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December 12-13, 2002
Meeting Agenda


Hotel Monaco
700 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20002


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12    

9:00 am Session 1: Adding Years to Life: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects.
Steven N. Austad, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho.

10:30 am Break

10:45 am     Session 2: Duration of Life: Is There a Biological Warranty Period?
S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, and
Senior Research Associate, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago.

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Session 3: Prescription Stimulant Use in American Children: Ethical Issues.
Lawrence H. Diller, M.D., Dept. of Pediatrics, University of California-San Francisco.

3:30 pm Break

3:45 pm Session 4: What's Wrong with Enhancement: Discussion of Paper
Prepared by Michael J. Sandel, D. Phil.

5:15 pm Adjournment


FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13    

8:30 am Session 5: Genetic Enhancements: Current and Future Prospects.
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

10:30 am     Break.

10:45 am Session 6: Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Genomics Era.
Gerald P. Schatten, Ph.D., Professor and Vice-Chair of Obstetrics-Gynecology & Reproductive
Sciences and Cell Biology-Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine;
Director, Pittsburgh Development Center; and Deputy Director, Magee-Women's Research Institute.


12:15 pm Public Comments.

1:00 pm Adjournment.


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