Conferences and Courses

FUTURE GRAND ROUNDS, COURSES, AND GUEST SPEAKERS

The Department of Bioethics is pleased to offer standing educational events on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. The first Tuesday of each month will feature Bioethics Grand Rounds, and on the third Tuesday of each month there will be an In-Depth Bioethics Case Study.  Please check this page for up-to-date details concerning future conferences.

Past Conferences:

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS

June3, 2008

"Ethics Consultation in Neurological Disease: Learning From the Past"

Adrienne Boissy, MD

3:00pm - 4:00pm, JJ3-107

INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENTS' NOON CONFERENCE:

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Bioethics

May 29, 2008

"The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Identity, Desire, and Empathy"

Rafael Campo, MD

General Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Author of The Healing Art

12:00pm - 1:00pm, NA5-03

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

April 1, 2008

"End-of-Life Care for Muslims: What Healthcare Professionals Should Know"

Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD

President of the Ohio Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

3:00pm - 4:00pm, JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

March 4, 2008

"Ethical Challenges in International Research"

Patricia Marshall, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Anthropology

Case Western Reserve University

3:00pm - 4:00pm, JJ3-107

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY:

February 19, 2008

"In Their Best Interest: What Risks are Acceptable When Making a Definitive Diagnosis for Children?"

Anthony Thomas, MD

3:00 - 4:00pm, JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

February 5, 2008

"Is Improving the Quality of Informed Consent Achievable?"

Tsiao Yi Yap, MD

Eric Kodish, MD

3:00 - 4:00pm JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

January 8, 2008

Anthony Miniaci, MD

Richard Parker, MD

Mark Schickendantz

Facilitator - Eric Kodish, MD

"Ethical Issues in Professional Team Sports Medicine"

3:00-4:00pm  NA5-08

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY:

December 18, 2007

Kathy Weise, MD

"Heart Valve Replacement in the Patient with Drug Addiction"

3:00-4:00pm

JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:
December 4, 2007

Rich Sharp, PhD

Ruth Farrell, MD

Department of Bioethics

"Parental Choices in the Era of Genetic Medicine: Examining Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis"

3:00pm JJ3-107

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY:

November 20, 2007

Eric Kodish, MD

Chairman, Department of Bioethics

"'I Do Not Want to Die': Ethics Consultation and Statement Interpretation"

3:00-4:00pm JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

November 6, 2007 

Grant Gillett, MD DPhil

Professor of Medical Ethics at the Bioethics Centre and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago

"Locked-In Syndrome, PVS, and Being in the World"

3:00-4:00 PM JJ3-106 & 107

HEART CENTER GRAND ROUNDS:

November 2 , 2007  7:30 a.m.  Bunts Auditorium

Ezekiel J. Emmanuel, M.D., Ph.D.

Chairman, Department of Bioethics

Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

" Beyond Basics: Curing the Sick American Health Care System "

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE REVIEW:

October 16, 2007 3:00pm-4:00pm  JJ3-107

Carmen Paradis, MD

Staff, Department of Bioethics Cleveland Clinic

"Surrogate Decision-Making in the Face of Unclear Advance Directives"

INTERNAL MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS:

October 11 , 2007  7:30 a.m.  Bunts Auditorium

Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D.

President of the Hastings Center, Garrison, NY

Dr. Murray was formerly the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics. He is a founding editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review, and is on the editorial boards of The Hastings Center Report; Human Gene Therapy; Politics and the Life Sciences; Cloning, Science, and Policy; Medscape General Medicine; Teaching Ethics; and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. He served as President of the Society for Health and Human Values, and of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

October 2, 2007

Allyson Robichaud, PhD

Cleveland State University

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY

September 18, 2007

Martin Smith, STD

Cleveland Clinic Department of Bioethics

"How Young is Too Young to be a Living Organ Donor? Ethical Considerations

3:00-4:00pm JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

September, 4, 2007

Dena Davis, JD, PhD

Cleveland State University

"Male and Female Genital Cutting: Law, Ethics and Pragmatics"

3:00-4:00pm, JJ3 - 107

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY

August 21, 2007

Paul Ford, PhD

Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic

"Anonymous Reports about Patient Behavior: An Ethics Consultation about Crack"

3:00-4:00pm, JJ3-107

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

August 7, 2007

Martin Smith, STD

Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic

"Public Solicitation of Organ Donations from Altruistic Strangers: An Ethical Assessment"

3:00-4:00pm, JJ3

OB/GYN GRAND ROUNDS:

June 20, 2007

Ruth Farrell, MD

Department of OB/GYN and Bioethics

Cleveland Clinic

"Global Health: Gynecologic Surgery in Developing Nations"

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE REVIEW

June 19, 2007, 3:00-4:00 pm, JJ3-107

Kathryn Weise, MD

Program Director, Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics

Cleveland Clinic

"Must a Medical Caregiver Provide Care When Morally Opposed to Providing It?"

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

June 5 , 2007  3:00 - 4:00 p.m.  JJ3 107

Anne Flamm, J.D.

"Access to Clinical Trials: Peril, Opportunity or Right? "

CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESTORATION GRAND ROUNDS:

Sponsored by the Department of Bioethics

May 22, 2007 5:00 p.m.

Eric Racine, Ph.D.

Director, Neuroethics Research Unit, IRCM

Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery

McGill University

Currents of Hope”: Neurostimulation Techniques and Ethics in International Print Media

INTERNAL MEDICINE NOON CONFERENCE - HUMANITIES EVENT

CO-SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF BIEOTHICS

May 4, 2007, 12:00 p.m. - Bunts Auditorium

“Cold Storage,” a one-act play followed by discussion with the three actors (Marvin Rosenberg, Jeff Grover, and Jaqui Lowe).

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

May 1, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., JJ3-107 Rooms 1 &2

Jay Baruch, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Brown University School of Medicine

Physician Author

Topic:  What's Next and Why? The Intersection of Fiction and Bioethics

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

April 3 , 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., JJ3-107 Rooms 1 &2

Javier J. Provencio, M.D.

Cerebrovascular and Neuroscience Staff

Cleveland Clinic

Topic:  Organ Donation after Cardiac Death

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

March 6, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., JJ3-107 Rooms 1 &2

Richard Sharp, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Title: Responsible Patient Advocacy: Examining the Work of Voluntary Health Organizations for Persons with Rare Diseases

INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENTS' CONFERENCE

Internal Medicine Resident's Noon Conference

March 1, 2007 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.  Location:  NA5 03/04

Bernard Lo, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Director, Program in Medical Ethics 

University of California San Francisco

Title: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Drawing the Line Between Palliative Sedation and Active Euthanasia

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

March 2, 2007, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Bunts Auditorium

Bernard Lo, M.D.

Title: Stem Cell Research in California: Ethical and Policy Lessons

BIOETHICS IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY

February 20, 2007   3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location:  JJ3 107 1 & 2

Paul Ford, Ph.D

Associate Staff, Department of Bioethics

Cleveland Clinic

Title: A Dying Mother with an Adolescent Decision Maker

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS

February 6, 2007   3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location:  JJ3 107 1 & 2

Kathryn L. Weise, M D., M.A.

Staff, Pediatric Critical Care, Bioethics and Pediatric Palliative Medicine

Cleveland Clinic

Title: From Castrati to the Pillow Angel:  Is it Ethical to Use Surgical or Medical Interventions to Alter a Child's Development?

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS :

January 23, 2007   3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Location JJ3-107 1 & 2

Jon Charles Tilburt, M.D., M.P.H.

Staff Scientist, Dept. of Clinical Bioethics and Fellow

The Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Title: How Can We Apply Principles of Biomedical Ethics to Non-Biomedical Healing Practice

IN-DEPTH BIOETHICS CASE STUDY

January 16, 2007   3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location:  JJ3 107 1 & 2

Carmen Paradis, M.D.

Research Associate,  Department of Bioethics

Cleveland Clinic

Title: Can terminating a non-compliant patient be justified?

BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS:

January 12, 2006 12-1 p.m. Location JJ3-107 1 & 2

Helen Stanton Chapple, RN, MA, CT, CCRN

Nurse Ethicist and Anthropologist

University Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA

Title:  Rescue, Stabilization and Transformation: The Ritual of Intesnification

GUEST LECTURE:

December 5, 2006  3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Location JJ3-107 1 & 2

Michael S. Lauer, M.D., FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic

Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Lerner Medical College of CWRU

Contributing Etditor, JAMA

Title:  Contemporary Ethical Issues in Biomedical Authorship:  An Editor's Perspective

ETHICS SEMINAR

November 7, 2006 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location:  JJ3 107 1 & 2

Sherona Hoffman, J.D., LLM,

Professor of Law and Bioethices at Case Western Reserve University

Title:  "Racially-Tailored" Medicne Unravelled

GUEST LECTURE:

October 10, 2006 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.  Location: JJ3-107 1 & 2

Jacquelyn Slomka, Ph.D., R.N.

Assistant Professor

Division of Health Promotion and Behaviorial Sciences

Universityof Texas Health Science Center at Houston

 Title :  Research Ethics, Quality Care and The Public's Health: Fostering the Link between "Evidence" and Education.

ETHICS SEMINAR

October 3, 2006  3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.  Location:  JJ3-107 1&2

Paul J. Ford, PhD, Associate Staff, Bioethics Cleveland Clinic

and Cynthia S. Kubu, Ph.D., Staff, Psychiatry/Psychology, Neurology and Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

"Neurosurgical implants:  Research Ethics form Engineering to Standard of Care"

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST SUMMIT

September 20, 2006

On Sept. 20, Cleveland Clinic will host “A National Dialogue on Biomedical Conflicts of Interest,” a groundbreaking summit examining the interface between health care entities and industry, and the issues created by this growing trend.  Please click on the link below for more information and registration:

coisummit

NEPHROLOGY/HYPERTENSION GRAND ROUNDS

September 22, 2006 7:30-8:30 a.m. Lerner NA5 03/04

Elisa J. Gordon, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Ethics

Alden March Bioethics Institute

Albany Medical Center

Title : "Ethics, Health Dispartities, and Health Policy in Kidney Transplant Survivial"

CANCER CENTER GRAND ROUNDS

September 29, 2006   8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Location:  R03-002

Paul Helft, M.D. 

Assistant Professor Department of Medicine

Division of Hematology/Oncology School of Medicine

Director, Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics

Dr. Helft’s research interests include the ethical aspects of communication within the doctor-patient relationship.

Title:  “An Intimate Collaboration:  Prognostic Communication with Advanced Cancer Patients”