News & Annoucements

JUDY ANDRE

• Presented “Incorporating Ethics Case Studies into Science Courses” at the Lilly Seminar on Teaching Ethics, Michigan State University (October 2005).
• Gave a three hour workshop, titled “Confidentiality,” for hospital ethics committees, University of North Florida, Jacksonville (January 2006).
  

LIBBY BOGDAN-LOVIS

• Presented a collaborative paper (with Chad Gandiya, M.Div. and Joseph-Matthew Mfutso-Bengo, Ph.D.) titled "Bioethics' Truths?: A Transnational 'E-Dialogue' Between Medical Students in the United States and Students in Sub-Saharan Africa," at the 2005 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (December 2005).

HOWARD BRODY

• Presented “Physicians, Ethical Principles, and the Drug Industry” to Michigan State Medical Society, Annual Bioethics Conference, Traverse City (October 2005).
• Gave the talk “Ethical Issues in Working with the Pharmaceutical Industry” for the11th annual Bioethics Grand Rounds, York Hospital, Pennsylvania (November 3).
• Presented “Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Issues of Professionalism” for Professionalism conference for house staff, Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI (January 2006).
• Published a commentary on “Clinical Case: Informed Refusal” in Virtual Mentor: Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association, 8(1):24-29, January 2006.
• Gave the talks “Is Futility About the Just Use of Resources?” and “Ethics and Resource Allocation: The Return of Grass Roots Bioethics” for MidMichigan Medical Center, Midland (January 2006).
• Presented “Can We Talk? Religion, Bioethics, and End of Life Care in America” for the Albert J. Shipka Speakers Series, Youngstown State University, Ohio (February 2006).
  

LEN FLECK

• Published “Creating Public Conversation About Behavioral Genetics” in Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversations, edited by Erik Parens, Nancy Press, and Audrey Chapman (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 257-85.  This was one of the documents to emerge from a three-year NIH  ELSI project that was a collaboration between the Hastings Center and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.  

MARGARET HOLMES-ROVNER

• Spoke on (with co-authors D.R. Rovner, J. Pylar, C.E. Wills, J. Lillie, and K. Kelly-Blake) “Accuracy of graph interpretation in a decision aid” at the 27 th Annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Francisco (October 2005).
• Presented (with co-authors A.M. O’Connor, G. Elwyn, D. Stacey, R. Volk, R. Thomson, A. Barratt, M. Barry, A. Coulter, H. Llewellyn-Thomas, N. Moumjid, and T. Whelan) “International Patient Decision Aids Standards Collaboration [IPDAS] Reaches Consensus On Criteria For Judging The Quality Of Patient Decision Aids” at the 27 th Annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Francisco (October 2005).
• Gave a talk on (with co-author A. Siddiqi) “ Euroqol Vs Domain-Specific Measures To Predict Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes” at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL). San Francisco (October 2005).
• Published (with co-authors C. Price, D.R. Rovner, K. Kelly-Blake, J.A. Lillie, C. Wills, and V. Bonham) “Persistence of men’s theories about BPH and prostate cancer following a decision aid” Jl Gen Intern Med: (2006)21:56-60.
• Published (with co-author C.E. Wills) “Integrating Decision-Making and Mental Health Intervention Research: Research Directions” in Clinical Psychology. Science and Practice (2006) 13(1): 9-25.

HARRY PERLSTADT

• Serves on the CDC Research Agenda Steering Subworkgroup, Advisory Committee to the Director of CDC. This group is advising on the creation of the new CDC Health Protection Research Guide, 2006-2015.
  

GERALD S. SCHATZ

• Published “International Health Regulations: New Mandate for Scientific Cooperation,” American Society of International Law Insight (August 2, 2005).
• Published “Introductory Note to World Health Organization: Revision of the International Health Regulations,” International Legal Materials (September 2005).
• Coauthor, with Howard Brody, "Letter: Learned Intermediary Doctrine," Federal Lawyer on contrast between pharmaceutical industry’s marketing strategies and its liability defense that the physician makes the decisions (January 2006).