Bioethics Seminar – “The Grand Inquisitor: Toward an Ethics of Medical Narrative”

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TERRENCE HOLT, MD, PhD, , Assistant Professor, Social Medicine & Director of Literature, Medicine, UNC School of Medicine – Chapel Hill

Holt PhotoDr. Holt taught English literature and creative writing before entering medical school. He is not only an academic physician with a diverse geriatric practice and a wide range of scholarly and teaching interests, including narrative medicine, but also an acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction. He directs UNC-Chapel Hill’s new master’s program in Literature, Medicine, and Culture, and describes his clinical work as “fascinating and deeply rewarding,” adding: “[M]oving between literature and medicine deepens my understanding and practice of both.” His most recent book, Internal Medicine, is a collection of short stories about physicians and patients.

Dr. Holt’s book “Internal Medicine:  A Doctor’s Stories”  will be available for purchase at the bookstore prior to the talk and at the talk on the 22nd September.
5:00-6:00 PM, Reception to follow
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404, Wake Forest University

Bioethics Seminar – 8 September – “Personal Narratives & Bioethics: Intersex Stories”

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ANA ILTIS, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, and Director of The Center for Bioethics, Health & Society, Wake Forest University

A recent collection of personal stories published in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics provides insight into the health care experiences of persons who identify as intersex. This talk explores themes from these narratives and the lessons they offer for bioethics and for clinicians.

5:00-6:00 PM, Reception to follow
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404, Wake Forest University

The Medical Bill Mystery – Comments by Mark Hall, JD in New York Sunday Times, 3 May 2015

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Mark Hall, JD Professor, School of Law and Faculty member of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Wake Forest University commented on an article by Elisabeth Rosenthal in the SundayReview of the New York Times, dateline 2 May 2015.

To read the full article click here.

Exploring Ethics Conference Series – Thursday, 30 April, Ana Iltis, PhD, “Understanding & Communicating Risk in Health Care

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Noon-1:05pm

Comprehensive Cancer Center, 10th Floor Conference Room, 10C

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

Effective risk communication is essential in clinical care, biomedical research and public health.  Yet there are numerous barriers to communicating risks in ways that patients and research subjects can readily understand and use in making health care choices.  This presentation will explore the importance of effective risk communication, identify common challenges that professionals confront in communicating risks and propose strategies to improve risk communication.

 

Bioethics Seminar – 20 April – Life is the thing that thrives: FaithHealth from Memphis to East Winston

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Life is the Thing that Thrives:
FaithHealth from Memphis to East Winston

Monday, 20 April, 5:00-6:00 pm
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404
Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University

Gary Gunderson, M.Div., D.Min., D.Div.
Vice President of Faith & Health Ministries, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Professor, Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine and School of Divinity, Wake Forest University

lDr. Gunderson oversees spiritual care services for patients, families and staff at WFBMC. He also nurtures the relationship with more than 4,200 Baptist congregations throughout North Carolina and other large networks of our patients’ faith groups. He became involved in public health by working with former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta. For a decade, he directed the Interfaith Health Program at The Carter Center. For the next seven years, he served as senior vice president of the Faith and Health Division of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tenn., where he helped develop a new model of congregational health, FaithHealth, that achieved measurable improvements in the health of patients in Memphis congregations, including significantly increased longevity, lower mortality and a nearly 40 percent longer time before readmission. The FaithHealth model of care is now underway here in the Triad adapting to the distinctive opportunities and historic challenges.

Reception to follow

Ebola: At Home & Abroad Symposium, 12 & 13 Februrary, 7:00-8:30pm

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We invite you to participate in a Symposium addressing…..

Ebola: At Home And Abroad
February 12th & 13th, 7:00-8:30 pm
Kulynych Auditorium, Byrum Welcome Center
Wake Forest University

To learn more about Ebola please click here.

Thursday, 12 February 2015
Introduction:
Pat Lord, PhD, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University
Ana Iltis, PhD, Director, Center for Bioethics, Health & Society; Department of Philosophy,
Wake Forest University

Panelists
Jon Abramson, MD, Pediatrics, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Christine Bishop, MD, Pediatrics, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Christine Coughlin, JD, School of Law, Wake Forest University
Nathan Plageman, PhD, Department of History, Wake Forest University

Q&A/Discussion
Reception to follow in the Conservatory of the Byrum Welcome Center

Friday, 13 February 2015
Introduction:
Pat Lord, PhD, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University
Ana Iltis, PhD, Director, Center for Bioethics, Health & Society; Department of Philosophy,
Wake Forest University

Panelists
Adam Bjork, PhD, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Nancy King, JD, Co Director, Center for Bioethics, Health & Society, Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Ajay Patel, PhD, School of Business; Director, Center for Enterprise Research & Education,
Wake Forest University

Q&A/Discussion
Reception to follow in the Conservatory of the Byrum Welcome Center

Sponsored by:

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Bioethics Seminar – 13 November – Reflections on Procreative Ethics

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Thursday, 13 November, 4:00-5:00 pm
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404
Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University

DAVID DE GRAZIA, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University and
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Bioethics, National Institute of Health

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David DeGrazia is an American moral philosopher specializing in bioethics and animal ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1989, and the author or editor of several books on ethics, including Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (1996),Human Identity and Bioethics (2005), and Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (2012). DeGrazia is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health

Reception to follow

 

 

Bioethics Seminar – 23 October – The Challenge of Medical Humanities in Medical Education

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Medical Education

Thursday, 23 October, 4:00-5:00 pm
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404
Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University
ART DERSE, MD, JD, FACEP
Julia & David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities, Professor of Bioethics & Emergency Medicine, Director of the Center for Bioethics & Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin

Arthur Derse is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities and Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities, and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Derse is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, chair of the National Ethics Committee of the Veterans Health Administration, ‘ member and past chair of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of the board of the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Reception to follow

For further information about the Bioethics Seminar Series, please contact Stephanie Reitz: reitzsct@wfu.edu or 758-4256.

Bioethics Seminar – October 9 – Ethical Issues in Comparative Effectiveness Research

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Thursday, 9 October, 4:00-5:00 pm, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404, Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University

ALAN FLEISCHMAN, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics & Clinical Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Many health care facilities and medical practices are doing more and more research designed to increase understanding of current “standard of care” treatments: how well they work, how much they cost, whether their benefits can be increased and their side effects reduced. Although it seems we should already know the answers to those questions, many medical treatments have been introduced into practice without a lot of formal research, for both historical and practical reasons. Comparative effectiveness research compares different standard treatments to answer some or all of these questions. Yet it has sometimes been controversial, raising questions like “Is this really research, or is it treatment, or both?”, and creating confusion about what is known and not known already, what should be disclosed in the consent form and process, and sometimes whether informed consent is needed at all. Everyone who might in the future be a patient, a research subject, a health care provider, a researcher, or an IRB member should be interested in learning more about ethical issues in comparative effectiveness research.

Reception to follow

For further information about the Bioethics Seminar Series, please contact Stephanie Reitz: <reitzsct@wfu.edu> or 758-4256. Website: http://bioethics.wfu.edu/

Bioethics Seminar – 11 September 2014 – Spirituality and Religion in Critical Illness

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Spirituality and Religion in Critical Illness

Thursday, 11 September, 4:00-5:00 pm

Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404,  Reynolda Campus,

Wake Forest University

Thomas McCormick, D Min, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Dept of Bioethics & Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington

Thomas McCormick is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine.  In 1974, he developed the School of Medicine’s first program in medical ethics. He has taught a variety of elective courses in bioethics there, and was responsible for bringing ethics into the core curriculum. In addition to his extensive teaching and publication, Dr. McCormick is currently an ethics consultant to Harborview Medical Center and an adjunct professor in bioethics at the School of Medicine, Midwestern University, Glendale Branch, Glendale, Arizona.

Reception to follow.