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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: What We Talk About When We Talk About Surgery

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

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

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: “Can we afford to avoid the cost discussion?”

Bondurant Hall, G100

Healthcare costs continue to rise, with cancer leading the way. As patients face growing treatment-related financial burden, clinicians should consider their role in this predicament. Should we stay in our lane, and just treat the patient with the best care possible? Or should we discuss with our patients the cost of every test and drug? … Read more

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: Washing Your Hands of It: Ethical Implications of Infection Control Policy and Practice

Bondurant Hall, G100

Emily Landon, MD The University of Chicago Medicine, Medical Director, Infection Control At the intersection of clinical and public health ethics lies the important practices of infection control. Often taken for granted as both proper and necessary, infection control encompasses a variety of practices that invite closer scrutiny. Is isolation worth the burden it imposes … Read more

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

  Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS Chair, Department of Surgery Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Co-hosted with the Department of Surgery and the Palliative Care Program

Building a Learning Health Care Culture: Lessons from Pediatric Oncology

MacNider Hall, Room 321

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

Ethical Obligations Toward Research Subjects

Hyde Hall, University Room 178 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Joint Lecture Series Presented by: Steven Joffe, MD, MPH Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania Joint Lecture Series UNC Center For Bioethics UNC Parr Center For Ethics

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

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