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Bioethics EVENTS CALENDAR

 

February 15, 2010, 2:00-3:00pm, SSOM 190

Ethics Grand Rounds

“Reflections on Caring for Those Affected by the Recent Earthquake in Haiti”

Presenter: Christine Sajous, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatology. Loyola Stritch School of Medicine

* CME Offered

 

February 15, 2010, 5:00-6:30pm, SSOM 360

Ethics Grand Rounds: “Moving From Cultural Competency to Cultural Consciousness”

Presenter: Lena Hatchett, PhD
Assistant  Professor, Preventive Medicine
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
* CME Offered

 

February 16, 2010, Noon-1:00pm, SSOM 190

Ethics Grand Rounds: "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing:  Ethical and Practical Considerations for Physicians."
Presenter: Katherine Wasson, PhD, MPH
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 

February 17, 2010, 5:30-7:00pm, SSOM 390

Students for Organ Donation present:

“Ethics of Organ Donation and Transplantation”

Presenters: Robert Love, MD

Medical Director, Lung Transplantation, Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery,
Loyola University Medical Center, and

Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD

Assoc. Professor, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

* CME Offered


Click here for the complete Neiswanger Institute Calendar of Upcoming Events


Upcoming BIOETHICS CONFERENCES

 

March 20, 2010, 9:00am-3:00pm
Just Healing: The Faces of Health Care
This conference is a dialogue regarding the health care professions and strategies to advocate for the health of the community.
The medical students and nursing students of Loyola University Chicago and the students of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (CRJHS) and the CRJHS community will share insights with each other in a variety of ways. (more...)

 

Recently held conferences:

 

Friday, January 8, 2010
Patient Safety and Clinical Issues

The Illinois Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and the DePaul University College of Law Health Law Institute presents this one day conference featuring Keynote Speaker:
Rosemary Gibson, the author of "Wall of Silence- The Untold Stories of the Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of Americans"

REGISTER TODAY! Click here for complete schedule and registration information.

 

October 9, 2009

The 8th Annual Conference on Contemporary Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Featured presenters:
Farr Curlin, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Ron Hamel, PhD, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis, MO
Therese Lysaught, PhD, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Douglas Anderson, MD, Loyola University Health System, Maywood, IL
Fr. Kevin O'Rourke, OP, JCD, STM, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL
Click here for schedule and presentation information.

 

April 4, 2009

Just Doctoring
A Medical Leadership Summit on Sustainable Partnership and Empowerment from the Local to the Global  (more...)
Keynote Speakers:
Marilyn H. Gaston, MD
& Gayle Porter, PsyD

Co-Directors of the Gaston and Porter Health Improvement Center, Inc. and Luke Hansen, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine 

 

 

Ethical Issues in Palliative and Hospice Care

Friday, January 9, 2009

The Illinois Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago and The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy presents
this one day conference.
(Click here for conference presentation files)

Featured Keynote Speaker:
Pauline W. Chen, MD
Author of the NY Times Best Seller, “Final Exam”

P Chen MD photo: © Joanne Chan

 

 

 

October 9-10, 2008

The 7th Annual Conference on Contemporary Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Click here for conference schedule and featured presentations.

 

February 28 - 29, 2008

Catholic Health Care Ethics: Clinical, Social and Global Concerns

Click here for conference schedule and featured presentations.

 

October 6, 2007
Just Doctoring: Social Justice and Medicine
A Leadership Summit on the Future of Social Justice and Service in Medicine

Click here for leadership summit details and information.

 

June 21 - 22, 2007
Public Health Action Project- "
Bridges to Latino Health: ¡í Se Puede!"
We are now offering a 6-DVD set of the conference presentations including speakers, panel discussions and power point presentations.  If you are interested in ordering a DVD set of the conference presentations, including the video vignettes, please complete the linked

order form.   Click here for conference details and information.

 

February 28 - March 2, 2007
Catholic Health Care Ethics: The Tradition and Culture in the Clinic
Click here for conference details and information.

 


 

SSOM ETHICS GRAND ROUNDS & LECTURES

 

February 15, 2010, 2:00-3:00pm, SSOM 190

Ethics Grand Rounds

“Reflections on Caring for Those Affected by the Recent Earthquake in Haiti”

Presenter: Christine Sajous, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatology. Loyola Stritch School of Medicine

* CME Offered

 

February 15, 2010, 5:00-6:30pm, SSOM 360

Ethics Grand Rounds: “Moving From Cultural Competency to Cultural Consciousness”

Presenter: Lena Hatchett, PhD
Assistant  Professor, Preventive Medicine
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 

February 16, 2010, Noon-1:00pm, SSOM 190

Ethics Grand Rounds: "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: 
Ethical and Practical Considerations for Physicians."
Presenter: Katherine Wasson, PhD, MPH
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 

February 17, 2010, 5:30-7:00pm, SSOM 390

Students for Organ Donation present:

“Ethics of Organ Donation and Transplantation”

Presenters: Robert Love, MD

Medical Director, Lung Transplantation, Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery,
Loyola University Medical Center, and

Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD

Assoc. Professor, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 

March 20, 2010, 9:00-10:30am, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
Just Healing: The Faces of Health Care presents:
Jesus "Manny" Estrada, MD
Jorge Prieto Family Health Center, Chicago, IL

 

March 20, 2010, 1:00-2:00pm, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
Just Healing: The Faces of Health Care presents:
Lourdes Gomez Villaume, MD (bio)
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Class of 2007
Sharp Medical Center, Chula Vista, CA


 

Faculty PRESENTATIONS

Click here for a complete listing of upcoming meetings and conferences featuring the Neiswanger faculty.

 

 

Faculty PUBLICATIONS
Selected faculty publications. (more...)
 

Wear, D, Kuczewski, MG, (2008) Medical Students’ Perceptions of the Poor: What Impact Can Medical Education Have? Academic Medicine 83(7) 639-645

 

Parsi KP featured in the amednews.com article, "Willing, but waiting: Hospital Ethics Committees." Consultation services are widespread, but many doctors hesitate to ask for ethics help. Questions about ethicists' training and performance persist. By Kevin B. O'Reilly, AMNews staff. Jan. 28, 2008. Visit the amednews.com website for the complete article:
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/01/28/prsa0128.htm

 

Hardt J. Church Teaching and My Father's Choice. America January 21, 2008

 


 

Loyola Community-University PARTNERSHIPS

What is Community-based Participatory Research?

Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) is a collaborative process of research involving researchers and community representatives. (more...)

 


 

The Ministry Center BOOK CLUB
The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy and the Ministry Center  invite all Medical Students to join us for a book discussion. Next Book Club meeting: tba
 

 

bioethics@lumc NEWSLETTER  PDF format
The newsletter is posted to this site in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this program, you can download it for free by clicking here. The download page will open in a new browser window.
 


 

VIDEO ARCHIVES
Click here for a complete archive of Neiswanger Institute's video streamed sponsored events.

New Presentation video streams feature:
 

The 20th Anniversary of the University of Central America Martyrs on November 20, 2009
“A Personal Reflection on Extraordinary Lives”
Gustavo Gutierrez, OP
John Cardinal O’Hara Chair in Theology
, University of Notre Dame
 

 

The 8th Annual Contemporary Catholic Healthcare Ethics Conference, October 9, 2009

"Conscience and Candor: Clinical Ethics for an age of Moral Pluralism"

Farr Curlin, MD

University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL

 

 


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