December 8-9, 2005
Meeting Agenda

City Center Hotel - Washington, DC
1143 New Hampshire Ave. NW
Washington, D C 20037
Phone: 202-775-0800

8:45 am	Session 1: Bioethics and American Children Norman Fost, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics, University of Wisconsin Hospital
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Session 2: Ethical Issues in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Robert M. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
12:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Session 3: Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving for Children, Too Loretta Kopelman, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Medical Humanities, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Session 4: Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research Sara Goldkind, M.D., M.A., Bioethicist, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, Office of the Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
4:30 pm	Adjournment

8:30 am	Session 5: Human Dignity as a Bioethical Concept Paul Weithman, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame James Childress, Ph.D., Hollingsworth Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Session 6: Discussion of Staff Working Paper on “Bioethics and Human Dignity” Bioethics and Human Dignity paper Council Discussion
11:45 am	Session 7: Public Comments
12:00 pm	Adjournment