Lectures

Summer School Schedule 2017: Lectures and Seminars

Click on the blue links for more details!

Monday, June 19, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Scientific Foundation for the Ethical Discussion of Fertility Treatments

Frederick LicciardiM.D., Professor in Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyNYU Langone Medical Center, Director of Oocyte Donation Program NYU Fertility Center

Monday, June 19, 1:30 PM – 4.30 PM, When We Can Not Cure: Thoughts on the Ultimate Challenge to the Bond of Patient

Michael R. Berman, M.D., MBI, Professor Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center as the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery and Associate Dean for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science

Tuesday, June 20, 9:30 -12.30 PMEthics of Organ Transplantation

Bruce Elliot Gelb, M.D., F.A.C.S,  Assistant Professor and Associate Medical Director, Patient Placement and Progression Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant ProgramNYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine

Tuesday, June 20, 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Recruiting Marginalized, Vulnerable Populations into Health Research: Issues in International Research

Henry Silverman, M.D., M.A., Professor of MedicineUniversity of Maryland, School of Medicine and Chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee, University of Maryland Medical Center

Wednesday, June 21, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Religious Traditions and their Impact on Bioethics

Shirin Karsan, M.B.E., Center for New Pennsylvanians, ConKerr Cancer

Wednesday, June 21, 1:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Frankenstein to X-Men: Bioethics in Literature and Film 

Danielle Spencer,  Ph.D. in American Studies, Faculty Member of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University as well as the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bioethics Department

Thursday, June 22, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PMEnd-of-Life and Palliative Care

Joseph LowyM.D., Clinical Professor in Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, Director of Palliative Care Service NYU Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care

Thursday, June 22,1:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Genetically Designed Babies: Are We Ready for This?

Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Friday, June 23, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, United Nations Meeting: Challenges of International Policing with Regard to Human Trafficking

Stefan Feller, Director of the Police Division and Police Adviser, United Nations (UNPOL); Federal Police Academy, Germany

Friday, June 23, 1:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Synthetic Gametes and Human Reproduction

Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Saturday, June 24, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM, Organ Harvesting from Executed Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in China

Damon Noto, M.D., Pain Management, Sports Medicine, Physiatrist, Attending Physician, Hackensack University Medical Center

Monday, June 26, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Ethics and Reprogenetic Technologies

Inmaculada de Melo MartinPh.D. Professor of Medical Ethics in Medicine and Professor of Medical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Monday, June 26, 1:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Challenges in Stem Cell Research and Genome Editing 

Beth E. Roxland, J.D., M.S. Bioethics, Senior Advisor on Law, Bioethics, and Health Policy; Associate, Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Medicine

Tuesday, June 27, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Bioethics and Public Policy

Ana Lita , Ph.D., Summer School Program Director, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI)

Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Ethics of Human Enhancement/Reproductive Enhancement

Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D., LL.M, Former Program AdministratoHIV and Drug Abuse Research Ethics Training Institute, Fordham University

Wednesday, June 28, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Human Subjects Protection Regulation in the United States: How Did We Get Here, and Where Are We Going?

Ilene WiletsIRB Chair Program for the Protection of Human Subjects, Senior Faculty, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Wednesday, June 28, 1:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Ethical Aspects of Collateral Healthcare Services by Non-Credentialed Healthcare Personnel in International Medical Crises

Madeleine Schachter, J.D., Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Thursday, June 29, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, When the Gene is the Drug: The science, the promise, and the ethical challenges of gene therapy

Gregory Petsko, M.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Neuroscience , Weill Cornell Medicine

Thursday, June 29, 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Mental Illness and Ethical Implications for a Special Needs Population

Nina B.L. Urban, M.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center

Friday, June 30, 9:30 PM – 12:30 PM, “Ethical Issues from the Global Problem Solving for Better Health Program”

Pamela Hoyt-Hudson, BSN, RN, Vice President, Health Action and Policy, The Rogosin Institute

Friday, June 30, 1:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Participants’ Conference

×