March 12-13, 2009
Meeting Agenda
Washington Renaissance Hotel
999 Ninth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-898-9000
THURSDAY, March 12
9:00 am |
Session 1: National
Ethics Commissions:
The View from Abroad
Marie-Hélenè Mouneyrat
Secretary General
Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique, France
Hugh Whittall
Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
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10:30 am |
Break
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10:45 am |
Session 2: National Ethics
Committees:
Mission, Functions, Philosophies, and Modus Operandi
Cynthia Cohen, Ph.D., J.D.
Faculty Affiliate
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University
Mark Kuczewski, Ph.D.
Director
Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
Loyola University, Chicago
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12:30 pm |
Lunch Break
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1:45 pm |
Session 3: National Ethics
Commissions:
Future Agendas
Mark Frankel, Ph.D.
Director
Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Nancy Kass, Sc.D.
Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health
Berman Institute, Johns Hopkins University
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3:00 pm |
Break
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3:15 pm |
Session 4: National Ethics Commissions:
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Alexander M. Capron, L.L.B.
Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics
Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics
University of Southern California
Ruth Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Executive Director,
Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University
Yuval Levin
Hertog Fellow
Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Eric Meslin, Ph.D.
Director
Indiana University Center for Bioethics
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5:00 pm |
Adjournment
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FRIDAY, March 13
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