All students are welcome to attend these Center for Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds lectures that may be counted toward satisfying the concentration requirement to attend local medical humanities professional educational activities.
SPRING 2009
Access to Unapproved Therapies: The Leading Edge of Law and Medicine
Peter D. Jacobson, JD, MPH
Professor of Health Law & Policy
Director, Center for Law, Ethics and Health
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Thursday, February 5, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
School of Law, Room 113
3900 Forbes Avenue
Evaluating Demands for Life-Prolonging Treatment Based Upon Religious Beliefs
Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M, MD, PhD
Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent’s Manhattan
Professor of Medicine and Director, Bioethics Institute
New York Medical College
Friday, February 20, 11:00 a.m. - Noon
Montefiore Hospital, 7 Main - Auditorium
18TH ANNUAL MEDICAL ETHICS UPDATE 2009 CONFERENCE
26TH ANNUAL MESSER LECTURE
Obesity: Ethical Issues in Prevention, Treatment, and Research
Daniel Callahan, PhD
Co-founder, The Hastings Center
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Senior Fellow, Yale University
TV May Cause Obesity: But the Evidence is Thin
Richard Scheines
Professor of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University
Using Ideas from Behavioral Economics to Promote Weight Loss
George Loewenstein
Professor Economics and Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Day-long Conference
Monday, April 6, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Scaife Hall, Auditorium 5
3550 Terrace Street
A Short History of Clinical Medical Ethics Ending in My Being Banned in Canada
William Meadow, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Section Chief, Department of Pediatrics
University of Chicago Medical Center/Comer Children’s
Hospital
Thursday, April 23, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Children’s Hospital, Ground Floor - McCluskey Auditorium
SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AND HEALTH LAW,
THE CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES,
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
AND THE SCHOOL OF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH