Johns Hopkins Berman Institute Seminar Series: Past Seminars
 

Past Seminars
 Spring 2010
 
Monday January 25
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Personal responsibility for health: time for a new approach
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Harald Schmidt, MA
Research Associate, LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science
 
Monday January 11
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Industrial food animal production: the crossroads of bioethics, public health and social justice
Ellen Silbergeld Photo
Ellen Silbergeld, PhD
Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research

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Monday February 8 - POSTPONED/SNOW
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Empirically-informed Ethics Education in Post-Graduate Medical Training
Mark Hughes, MD, MA
Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 
Margaret Moon, MD, MPH
Freeman Family Scholar in Clinical Medical Ethics; 
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School ofMedicine                      
 
Monday February 22
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Sheila Hutzler Rives Memorial Lecture in Palliative Care
Recent Challenges in Advance Care Planning
Robert Pearlman, MD, MPH
Chief, Ethics Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs
  
Monday March 8
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Rethinking IRBs With Some Empirical Evidence
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 Charles Lidz, PhD
Research Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts
Monday April 12
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Sheila Hutzler Rives Memorial Lecture in Palliative Care
"Continuing Controversies in Pediatric End of Life Care"
Photo of Alan Fleischman, MD
Alan Fleischman, MD
Senior Vice President and Medical Director
March of Dimes Foundation
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
 
 
Monday April 26
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
“From Eugenics to the 'New' Genetics: The Play's The Thing”
Photo of Karen Rothenberg
Karen Rothenberg, JD, MPA
Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law
Visiting Faculty, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Monday May 10
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University
  
 Fall 2009
Monday September 21
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Prof. Dr. Schöne-Seifert
Bettina Schoene-Seifert
Fair access to health care: priority setting, rationing, and the criterium of effectiveness-thresholds
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Monday October 12
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
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Amy Fairchild
Privacy Goes Public: The American Battles over Disease Surveillance
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Monday November 9
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Kalipso Chalkidou
Strategies for linking policy to evidence generation: the UK experience
Co-sponsored by the US Cochrane Center and the JHSPH Department of Health Policy & Management
 
Monday November 23
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
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Dan Callahan
The Moral Dilemma of Progress:  Medical Technology and Health Care Costs
Co-sponsored by the Department of Health Policy & Management
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Spring 2009
  
Monday, January 12
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Joseph Fins, M.D., Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College
 
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Monday, January 26
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D., Director, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
 
Monday, February 9
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D. Director, The Center for Biomedical Ethics, UVA
 
Monday, February 23
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Patricia King, J.D.,Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
 
Monday, March 9
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Eric Meslin, Ph.D., Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
 
Monday, March 23
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Alan Goldberg, Ph.D., Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
 
Monday, April 13
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Erika Haimes, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK 
 
Monday, April 27
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Thomas Pogge, Ph.D., Professorial Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, Research Director, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
 
Monday, May 11
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030

Norman Daniels, Ph.D., Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health
 
Fall 2008
Monday, September 8
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr, MD, Senior Scientist, Special Programs & Bioethics
Natl. Inst. of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, NIH
 
Monday, September 22
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Ruth Faden, Ph.D., MPH and Debra Mathews, Ph.D., MA, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University

 
Monday, October 13
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Jason Karlawish, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine & Medical Ethics
University of Pennsylvania
 
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Monday, October 27
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Bernard Lo, MD, Professor & Director, Program in Medical Ethics
University of California San Francisco

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Monday, November 10
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
David Holtgrave, Ph.D., Chair, Deptartment of Health, Behavior and Society
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 
 
Monday, November 24
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
James Tulsky, MD, Director, Center for Palliative Care & Professor of Medicine & Nursing
Duke University
 
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Monday, December 6
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Diane Hoffman, JD, MS, Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Law & Health Care Program, Director, University of Maryland School of Law
  
Spring 2008
Monday, January 14 (Now Posted Online)
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W2008
Paul Appelbaum, MD,
Blame It on My Genes! Behavioral Genetics and the Causes of Crime
  
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Monday, January 28  (Now Posted Online)
Location: 600 N. Wolfe Street, CMSC 306 Pediatrics (Schaffer Amphitheater)
Myra Bluebond-Langer, PhD, MA, Involving Children with Life Limiting and Life Shortening Illnesses in Medical Decisions
 
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Monday, February 11 (Now Posted Online)
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Rogan Kersh, PhD, The Politics of Obesity: Ethical & Historical Considerations           
 
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Monday, February 25  (Now Posted Online)
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil, MA, Euthanasia in Belgium: Policy Making and Reform Proposals             
 
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Monday, March 10 (Now Posted Online)
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Jeff Kahn, PhD, MPH
, Providence or Pandora's Box? The Ethics of Incidental Findings in Research
 
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Monday, March 24 (Now Posted Online)
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Susan Lederer, PhD, MA, Henry Beecher's Bombshell? Ethics and Omissions in Clinical Research in the 1960s.    
 
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Monday, April 14 (Now Posted Online)            
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP,
Ethics and the Use of Evidence to Improve "Value" in Health Care
 
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Monday, April 28 (Now Posted Online)       

Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3030 ( NOTE ROOM CHANGE )   
Dan O’Connor, PhD, " Do You Believe in Gender?" - Transsexuality, Narrative, and the Bioethics of Cutting Off Your Leg 

 
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Monday, May 12 (Now Posted Online)      

Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030    
Ruth Macklin, PhD, HIV Prevention Trials: What are the Ethical Issues? 

 
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FALL 2007
Monday, October 22 (Now posted online
12:15 PM 
Hampton House 208 
 
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Monday, November 12
12:15 PM
Hampton House 208
Fred Levy, Corianne Iacovelli, and Rachel Grunberger
Allocating Organs: Ethical and Policy Challenges

Monday, November 26 (Now posted online
12:15 PM
BSPH, W4030
Courtland Robinsonand Gil Burnham, Research Ethics: Working with Conflict-Affected and Hidden Populations
 
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Monday, December 10 
12:15 PM
Hampton House 208
Leslie Meltzer, Six Degrees of Dignity: Can a Concept With so Many Meanings Play a Leading Role in Bioethics?