Clayton Thomason was appointed by Governor John Engler to the Michigan Commission on End of Life Care, Lansing, MI. Thomason represents bioethical perspectives on the Commission, whose charge is to evaluate and improve training and curricula for health care professionals, develop resources for the public, examine state policies to remove barriers to effective pain control, and improve access to end of life care.

Judy Andre spoke on "Non-Doctors and Non-Nurses," for the Central Michigan University Philosophy Department.

Howard Brody did ethics grand rounds for the Dept. of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, on February 2, and for the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, February 8.

Libby Bogdan-Lovis presented "Reaching the Underserved" on April 29 for the Michigan Midwives Association spring meeting in Lansing, MI.

Len Fleck held a seminar "Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Rational Democratic Deliberation" this March. The seminar was for NIH faculty and fellows attached to Department of Clinical Bioethics, Washington, D.C. This was at the invitation of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair.