Rebecca Walker, PhD, will be leading a discussion of the article that she and Clair Morrissey authored, which is currently in press in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. It is titled, “The ethics of general population preventative genomic sequencing: rights and social justice.”
Anita Hardon, Professor of Anthropology of Health and Social Care University of Amsterdam. Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard to evaluate and generalize the efficacy of global health interventions across diverse socio-cultural contexts. Social scientists have criticized these trials for ignoring the social and infrastructural conditions that impinge on how technologies work, and for … Read more
Beginning in the 1950s, medical researchers sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health began a decades-long project to understand why members of the Gila River Indian Community Reservation, located outside of Phoenix, suffered from disproportionately high rates of diabetes. In this talk, Professor Radin will consider the hidden medical and colonial history of the … Read more
The presenters will give attendees a definition of simulation and an overview of how it can be and is used in medical education, both here at UNC and elsewhere. There will be ample time to explore how simulation might be able to enhance the PD curriculum.
David Pepper, MD, Hartford Hospital, Psychosomatic Medicine, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Outpatient Family Medicine, Contra Costa Health Services. "The View from Here: Ethical Concerns for Providers in Their Emergency Care of Behavioral Health Patients Awaiting Placement".Lunch will be provided for first 50 people All are welcome
Video and audio recording of moments in our lives has become commonplace with thewidespread use of smartphones and other recording devices. Health care settings are no exception. Recording in this sensitive domain has raised ethical issues of transparency, trust, consent, respectful treatment, welfare, confidentiality, and privacy. Theses issues, in the context of motivations, processes, and … Read more
Seth Pollak, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Neurobiology of Poverty: New insights linking child poverty to gaps in achievement and health. Child development expert Seth Pollak will introduce a growing body of evidence indicating that the effects of poverty on brain development are central to gaps in academic achievement and physical and … Read more
Michelle Morse, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Partners in Health will give a public talk entitled "The transformative potential of social medicine”. She will discuss the work of Partners in Health and the challenges of providing health care in the developing world. All interested are invited.
Beth Epstein, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Chair, Acute & Specialty Care Department, University of Virginia School of Nursing.Moral distress has negative implications for healthcare providers and organizations in terms of burnout, intent to leave, and poorer perceived work environments. Further, the presence of moral distress among healthcare providers is an indicator that something … Read more
Justin Barr, MD, PhD, General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University Medical Center Aortic aneurysms – or balloon-like dilations of the largest blood vessel in the body – represent an acute threat to the life of a patient, a threat that physicians have recognized and struggled to treat for centuries. With aneurysms an identifiable pathology whose … Read more
