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The UCSD and Donald Shapiro 2008-2009 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.

2009	Topic	Discussion Leader
January 21	Where's The Justice? The Ethics of Medical Tourism for Organ Transplantation	Rev. Donald B. Stouder, M.Div., PCS, Lifesharing Organ & Tissue Donation
February 26	Sociological reflections on ethics, embryonic stem cells and translational research	Prof Steven Wainwright King’s College London, University of London
March 18	Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Copycat Exhibits: Context and Controversy Surrounding the Sourcing of Bodies for Display	Larissa Heinrich, Ph.D. Dept of Literature, UCSD
April 15	Ethical Issues in Brain Imaging Research	Lisa T. Eyler, Ph.D VA SD, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
May 13	10th Anniversary Celebration: Looking Forwards and Backwards Please note change in regularly scheduled day & change in location: UCSD Faculty Club	Special Guests Food and Drink Historical Reflection
June 17	The UC Vendor Relations Policy: There Is No Such Thing as Free Lunch	Larry S. Friedman, M.D. UCSD
July 22	Stem Cell Research: New Developments/ New Challenges Please note change in regularly scheduled day	Evan Snyder, M.D., Ph.D. Burnham Institute
August	Summer break - no meeting
September 16	Entrepreneurs and Regulators: Can They Get Along?	Jack Fisher, Emeritus UCSD
October 21	Ethics and the New UCSD School of Medicine Curriculum	Jess Mandel Undergraduate Medical Education, UCSD
November 18	Family and Preventive Medicine Whistle-Blowers in Public Health: Ethical and Scientific Challenges	Wael Al Delaimy, MD, PHD
December 16	Physician Appeals to Conscience: Sorting the Real from the Counterfeit	Mary Devereaux, PhD

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.