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Ethics Around the Table: Rebecca Walker (ºÚÁÏÍø Philosophy and Social Medicine)

Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 200 South Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Ethics Around the Table: Rebecca Walker, ºÚÁÏÍø Philosophy and Social Medicine Topic: Doctors in prisons. Rebecca Walker is a professor in the Philosophy Department at ºÚÁÏÍø, with a joint appointment in the Department of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine. She uses philosophical and empirical research methods to address questions at the intersection of biomedicine … Read more

Annual Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Baylor College of Medicine)

Murphey 116

Please join us for the 2025 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture, co-sponsored annually by the Parr Center and the Center for Bioethics. The 2025 Joint Lecturer will be Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Ph.D., is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. … Read more

Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week

  The 2025 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW) is coming! About HERW HERW, hosted by the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), brings faculty, staff, students and community members together to share health equity research at ºÚÁÏÍø. HERW is an opportunity to facilitate collaboration, innovation and equity in the ºÚÁÏÍø School of … Read more

Book Talk: The Occasional Human Sacrifice

321 MacNider Hall

We invite you to join us for the talk in person. Location: Registration required; 321MacNider Hall or Zoom Light refreshments will be served! Kindly RSVP to help us organize better. Carl Elliott, MD, PhD Carl Elliott was originally trained in medicine before going into philosophy, and his most recent book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the … Read more

Population Genomic Screening: From Biobank Return of Results to a Clinical Screening Pilot

Virtual Event

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET Location: Webinar: Registration Required Juliann Savatt, MS, CGC Assistant Professor, Genomic Health, Geisinger Co-director, Geisinger MyCode Genomic Screening and Counseling Program Please register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/jsavatt Currently, identification of individuals with genomic risk remains largely dependent on clinical testing that relies on a personal/family history of disease … Read more

Hybrid Event | Comparing Patient and Physician Attitudes About Applications of AI in Healthcare

Roper Hall 6310
Hybrid Hybrid Event

Tuesday, May 6 4:00—5:00pm ET Roper Hall 6310 or via Zoom Presented by Richard Sharp, Ph.D. Lloyd A. and Barbara A. Amundson Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Director of the Biomedical Ethics Program, the Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program, and the Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Program While artificial … Read more