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Merrimon Lecture: Finding the ‘Greater Good’ in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us

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The Merrimon Lecture 2022 September 14 Wednesday, 12:00 pm 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/merrimon-lecture-2022/ Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is also a Clinical Professor of Health Metrics … Read more

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: Controversies In Increasing Living Kidney Donation

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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds Dr. Arthur Matas Professor of Surgery University of Minnesota As the former Director of Renal Transplant Services at his institution and a former President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Dr. Matas continues to be a leader in the field of transplant surgery. He has published extensively on clinical and … Read more

Merrimon Lecture: Conscience, stigma, and the tension of opposites in reproductive healthcare.

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Lisa Harris, MD, PhD Dr. Harris’ research examines issues at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynecological care and law, policy, politics, ethics, history, and sociology. She conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on many issues along the reproductive justice continuum, including abortion, miscarriage, contraception, in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility and birth, and racial, ethnic, and … Read more

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

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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

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

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  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

The State of Transgender Health at UNC

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https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/Oct-26-State-of-Transgender-Health-Poteat.pdf

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

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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