HETTLEMAN LECTURES: Presentations by two of UNC’s most distinguished young scholars – winners of the 2017 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. 1:00 p.m. Assisting Death in America: A Cultural Account of a New Medical Frontier Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology 2:00 p.m. Survival of the Richest: How Wealth, Race … Read more
Pediatric Schwartz Center Rounds® A multidisciplinary forum where pediatric clinical caregivers discuss social & emotional issues that arise in caring for patients Hierarchy in Medicine: Effects on Patient Care Facilitator: Mary Beth Prieur, PhD Physician Leader: Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD All hospital caregivers are welcome! For more information, please contact Peds_PCCM_Admin@med.unc.edu Pediatric Schwartz Rounds are sponsored by the Department … Read more
Pediatric Ethics Consultation: A Look Behind the Curtain Chris Feudtner, MD PhD MPH Steven D. Handler Endowed Chair of Medical Ethics Attending Physician & Research Director, PACT & ICS Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Please join us for a thoughtful examination of … Read more
Visiting Scholar Presentation, UNC Carolina Population Center: Dr. Kaumudi Joshipura Jinraj, NIH Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Health Promotion at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
Margaret L “Gretchen” Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Co-hosted with the Department of Surgery All are welcome to attend this session with Dr. Schwarze who will discuss her empirical work on patient-surgeon communication, including exploration of surgical informed consent, shared decision making and interventional … Read more
Larissa Calancie (CHER Post Doc)
Keith Wailoo, Ph.D. Princeton University Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, UNC Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lunch provided at noon. Talk begins at 12:10pm. Legislative support for medically assisted dying in the United States has risen steadily in recent years. Eight US jurisdictions currently authorize physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a mentally competent, terminally … Read more
