Bioethics Grand Rounds

March 15, 2005. Inaugural Lecture. Speaker: Edmund Pellegrino, MD, Professor Emeritus, Kennedy Institute of Bioethics. "Ethical and Moral Diversity."

April 12, 2005. Speaker: Neil Wenger, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Healthcare Ethics Center. Topic: "Improving End-Of-Life Decisions And Pain Management."

May 10, 2005. Speaker: William Harvey, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, and Former Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Topic: "Competency and Decision-Making Authority."

September 6, 2005. Speaker: M. Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Director, UK Program for Bioethics and Patients' Rights. Topic: "What is a Clinical Ethics Consult -- and When Do You Need One?"

October 11, 2005. Speaker: Rebecca Davis Mathias, PhD, Bioethicist, University of Alberta. Topic: "Nursing Ethics: Patient-Centered Challenges." Noon, HG611

November 8, 2005. Speaker: Allison Connelly, JD, Professor, UK College of Law. Topic: "Working with Patients on Advance Directives." Noon, HG-611

February 14, 2006. Speaker: Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Maclean Center for Bioethics, University of Chicago. Topic: "Medical Research With Children: Has The Pendulum Swung Too Far?" Noon, HG-611

March 14, 2006. Speaker: Heather Pierce, PhD, CDG, Director, Clinical Genetic Counseling Program. Topic: "Ethical Issues in Genetic Counseling." Noon, HG-611

April 11, 2006. Panel: Glynn Caldwell, M.D., Epidemiologist, UK College of Public Health; Joseph Conigliaro, M.D., Director UK Program for Quality, Safety and Patients’ Rights; Eric Christianson, Ph.D., Medical Historian, UK Department of History; James McCormick, M.D., Pulmonary Specialist, Department of Internal Medicine; and Malkanthie McCormick, M.D., Infectious Disease Specialist. Topic: “The Next Flu Pandemic: Ethical Considerations”. Moderator, M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D., Director, UK Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights. Noon, HG-611.

May 16, 2006. Fr. Mark Miller, PhD, Director, The Redemptorist Bioethics Consultancy, Saskatoon, Canada. Topic: "Ethics and Palliative Care: Lessons from the Dying." Noon, HG-611

Sept 12, 2006: Speaker: Eric Meslin, Ph.D., Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics and Assistant Dean for Bioethics, IU School of Medicine. Topic: “The Role of Stem Cell Research in our Clinical Future: Ethical Considerations.” Noon, HG-611.

October 10, 2006: James Fleming, Medical Student, University of Kentucky College of Medicine. “Ethical Issues for Doctors in Training.” Noon, HG-611.

November 7, 2006: Speaker: Daniel Beals, MD, FACS, FAAP, Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics. Bioethics Associate, UK Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights, and Co-Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee. Topic: “Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Correcting Ambiguous Genitalia.” Noon, HG-611.

February 14, 2007: Speaker: Nicole Huberfeld, J.D., Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Law and Bioethics Associate, UK Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights. “Medicare and Medicaid: Access Issues and Vulnerable Populations.” 12:30 PM, HG-611.

March 13, 2007: Speaker: Pamela Teaster, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate Center for Gerontology, Department of Health Behavior, and Bioethics Associate, UK Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights. “Ethical Issues in Elder Abuse.” Noon, HG-611.

April 10, 2007: Speaker: Joan Callahan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Philosophy and Director, UK Women’s Studies Program, and Bioethics Associate, Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights. “Ethical Adventures in Reproduction.” Noon, HG-611.

May 15, 2007: Panel: “Medicine and Industry: Old and New Ethical Challenges.” Panel Moderator, Tom Foster, Pharm.D, Professor, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and Chair, IRB. Noon, HG-611.

September 11, 2007: Speaker: Mark P. Aulisio, PhD, Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, MetroHealth Medical Center; Director, Master's Program in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University. Topic: "The Role of Personal Values in Professional Life: Ethics and Professionalism." Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

October 9, 2007: Panel. Topic: "Medical Error and Truth-Telling." Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

November 20, 2007. Speaker: Robyn Mowery, PhD, LMFT, Assistant Professor, Department of Family of Studies, University of Kentucky School of Human Environmental Sciences; Associate, University Kentucky Program for Bioethics and Patients’ Rights. Topic: “The Role of Family in End of Life Decision-Making.” Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

February 12, 2008. Speaker: Edmund G. Howe, MD, JD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Programs in Ethics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Topic: “Military Medical Ethics Since September 11, 2001.”  Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

March 11, 2008. Speaker: Julia F. Costich, JD, PhD, Chair, Dept. of Health Services Management, and Director, Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, UK College of Public Health. Topic: “Ethics and Public Health.” Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

April 8, 2008. Speaker: Michael Bliss, PhD, Medical Historian and Author, The Discovery of Insulin (1982) and Banting: A Biography (1984). Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical History, University of Toronto. Topic: “Research and Professional Ethics: Lessons Learned from The Discovery of Insulin". Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611. Co-hosted by the Division of Endocrinology & Molecular Medicine and The Department of History.

May 6, 2008. Speaker: Michael Rie, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, UK College of Medicine, and Associate, UK Program for Bioethics. Topic: “Donation after Cardiac Death: Medical, Ethical and Legislative Challenges at the End of Life". Noon. Hospital Auditorium

September 9, 2008. Speaker: Keith Schillo, PhD, Scientist and Philosopher, Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, UK College of Agriculture. Topic: “Ethical Issues in Animal Research: Past, Present and Future”. Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

October 7, 2008. Speaker: Douglas S. Diekema MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Director of Education, Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, University of Washington. Topic: "The Ashley Case: The Ethical Deliberation over Growth Attenuation". Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

November 18, 2008. Speaker: L. Raymond Reynolds, MD, FACP, FACE, Medical Director of the HMR-UK affiliated Weight Management Center, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine, UK College of Medicine. Topic: “Big Ethics: Challenges with the Severely Obese Patient”. Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

February 10, 2009. Speaker: Jeffrey Tuttle, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UK
College of Medicine, and Associate, UK Program for Bioethics. Topic: “Ethical Issues in Electro-Convulsive Therapy: Consent and Capacity.”  Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

March 3, 2009. Speaker, Harriet Washington, Author, of the New York Times bestseller,  Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans. Topic:"The Ethics of Medical Research with African Americans." Noon, Young Library Auditorium. Co-hosted by The African American Studies and Research Program, and The University of Kentucky Department of History.

April 7, 2009.  Speaker: James J. Clark, PhD, LCSW, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research, UK College of Social Work, and Associate, UK Program for Bioethics.  Topic: "Ethical Issues with Borderline Patients: Whose Autonomy Matters?"  Noon. Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

May 19, 2009. Speaker: M Sara Rosenthal, PhD, Director, Program for Bioethics, Chair, Hospital Ethics Committee, and Media Bioethicist on the Octuplet Case. Topic: “The 2009 Octuplet Case: Multiple Ethical Issues.” Noon.  Hospital Auditorium, HG-611.

September 1, 2009. Speaker: Todd Coté, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Hospice of the Bluegrass, and Associate, UK Palliative Care Service. Topic: “Hoping for Hope: Translating Hope Theory into Clinical Practice.” Noon.  MN-263 Auditorium.