This month Indiana University Center for Bioethics worked with its collaborators to launch two new initiatives: an International Research Ethics concentration (a new track in the Masters degree offered by the Department of Philosophy) and the Comparative Effectiveness Study Group. The International Research Ethics (IRE) concentration offers students and professionals the opportunity to study the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Events’
August 26, 2009
Center News, August 2009
This month at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics (IUCB) wraps up a busy summer break and begins a new academic year.
Health Care Reform
Eric M. Meslin (IUCB director) and Aaron Carroll contributed to the nation’s focus on health care reform. Meslin participated in a public debate hosted by Smaller Indiana and also contributed to the [...]
November 7, 2008
Bioethics for Breakfast: Experimental Medicine and the FDA
Who should have the final say regarding access to experimental medicines: the doctor, the patient or the FDA? This question was addressed on October 24th at a well-attended Bioethics for Breakfast session on Access to Experimental Treatments and the Indiana Courts. Rafat Abonour, MD, Director of the IU Simon Cancer Center Adult Clinical Research Office [...]
October 13, 2008
Aaron Carroll: Health Reform Debate
What do YOU know about health reform? Are you prepared for November 4th? Join the fray and form an opinion on October 29, 2008 at Framing the Issues on the Left & Right: A Debate on Health Reform. ON THE LEFT is Aaron Carroll, MD, MS, IU Center for Bioethics and Professor of Pediatrics at [...]
September 30, 2008
The Ethics of Xenotransplantation
Recent scientific advances have made solid organ xenotransplantation (the transplantation of an animal organ into a human being) seem achievable in the next five years. In this seminar (September 25, 2008) Jennifer Girod, J.D., Ph.D., a faculty investigator of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and an associate with Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, explored [...]
September 19, 2008
Confronting the Ethics of Pandemic Influenza: The 2008 Summit of the States
The Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Indiana State Department of Health and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials recently convened a two-day national event addressing the ethical issues of preparing for an influenza pandemic. State health officers and other senior public health officials from thirty-five U.S. states and territories convened in Indianapolis [...]
May 27, 2008
Lecture: Torture and Medical Professionals
Join Us tomorrow (May 28th) at the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture. IUCB’s Meg Gaffney, M.D., will be presenting: “Strange Bedfellows: Torture and Medical Professionals”. The lecture, sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, will begin at 11:30 AM in the Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium. Dr. Gaffney will outline the history of [...]
April 28, 2008
Medical Education: A Need for Empathy?
At a recent Seminar in the Medical Humanities, sponsored by the Medical Humanities program and hosted here at the Center for Bioethics, Emily Beckman, DMH, addressed the need for increased empathy in medical education. In her talk, “Empathy and Medical Education: Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Literature and Film”, Beckman described ways to use narrative to [...]
April 15, 2008
Sound Ethics: Medicines in the Developing World
In an episode of Sound Medicine (April 7, 2008), Alan Breier, MD, Chief medical officer for Eli Lilly & Company joined the hosts Barbara Lewis and Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D., Director, IU Center for Bioethics, to discuss what is being done to improve access to essential medicines to poorer countries and undeveloped populations. Next month [...]
April 10, 2008
Andrea Palm, Senior Health Policy Advisor for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Andrea Palm, Senator Hillary Clinton’s Senior Health Policy Advisor, will be visiting the Center for Bioethics as a guest of the IUPUI Consortium for Health Policy, Law and Bioethics. Please join us in the 1st floor conference room (#1110) of the Health Information and Translational Sciences (HITS) building from 3-4pm on April 18th. [...]
