Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society

12th national undergraduate bioethics conference

Seminar Series Speakers and Topics

Friday, Mar 13		Click on topic to learn more
11:30am	Michelle Mello	Obesity and Public Policy
	Stephanie Woolhandler & David Himmelstein	National Health Insurance
	Alicia Yamin	Maternal Mortality in Low-Income Countries
	Norman Daniels	Global Aging and Equity Across Generations
	Arthur Applbaum	Cultural Diversity and Brain Death
	Lachlan Forrow	Moral Responsibility and Health Disparities in the U.S. and Africa
	Mildred Solomon	End-of-life decision making
	Alena M. Buyx	Theoretical and ethical aspects of wish-fulfilling medicine
	Lisa Lehmann	Ethical Challenges of Technology in Clinical Practice

1:00pm	John Bohannon	Bioethics and Media
	Bob Truog	Who should be saved when not all can be saved - a case study
	Adam Shinar	The New Population Control
	Rebecca Brendel	Physician assisted Suicide
	Chirag Patel	Barack Obama's Healthcare Plans
	David Brendel	Ethical issues in contemporary psychiatry
	Jim Sabin	The Ethics of Health Care Rationing
	Christine Mitchell	Clinical Ethics: New Issues on the Ward


Sat, Mar 14		Click on topic to learn more
11:30am	Andras Miklos	Justice and International Health Inequalities
	Roy Poses	External Threats to Ethical and Evidence-Based Practice
	Paul Kellehler	Emergency Contraception and Conscientious Objection
	Elizabeth Fenton	Access to Pharmaceuticals
	Dan Wikler	Dilemmas of Health Resource Allocation
	Alexandra Cist	Case Study: Ethical Issues surrounding a critically ill Woman
	Kevin Outterson	Testing Intellectual Property Rights Against the Teachings of Jesus

1:00pm	John Bohannon	Bioethics and Media
	Adam Shinar	The New Population Control
	Bob Truog	Who should be saved when not all can be saved - a case study
	Gaia Muallem and Chirag Patel	Barack Obama's Healthcare Plans
	Alexandra Cist	A Christian Perspective on End-of-Life Care
	Dan Wikler	Dilemmas of Health Resource Allocation



Topic and time slot coming soon
	Aaron Mauck	Ethics of Patient Education in the Twentieth Century
	JP Sevilla	Personhood and Personal Identity in bioethics

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