UMHS: Adult Ethics Grand Rounds

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2007

January 31	Scott Kim, MD Does Bioethics Have Adverse Side Effects?
February 28	David Shalowitz "An Alternative to Surrogate Decision-Making for Incapacitated Patients"
March 28	Carl Schneider “Informed Consent: The God that Failed?”
April 18	Annie Kagerlin, " Educating patients about the risks and benefits of treatment: What works, what does not"
May 30	Martin Pernick, Professor of History, Associate Director of the Program in Society and Medicine "When Are You Dead?: 250 Years of Debate over the Meaning and Diagnosis of Death"
June 27	"The Wisdom of Avatars: Teaching Bioethics in the Metaverse." Frederick W. Kron, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
July 25	NO GRAND ROUNDS
August 29	Genetic Testing: An Ethical Wild West? Lauren Smith, MD, Department of Pathology
September 26	Laura Damschroder, MS, MPH, "Eliciting Preferences to Inform Allocation Decisions: The Art & Science of Inducing Trade-Offs"
October 31	Alice Dreger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Should We Attenuate the Growth of Children with Disabilities? Thinking about Ashley in Broader Contexts"
November 28	NO GRAND ROUNDS
December 19	Peter Ubel, MD “Unaffordable: The price of life and the cost of new cancer therapies ”

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