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UNC IGHID Anniversary Celebration

UNC-CH MBRB, Room 2204 111 Mason Farm Road,, CHAPEL HILL, NC, United States

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

Beyond Our Beginnings: 50 Years of Bioethics

The Mews, Graylyn International Conference Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1900 Reynolda Road, Winston Salem, NC, United States

In recognition of the Hastings Center’s 50th anniversary, this conference surveys the past, present, and future of bioethics scholarship, practice, and policy. The program addresses a broad range of issues and topics, including medical and research ethics, health disparities and health equity, health law, policy, and financing, and the history and philosophy of bioethics. It … Read more

Race, health equity, and the opioid epidemic: a panel discussion

MacNider Hall, Room 321

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

White Opioids: Race in the War on Drugs that Wasn’t

Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (UNC-CH) 200 South Rd., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Guest Speaker: Helena B. Hansen, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry New York University   For more information: April 2019 - Race and Opioid Events Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein (lauren_brinkley@med.unc.edu) Mara Buchbinder (mara_buchbinder@med.unc.edu) Sponsored by Department of Social Medicine, Center for Bioethics, Center for Health Equity Research, Moral Economies of Medicine working group, and the 2019 … Read more

Bioethics@UNC seminar: Informed Consent and Mental Disability Rights in the Israeli Setting.

Bondurant Hall, 2030

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

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents: Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms

Health Sciences Library, Room 527 335 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Kurt Gilliland, PhD Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Evaluation, UNC School of Medicine/Associate Professor,  Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC School of Medicine Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms While many eponyms are no longer taught or used in medicine, certain structures in anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroscience will always be better known by … Read more

Challenges and Opportunities When Doing Health Research with and for Mixed Status Latina Families

160 Medical Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The third lecture in the Spring 2019 ENLaCE Multilingual Research Capacity Building Lecture series will take place on Wednesday, April 24, from 10am - 11:30am. Dr. Laura Villa Torres will present on including in health research Latina families whose members have different categories of immigrant or non-immigrant status. About presenter: Dr. Laura Villa Torres holds … Read more

Medical Management of HIV Among Transgender Adults

Tonia C. Poteat, PhD, MPH, PA-C Assistant Professor of Social Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina This advanced webinar is designed for clinical decision makers who are actively involved in HIV care and research. It is also relevant for registered nurses, PharmDs, and other health professionals. Registration ends on … Read more

What Authority? Whose Interests? The Challenges of Decision Making for Impaired Newborns

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds 7th Annual Pediatric Visiting Scholar Special Event with the Department of Pediatrics D. Micah Hester, PhD Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics Professor of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics at UAMS All are welcome The hallmark of decision-making for newborns with severe impairments is that decisions are always about, … Read more