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Announcements
March 30 - April 1, 2009
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Since 1992, Consortium members Oxford University, Mount Sinai of Medicine , King's College London, Maastricht University and Bar Ilan, have met annually to discuss various topics in bioethics. The Annual Consortium conference is convened at Mount Sinai or in England on alternating years.
New York Regional Conference
January 18, 2008
Subject: Special Challenges in Home Healthcare
Since 1986, Mount Sinai School of Medicine has co-sponsored an annual series of day long conferences, "Issues in Medical Ethics." These conferences attract a broad audience of 150-200 not only physicians but also of medical students, nurses and other health care providers, scientists, lawyers, academics, and graduate students. Speakers have come from medicine, philosophy, government, and law, and topics have included: medical malpractice litigation, just distribution of medical care, AIDS, drug use, surrogate decision making, the doctor-patient relationship, transplant organ procurement, the Americans With Disabilities Act, violence, minority distrust, money and access to health care.
Commemorative Lecture
The "Alexander Richman Commemorative Lecture in Humanism and Ethics in Medicine" has been awarded since the Spring of 1984. Speakers have in this lecture series have included Willard Gaylin, Tom Beauchamp, Robert Jay Lifton, Joshua Lederberg, Eli Wiesel, Jimmie Holland, John W. Rowe, Arthur Caplan, Albert Jonsen. The Richman Prize is awarded to a Mount Sinai physician who exemplifies commitment to humanism and ethics in medical practice.
Center-Wide Ethics Luncheons
Each month, since April 1990, the Department of Medical Education hosts a lunchtime discussion of ethical issues raised by a case at the Medical Center. The presentation comes from a different department every month. The person who leads the discussion arranges for the other health care providers who have been involved with the case to present the aspects of the case. By bringing a case from their practice to the Ethics Luncheon forum the presenting group learns to identify the ethical features of their work. The luncheon then provides an opportunity for the presenters and the audience to join in trying to understand and resolve the problem.
Faculty Seminar in Philosophy and Medicine
Since 1981, faculty from Mount Sinai and The Graduate School, CUNY, have meet monthly to discuss papers from the current literature of bioethics.
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