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An Ethical Framework to Guide Hospitals During COVID-19
April 2, 2020
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Jeffrey Kahn Q&A about JHU-led project to guide hospitals through the ethics of resource allocation
No Visitors in the Hospital … Unless You’re in Labor?
April 1, 2020
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Hecht-Levi Fellow Marielle Gross considers no-visit policies’ impact on patient care
Publishing During the COVID-19 Epidemic: Prompt Conclusions or Quality Studies?
March 30, 2020
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Prof. Michael Erdek cautions against a rush to faulty judgment
Looming Blood Shortage Raises Ethical Questions about Allocation
March 27, 2020
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Berman Institute Director Jeff Kahn publishes NY Daily News commentary

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Apr 13
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Seminar Series – Can the Researcher-Participant Relationship Ground Ancillary-Care Obligations?

Lecture by Henry Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Apr 16
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
POSTPONED: Genetic Engineering’s Impact on Science and Society: A Discussion of the Netflix Film Series “Unnatural Selection”

Bioethics experts join the director of a Netflix series documenting developments in gene-editing to discuss moral and social issues raised by new technologies

New York Stem Cell Foundation
Apr 21
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
CANCELED: Shallenberger Lecture – “Caring for Our Patients, Our Students, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative”

This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 epidemic

 

Annual Shallenberger Lecture

“Caring for Our Patients, Our Students, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative”

Hedy S. Wald, PhD
Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Faculty, Harvard Medical School Global Pediatrics Leadership Program

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Zayed 2117
Apr 27
12:00 am
Seminar Series – Lisa S. Parker, PhD

Lecture by Lisa S. Parker, PhD, Professor and Director of University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Bioethics & Health Law

Bloomberg School of Public Health Feinstone Hall

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