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Bioethics EVENTS CALENDAR
November 11, 2010,
Noon-1:00pm, SSOM 150
Ethics
Grand Rounds
“Religion
and Public Discourse about Bioethics”
Presenter: William E. Stempsey, SJ, MD, PhD
Department of Philosophy,
College of Holy Cross
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for the complete Neiswanger Institute Calendar of Upcoming Events
Upcoming
BIOETHICS CONFERENCES
Recently held
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...)
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
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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
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here
for conference schedule and featured presentations.
February 28 - 29, 2008
Catholic Health
Care Ethics: Clinical, Social and Global Concerns
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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
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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
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information.
SSOM ETHICS GRAND ROUNDS & LECTURES
November 11, 2010,
Noon-1:00pm, SSOM 150
Ethics
Grand Rounds
“Religion
and Public Discourse about Bioethics”
Presenter: William E. Stempsey, SJ, MD, PhD
Department of Philosophy,
College of Holy Cross

Join
professionals and students in a monthly online discussion of important
health care issues. This month's featured
discussion:
Just Healing: The
Faces of Health Care
"Ni de aqui. Ni de alla. Midwesterm Medicine with a twist of Mexico-Americano."
Lourdes Gomez
Villaume,
MD
Click
here to begin the web discussion.
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
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VIDEO ARCHIVES
Click here for a
complete archive of Neiswanger Institute's video streamed sponsored events.
New Presentation video
streams feature:
Just Healing:
The Faces of Health Care, March 20, 2010
“Ni de aqui. Ni de alla. Midwestern Medicine
with a twist of Mexico-Americano.”
Lourdes Gomez
Villaume,
MD
"Direct-to-Consumer
Genetic Testing: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Physicians."
Katherine Wasson, PhD, MPH
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