The Jerome Medalie End of Life Issues Group 2009-2010
The schedule for 2009-2010 was as follows:
September 1st: Nancy Berlinger, PhD, Deputy Director and Research Scholar, The Hastings Center
Discussant: David H. Smith
Conscientious Objection and Moral Distress
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October 6th: Kathryn L. Tucker, JD, Director of Legal Affairs, Compassion & Choices
Discussants: James Silk (Yale Law School); Thomas Duffy; David H. Smith
Co-sponsor: Yale Law School’s Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Dignity, Liberty, and Human Rights at the Very End of Life
November 3rd - PANEL
**Matthew S. Ellman, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine/General Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
**Julie R. Rosenbaum, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and Waterbury Hospital Health Center, Waterbury, CT
**Emily Cherlin, MSW, Yale School of Medicine
**Margaret Bia, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine/Nephrology; Director of the Clinical Skills Training Program, Yale School of Medicine
Discussant: Scott Long
Effectiveness of an Integrated Ward-based Program in Preparing Medical Students to care for Patients at the End-of-Life
December 1st: John P. Lizza, PhD, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania,
Kutztown, PA
Discussant: David H. Smith
Definition of Death: The Current State of the Debate
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February 9th: David Ross-Russell, MD, ProHealthMD
Discussant: Thomas Duffy
Prognostication: Meaning and Interpretation of an Imprecise Science
March 2nd: John Arras, PhD, Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Bioethics Undergraduate Program, University of Virginia
Discussant: David H. Smith
Justice and Health Care
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March 25th, The Jerome Medalie Lecture: Timothy Quill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care, University of Rochester School of Medicine
Discussants: Thomas Duffy; Scott Long; David H. Smith
Co-sponsors: Yale Cancer Center, Yale Humanities in Medicine Program, Yale Pediatric Ethics Program
Lecture to be given on a Thursday, at the Child Study Center's Cohen Auditorium, 230 South Frontage Rd.
Clinical, Ethical and Legal Issues at the End-of-Life: A Clinician's Journey
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April 6th: John D. Lantos, MD, John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics, Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City, Kansas
Discussant: Mark Mercurio
Lecture to be given at the Child Study Center's Cohen Auditorium, 230 South Frontage Rd.
Extreme Prematurity
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