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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

Health Equity Summer Intensive on Concept Mapping

NC

The UNC Center for Health Equity Research’is hosting its first Health Equity Summer Intensive, a two day training on innovative methods and approaches to conduct health equity research. This year, the training will include interactive training's on concept mapping as a stakeholder-engaged, participatory method to conduct health equity research. Participants will learn how to conduct concept mapping activities from both a … Read more

Ethics Consult Workshop

NC Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

UNC Center for Bioethics and Hospital Ethics Committee Join us for a one-day workshop on fundamental principles and practice in ethic consultations, covering four thematic elements: Considering the consult request Choosing a course of action Reflecting on our approaches Building capacity Registration is limited due to conference size. Please email Brandy at brandyelsenrath@unc.edu if you … Read more

Bullitt History of Medicine Club: Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges

Bondurant Hall, G100

Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges Dr. Robert C. Allen, Director, Digital Innovation Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sarah E. Almond, Assistant Director, Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Using material from the State Archives of North Carolina, Dr. Allen and Ms. Almond have … Read more

Joint Lecture Series: Parents and Children in the Era of Whole Genome Sequencing

Bondurant Hall Room 2020

Joint Lecture Series Presented by: Center for Bioethics & Parr Center for Ethics Tom Murray, PhD, President Emeritus,the Hastings Center, will reflect on how well the arguments made in his 1996 book, The Worth of a Child, about parental choices in the face of medical predictions about their offspring hold up today in the context … Read more