Past Issues
Cynda Rushton is a recipient for the Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Daniel Finkelstein, an ophthalmologist and medical ethics specialist, dies
The Baltimore Sun | March 6, 2022
Dr. Daniel Finkelstein, an ophthalmologist, medical ethics specialist, and member of the Berman Institute faculty, died Feb. 25 at the Blakehurst Retirement Community.
Theo Schall won the Marilyn Bergner Award for Health Services Research for his dissertation.
The National Academies released Realizing the Promise of Equity in the Organ Transplantation System. Mario Macisserved on the committee.
Our Debra Matthews is serving on a new consensus study at the National Academies: Creating a Framework for Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in Health and Medicine.
Navigating the Ethical Dimension of Vaccine Hesitancy Research by Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD
Hot Topics in Research Ethics
Monday, April 11, 2022, 9 – 10 am EDT
In this talk, Dr. Rachel Gur-Arie will share her experience working on empirical, qualitative studies investigating the ethics of vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers.. Advanced registration is required.
Prognosis in Serious Neurological Disease: Opportunities and Challenges
Bioethics Seminar Series
Monday, April 11, 2022, 12 – 1 pm EDT
The Sheila Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture, presented by Robert G. Holloway, M.D., M.P.H.
Caring for Our Patients, Our Students, Our Colleagues, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative
Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 12 – 1:15 pm EDT
Join us online for the 28th Annual Shallenberger Lecture, with speaker, Hedy S. Wald, PhD.
Seminar Series: Prognosis in Serious Neurological Disease: Opportunities and Challenges by Robert G. Holloway, M.D., M.P.H
The Sheila Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture
April 13, 11 a.m. – noon
Unproven Stem Cell Therapies: A Growing Global Health Issue
Join Berman Institute Director Jeffrey Kahn and other global experts for this presentation in collaboration with the New York Stem Cell Foundation
April 19, Noon-1:15 p.m.
Caring for Our Patients, Our Students, Our Colleagues, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative by Hedy S. Wald, PhD
28th Annual Shallenberger Lecture
April 25, Noon-1 p.m.
Seminar Series: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision-Making by David Wendler, PhD, MA
Dr. Wendler has written widely on such topics as assent in pediatric research, assessing research risks systematically, research with stored biological samples, and protecting communities in biomedical research from exploitation.
April 27, 5-6 p.m.
Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture
Holocaust and Medicine Education for Resilient Professional Identity Formation: A Survivor’s Daughter Teaches German Medical Students at Auschwitz
“What’s Ethical About Infertility: Protecting a Child’s Right to an Open Future”
Sinai
April 19, 2022
Pediatric grand Rounds at Sinai by our Yoram Unguru.
Unproven Stem Cell Therapies: A Growing Global Health Issue
The New York Stem Cell Foundation
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 11 am – 12 pm EDT
Experts Peter Marks, MD, PhD, Timothy Caulfield, LLM, FRSC, FCAHS, Valentina Fossati, PhD, and Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH explore the science behind legitimate stem cell therapies and what these unproven stem cell clinics are offering patients. This discussion was moderated by NYSCF CEO & Founder Susan L. Solomon, JD.
“Ethical Considerations for Cis Providers of Trans Care”
JH Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Graduate Fellows Workshop
April 1, 2022
Talk by our Theo Schall.
Big Data, Precision Medicine, Research & Resilience in Southeast Indian Country
SENAHD
Thursday, March 24, 2022
With our Debra Matthews. Link to watch talk.
“Eduardo Kac: Telepresence: Bio Art and Space Poetry”
Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Media Studies and the SFN Parkway Theater,
March 16, 2022
With our Jeff Kahn.