Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society

12th National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference

Conference Participants

Plenary Speakers

Friday, Mar 13		Click on Speaker to learn more
9:00-10:15am	Steven Hyman, Provost, Harvard University "Bioethics in action: The controversy over suicide risk in adolescents treated with antidepressants"
5:00-6:15pm	Daniel Wikler, Harvard School of Public Health "Bioethics and Global Health: New Issues, New Actions"

Saturday, Mar 14
10:15-11:30am	Leon Eisenberg, Harvard Medical School, Professor Emeritus "Professing Ethics at the Universities of Sodom and Gomorrah"
6:00pm	Peter Singer, Princeton University "Saving the Most Lives"

Panel Participants

Friday, Mar 13 at 2:30pm - Click on Speaker to learn more
Organ Markets
	Nir Eyal
	Alvin Roth
	Frank Delmonico
	Dan Brock (Moderator)
Medical Professionalism/Ethics
	David Blumenthal
	Roy Poses
	Jerome Avorn
	Dan Wikler (Moderator)

Saturday, Mar 14 at 2:30pm - Click on Speaker to learn more
Neuroimaging/Neuroethics
	Joshua Greene
	Liane Young
	Frances Kamm
	Selim Berker (Moderator)
Reproductive Technology
	Elizabeth Bartholet
	Sadeth Sayeed
	Shiela Jasanoff
	I. Glenn Cohen (Moderator)

Seminar Leaders

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
	Andras Miklos	Justice and International Health Inequalities
	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



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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