The Denver-based Academy for Lifelong Learning is offering a low-cost, eight-part course on "Contemporary Issues in Medical Ethics." The course is offered through Zoom on Tuesday mornings from September 15 to November 3, 2020.
As we struggle with new ethical challenges of a global pandemic, ethical issues have been front and center. We will learn how the past, present, and the future of medical ethics thinking have guided and will guide medical care. Highlighting some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics, experts will give their perspective and advice. Below are the topics that will be covered by a variety of experts.
9/15: Introduction to Medical Ethics.
Jeremy Lazarus, M.D., past chair of the ethics committees of the Colorado Psychiatric Society and the American Psychiatric Association.
9/22: Conscience in Medicine: From War to Nonviolent Conflict about Contested Medical Practices
Abraham Nussbaum, M.D, Chief Education Officer, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
9/29: Maternal Fetal Conflicts.
Jackie Glover, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
10/6: Challenging Cases in Clinical Ethics in 2020
Jean Abbott, M.D., MH, Professor Emerita Emergency Medicine
10/13: How Healers Became Killers & Can it Happen Again?
-Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities
-Mark Levine, MD, Clinical Professor, Medicine-Geriatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
10/20: Genome Editing, Biobanks and Research Ethics
Marilyn Coors, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
10/27: Law is Congealed Ethics
Casey Frank JD, MPH, Adjunct Faculty in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and member of University of Colorado Hospital Ethics Committee.
11/3 : Plague Chronicles and Narratives
Theresa Jones, PhD, Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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