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The 2006-7 Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series is supported by a generous gift from California Western School of Law (CWSL) and The Institute of Health Law Studies at CWSL. It meets once monthly for faculty, staff, and students to discuss selected ethics topics.

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at UCSD in the Medical Teaching Facility (MTF), Room 175. To subscribe/unsubscribe to the ethics-l mailing list, please go to: http://lists.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/ethics-l.

2006	Topic	Discussion Leader
January 18	Compensation for Research Subjects: Ethical Pros and Cons	Laura Dunn UCSD Dept. of Psychiatry
February 15	The New Crisis in Human Subject Protection: Is Accreditation the Solution?	Steve Smith California Western School of Law
March 15	Science Education: What to Do About Intelligent Design?	Harry Klemfuss VA San Diego Healthcare System
April 19	Therapeutic Forgetting: Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory-Dampening Drugs	Adam Kolber USD Law School
May 17	Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues, ESCRO Committees, and Beyond	Mike Kalichman UCSD Research Ethics Program
June 21	Conscience in the Clinic: When patient requests and physician ethics conflict	Matthew A. Allison UCSD Family and Preventive Medicine
July 19	New Approaches to the Legal Aftermath of Medical Error: From Punishment to Prevention	Ed Dauer Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
August	Summer break - no meeting
September 20	Ethical Reasoning in Medicine -- Or the Contrary?	Beatrice Golomb UCSD Department of Medicine
October 18	Pathological Science	Ivan Schuller UCSD Department of Physics
November 15	Ethical Issues in Donor Insemination: What Should We Tell the Children?	Ellen Waldman Thomas Jefferson School of Law
December	Winter break - no meeting

ACCREDITATION FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION:

The University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of one credit per hour of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

SEMINAR SERIES OBJECTIVES:

To increase awareness of the ethical dimensions of research, clinical practice, and teaching.
To increase discussion and understanding of the ethical dimensions of research, clinical practice and teaching.