"Moral Distress and Pediatric Clinicians: Feeling Forced to do the Wrong Thing"
12:00-1:30 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building

April 10-13, 2012
TEDMED2012
Lecture Room 2 - Scaife Hall

April 12-13, 2012
"New Technologies, New Challenges: Women and Prenatal Genetic Testing in the 21stCentury"
A Law-Medicine Symposium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
For more information call 216-368-1798 or toll free at 1-888-814-5878 – Online registration begins 3/1/12

April 13, 2012
21st Annual Medical Ethics Update Conference/Messer Lecture
"Women's Health: Ethical Issues in Clinical Care and Research"
All Day Conference 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Biomedical Science Tower

May 15-16, 2012
Medical Humanities Consortium 10th Annual Meeting
"Under Construction: Hospitals, Healthcare, and the Medical Humanities"
Opening Reception, May 15th, 5:00 p.m.
All Day Conference 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

May 18, 2012
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium
"Ethical Dilemmas in Personalized Medicine and the Clinical Interpretation of Weak Gene-Disease Associations: The Case of MTHFR Genetic Testing"
David A. Cohen, MS4
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Class of 2013; Post-Sophomore Fellow, University of Pittsburgh Department of Pathology
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building

May 22, 2012
2012 Hesburgh Lecture
"Transcending Suffering: Spirituality and Maintaining Compassion in the Encounter with Human Pain"
Dr. Dominic Vachon
Director, Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine
PAA - 4215 Fifth Avenue

August 2, 2012
Palliative Care Presentation
National Gerontological Nursing Association
Katy Lanz, DNP, ANP, GNP, ACHPN
UPMC Palliative and Supportive Institute (PSI)
5:00-8:00 p.m.
Passavant Hospital Foundation Conference Center

September 13, 2012
Darwin Exhibit and Lectures
Robert Olby, PhD Professor of History and Philosophy of Science - University of Pittsburgh “Charles Darwin’s Challenge to the Skeptics”
12:00 noon Lecture Room #5 – Scaife Hall

September 14, 2012
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“Research Ethics in the Age of Whole-Genome Sequencing”
Scott Roberts, PhD
Associate Professor - Department of Health Behavior & Health Education
University of Michigan School of Public Health
300 Medical Arts Building
12:00-1:30 p.m.

September 25, 2012
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
"Innovation and Limitation: The History of 'Me-Too' Drugs"
Jeremy Green, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of History of Science - Harvard University
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5, Scaife Hall

September 27, 2012
Darwin Exhibit and Lectures
Adam Davis, MA History of Science – Duquesne University
“Never A Finer Chance for a Man of Zeal and Spirit: Charles Darwin’s Voyage to Discovery” 6:00 p.m. Lecture Room #5 – Scaife Hall

September 28, 2012
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
Title: TBA
Ateev Mehrotra Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh RAND Policy Analyst
12:00-1:00 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building

October 11, 2012
There at the Creation:  Nathan Hershey, The History of Health Law, and Health Care Reform: A Symposium in Honor of Nathan Hershey
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh School of Law - Courtroom

November 2-4, 2012
“Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy Conference”
Sponsored by the Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning

November 6, 2012
19th Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture
"The Perfect Storm: The History of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy"
Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD - Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5, Scaife Hall

November 8, 2012
Mark A. Nordenberg Symposium in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry
“The Future of Medicare”
Keynote Speaker:  Dean Edward Lawlor, Washington University (St. Louis) School of Social Work
University of Pittsburgh School of Law - Courtroom
12:00-4:30 p.m.

November 15, 2012
Annual Donald Medearis Lecture/Pediatric Grand Rounds
“TBA”
Robert D. Truog, MD
Professor of Medical Ethics, Anesthesiology & Pediatrics – Children’s Hospital Boston
Director of Clinical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC; Auditorium – Rangos Building

2013

January 25, 2013
Tisherman Lecture – Medicine Grand Rounds
“Conscientious Objection in Medicine: To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate?”
Mark Wicclair, PhD
Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine
West Virginia University
Ajunct Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
11:00 a.m.
MUH – 7th Floor – Auditorium

February 1-3, 2013
AMSA (American Medical Student Association) Humanities Institute
Sterling, Virginia

February 15, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“Corporate Social Responsibility and the Supply Chain: What is Walmart’s Responsibility to Protect Workers at Suppliers in Bangladesh?”
John Mendeloff, PhD Director, RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace; Professor, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs
12:00-1:00 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building – Conference Room

March 29, 2013
22nd Annual Medical Ethics Update
Difficult Patients, Difficult Families & Difficult Health Care Providers: Ethical and Management Issues
Keynote Speaker: Michael W. Kahn, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School - Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
"What Makes 'Difficult' Patients Difficult?"
BST South Conference Center, Oakland Campus
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

April 2, 2013
Magee-Womens Research Institute—Works in Progress Series
"Mentally Healthy for Two"
Kerstin Weider, MD, Professor and Medical Director
Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany
& Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Scholar
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Magee-Womens Research Institute Conference Center - 1st Floor, 204 Craft Avenue

April 2, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium**
“Ethics and the Learning Healthcare System—A New Framework for When Practice and Research are Blurred”
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building – Conference Room

April 26, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“How Informed Are Surrogate Decision-Makers About the Principles of Surrogate Decision-Making?”
Thomas Cunningham, MA Student in Bioethics; PhD Student in History of Philosophy of Science – University of Pittsburgh
12:00-1:00 p.m.
300 Medical Arts Building – Conference Room

June 17, 2013
StoryCorps' Legacy Initiative
Adam Wilson
Senior Manager for Community Engagement
NPR StoryCorps
12 - 1 p.m.
305 Parkvale Building.

September 17, 2013
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
“A Journey with Anatomist Antonio Valsalva, from 18th Century Bologna to 21stCentury Rockport, Maine with Some Surprising Side Trips”
Richard Kahn, MD, MACP
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 – Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

September 20, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“When the Patient is Racist”
Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Director of Graduate Education, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
University of Pittsburgh
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
G-46 – Barco Law Building - Ground Floor

September 24, 2013
Civil War Disabilities Lectures
“Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War”
Jeffrey Reznick, PhD
Head, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine – Bethesda, MD
6:00 p.m.
1105 Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

September 26-27, 2013
Third Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference
Kalamazoo, Michigan
For additional conference information go to www.wmich.edu/medicalhumanities

September 27, 2013
State of the Science: Collection, Protection, and Sharing of Genetic Materials and Results
Bradley Malin, PhD
Director of the Health Information Privacy Laboratory
Vanderbilt University

Pilar N. Ossorio, PhD, JD
Associate Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Laura Odwazny, JD
Office of the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

David C Whitcomb, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Human Genetics
University of Pittsburgh
8:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium 6, Scaife Hall - University of Pittsburgh

October 8, 2013
Civil War Disabilities Lectures
“Hurting for Home: Nostalgia in American Military Psychiatry from the Civil War to WWII”
Laura McLafferty, MD, Chief Resident for Education
Resident in General Adult Psychiatry
12:00 noon
1105 Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

October 15, 2013
“Genetic Testing of Embryos & Fetuses: Ethical and Legal Landscape”
Visiting Professor for Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences/Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD
Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics & Professor of Law
Vanderbilt Medical School/Vanderbilt Law School
7:15-8:15 a.m.
Magee Women's Hospital - Auditorium - Zero Level

October 15, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“Return of Results in Research and the Clinic - Getting Back on the Right Track”
Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Alcoa Room - 2nd Floor - Barco Law Building

October 22, 2013
Civil War Disabilities Lectures 2013
“Advances in Prosthetic Devices, Engineering and Treatment”
Rory Cooper, PhD
Distinguished Professor – FISA – Paralyzed Veterans of America Chair
6:00 p.m.
1105 Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

October 29, 2013
Anne C. Sonis Memorial Lecture
"Will Equity be Achieved Through Health Care Reform?"
John Ayanian, MD, MPP
Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Institute of Healthcare Policy and Innovation
University of Michigan
12:00 Noon
LHAS Auditorium N734 (behind information desk at Montefiore Hospital)

November 8, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“Medication and Patients Being Noncomplaint”
Robert Arnold, MD
Leo H. Creip Chair of Patient Care, Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
G-46 – Barco Law Building- Ground Floor

November 12, 2012
Global Health Films
"The Final Inch"
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Pitt Public Health Auditorium, GSPH

November 12, 2013
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society
20th Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture
“Being Struck through the Ages: From Hippocrates to Modern Stroke Care”
Kerstin Bettermann, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Penn State School of Medicine
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 – Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

November 21, 2013
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry
“Return of Secondary Genomic Findings vs. Patient Autonomy”
Robert Klitzman, MD
Director, Masters of Bioethics Program; College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
12:30-1:30 p.m.
University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Courtroom – Ground Floor

November 21, 2013
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“The Ethics Police?: Deciding What Experiments on Humans Should Be Done”
Robert Klitzman, MD
2:00-3:30 p.m.
G-18 – Barco Law Building

December 13, 2013
Medicine Grand Rounds
“Advocacy, Evidence and Health Reform”
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Director, Division of Medical Ethics
Department of Population Health
New York University Langone Medical Center
11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon
University Hospital – LHAS Auditorium – 7th Floor

2014

January 10, 2014
Tisherman Lecture – Visiting Professor in Medicine/Bioethics
“The Evidence Base for Palliative Care”
Maria Silveira, MD, MA, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
LHAS Auditorium – 7th Floor - MUH

January 10, 2014
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Visiting Professor Colloquium
“Advance Directives – Do They Protect Autonomy?”
Maria Silveira, MD, MA, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Room G-46 - Barco Law Building – Ground Floor

January 29, 2014
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
“Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Physicians and the Politics of Rabies in Late Victorian Britain”
Kaarin Michaelson, PhD, MS IV
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 – Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

January 31, 2014
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium
“Rethinking The Regulation of Research With Human Subjects”
Alex John London, PhD
Professor of Philosophy & Director, Center for Ethics and Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Barco Law Building

February 12, 2014
University of Pittsburgh Honors College; Department of Psychiatry; and Center on Race and Social Problems Present:
“Challenging Assumptions About Drugs”
Dr. Carl Hart Associate Professor of Psychology - Columbia University
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic - Auditorium

February 13, 2014
Visiting Professor – Graduate School of Public Health/Center for Bioethics & Health Law
“What Place for Genomics? Personalized Medicine and Addressing Health Disparities”
S. Malia Fullerton, DPhil
Associate Professor of Bioethics & Humanities
University of Washington School of Medicine
Institute for Public Health Genetics
12:00-1:00 p.m.
GSPH - Room A115 Crabtree Hall

February 13, 2014
Center for Bioethics and Health Law Colloquium**
“Public Health in the Genetics Clinic: The Ethical Challenges of Cascade Screening”
S. Malia Fullerton, DPhil
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Barco Law Building - G18 Ground Floor

February 14, 2014
Department of Psychiatry Lecture Series Clinical Grand Rounds
"Mental Disorder and Violence: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues"
Edward Mulvey, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Director, Law and Psychiatry Program
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC

Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Medical Director, re:Solve Crisis Network
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
12:00 p.m.– 1:30 p.m.
WPIC Auditorium

March 6, 2014
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
3rd Annual Jonathon Erlen History of Medicine Lecture
“The History of the Bedside Cardiac Exam: An Ancient Relic or a Forgotten Clinical Tool?"
Barry Silverman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Emory University
6:00 p.m.
Lecture Room #5 – Scaife Hall – University of Pittsburgh

April 4, 2014
Medical Ethics Update/Annual Messer Lecture
“Ethical Issues in Pain Management”
Keynote Speaker: Kathleen M. Foley, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering/New York
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Biomedical Science Tower – Conference Center

April 15, 2014
Research Seminar on Ethics & Decision Making
"Bridging the Gap: From Hypothetical Scenarios to Real, In-the-Moment Medical Decision Making”
Jared Chiarchiaro, MD
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Scaife Hall – Room 615

April 24, 2014
Center on Race and Social Problems
School of Social Work
"'Jedi' Public Health: A Structural Approach to Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Health Inequality"
Arline T. Geronimus, Sc.D., Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Cathedral of Learning - Room 2017

April 28, 2014
Provost's Inaugural Lecture
“Why Is There A Disconnect About Prognosis between Physicians and Surrogates in Intensive Care Units?”
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
UPMC Endowed Chair of Ethics in Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh - School of Medicine
4:00 p.m.
Scaife Hall 1005AB

May 2, 2014
Department of Medicine Lecture Series
"The Play of Chance: The Rise of Medical Evidence"
Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine
11 a.m.-noon
LHAS Auditorium

May 6, 2014
Decision Making in Critical Illness Research Seminar
“Using the Delphi Technique to Achieve Consensus Agreement”
Steven Handler, MD, MS
9:00 – 10:00 am
Scaife Hall, Room 615

May 12, 2014
Critical Care Medicine Lecture Series
"The Nuts and Bolts of NIH Funding"
Michelle Kienholz, Grants Writer
Research Development Program – Division of Gastroenterology
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Biomedical Science Tower – Room S120

May 22, 2014
3rd Annual Adolescent Health Research Symposium
"Ethical Considerations in Adolescent Health Research"
Presented by The Division of Adolescent Medicine of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, in partnership with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board
The symposium will focus on promoting more research on sensitive topics with adolescents as well as research with vulnerable youth populations.
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
For more information contact Liz Miller at 412-692-8504 or Elizabeth.miller@chp.edu

May 28 - 30, 2014
National Academy of Public Administration 13th Annual Social Equity Leadership Conference
"The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Assessing Social Equity and Civil Rights In Light of Growing Income Inequality"
Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

May, 29, 2014
Lecture and Reception in conjunction with the Social Equity Leadership Conference
Speaker: E.J. Dionne Jr.,
Journalist, Political Commentator  long-time Op-Ed Columnist
The Washington Post
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution
3:45 - 6:00 p.m.
The University Club, 123 University Place.

May 30, 2014
Department of Medicine Lecture Series
“Incidental Findings of Genome Sequencing: Clinicians’ Duties & Patients’ Rights"
Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Behavioral and Community Health
Director, MA Program in Bioethics, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
11:00 a.m.
LHAS Auditorium - MUH - 7th Floor

June 3, 2014
Inaugural Lecture
"Persons and Diseases: Advancing 'Patient Centered Care' at PITT/UPMC Through Research, Teaching, and Patient Care 1974-2014"
Loren H. Roth, MD, MPH
Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
4:00 p.m.
Scaife Hall, Lecture Room 6

June 3, 2014
Research Seminar on Decision Making in Critical Illness Series
"Improving Surgical Outcomes for Frail Patients Considering Elective Surgery"
Daniel Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc
Assistant Professor of Surgery
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Room 615 Scaife Hall
 

July 17 - 18, 2014
“Age, Ability, and Healthcare”
A Summer Seminar
Jointly Sponsored by Hiram College’s Center for Literature and Medicine and Northeast Ohio Medical University

September 16, 2014
Center for Philosophy of Science Lecture
"Social Values Influence the Adequacy Conditions of Scientific Theories: Beyond Inductive Risk"
Ingo Brigandt - Visiting Fellow - University of Alberta
12:05 p.m. - 817R Cathedral of Learning
 
October 2, 2014
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program Lecture Series

"The Dynamic Development of Gender Variability"
Anne Fausto-Sterling - Brown University
10:00-11:30 a.m.
1001-B Cathedral of Learning

"Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World"
Anne Fausto-Sterling - Brown University
1:00-2:15 p.m.
337 Cathedral of Learning

"How Your Generic Baby Aquires Gender: A Dynamic Systems Approach"
Anne Fausto-Sterling - Brown University
4:00-6:00 p.m.
University Club - Ballroom A

October 7, 2014
"K23 Aims: Developing & Pilot Testing an Intervention to Improve Decision-Making Based on Incapacitated ICU Patients' Values"
Leslie P. Scheunemann, MD, MPH
Fellow of Pulmonary and Critical Care
9:00-10:00 a.m.
615 Scaife Hall

October 16-19, 2014
ASBH 16th Annual Meeting
Hilton Bayfront, San Diego, CA

October 24, 2014
Center for Philosophy of Science 55th Annual Lecture Series
"Near a Contradition": Unconscious Thought and the Rise of Scientific
Psychology, 1700-1900
Alison Simmons, Dept of Philosophy, Harvard University
3:30 p.m.
817R Cathedral of Learning

October 27, 2014
Violence and Behavioral Health: Developing an Evidence-Informed Community Agenda
Sheraton Station Square - Pittsburgh
Keynote Speakers: Edward Mulvey, PhD & David J. Kolko, PhD

October 28, 2014
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences Grand Rounds
Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics - Graduate School of Public Health
Director of Graduate Education - Center for Bioethics and Health Law
"Incidental Findings of Genome Sequencing: Clinicians' Duties & Patients' Rights
7:15-8:15 a.m.
Magee Women's Hospital of UPMC- Auditorium - Level O

Jonas Salk Centenary Symposium on Sustainability - Survival of the Wisest
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 

November 8-9, 2014
2nd Annual Bowling Green State University Graduate Student Workshop in Applied Philosophy
Bowling Green, OH

"Philosophy of Medicine"
Keynote Speaker: Rosamond Rhodes, Prof of Philosophy, Mt Sinai School of Medicine
"Understanding Autonomy: Insights from Living Organ Donors"

November 11, 2014
Global Health Film Series
"Fire in the Blood"
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Graduate School of Public Health - 109 Parran Hall

November 13, 2014
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program Lecture Series
"Justifying Sex: The Place of Women's Sexuality on a Social Justice Agenda"
Laina Bay-Cheng - University of Buffalo
9:00-10:50 a.m.

"The Body Agentic: Neoliberal Metrics for Appraising Young Women's Sexuality"
Laina Bay-Cheng - University of Buffalo
4:00-6:00 p.m.
332 Cathedral of Learning

November 20, 2014
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry
Sidney Watson, JD, Center for Health Law Studies
St. Louis University School of Law
"Medicaid Expansion Policy, Politics and Waivers: Pennsylvania and Beyond"
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Barco Law Building - Courtroom - Ground Floor

November 21, 2014
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program Lecture Series
"Measuring Masculinities in Early Adolescence"
Lisa Brush (Sociology) and Elizabeth Miller (Children's Hospital of Pgh)
10:00-11:30 a.m.
402 Catheral of Learning

2015

January 16, 2015
Tisherman Lecture - Medicine Grand Rounds
R. Alta Charo
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin Law School
"Regenerative Medicine and the Lure of "Stem Cell Tourism"
11:00-12:00
LHAS Auditorium - 7th Floor - Montefiore University Hospital

January 26, 2015
Race, Sex and Human Evolution:"Original Flesh: What Did Extinct Humans Really Look Like?"
8:00 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Building

January 27, 2015
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society
"The Day-to-Day Practice of Dr. Cyrus Schriener: A Late 19th Century Practitioner in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania"
Lorelei Stein, PhD
Professor, School of Arts and Sciences
Point Park University
6:00 p.m.
11th Floor Conference Center - Scaife Hall

January 28-February 1, 2015
God Committee by Mark St. Germain
University of Pittsburgh Studio Theatre

March 2, 2015
Race, Sex and Human Evolution Lecture II
Jonathan Marks, Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
8:00 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

March 19, 2015
Visiting Professor in Bioethics and Public Health
Lawrence O. Gostin
University Professor
Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law
Georgetown University School of Law
"Ebola: Epidemic Preparedness in the United States and Globally"
12:00-1:00 p.m.
G23 GSPH

March 27, 2015
24th Annual Medical Ethics Update
The Cruzan Case 25 Years Later: Its Legacy and Its Future
Keynote Speaker: Barron Lerner, MD
New York University
"When Doctors Can't or Don't Say No"
Scaife Hall - 11th Floor Conference Room
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

April 3, 2015
Department of Human Genetics - Spring 2015 Seminar Series
"Understanding Minority Disengagement in Genetic Studies: Implications for Health Disparities and Research"
Krystal Tsosie, MA, PhD Student
G23 Parran Hall - GSPH
12:00 noon

April 30, 2015
Pediatric Grand Rounds - Annual Medearis Lecture
Benjamin Wilfond, MD
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
"Tracheostomies and Assisted Ventilation in Children with Profound Disabilities: Negative Family and Professional Values"
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Rangos Building - 3rd Floor

September 15, 2015
Research Conference - Critical Care Medicine
"Big Data in Critical Care: Promises and Pitfalls"
Bernard Lo, MD
UCSF School of Medicine
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Scaife Hall - Lecture Room 6

September 16, 2015
Critical Care Medicine Grand Rounds
"Decisions Near the End of Life: Can We Make Them Less Agonizing?"
Bernard Lo, MD
UCSF School of Medicine
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Scaife Hall - 1105 A&B

September 22, 2015
Year of the Humanities Kick-Off Event
Theresa Brown (BSN '07) introduces her 2nd book The Shift
O'Hara Student Center - Ballroom
4:00-5:00 p.m.

September 29, 2015
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
"Knowledge Unbound: Literature and Medicine"
Michael Moran, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Urology
University of Florida
6:00 p.m.
Scaife Hall - Lecture Room 5

October 22-25, 2015
ASBH 17th Annual Meeting
Hilton Americas - Houston

November 3, 2015
Research Seminar on Ethics & Decision Making
"Barriers & Facilitators to the Conduct of Interdisciplinary Family Meetings: Preliminary Findings"
Jennifer Seaman, PhD
9:00 a.m.
615 Scaife Hall

C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
"Parkinson's Disease: Historical Perspectives"
Christopher Goetz, MD
Neurologist, Rush University Medical Center
6:00 p.m.
Scaife Hall - Lecture Room 5

November 12, 2015
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry
Nancy M.P. King, JD
Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy
Wake Forest School of Medicine
"Ethics in Regenerative Medicine: What's Old, What's New, and What's Borrowedand What's Blue Sky?"
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Barco Law Building - Courtroom - Ground Floor