| 2024 |
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| Topic: Do We Still Need Doctors? AI's role in modern medicine. |
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| Recording: Debate |
Dr Jodi Halpern |
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Dr Steven Wartman
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Moderator: Dr Tom Shimotake |
| 2023 |
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| Topic: Are in utero termination and postnatal palliative care morally equivalent? |
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Arguing the positive side: Dr. Eduard Verhagen is a paediatrician at the University Medical Center Groningen (Netherlands). Dr Verhagen completed his specialty training in Pediatrics in AMC/Amsterdam. He worked for 5 years in Curaçao (Caribbean) before he came to Groningen to work as the clinical director of the Beatrix Children's Hospital/UMCG, where he is now a professor of pediatrics and department chair. His PhD thesis (University of Groningen) was on neonatal end-of-life decisions in Dutch NICU’s. He has written numerous scientific papers about ethical decision-making and end-of-life care and he was one of the authors of the ‘Groningen Protocol’ for newborn euthanasia.
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Arguing the negative side: Dr. Mark Mercurio is Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine, and the former Chief of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He is actively involved in the ethics education of Yale medical students, attending physicians, fellows, residents, nurses, and physician associate students. He has more than 30 years of experience as a clinical neonatologist, including the training of fellows and residents in the Newborn ICU, and over 30 years of experience in clinical ethics consultation in adult and pediatric medicine. Dr. Mercurio has been an invited lecturer nationally and internationally, focusing on analyses of ethical issues in adult and pediatric medicine, primarily pediatrics. He is Chair of the American Academy Section on Bioethics Executive Committee, has served on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics, is co-editor of the six-volume textbook Bioethics, and is co-editor of a textbook of pediatric ethics.
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Moderator: Julie Chor, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Section of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research and an Assistant Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her academic and clinical work focuses on understanding and addressing barriers that adolescents and young adults face in seeking and obtaining reproductive health care. Her research is informed by her clinical work in Family Planning and Adolescent Gynecology and by her fellowship training in Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Chor has received both private foundation and NIH funding for her work, including for the development of lay health worker interventions to help individuals engage in sustained use of contraception and preventive reproductive health care. A dedicated educator, Dr. Chor also serves as the co-Director for the Pritzker School of Medicine's first year Doctor-Patient Relationship course and as the Assistant Director for the MS3 Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship. |
| 2022 |
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| Topic: Should all newborns have their genomes sequenced at birth? |
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| Recording: Debate |
Lainie Ross, MD, PhD |
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Robert C. Green
Professor of Medicine
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Moderator: Naomi Laventhal, MD, MA, HEC-C |
| 2021 |
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| Topic: Ethical issues in allocating COVID-19 vaccines |
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| Recording: Debate |
Douglas Opel, MD, MPH |
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Helene Gayle, MD, MPH
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Moderator: John Lantos, MD |