Events

THE CLINICAL ETHICS DISCUSSION GROUP (CEDG) PRESENTS: Mechanical Circulatory Support: Exploring History to Consider the Risks and Benefits of Technological Advancement. CEDG presents a discussion of how the historical development of the artificial heart and other means of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) inform contemporary practice and of the ethical issues that follow from such technologic advancement. What unique challenges are … Read more

Pediatric oncology is often held up as the model for learning healthcare systems to emulate. There is much truth—but also a few cautionary notes—in this view. This presentation will describe how pediatric oncology has created a learning healthcare culture, one on which other areas of pediatrics and medicine can build as they seek to improve … Read more

Learn about our work at Carolina and on four continents to improve local and global health with special presentations from our country directors and keynote addresses from: Richard Chaisson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and International Health and Director, Center for Tuberculosis Research at Johns Hopkins University and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Global Health and … Read more

In collaboration with CHER and with support from the Merrimon Lecture Fund, the Center for Bioethics will host Dr. Helena Hansen from NYU and a panel of respondents in a public workshop on ““Race, health equity, and the opioid epidemic: a panel discussion”. Panelists: Helena Hansen, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry New York … Read more

Bioethics@UNC (BUNC) seminar: Shlomit Zuckerman, LLB, PhD,  Associate Director of the new Bioethics and Law Center, at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine.   Acquired her PhD in bioethics from the Case Western doctoral program.  She recently served as the ethics consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Health Committee on the Management of Sperm Donation, … Read more