Multiple US states have passed laws limiting the ability to terminate a pregnancy affected by Down syndrome or other genetic conditions, with the Ohio version of this law recently upheld by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Preterm Cleveland v. McCloud). Yet historically, the relationship between prenatal genetics and abortion has always been complex. …
Join the 黑料网 Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing Social Determinants of Health, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1:00-2:45pm on Wednesday June 30. Presenters will explore the complex relationships between where people live and work and their health. It shouldn鈥檛 take a pandemic: Social determinants of …
The Precision Analytics group of the Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care is collaborating with the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS) to offer a virtual workshop that will provide an introduction to working with patient or clinical data. During the workshop, participants will work with a deidentified Electronic Health Record (EHR) …
Friday, June 11, 12:00p EDT Panelists Melissa Creary and Liza Johnson will describe the current state of therapy for sickle cell disease, and some ethical issues that arise in the emerging use of gene transfer or gene editing for treating the disease. Dr. Johnson will focus on ethical issues identified by patients, and Dr. Creary …
Arlene Davis, JD, BN is the new Director of the 黑料网 Center for Bioethics.聽 She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine; Director of the Clinical Ethics Service; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the 黑料网 Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and in the 黑料网 School of Law Since 1996, Davis has …
Mar 12, 2021聽 | 12:00 PM EST Click here to register. This Friday Forum will consider the ethical, social, and legal implications of the diverse applications of DNA technologies that impact migrants entering or resident in the United States. When migrating family members go missing or a body is found along a migration route, familial …
March 19 | 12:00-1:00 pm ET / 9:00-10:00 am PT Oversight of Human-Animal Chimera Research: Views of Scientists, Researchers, Oversight Committees, and the Public – REGISTER Moderator: Mildred Cho Kaitlynn Craig: When Dogs Play Cards: Interviews with Scientists, Researchers, and Oversight Committee Members on Ethical Guidelines for Human-Animal Chimera Research Ben Wills & Isabel …
Friday, March 26, 2021, 3:00 鈥� 4:00 pm ET Why Include People in Research if they Lack Access to Decent HealthCare? Pilar N. Ossorio, Ph.D., J.D. Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) Program Lead, Ethics Program Morgridge Institute for Research Dr. Ossorio is Professor of Law and Bioethics where she is on …
ELSIconversations debuts with聽a six-week series of themed one-hour networking discussions聽on ELSI research.聽Join us from 12:00-1:00 pm ET / 9:00-10:00 am PT starting Friday, February 26. Ethics Practices for the Direct-to-Consumer Industry聽– REGISTER Moderator: Mildred Cho Emily Bullis & Anjali Shastri: A Prospectus on Ethical Issues in the Context of Collaborations Between Academic and Non-academic …
Feb 12, 2021聽 | 12:00 PM EST Click here to register. Genomics is being used in several distinct ways to understand and address the Covid-19 pandemic. Pathogen genomics investigates the genetics of the virus itself and enables identification and tracking of new variants, while host genomics investigates genomic properties in different individuals that influence infection, …
