Upcoming Events
Past Events
November 2018
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Patients facing death meet extraordinary medical professionals who seek to change how we live and die.
When: November 1, 2018
Where: LKSC 130
Time: Receptions 5:30 pm / Screening 6 pm
Free & Open to the public
The English Surgeon
November 8, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Discussion Leader: Dr. Grant
UNREST
When: TBD
Followed by a Discussion with:
Jennifer Brea, Director and Producer of UNREST
and
Dr. Ronald Davis PhD, Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center and Director of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Center at Stanford University.
October 2018
Rare
October 4, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Discussion Leader: Dr. Monsen
The Bleeding Edge
October 11, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Discussion Leader: Paul Yock + Biodesign Fellows
My Left Foot
October 18, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Discussion Leader: Dr. Feldman
62 Days
FRIDAY October 19 @ 6:30 pm
Palo Alto, Mitchell Park Community Center
62 Days is an urgent examination of a growing trend of laws that seek to control a pregnant woman's body. It tells the story of a brain-dead pregnant woman whose family was forced to keep her on life support against their will. Marlise Muñoz was 33 years old and 14 weeks pregnant with her second child when she suffered a pulmonary embolism and was pronounced brain-dead in a hospital in Texas. Marlise had been clear about her end-of-life wishes: she did not want to be on mechanical support under any circumstances. But Marlise was kept alive because of a little-known law that states "a person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment... from a pregnant patient." The film reveals that this is not an anomaly: there are currently 32 states (and counting) with similar or identical pregnancy exclusion policies. 62 Days follows the Muñoz family as they journey from private loss, to unwanted media attention, and finally towards activism as they fight to change this law. This timely short film powerfully addresses critical issues surrounding bodily integrity and women's health and needs to be seen by anyone studying or engaged in activism around reproductive rights.
The Doctor
October 25, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Discussion Leader: Dr. Bronk
FRIDAY October 26
Stanford University, Stanford Medical School (Li Ka Shing Center Building) LK130
4:00 PM In Our Hands (US, 11 min)
In Our Own Hands: How Patients Are Reinventing Medicine opens with an urgent question posed by desperate patients and their families: can new technologies help us treat and prevent the most alarming and perhaps understated health threat that we face? Chronic diseases now affect over 130 million Americans and cost countless billions of healthcare dollars. Through the stories of the impassioned, often defiant struggles of the film’s three central characters—all with complex, unresolved medical issues— we explore the emergence of “participatory medicine”, enabled by a host of groundbreaking technologies that put more data about our own biological, behavioral and environmental ecosystems into our hands than ever before possible
4:20 PM Woody’s Order! (US, 16 min)
For the first time, actress Ann Talman performs her solo show for its muse: her brother with cerebral palsy.
4:45 PM Generation Zapped (US, 74 min)
Generation Zapped is an eye-opening documentary, which reveals that wireless technology poses serious health risks, from infertility to cancer. Through interviews with experts in science and public health, along with people who suffer from high sensitivity to wireless radiation, the film suggests ways to reduce your exposure and protect your family.
6:00 PM Panel “Health Challenges and Technology” (FREE Admission)
7:30 PM Incurable Optimist (Croatia, 58 min)
Incurable Optimist is a movie about people who survived lethal disease and about optimism that helps us overcome difficult life moments.
8:40 PM Survivors (Sierra Leone/US, 82 min)
Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, Survivors presents a heart-connected portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the socio-political turmoil that lies in its wake.
The Providers (US, 88 min)
SATURDAY October 27 @ 8:30 pm
Stanford University, Oshman Hall, McMurty Building, 355 Roth Way
Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, film follows three healthcare providers in northern New Mexico. They work at El Centro, a group of safety-net clinics that offer care to all who walk through the doors, regardless of ability to pay. Amidst personal struggles that reflect those of their patients, the journeys of the providers unfold as they work to reach rural Americans who would otherwise be left out of the healthcare system.
April 2018
Frankenstein @ 200 Film Series - National Theatre Live’s Frankenstein
Directed by Danny Boyle, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
Saturday April 21, 2018 @ 8 pm
Stanford School of Medicine Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center LKSC 120
This event is free and open to the public.
March 2018
Thursday, March 28, 2018 @ 7 pm
Stanford School of Medicine Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center LKSC 120
This event is free and open to the public.
Frankenstein @ 200 Film Series - Lo And Behold
Thursday, March 8, 2018 @ 7 pm
Stanford School of Medicine Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center LKSC 120
This event is free and open to the public.
Documentary Film Screening with Panel Discussion:
Dr. Maren Monsen will be the moderator.
Karola Kreitmair, PhD, Biomedical Ethics
Steve Asch MD, heads the center for Innovation to Implementation at VA
Saman Farid, AI investor for Baidu (founder and former director of Comet Labs incubator)
February 2018
Frankenstein @ 200 Film Series - Stem Cell Revolutions
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @ 7 pm
Stanford School of Medicine Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center LKSC 120
This event is free and open to the public.
Documentary Film Screening with Panel Discussion:
Dr. Maren Monsen will be the moderator.
Henry Greely, JD Director, Stanford Center for Law and the Bioscience, Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics
Documentary Film Screening with Panel Discussion
Sergiu Pasca, MD Assistant Prof Psychiatry
Director, Stanford Neurosciences Institute Stem Cells Core
David DiGiusto, PhD, Executive Director of Laboratory for Gene Medicine
Executive team member Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine
Gary K. Steinberg MD, PhD Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery and Professor (by courtesy) of Neurology
Co-Director of the Stanford Stroke Center
Frankenstein @ 200 Film Series - FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Thursday, January 23, 2018 @ 7 pm
Stanford School of Medicine Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center LKSC 120
This event is free and open to the public.
Documentary Film Screening with Panel Discussion:
Dr. Maren Monsen will be the moderator.
Regan Brashear, Producer/Director/Editor
Kelly Ormand, PhD Genetic Counselling
Paul Nuyujukian MD, PhD Assistant Prof, Bioengineering and Neurosurgery
Salli Tazuke, MD Medical Director, SF Bay Area Center of Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine
Fernanda Castelo, Film subject, device consultant
The Program in Bioethics and Film, Medicine and the Muse, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics is proud to present a screening of the 2017 Academy Award nominated short documentary film, Extremis, with a discussion and Q&A following the screening featuring Dr. Jessica Zitter and Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Film Screening @ 6:00 PM
Discussion and Q&A @ 6:30 PM
Li Ka Shing Center Room 120
UNAFF 2016 Compass for a Better World
Friday, October 28 (at Stanford)
Li Ka Shing Center, Room 130
Admission is free for Stanford students
Click HERE to purchase tickes
The Program in Bioethics and Film is partnering this year for the second time with the United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) to co-sponsor a day of medically themed film screenings at the Stanford Medical School. The films explore themes of immigrant and underserved community healthcare ("Clinica de Migrantes"), deaf culture ("Two Worlds"), multiple sclerosis ("When I Walk"), and environmental health ("Painted Nails"). Directly following the screenings, an expert panel discussion will be held. Panel members will include the film makers and Stanford medical school faculty including Dr. Gabriel Garica, professor of medicine and senior fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health. All students are offered free admission, with valid ID, and admission to the panels is free and open to the public. Further information regarding UNAFF and the schedule for this year’s festival can be found at http://www.unaff.org/2016/schedule.html
Film Screenings
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