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SUMMARY:Spark Series on Faculty Research with Seth Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:October 21 @ 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm\n\n\n\nDr. Seth Berkowitz will discuss his new book\, Equal Care: Health Equity\, Social Democracy\, and the Egalitarian State.\nA general internist and primary care doctor\, Dr. Berkowitz will present on how social conditions and mechanisms link injustice to poor health. He’ll share what policies may be effective at achieving better systems to improve health for all. After the talk\, attendees will dive deeper into the topic in smaller groups and have a chance to learn about one another’s work and practices.\nAbout the Spark Series\nThe new Spark Series on Faculty Research is meant to ignite new ideas and connections for faculty health researchers. Sessions will feature guest presenters and networking opportunities.\nThe series is a chance for faculty researchers advancing equity through their work to hear and learn from one another. Topics will include health equity research concepts\, methodology\, principles\, impacts and more. The series goal is to generate new thinking and innovation in the practice of research.
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/spark-series-on-faculty-research-with-seth-berkowitz/
LOCATION:https://www.med.unc.edu/cher/event/lunch-learn-faculty-research-webinar/
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SUMMARY:How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think)
DESCRIPTION:Eric M. Meslin\, Ph.D. FRSC FCAHS ICD.D\nThursday\, October 24\, 2024\n12:00 – 1:00 pm EST\nLocation: Hybrid: 5302 Roper Hall & Zoom webinar\n\n\nDownload flyer\n\n\nWe’ll share the Zoom link for the talk on October 17.\n  \nBy now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since the early years of genetic engineering has a technology captured our imagination and fears so quickly.  But AI has done something else – it has dragged bioethics into unfamiliar territory: this is because AI does not fit comfortably under one category of analysis (e.g.\, research\, policy\, technology development\, public health) nor is even limited to the health sector\, but touches on every sector of society including trade policy\, national security\, banking\, and immigration\, among others.   This is a good thing\, as it calls on bioethics to take stock of how it can (and should) engage in future-altering policy debates.\nAbout the speaker\nEric M. Meslin\, Ph.D. FRSC FCAHS ICD.D has more than 35 years of experience in academic\, government and not for profit settings.\nDr. Meslin is a Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Miami\, an Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto\, a Visiting Scholar in the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and a Senior Fellow at the PHG Foundation\, University of Cambridge. He is the former President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) and the former director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics.\nFrom 2016-2023\, Dr. Meslin was President and CEO of the CCA\, an organization undertaking expert assessments for the government of Canada and other sponsors on society’s most pressing policy issues including climate change\, artificial intelligence\, health data\, transportation\, Arctic research\, Indigenous affairs\, and international science and technology policy.\nDr. Meslin came to the CCA from Indiana University (IU)\, where he was the Founding Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics for 15 years\, Associate Dean for Bioethics in the IU School of Medicine\, and Professor of Medicine\, of Medical & Molecular Genetics\, of Bioethics and Law\, of Public Health\, and of Philosophy. In 2012 Dr. Meslin was appointed IU’s first endowed Professor of Bioethics.\nDr. Meslin has held academic positions at the University of Oxford\, as Professor-at-Large at the University of Western Australia\, and as the Pierre de Fermat Chaire d’Excellence at the Université de Toulouse.\nBefore Indiana University\, he was Bioethics Research Director of the Ethical\, Legal and Social Implications program at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute\, and then Executive Director of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission appointed by President Bill Clinton.\nDr. Meslin has more than 200 published articles and book chapters on various topics in bioethics and science policy. He has been an advisor and served on committees of the World Health Organization\, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research\, the National Academy of Medicine\, the National Institutes of Health\, Genome Canada\, OECD\, UNESCO and the UK Biobank.
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/how-artificial-intelligence-might-save-bioethics-and-its-not-how-you-think/
LOCATION:5302 Roper Hall
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SUMMARY:Ethics Around the Table: Rebecca Walker (UNC Philosophy and Social Medicine)
DESCRIPTION:Ethics Around the Table: Rebecca Walker\, UNC Philosophy and Social Medicine\nTopic: Doctors in prisons. \n \nRebecca Walker is a professor in the Philosophy Department at UNC\, with a joint appointment in the Department of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine. She uses philosophical and empirical research methods to address questions at the intersection of biomedicine and ethics. Her areas of focus include animal ethics\, practical virtue ethics\, and topics in health justice. She has published widely in prominent bioethics\, science\, philosophy\, and medicine journals\, and her co-edited books include Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (2007); Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice (2016); and the two-volume Social Medicine Reader (2019). Her monograph Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. \n  \nLunch will be served. 
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/ethics-around-the-table-rebecca-walker-unc-philosophy-and-social-medicine/
LOCATION:Toy Lounge\, Dey Hall\, 200 South Rd\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:Center for Health Equity Research: Visit our table during the 46th Minority Health Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 46th Minority Health Conference is coming! Come visit our table on February 28 during the conference. This year’s theme is Bridging the Digital Divide: Leveraging Technology and Data for Health Equity. \nLEARN MORE ABOUT THE MINORITY HEALTH CONFERENCE \n 
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/center-for-health-equity-research-visit-our-table-during-the-46th-minority-health-conference/
LOCATION:The Friday Center\, 100 Friday Center Drive\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27517\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="UNC Minority Student Caucus":MAILTO:minoritystudentcaucus@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Annual Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Baylor College of Medicine)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2025 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture\, co-sponsored annually by the Parr Center and the Center for Bioethics.  \nThe 2025 Joint Lecturer will be Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby. \n \nJennifer Blumenthal-Barby\, Ph.D.\, is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy\, with a specialization in bioethics\, from Michigan State University. Her research focuses primarily on the ethical issues raised by research on human judgment and decision-making (e.g.\, decisional biases and heuristics\, behavioral economics). Dr. Blumenthal-Barby has been the recipient of a prestigious Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics and a Pfizer Bioethics Fellowship\, and she has served as the Principal Investigator on four awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study and improve decision making in advanced heart failure. Most recently\, she received funding as a Co-Principal Investigator to study ethics and decision making in pediatric deep brain stimulation through the NIH BRAIN initiative. \nLight refreshments will be served at 6:30 PM. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/annual-parr-bioethics-joint-lecture-jennifer-blumenthal-barby-baylor-college-of-medicine/
LOCATION:Murphey 116
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SUMMARY:Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThe 2025 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW) is coming! \nAbout HERW\nHERW\, hosted by the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)\, brings faculty\, staff\, students and community members together to share health equity research at UNC. HERW is an opportunity to facilitate collaboration\, innovation and equity in the UNC School of Medicine\, across Carolina’s communities and beyond. All sessions are open to the entire Carolina community and the general public. \nIn 2020\, the UNC School of Medicine collaborated with CHER to host the first Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium. In 2023\, the symposium expanded into a week dedicated to highlighting health equity research at Carolina. HERW 2025 will include research presentations\, panel discussions and more. \nNew this year\, we’re excited to announce the Ada Adimora Student Research Award!
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/paul-a-godley-health-equity-research-week/
LOCATION:NC
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Occasional Human Sacrifice
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the talk in person. \nLocation: Registration required; 321MacNider Hall or Zoom \nLight refreshments will be served! Kindly RSVP to help us organize better. \nCarl Elliott\, MD\, PhD\nCarl Elliott was originally trained in medicine before going into philosophy\, and his most recent book\, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No\, is about whistleblowing in medical research. Carl grew up in Clover\, South Carolina\, where his father was a family doctor and his mother was a librarian. He attended Davidson College\, the Medical University of South Carolina and Glasgow University in Scotland\, training first in medicine and then in philosophy. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago\, the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Natal Medical School in South Africa\, he joined the faculty at McGill University in Montreal. Elliott moved to the University of Minnesota in 1997 to join the Center for Bioethics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy. \nCarl is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award\, the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress\, a resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio\, and a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, Mother Jones and The American Scholar. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the University of Sydney\, and the University of Otago\, where he is an affiliate of the Bioethics Centre. He and his wife\, Ina\, have three children and live in Minneapolis. \nFor more information on Carl Elliott\, please visit https://www.carl-elliott.com/.
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/book-talk-the-occasional-human-sacrifice/
LOCATION:321 MacNider Hall
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SUMMARY:Population Genomic Screening: From Biobank Return of Results to a Clinical Screening Pilot
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 6\, 2025\n12:00 – 1:00 pm ET\n\n\nLocation: Webinar: Registration Required\n\nJuliann Savatt\, MS\, CGC\n\nAssistant Professor\, Genomic Health\, Geisinger\nCo-director\, Geisinger MyCode Genomic Screening and Counseling Program \nPlease register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/jsavatt \nCurrently\, identification of individuals with genomic risk remains largely dependent on clinical testing that relies on a personal/family history of disease and\, access to specialty care. However\, some patients with suggestive history do not come to clinical attention. Also\, testing criteria are not adequately sensitive to identify all at-risk patients. Genomic screening offers a strategy to close the gap and identify more at-risk patients thus enabling increased surveillance\, primary prevention\, and early diagnoses. \nGeisinger has over 10 years of experience screening and disclosing actionable genomic findings to biobank participants and has expanded genomic screening into clinical care through a primary care pilot. This presentation will summarize these experiences to date including the rate of pathogenic/likely pathogenic results\, clinical care and outcomes following results disclosure\, and patient and clinician perspectives.
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/population-genomic-screening-from-biobank-return-of-results-to-a-clinical-screening-pilot/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="UNC Center for the ELSI of Biotechnology":MAILTO:kriste.kuczynski@unc.edu
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event | Comparing Patient and Physician Attitudes About Applications of AI in Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 6\n4:00—5:00pm ET\nRoper Hall 6310 or via Zoom\nPresented by Richard Sharp\, Ph.D.\nLloyd A. and Barbara A. Amundson Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Medicine\, Mayo Clinic\nDirector of the Biomedical Ethics Program\, the Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program\, and the Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Program \nWhile artificial intelligence appears ready to transform multiple aspects of healthcare\, studies examining physician and patient opinions about digital-health tools have been limited. This presentation will explore physician and patient perspectives on the ethical issues raised by potential uses of AI in medicine\, focusing on areas where doctor and patient perspectives may not be in alignment and could generate ethical tensions. \nDr. Sharp has published widely on topics in biomedical ethics and has led several projects exploring patient and clinician perspectives on emerging healthcare technologies. His presentation will focus on stakeholder perspectives on several applications of AI in healthcare\, including in psychiatry and medical documentation. He will also discuss what leaders of Academic Medical Centers might do to proactively cultivate a culture of AI safety and ethical accountability. \nPlease register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/sharp
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/hybrid-event-comparing-patient-and-physician-attitudes-about-applications-of-ai-in-healthcare/
LOCATION:Roper Hall 6310
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Societal and Ethical Implications and Community Engagement Associated with Microbiome Engineering in the Built Environment
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 PreMiEr SEI Symposium is a virtual workshop designed to bring together researchers\, engineers\, ethicists\, and policymakers to examine the societal and ethical dimensions of microbiome engineering in the built environment. Over the course of the afternoon\, participants will explore governance frameworks\, public perceptions\, and strategies for meaningful community engagement. This symposium provides a collaborative space to critically assess the broader implications of microbiome research and identify pathways for responsible innovation.
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/workshop-societal-and-ethical-implications-and-community-engagement-associated-with-microbiome-engineering-in-the-built-environment/
LOCATION:NC
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SUMMARY:ELSI Friday Forum - Rigor\, Reproducibility and Responsibility: ELSI Questions in Population Data Practices
DESCRIPTION:Rigor\, Reproducibility and Responsibility: ELSI Questions in Population Data Practices\nwith speakers Anne Flanagin\, RN\, MA\, FAAN\, Genevieve Wojcik\, PhD\, MHS\, and moderator Aliya Saperstein\, PhD. \nAs large-scale genomic data sets are increasingly linked\, harmonized\, and repurposed across studies\, questions about how to meaningfully define and compare population descriptors have taken on renewed urgency. This panel brings together members of recent National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine committees and a leading medical journal editor that have offered guidance surrounding the use of population labels in biomedical research. Panelists will explore the scientific and ethical implications of existing classification practices\, the challenges of ensuring analytic rigor across studies that use heterogeneous descriptors\, and the responsibilities of researchers\, funders\, and journals in advancing transparent\, reproducible\, and scientifically rigorous practices. \n\nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/elsi-friday-forum-rigor-reproducibility-and-responsibility-elsi-questions-in-population-data-practices/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="UNC Center for the ELSI of Biotechnology":MAILTO:kriste.kuczynski@unc.edu
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