Past Events http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed Events which have already happened. daily 1 2010-11-02T18:29:04Z Rsrch Ethics Grnd Rnds: D. Wright: Resp. Conduct Rsrch Trg http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/rsrch-ethics-grnd-rnds-d.-wright-resp.-conduct-rsrch-trg David E. Wright, Ph.D., Director in the Office of Research Integrity will speak on: "Does Responsible Conduct of Research Training Really Work? Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications" No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-02-16T19:46:14Z Event Prev Med Seminar: Zack Moore: Epi Investigations http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/prev-med-seminar-zack-moore-epi-investigations Preventive Medicine Seminar, Zack S. Moore, MD, medical epidemiologist, NC Division of Public Health will speak on on: "Epi Investigations" No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-02-20T18:27:38Z Event Soc Med Forum: Redfield: Docs w/o Borders & Problem of Triage http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/soc-med-forum-redfield-docs-w-o-borders-problem-of-triage Peter Redfield, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UNC: "Doctors Without Borders & the Problem of Triage" Redfield is a scholar of Science & Technology Studies working especially on nonWestern settings. He just published a book on Medécins Sans Frontières with Univ. of California Press. Current work addresses dimensions of humanitarianism in the developing world. Peter was a co-host of Nikolas Rose during his recent visit to campus.

http://anthropology.unc.edu/people/faculty/predfield

 

recent work:

“The Unbearable Lightness of Ex-Pats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility” (Cultural Anthro ’12)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01147.x/pdf

“Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods” (Public Culture ’12)

http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/24/1_66/157.full.pdf+html

]]> No publisher Barry F Saunders 2013-05-13T15:17:54Z Event Pediatrics: Paul H. Wise: Grnd Rnds-Confronting Demise & Rebirth of Am Pediatrics http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/pediatrics-paul-h-wise-grnd-rnds-confronting-demise-rebirth-of-am-pediatrics Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH at Stanford University will present Grand Rounds on “Innovation, Austerity, and Health Care reform: Confronting the Demise and Rebirth of American Pediatrics”. NOTE: Location: Kirkland Auditorium, UNC Dental School (Clinic Aud. is out of commission for renovations). Kirkland Aud. is on 1st floor of new Koury Building in Dental School and is easy to find. Pediatrics has a new Visiting Professorship named in honor of its recent Chair, Alan Stiles. The first Stiles Visiting Professor is Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH who is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention at Stanford University. Dr. Wise is a health policy and outcomes researcher whose work has focused on children’s health; health-outcomes disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the interaction of genetics and the environment as these factors influence child and maternal health; and the impact of medical technology on disparities in health outcomes.

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-05-02T16:30:35Z Event Duke: Trent Ctr., Humanities in Med : J. Karlawish: How Risk is Remaking Med http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/duke-trent-ctr-humanities-in-med-j-karlawish-how-risk-is-remaking-med Dr. Jason Karlawish, Prof. of Medicine, Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania will present: "From the Bedside to the Desktop: How Risk is Remaking Medicine." Lunch will be provided at noon, talk begins @ 12:10pm For much of the modern era, medicine worked at the bedside. "Go to the bedside" was a senior physician's command to trainees, a command indicating where to discover, diagnose, and treat disease. The patient's chief complaint and the detailed history and physical that followed were the foundation of the medical encounter and medical knowledge. But today medicine occupies a new space. Physicians discover diseases and diagnose and treat patients at the "desktop." Desktop medicine describes how risk assessment and information technologies are transforming medicine. The desktop with a networked computer--and that computer with its own virtual desktop--are where researchers examine and discover risks and where clinicians and patients meet to assess a patient's risk factors and decide whether the patient needs treatment. This talk will consider this new model of medicine and its broad implications for medical training, the doctor-patient relationship, and the practice of medicine.

Jason Karlawish, MD is Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of Penn's Neurodegenerative Disease Ethics and Policy Program and the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center's Education, Recruitment and Retention Core. His clinical practice centers on the diagnosis and treatment of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Professor Karlawish's research focuses on neuroethics, particularly on research and care of older adults and persons with late-life cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. His has investigated issues in dementia drug development, informed consent, quality of life, research and treatment decision making, biomarkers, and voting by persons with cognitive impairment and residents of long-term care facilities. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Greenwall Foundation and the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging, and is the associate editor for ethics, policy and economics for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-05-02T14:28:23Z Event Pediatrics: Paul H. Wise: Global Child Hlth in Conflict Zones http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/pediatrics-paul-h-wise-global-child-hlth-in-conflict-zones Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH, of Stanford University will speak on: “Global Child Health in Conflict Zones and Unstable Areas of the World.” Pediatrics has a new Visiting Professorship named in honor of its recent Chair, Alan Stiles. The first Stiles Visiting Professor is Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH who is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention at Stanford University. Dr. Wise is a health policy and outcomes researcher whose work has focused on children’s health; health-outcomes disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the interaction of genetics and the environment as these factors influence child and maternal health; and the impact of medical technology on disparities in health outcomes.

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-05-02T16:23:01Z Event Pediatrics: Paul H. Wise: Seminar re Policy/advocacy Implications of Life-course Epid http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/pediatrics-paul-h-wise-seminar-re-policy-advocacy-implications-of-life-course-epid Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH, Stanford University, will give a seminar addressing the policy/advocacy implications of life-course epidemiology. Pediatrics has a new Visiting Professorship named in honor of its recent Chair, Alan Stiles. The first Stiles Visiting Professor is Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH who is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention at Stanford University. Dr. Wise is a health policy and outcomes researcher whose work has focused on children’s health; health-outcomes disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the interaction of genetics and the environment as these factors influence child and maternal health; and the impact of medical technology on disparities in health outcomes.

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-05-02T16:15:31Z Event Clin Ethics Grnd Rnds: Joan Krause, UNC Sch. of Law, Dept of Soc Med & UNC-SPH http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/clin-ethics-grnd-rnds-joan-krause-unc-sch.-of-law-dept-of-soc-med-unc-sph No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-02-16T20:30:04Z Event Public Lecture: Nikolas Rose: "A New Sociology for a New Century?" http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/nikolas-rose-lecture-a-new-sociology-for-a-new-century Campus talk, open to the public Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology & Head of the Department of Social Science, Health, & Medicine at Kings College, London, will discuss the opening of relations between the natural sciences & the social & human sciences. Talk is open to the public.

More on Rose: http://www.nikolasrose.com/

 

]]> No publisher Barry F Saunders 2013-02-07T23:05:00Z Event MEM discussion w/ Nikolas Rose http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/mem-discussion-w-nikolas-rose Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group discussion with Nikolas Rose, Prof of Sociology & Head of the Department of Social Science, Health, & Medicine at Kings College London. Prof Rose will join the Moral Economies of Medicine (MEM) Working Group in discussion pivoting on "The Social Brain," chapter 5 from his new book Neuro. (Supplemental/optional reading: Intro & chapter 6, "The Antisocial Brain").

More on Nikolas Rose: http://www.nikolasrose.com/

The Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group is an interdisciplinary group of faculty & students based in Dept of Anthropology (with sponsorship from College of Arts & Sciences & Institute for Arts & Humanities): http://medicalanthropology.unc.edu/workinggroups.html

]]> No publisher Barry F Saunders 2013-02-09T17:10:00Z Event Duke Neurohum Rsrch: Kuusisto & Antonetta: Reading/Discuss. http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/duke-neurohum-rsrch-kuusisto-antonetta-reading-discuss Drs. Stephen Kuusisto and Susanne Antonetta will present "The Difference that Disability Makes: A Reading and Panel Discussion" How might blindness and bipolar disorder be understood as acceptable forms of difference, not conditions to be pathologized and lamented? How might they contribute to the literary arts? Come listen to two celebrated authors read from their work and discuss these questions. STEPHEN KUUSISTO is the author of two books of nonfiction, Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and Planet of the Blind, which was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.” He has also published two volumes of poems, Only Bread, Only Light and Mornings with Borges. Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse University, he speaks widely on issues of diversity, disability, education, and public policy. He is currently at work on a book about guide dogs, which will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2014.

SUSANNE ANTONETTA has published two books of nonfiction, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World and Body Toxic, which was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” and four books of poetry (under the name Suzanne Paola), most recently The Lives of the Saints. Her work encompasses the environment, mental health and diversity, spirituality, science, parenting, and other subjects. She has also coauthored the nonfiction handbook Tell It Slant with Brenda Miller. Next year W.W. Norton will publish her book about adoption, Inventing Family.

Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute & Duke Institute for Brain Science

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-04-23T13:08:43Z Event Philosophy & Psychiatry Rsch Group: Discussion w/ Nikolas Rose http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/philosophy-psychiatry-rsch-group-discussion-w-nikolas-rose UNC-Duke Philosophy and Psychiatry Research Group will meet with Nikolas Rose (Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College, London) to discuss "Personhood in a Neurobiological Age," from _Neuro_ (co-authored with Joelle Abi-Rached), 7:00-8:30, in 208 Caldwell Hall. Food from Med Deli: RSVP by Wednesday, April 24. UNC Philosophy and Psychiatry Research Group is pleased to announce that next Thursday, April 25,  Nikolas Rose (Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College, London) is going to meet with us to discuss "Personhood in a Neurobiological Age," which is Chapter 7 of his recently published book Neuro (Princeton University Press, 2013)--co-authored with Joelle M. Abi-Rached. We will meet from 7:00-8:30 in room 208 of Caldwell Hall. There will be food from Med Deli. Please RSVP by Wednesday, April 24 to help with food planning. More information about Professor Rose can be found HERE and more information about Neuro is available HERE.

]]> No publisher Barry F Saunders 2013-04-22T12:07:56Z Event Duke Neurohum Rsrch: Nima Bassiri: Lecture http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/duke-neurohum-rsrch-nima-bassiri-lecture Nima Bassiri, PhD, and ACLS New Faculty Fellow @ Duke, will present "Can the Brain Speak the Truth of the Self? Notes on a Historical Development." An ACLS fellow at Duke University, Nima Bassiri teaches in the Program in Literature, the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and the Department of Philosophy. He is also a postdoctoral associate of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. While recent science-studies debates consider what the proliferation of neuroscience means for categories of person and self today, this talk presents a historical analysis of the problem of “neural personhood.” It argues that the conditions according to which “neural personhood” could be articulated as a viable and coherent category were bound up with transformations in the definitions of normality and pathology within the history of brain research, spanning from the seventeenth to the nineteenth
century. The talk concludes with an examination of medico-legal discussions around madness, personhood, and the brain in late nineteenth-century British neurology.

Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute & Duke Institute for Brain Science

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-04-23T12:58:31Z Event NHGRI: Eric Green: Hum Genome Proj 10 Yrs Ltr http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/nhgri-eric-green-hum-genome-proj-10-yrs-ltr Save the Date, Spread the Word Eric D. Green, MD, PhD, Dir. National Human Genome Research Institute & Acting Assoc Director for Data Science, NIH will speak on "The Human Genomics Landscape a Decade after the Human Genome Project" --free and open to all-- Coffee and pastry reception begins at 9:15 a.m. in the Atrium

The Human Genome Project’s generation of a reference human genome sequence was a landmark scientific achievement of historic significance. It also signified a critical transition for the field of genomics, as the new foundation of genomic knowledge started to be used in powerful ways by researchers and clinicians to tackle increasingly complex problems in biomedicine.

To exploit the opportunities provided by the human genome sequence and to ensure the productive growth of genomics as one of the most vital biomedical disciplines of the 21st century, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is pursuing a broad vision for genomics research beyond the Human Genome Project. This vision includes using genomic data, technologies, and insights to acquire a deeper understanding of genome function and biology as well as to uncover the genetic basis of human disease.

Some of the most profound advances are being catalyzed by revolutionary new DNA sequencing technologies; these methods are producing prodigious amounts of DNA sequence data as part of studies aiming to elucidate the complexities of genome function and to unravel the genetic basis of rare and complex diseases. Together, these developments are ushering in the era of genomic medicine.

About the Speaker:

Eric D. Green, MD, PhD, is the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position he has held since late 2009. In January 2013, Dr. Green took on the additional role of Acting Associate Director for Data Science, a new NIH-wide strategic initiative that aims to capitalize on the exponential growth of biomedical research data. NHGRI is the largest organization in the world solely dedicated to genomics research. Previously, he served as the NHGRI Scientific Director (2002-2009), Chief of the NHGRI Genome Technology

Branch (1996-2009), and Director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (1997- 2009). While directing an independent research program for almost two decades, Dr. Green was at the forefront of efforts to map, sequence, and understand eukaryotic genomes, including significant, start-to-finish involvement in the Human Genome Project.

Now, as Director of NHGRI, Dr. Green is responsible for providing overall leadership of the Institute’s research portfolio and other initiatives; this requires significant coordination with other NIH components and funding agencies. Most recently, Dr. Green led NHGRI to the completion of a strategic planning process that yielded a new vision for the future of genomics research, entitled Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside (Nature 470:204-213, 2011).

]]> No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-02-16T20:05:00Z Event Bioethics at UNC Faculty Seminar http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/events/bioethics-at-unc-faculty-seminar-2 No publisher Jennifer M. Lewis 2013-02-20T16:58:54Z Event