News & Announcements

P. Sean Brotherton

• Spoke on “The Withering State? Socialist Entrepreneurs, Medicalized Citizenship, and the Struggle for Capital in 21 st Cuba” at Disjunctive States: Crisis and Historicity in Cuba and Haiti Conference, University of Chicago (April).
• Gave invited talk “Macroeconomic Change, Emergent Capital, and the Biopolitics of Health in ‘Special Period’ Cuba” for the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS), Brown Bag Series, MSU (April).
• Presented “Machinations of the State: Shifting Ideologies, Emergent Capital, and Expanding Therapeutic Itineraries in ‘Special Period’ Cuba” in a Festschrift in honor of Margaret Lock at the Canadian Anthropology Society and American Ethnological Society Conference, Toronto (May). Invited to give this same talk to McGill University’s Department of Anthropology, Montreal (March).

Libby Bogdan-Lovis

• Served as a faculty leader for spring break program “Broadening Perspectives on Health Care in Costa Rica.” Hosted by the International Health Central American Institute (IHCAI) a group of 18 students from MSU’s Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine examined both the context and delivery of Costa Rica’s national health care system (March).

Lisa Campo Engelstein

• Presented “Androcentrism and Sexism in Medicine: Understanding Health Disparities between Women and Men” for the MSU American Medical Women’s Association, medical student chapter (March).

Len Fleck

• Delivered the Courtney M. Townsend Lecture at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston titled “Shall We Talk? The Role of Community Dialogue in Bioethics/ (Moving from Destructive Dissent to Reflective Reconstruction)” (April).
• Did a workshop with medical staff at the Bay City Medical Center titled “Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Appeals to Futility in the Hospital” (May).
• Gave a lecture to the medical staff at St. Johns Medical Center called “Just Caring: Last Chance Therapies and the Challenges of Health Care Rationing” (May).

Margaret Holmes-Rovner

• Participated in an Invitational Meeting, Improving Quality Health Care: The Role of Consumer Engagement sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Washington, DC (Feb.).
• Co-authored (Olomu A, Stommel M, Prieto A, Corser W, Eagle K) paper given titled “Is Quality Improvement Sustainable? The example of American College of Cardiology's Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP).” Presented at the Society For General Internal Medicine, Toronto (April).
• Gave Keynote Plenary lecture, “ History of Collaboration in International Shared Decision Making Meetings: The Stories of Science in the Making” at the International Shared Decision Making Biennial Meeting. Freiburg, Germany (May).
• Presented a workshop (with co-authors D Stacey, G Elwyn, C Bennett C, K. Sepucha) “Critically Appraising the Quality of Patient Decision Aids Using the International Patient Decision Aids Standards Instrument (IPDASi),” International Shared Decision Making Biennial Meeting, Freiburg, Germany (May).
• Co-authored (Wills CE, Franklin M) paper presented “Feasibility and Outcomes Testing of a Patient-Centered Decision Support Intervention for Depression in People with Diabetes” at the International Shared Decision Making Biennial Meeting, Freiburg, Germany (May).
• Was a discussant at the Niagara Workshop, Beyond Diagnosis: Health Outcomes, Decision Making and Survivorship, Canadian Cancer Research Consortium (May).
• Published (with co-authors J Gruman, and D Rovner) “Shared Decision Making in the US--Research & Development Outpaces Delivery.” Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen (Journal for Evidence and Quality in Health Care, English special issue) (May).

Ann Mongoven

• Became an interim member of Michigan Department of Community Health IRB (Feb.).
• Was a speaker on panel addressing bioethical and social issues regarding the use of plastinated bodies at the Detroit Science Center, in conjunction with the “Universe Within” plastinated bodies exhibit there (Feb.). Also, was a panelist for a CEHLS brownbag on same topic, MSU (March).
• Gave talk “Other Barriers:Disparities in Organ Donation and Transplantation” for Leaders Achieving Notable Education Greens Screens, MSU (April).

Gerald Schatz

• Presented “International Law and Informed Consent in Research on Human Beings” at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, MSU (March).
• Conducted a workshop, “Handoffs and Heartaches--Problems of Continuity of Care” at the Annual Meeting, Medical Ethics Resource Network of Michigan, MSU (May).

Tom Tomlinson

• Presented “The Ethics of First Person Consent to Organ Donation,” at the Michigan Gift of Life conference, Saving More Lives Through Donation and Transplant, Brighton, MI (March).
• Gave talk “The Ethics of DNR Decisions” for the Lakeland Regional Health System, St. Joseph, MI (May).
• Spoke on “Ethics and Futility” for Foote Hospital, Jackson, MI (May).