Bioethics Speakers Bureau

The Bioethics Program offers speakers on a variety of topics.

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Andrew Barnosky

Laura Damschroder
Angela Fagerlin
Michael Fetters

Edward Goldman
Susan Dorr Goold
Joel Howell
Scott Kim
Jonathan M. Metzl
Martin Pernick
Maria Silveira
David Stern
Peter Ubel

By Topic

Allocating Scarce Resources, Rationing and Economics
End of Life Care and Decision Making
Consent and Clinical Decision Making

Culture, Race, and Gender
Education in Ethics and Professionalism
Ethics in Health Policy and Management
Ethics of Advances in Medical Science
History and Bioethics
Legal Aspects in End of Life Cases

Legal and Ethical Issues in Research

Research Ethics and Integrity
Research Methods

Stem Cells

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Andrew Barnosky

§         Ethics of CPR

§         Physician Assisted Suicide

§         Decisional Capacity and Informed Consent

§         Overview of Ethics in Emergency Medicine

Laura Damschroder, Ph.D.

• Person Tradeoff (PTO) Utility Measure
• Measuring preferences for health services allocation

Angela Fagerlin, Ph.D.

• End of life decision making
• Risk communication

Michael Fetters, MD

• Using Medical Interpreters: Clinical and Ethical Skills
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice: Ethical Considerations
• Caring for international patients: Tools for every clinician
  
  

Edward Goldman, JD

• Consent and Its Exceptions
• Legal Aspects in End of Life Cases
• Stem Cells
• Legal and Ethical Issues in Research

Susan Dorr Goold, MD, MHSA, MA

• Trust and the Ethics of Healthcare Institutions
• Choosing Healthplans All together (CHAT) – a Game to Engage and Involve Citizens in Healthcare Allocation Decisions
• Money and Trust: Physician Reimbursement and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
• Bedside Rationing: Inevitable or Immoral?
• Conflicts of Interest for Physicians and Researchers
• Insurance Coverage for Unproven Therapies
• Conflicts regarding end-of-life decisions
• Obtaining Valid Consent or Refusal to Research Participation
• Ethics and Professionalism: What Does a Resident Need to Know?

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Joel Howell, MD, PhD

• The history of human experimentation: The Tuskegee Experiments
• The history of human experimentation: The Willowbrook Experiments
• The history of human experimentation: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and the history of human experimentation

Scott Kim, MD, PhD

• Decision-making capacity of cognitively impaired persons, for treatment and research contexts
• Ethics of high risk research
• Ethics and policy of research using surrogate consent
• Financial conflicts of interest in academic medicine
• Ethical and psychiatric issues in end of life decision-making

Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD

• Pharmaceutical Advertisements (History of, Ethics of, Gender implications of)
• History of Psychotropic Medications
• Gender, Culture, and Psychiatry Voyeurism
• Social implications of Prozac and SSRIs
• "Great Moments in Medicine" series, and history of interactions between pharmaceutical companies and medicine
• History of Schizophrenia

Martin Pernick, PhD

• The History of Eugenics and Human Genetics Today
• The Black Stork: A Forgotten Case of Eugenic Euthanasia in America
• Why the Meaning of Disease Keeps Changing: Values and the Concept of Disease
• When Are You Dead?: Changing Concepts of Death
• The Relations of Bioethics and History

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Maria Silveira, MD, MA, MPH

• Euthanasia
• Palliative care & hospice
• Advance care planning
• Ethics of informed consent
• Research methods in ethics

David Stern, MD, PhD

• The Hidden Curriculum in medical education
• When, Where and How Values are taught in medicine
• The Assessment of professional behavior
• Professionalism and human clinical trials
• The impact of international rotations on professional development

Peter Ubel, MD

• Helping Patients Make "Good" Medical Decisions
• Gaming of the Heart Transplant System
• Bioethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness
• Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Healthcare Rationing

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By Topic

Allocating Scarce Resources, Rationing and Economics

• Person Tradeoff (PTO) Utility Measure (Damschroder)
• Measuring preferences for health services allocation (Damschroder)
• Bedside Rationing: Inevitable or Immoral? (Goold)
• Insurance Coverage for Unproven Therapies (Goold)
• Choosing Healthplans All together (CHAT) Ð a Game to Engage and Involve Citizens in Healthcare Allocation Decisions (Goold)
• Just Do It: Experiences with Participatory Approaches to Healthcare Priority-Setting (Goold)
• Money and Trust: Physician Reimbursement and the Doctor-Patient Relationship (Goold)
• Bedside Rationing: Inevitable or Immoral? (Goold)
• Conflicts of Interest for Physicians and Researchers (Goold)
• Science in the Courts: The Litigators' View of High-Dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant (Jacobson)
• Financial conflicts of interest in academic medicine (Kim)
• Gaming of the Heart Transplant System (Ubel)
• Bioethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness (Ubel)
• Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Healthcare Rationing (Ubel)

End of Life Care and Decision Making

• Ethics of CPR (Barnosky)
• Physician Assisted Suicide (Barnosky)
• The Failure of the Living Will (Fagerlin)
• Legal Aspects in End of Life Cases (Goldman)
• Futility in Practice (Goold)
• Conflicts regarding end-of-life decisions: A Differential Diagnosis (Goold)
• Decision-making capacity of cognitively impaired persons, for treatment and research contexts (Kim)
• Ethical and psychiatric issues in end of life decision-making (Kim)
• African-Americans' Decisions at the End of Life (Moseley)
• Futile Treatment (Moseley)
• The Black Stork: A Forgotten Case of Eugenic Euthanasia in America (Pernick)
• When Are You Dead?: Changing Concepts of Death (Pernick)
• Euthanasia (Silveira)
• Palliative care & hospice (Silveira)
• Advance care planning (Silveira)

Consent and Clinical Decision Making

• Decisional Capacity and Informed Consent (Barnosky)
• Risk communication (Fagerlin)
• Using Medical Interpreters: Clinical and Ethical Skills (Fetters)
• Consent and Its Exceptions (Goldman)
• Obtaining Valid Consent or Refusal to Research Participation (Goold)
• Decision-making capacity of cognitively impaired persons, for treatment and research contexts (Kim)
• Ethics and policy of research using surrogate consent (Kim)
• Ethical and psychiatric issues in end of life decision-making (Kim)
• Kids, Parents and Consent to Treatment (Moseley)
• Ethics of informed consent (Silveira)
• Helping Patients Make "Good" Medical Decisions (Ubel)
• Good Decisions Gone Bad: Why people often choose health care treatments that violate their best interests (Ubel)

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Culture, Race, and Gender

• Using Medical Interpreters: Clinical and Ethical Skills (Fetters)
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice: Ethical Considerations (Fetters)
• Caring for international patients: Tools for every clinician (Fetters)
• Pharmaceutical Advertisements (History of, Ethics of, Gender implications of) (Metzl)
• History of Psychotropic Medications (Metzl)
• Gender, Culture, and Psychiatry (Metzl)
• Social implications of Prozac and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Metzl)
• "Great Moments in Medicine" series, and history of interactions between pharmaceutical companies and medicine (Metzl)
• African Americans' Decisions at the End of Life (Moseley)
• Why the Meaning of Disease Keeps Changing: Values and the Concept of Disease (Pernick)

Research Ethics and Integrity

• Legal and Ethical Issues in Research (Goldman)
• Obtaining Valid Consent or Refusal to Research Participation (Goold)
• The history of human experimentation: The Tuskegee Experiments (Howell)
• The history of human experimentation: The Willowbrook Experiments (Howell)
• William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and the history of human experimentation (Howell)
• Decision-making capacity of cognitively impaired persons, for treatment and research contexts (Kim)
• Ethics of high risk research (Kim)
• Ethics and policy of research using surrogate consent (Kim)
• Financial conflicts of interest in academic medicine (Kim)
• Professionalism and human clinical trials (Stern)

History and Bioethics

• The history of human experimentation: The Tuskegee Experiments (Howell)
• The history of human experimentation: The Willowbrook Experiments (Howell)
• William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and the history of human experimentation (Howell)
• In Vitro Fertilization in the United States: History, Politics and American Reproductive Imagination (Harris)
• History of Schizophrenia (Metzl)
• History of Psychotropic Medications (Metzl)
• "Great Moments in Medicine" series, and history of interactions between pharmaceutical companies and medicine (Metzl)
• The History of Eugenics and Human Genetics Today (Pernick)
• The Black Stork: A Forgotten Case of Eugenic Euthanasia in America (Pernick)
• Why the Meaning of Disease Keeps Changing: Values and the Concept of Disease (Pernick)
• When Are You Dead?: Changing Concepts of Death (Pernick)
• The Relations of Bioethics and History (Pernick)
• The Lingering Legacy of Eugenic Sterilizations: Lessons from California (Alexandra Stern)

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Education in Ethics and Professionalism

• Ethics and Professionalism: What Does a Resident Need to Know? (Goold)
• Interactions between Residents and Industry (Jibson)
• The Hidden Curriculum in medical education (Stern)
• When, Where and How Values are taught in medicine (Stern)
• The Assessment of professional behavior (Stern)
• Professionalism and human clinical trials (Stern)

Ethics in Health Policy and Management

• Person Tradeoff (PTO) Utility Measure (Damschroder)
• Measuring preferences for health services allocation (Damschroder)
• Trust and the Ethics of Healthcare Institutions (Goold)
• Choosing Healthplans All together (CHAT) Ð a Game to Engage and Involve Citizens in Healthcare Allocation Decisions (Goold)
• Money and Trust: Physician Reimbursement and the Doctor-Patient Relationship (Goold)
• Bedside Rationing: Inevitable or Immoral? (Goold)
• Conflicts of Interest for Physicians and Researchers (Goold)
• Insurance Coverage for Unproven Therapies (Goold)
• Ethics and policy of research using surrogate consent (Kim)
• Financial conflicts of interest in academic medicine (Kim)
• Pharmaceutical Advertisements (History of, Ethics of, Gender implications of) (Metzl)
• "Great Moments in Medicine" series, and history of interactions between pharmaceutical companies and medicine (Metzl)
• When Are You Dead?: Changing Concepts of Death (Pernick)
• Gaming of the Heart Transplant System (Ubel)
• Bioethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness (Ubel)
• Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Healthcare Rationing (Ubel)

Ethics of Advances in Medical Science

• Stem Cells (Goldman)
• In Vitro Fertilization in the United States: History, Politics and American Reproductive Imagination (Harris)
• History of Psychotropic Medications (Metzl)
• Social implications of Prozac and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Metzl)
• The History of Eugenics and Human Genetics Today (Pernick)
• The Black Stork: A Forgotten Case of Eugenic Euthanasia in America (Pernick)

Research Methods

• Qualitative Research Methods (Forman)
• Research methods in ethics (Silveira or Goold)
• Using GIS in health services research (Silveira)

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