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The UCSD and Donald Shapiro 2007-2008 Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series is supported by a generous gift from The Institute of Health Law at the California Western School of Law (CWSL) and E. Donald Shapiro, which co-sponsors with UCSD a Masters Degree in Health Law. 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.

2007	Topic	Discussion Leader
January 17	Research MR Exams in Liver Transplant Patients: Ethical and Clinical Issues	Claude B. Sirlin UCSD Dept. of Radiology
February 21	Substance Abuse Research in Ethnic Minorities	David Gilder The Scripps Research Institute
March 21	Randomized trials in social science: How do they differ from medical trials, and what are the implications?	Craig McIntosh UCSD Dept. of Economics
April 18	Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Who Owns Them?	Jeanne Loring The Burnham Institute
May 16	To Tube Or Not To Tube	Carole Roth Naval Medical Center, San Diego
June 20	New Rules for Clinical Trials: Good or Bad News?	Michael Caligiuri UCSD Clinical Research Protections Program & Michael Kalichman UCSD Research Ethics Program
July 18	Man-made health disasters: The example of Iraq and our ethical responsibilities	Wael Al-Delaimy UCSD Family and Preventive Medicine
August	Summer break - no meeting
September 19	The Flesh Made Word: Banking the Body in the Age of Information	Cathy Gere UCSD Dept. of History (History of Medicine)
October 10	California's Efforts to Improve Quality of Care in Hospitals: New Reporting Requirements Please note change in regularly scheduled day	Mark Johnson Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc.
November 14	Inclusion and Difference:Gender, Race, and the Politics and Ethics of Medical Research Please note change in regularly scheduled day & location: Leichtag Biomedical Research Room 205	Steven Epstein UCSD Dept. of Sociology
December 19	Physician Conflicts: Duties to The Patient vs. Duties to Society	Neil Farber Internal Medicine Perlman

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 sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine designates this educational activity for one credit per hour of Category 1credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent 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.