“The Zika Virus: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and the Impact on Women”
Marilia Sá CarvalhoResearch Scientist , FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro Visiting Scholar, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Marilia Sá CarvalhoResearch Scientist , FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro Visiting Scholar, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Rita Franco RêgoAssociate Professor, Universidade Federal da Bahia Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Epidemiology, UNC School of Public Health
Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, Jointly with the Department of Pediatrics Presents: Visiting Ethics Scholar, John Lantos, MD, Director of Pediatric Bioethics, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City. John D. Lantos is a pediatrician and nationally recognized bioethicist whose work has focused on the ethics of clinical trials, and the ethical issues in neonatology, cancer … Read more
The UNC Center for Bioethics is pleased to announce that Dr. Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, will be delivering this year’s Merrimon Lecture on “Striking the Balance: Patient Care, Activism, and Public Service in the Health Professions.” on September 20th from 12:00 – 1:30pm in G100 in Bondurant Hall at the University of North Carolina at … Read more
"Employees as Research Participants: Ethical & Regulatory Considerations"David Resnik, PhD
Jane Thrailkill, PhDBowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The birth of Dolly the sheep twenty years ago in 1996 has overshadowed much of the history of the science and techniques used to create her. This talk will look at the early development of nuclear transplantation techniques in the 1940s and 1950s, showing how they have always been intimately connected to medical outcomes rather … Read more
"Duties to look, return, or rescue: Moral obligations and incidental findings in research"Karen Meagher, PhD, is Post-doctoral Fellow with the UNC Center for Genomics and Society. She is formerly of the President’s Commission on Bioethics. Recent Posts
Jointly sponsored by the UNC Center for Bioethics and the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee, ClinicalEthics Grand Rounds offers an innovative and interactive forum for engaging with ethical, legal, and policy issues of particular salience to patient care within the hospital.
"The ethics of treatment interruption trials: Empirical and normative perspectives" Gail Henderson, PhD, is professor of Social Medicine and adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stuart Rennie, PhD, is associate professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill