Gheens Bioethics Lecture Series

Breaking Evolutions's Chains: The Advantages of Genetically Modifying Human Beings
Allen E. Buchanan, Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor
Department of Philosophy
Duke University
Monday, February 14, 2011
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Equity or Perverse Incentives? Paying for Consumer Participation in Mental Health Programs and Policy-Making
Deborah A. Potter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology
University of Louisville
Monday, December 6, 2010
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Returning Science Policy to "It's Rightful Place" | The Ethics of Obama's Pragmatism
Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Center for Bioethics
Associate Dean for Bioethics and Professor of Medicine, Medical, and Molecular Genetics
Public Health and Philosophy
Indiana University
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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Pharma, Conflict of Interest, and Public Trust in Medicine
Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Institude for the Medical Humanities
University of Texas Medical Branch
Professor of Family Medicine
John P. McGovern Centennial Chair
May 10th, 2010
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Medical Mistakes: How to Approach and Gain from Errors, Your Own and Those Around You
Jeffrey Borkan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Family Medicine
Brown University
April 23rd, 2010
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Why Good Things Happen to Good People | The Biology and Ethics of Altrusim
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D
Professor of Bioethics, Philosophy, & Religion
Stony Brook University
January 27th, 2010
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Health Extensions in New Mexico:  An Academic Health Center Addresses the Social Determinants of Disease
Arthur Kaufman, M.D.
Vice President for Community Health | Distinguished Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine
University of New Mexico
December 18th, 2009
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George Agich, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Bowling Green State University
December 1, 2009
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Allocating Scarce Resources During a Pandemic
Susan Dorr Goold, MD, MHSA, MA
Professor of Internal Medicine,
Director, Bioethics Program Bowling Green State University
University of Michigan
September 25, 2009
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All in the Family: Clinical Ethics & the Family Physician

Marc Tunzi, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine
Associate Director Family Medicine Residency Program
University of California, San Francisco
Natividad Medical Center
April 24th, 2009
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Ethicial Issues in Pay for Performance

David J. Satin, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
March 9th, 2009
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Health Reform in America: Lessons Learned from the Oregon Health Plan
John Saultz, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
February 13th, 2009
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Disaster Ethics:  The Road to Hell...
G. Luke Larkin, MD, MSPH, MS, MA
Professor of Surgery
Associate Chief Emergency Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
December 15th, 2008
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Unethical Research in Women's Health:  Lessons Learned from the Wiley Protocol
M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD
Director, Program for Bioethics
University of Kentucky
November 3rd, 2008
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The Professionalization of Clinical Ethics Consultation
Kenneth Kipnis, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Hawaii
October 14, 2008
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Mental Health Law and Policy
Winsor Schmidt, JD, LLM
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Administration
Washington State University
July 28, 2008
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Health Care Proxies and Living Wills: Clinician involvement in executing and evaluating advance directives
Stephen E. Wear, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care, SUNY - Buffalo
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, SUNY - Buffalo
April 15, 2008
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Religion, Medicine, and the Strange Role of the Embryo
Suzanne Holland, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Dept. Religious Studies
Associate Professor of Ethics
University of Puget Sound
March 31, 2008
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The Power of a Thought Experiment:  Race, Sex & Infectious Disease
Margaret P. Battin, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Philosophy
Division of Medical Ethics
University of Utah
Monday, February 11, 2008
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Stories of Value
Felicia Cohn, PhD
Director, Medical Ethics
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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Current Teachings of Ethics
Michael D. Fetters, MD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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New Directions in Hospice and Palliative Care

William Reichel, MD
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Monday, September 10, 2007
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Assessing Capacity
Jeffrey Spike, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences
Florida State University
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Is Selection of Children Wrong?
Dan Brock, PhD
Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Social Medicine
Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Program in Ethics and Health
Harvard University
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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Ethical Issues in Organ Donation
David Magnus, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Philosophy
Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Director, Scholarly Concentration in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, School of Medicine
Stanford University
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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Unmasking Medical Mistakes
Jay Jacobson, MD
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
Professor of Internal Medicine
Departments of Internal Medicine,
LDS Hospital & University of Utah School of Medicine
Monday, December 11, 2006
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Physicians' Legal Defensiveness in End-of-Life Treatment Decisions: Comparing Attitudes and Knowledge in States with Different Laws
S. Van McCrary, PhD, JD, MPH
Associate Professor in the Division of Medicine in Society, Department of Preventive Medicine
State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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Dying at the Right Time: Future Patients' Perspectives
John Hardwig, PhD
Professor and Department Head, Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee
Monday, May 22, 2006
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Who's Conflict? Who's Interest? Who's On First?: Medicine and Conflicts of Interest
Edward Goldman, JD
Associate VP and Deputy General Counsel, Health System Legal Office
University of Michigan
Monday, April 17, 2006
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The Caring Physician: How Care Relates to Medicine
Warren Reich, STD
Distinguished Research Professor of Religion and Ethics
Professor Emeritus of Bioethics
Georgetown University
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
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University of Louisville Fellows in Bioethics

Ethical Considerations in Recording Sexuality in Medical Charts
Barry DeCoster, PhD
Crown Life Bioethics Fellow, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law

A Challenge to Art Caplan on Stem Cell Research, and How He Should Answer It
Stephen Hanson, PhD
Gheens Fellow in Bioethics and Philosophy
Respondent: Paul Simmons, PhD
Clinical Professor, Family and Geriatric Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy
Monday, February 27, 2006
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The Ethics and Politics of Stem Cell Research in the US
Arthur Caplan, PhD
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor, Bioethics
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics
Director, Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, January 23, 2006
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End-of-Life Decision Making and Incompetent Patients: Lessons from Schiavo
Jessica Berg, JD
Professor, Law and Biomedical Ethics
Case Western Reserve University
Monday, December 5, 2005
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Approving Medical Research on Humans: Can Good Judgment Be Taught and Evaluated?
Alison Wichman, MD
Deputy Director, Office of Human Subjects Research
National Institutes of Health
Tuesday, November 22, 2005   
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Eliminating Ethnic Health Disparities: Evidence and Ethics
John R. Stone, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
Scholar, National Center for Bioethics Research
Tuskeegee University
Monday, October 31, 2005   
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How Much Ethics Should Physicians Know…and How Should They Be Taught?
Edmund Pellegrino, MD, MACP
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University
September 12, 2005   
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Spin Doctors: Medical Ethics, Education and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Janet Fleetwood, PhD
Chief, Medical Humanities Division
Drexel University College of Medicine
June 14, 2005   
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Human Experimentation in Twentieth Century America: Myths and Realities
Jonathon Erlen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
May 23, 2005   
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Is There a Place for Race in Medicine?
Pilar N. Osario, JD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Law and Medical Ethics
University of Wisconsin
April 21, 2005   
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Bioethics’ Historical Errors Concerning Truth-Telling and Medical Paternalism: Implications for Professional Medical Ethics
Laurence B. McCullough,PhD
Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Faculty Associate, Huffington Center on Aging
Baylor College of Medicine
February 7, 2005
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Genetics, Smoking, and Treatment: From Cells to Society
Caryn Lerman, PhD
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Director, Tobacco Use Research Center
University of Pennsylvania Health System
January 11, 2005

Moral Fairness in Health Care Coverage
Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM
Associate Professor of Law
Case Western Reserve University
October 3, 2003

Parents, Children and Cloning
Tom Murray, PhD
President
The Hastings Center
April 4, 2003

Elder Abuse Issues

Lori Steigel, JD
Associate Staff Director, Commision on Legal Problems of the Elderly
American Bar Association
March 14, 2003

End-of-Life Issues
Estelle Rogers, JD
Executive Director
Death with Dignity National Center
February 13, 2003

Gene Patents: The Body as Property
Lori Andrews, JD
Distinguished Professor of Law
Director, The Institute of Science, Law and Technology
Chicago Kent College of Law
November 15, 2002

Bioethics and Bioterrorism
Eric Meslin, PhD
Director, Center for Bioethics
Professor, Medicine and Medical and Molecular Genetics
Indiana University School of Medicine
October 10, 2002

Emerging Litigation Issues in Clinical Research Trials
Haavi Morreim, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Human Values and Ethics
University of Tennessee at Memphis College of Medicine
September 30, 2002