Bioethics Events
 Last updated: September 4, 2009
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, September
14, 2009
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Personal
Genomics" Seminar Series
“Who Owns Your Genes?”
The
panelists
will discuss the controversy over patents on the breast and ovarian cancer
(BRCA) genes, which led to a current ACLU class-action lawsuit against the
US Patent and Trademark Office and Myriad Genetics.
Location:
Forum Hall, 4th floor of Palmer Commons; To view map and directions,
please visit: http://palmercommons.umich.edu/directions
For more information: www.elsi.umich.edu
Friday,
October 16, 2009
Zeke Emanuel, Keynote Speaker for the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute and the Michigan
Institute for Clinical & Health Research Symposium - A New Era In
Medicine
Keynote address title “The Doctor-Patient
Relationship in the Future."
Location: Dow Auditorium
For more information: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/taubmansymposium.2009/home
Wednesday,
January 27, 2010
Larry Gostin, JD, LLD,
Georgetown Law, will be the speaker for the 14th Annual Waggoner Lecture
Location: Ford Auditorium at the University Hospital
For more information: http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/events/Waggoner/
Bioethics Values & Society Seminar
Faculty from U of M and elsewhere present cutting-edge work
in bioethics or the study of human values relevant to health, health care,
and the life sciences. (Joint effort of the Bioethics Program and the Life
Sciences Values and Society Program)
Seminars
are all located in room 7C09 at the North Ingalls Building (300
N.
Ingalls) on Wednesdays, from 3:30p.m. to 4:45
p.m.
(unless otherwise noted).
DATES for 2009-2010: TBA
Bioethics
Grand Rounds
Discussions and/or
reviews of important issues in clinical bioethics.
For further information, contact Lisa
Garnes, 615-2765.
The Life Sciences
and Society Program Events
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