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Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series

SCBE Seminars (Biomedical Ethics Seminars) are generally Tuesdays, 10am - 11am from September to June in the SCBE conference room, unless otherwise noted. 

Due to COVID-19, all seminars have been moved to a virtual format until further notice.

Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Conference Room
1215 Welch Road, Modular A, Room 62
Stanford, CA 94305-5417
Directions

Invited Speakers Seminars are free-of-charge, and open to the public.  

If you would like to be added to our SCBE Events email list to receive notifications of upcoming SCBE Seminars, please click the blue "Subscribe to our Events Mailing List" button to the right.

Questions? Please email Megan Cvitanovic.  

Invited Speakers Academic Year 2020-2021

Sep September 29 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Keith Wailoo
  • Topic: The Ethical Predicament of Genetic Innovation: Lessons from the History of Race and Disease
  • Recording available here

Oct October 27 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Holly Fernandez Lynch
  • Topic: Protecting & paying participants in SARS-CoV-2 Challenge Studies
  • Recording available here

Nov November 10 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Daniel Mason
  • Topic: "Writing Patients: An ethics, in fiction"

Nov November 17 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Jason Delborne
  • Topic: Public Engagement when Biotechnology "Goes Wild"
  • Recording available here

Dec December 08 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Jantina De Vries
  • Topic: Equity in International Collaborative Health Research: Reflections from H3Africa & the Human Cell Atlas Consortium
  • Recording available here

Jan January 12 Tue 2021

  • Speakers: E. "Ann" Jeschke
  • Topic: The Politics & Poetics of Justice: Lessons learned from the embodied experience of combat violence
  • Recording available here

Feb February 02 Tue 2021

  • Speakers: Jacqueline Genovese, Colleen Cuddy, and Suzette Shipp
  • Topic: Medicine Dialogue on Diversity & Inclusion: Using literature as a catalyst for understanding and change
  • Register here!

Feb February 09 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Mia Keeys
  • Topic: Equity as Innovation in Health Policy & Tech
  • Register here!
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Mar March 16 Tue 2021

  • Speakers: Alex London & Danielle Wenner
  • Topic: Emerging challenges in IRB review
  • Registration available soon!

Apr April 13 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Vardit Ravitsky
  • Topic: Global bioethics
  • Registration available soon!

May May 11 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Kimani Paul Emile
  • Topic: Implicit provider biases in medicine
  • Registration available soon!

Jun June 08 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Judy Illes
  • Topic: Emerging topics in neuroethics
  • Registration available soon!

Jun June 15 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Jason Karlawish
  • Topic: The Problem of Alzheimer's Book Discussion
  • Registration available soon!

Past Invited Speakers

*via zoom* Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Marzyeh Ghassemi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Medicine, University of Toronto
Topic: Machine Learning Healthy Models in Health

*via zoom* Thursday, May 28, 11am
Jonathan Bowes
Associate Scientist, Research Policy 23andMe
Topic: Data Privacy at 23andMe

*via zoom* Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Travis N. Rieder, PhD
Director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program and a Research Scholar, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Topic: "What becoming a patient taught me about the ethics of opioid use"

CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 7, 2020
R. Alta Charo, JD
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Topic: TBA

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Dr. Toran Hansen
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution, Salisbury University
Topic: It's a Super Tuesday for Medical Conflict Resolution

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Laura Dunn, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center
Topic: The Cutting Edge: Emerging Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Research

Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, PhD, JD, MBE
Assistant Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
Topic: Post-trial Obligations Following Implantable Neural Device Research

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Ian Sabroe, MBBS, BSc, AKC, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Inflammation Biology
Co-Director, Medical Humanities Sheffield
Topic: Physician Experience of Error and Uncertainty

Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Kurt Christensen, PhD
Instructor of Medicine, Institution Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Catalyst
Topic: Econogenomics: Is genomic testing worth the cost?

Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 12pm
Olivia Matshabane, PhD
Lecturer of Psychology, University of Cape Town
Topic: Genomics in Africa

Monday, October 28, 2019 - 12pm
Keolu Fox, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, UC San Diego
Topic: The Paleogenomic Industrial Complex: What's Left When the Bone Dust Settles?

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Alice B. Popejoy, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford University
Topic: TBA

Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Rebecca Aslakson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology, Stanford University
Topic: Palliative Care for Perioperative Populations

Friday, July 19, 2019
Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD
Time: 1 - 2 pm
Assistant Professor of Clinical Bioethics, Colombia University
Topic: Enablers and disablers of inclusion in precision medicine research: Community voices

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Katharine Shear, MD
Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry, School of Social Work, Columbia University
Topic: TBA

Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Matt Berent, PhD
Matt Berent Consulting Services
Topic: Survey Design

Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Doug White, MD, MAS
Chair of Ethics in Critical Care Medicine, and Professor of Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Translational Science, University of Pittsburg Medical Center
Topic: TBA

Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Dani Shapiro
Li Ka Shing Center, Rm 120
Topic: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Sharrona Pearl, PhD
Assistant Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Jenny Reardon, PhD
Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center, UC Santa Cruz
Topic: "Can Genomics Just Be?"

Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Barbara Koenig, PhD
Professor of Medical Anthropology & Bioethics Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Institute for Health & Aging, UC San Francisco
Topic: "Should Every Newborn be Sequenced at Birth?"

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Eben Kirksey, PhD
Professor of Anthropology, Deakin University
Topic: Remaking Life with Shenzhen Speed

Tuesday, November 6, 2018
James Dunson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Xavier University of Louisiana
Topic: Sedation, Suicide and the Limits of Ethics

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Topic: Regulation, Therapeutics and Law (Via Zoom)

Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Seth Hollander, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University
Topic: Compassionate VAD deactivation in children

Thursday, June 7, 2018, 11am
Duana Fullwiley
Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University
Topic: Can the World be a Better Place?

Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 11am
Lotta Eriksson
Head Secretariat for Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics
Topic: "Policy-making for biomedical ethics in Sweden"

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 11am
Galen Joseph, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine
UC San Francisco
Topic: Precision Medicine on Trial: Ethnography of a Personalized Breast Cancer Screening Trial Using Genomics to Assign Risk

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 11am
Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Medicine/Stanford
Prevention Research Center, Stanford University
Topic: Engaging Diverse Communities to Understand Perceptions of Precision Health and Precision Health Research

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 11am
Rebecca Wolitz, JD
Academic Fellow, Stanford Law School
Topic: A Corporate Duty to Rescue: Pharmaceutical Companies and Drug Pricing Controversies

Wednesday, January 25, 2017, 11am
Haidan Chen, PhD
Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing
Governing Precision Medicine Innovation in China

Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 11am
Risa Cromer, PhD
Thinking Matters Fellow
Stanford University
The $3 Million Dollar Embryo: Claiming Potential in a University Biobank.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 12pm
Chiara Lepora, MD
Physician and Researcher
Médicins Sans Frontières
Field Perspectives on the ethical challenges of medical humanitarian action in crisis

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 12pm
Nancy L. Synderman, MD, FACS
Award Winning Medical Journalist and Surgeon
Scientific Illiteracy and the Media

Thursday, May 18, 2017, 12pm
Ysabel Duron
CEO & Founder of Latinas Contra Cancer in San Jose, CA
Award-winning San Francisco Bay Area journalist
Daring to Challenge the IRB: Experiences with the All of Us / Precision Medicine Initiative

Wednesday, September 6, 2017, 11am
Megan Palmer, PhD
Senior Research Scholar
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
Stanford University
Topic: Cultivating Cultures of Responsibility in Synthetic Biology

Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 11am
Hank Greely, JD
Director
Center for Law and the Biosciences
Stanford University
Topic: Playing With Life

Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 11am
Laurel Braitman, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine,
Writer-in-Residence, SCBE, Stanford University
Topic: Between Us and the Sun - A story about family, medicine, and how we die

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 11am
Michelle Mello, JD, PhD
Professor of Law and Health Research and Policy
Stanford Law School
Topic: Clinical Trial Participants' Views of Clinical Trial Data Sharing

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