November 6, 2004
This conference remembers Dorothy Jean MacLean, who helped found the Center and was deeply committed to its work. Mrs. MacLean believed that education was the best means for improving the world and throughout her life supported many leading educational institutions. The MacLean Center is grateful to have had the benefit of her friendship and encouragement for many years.
To register for the MacLean Conference, please visit then conference registration page. For hotel and travel information for former ethics fellows, contact Alix Weisfeld.
Saturday sessions meet at the Biological Sciences Learning Center (924 East 57th Street).
8:00 - 8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:10
Introduction and Keynote Talk
Wendy Levinson - Disclosing medical errors to
patients: A call to professional action
9:10 - 10:30
Panel 5: The Doctor-Patient Relationship
Chair: Wendy Levinson
Caleb Alexander - Sharing the Prescription Choice:
Opportunities and Obstacles Amidst a Growing Imperative
Kristi Kirschner - Learning to Act in Partnership: Women
With Disabilities Speak to Health Professionals
John McKenzie - Communication and Consent in Canadian
Aboriginal Renal Failure Patients
John Balint - A Caring Partnership: Can We Get There?
10:30 - 11:45
Panel 6: Law and Ethics
Chair: Ann Dudley Goldblatt
Joel Howell - Medical History, Clinical Ethics, and so-called
"Partial Birth Abortion"
John La Puma - Ethicist in the Expert's Chair: Qualification
and Phronesis in the Phen-Fen and Baycol Cases
Jerry Menikoff - Why Informed Consent to
Research Is So Frequently Inadequate, And How to
Remedy That
John Paris - The "Emergent Circumstances" Exception to
Informed Consent: The Texas Supreme Court's Ruling in
Miller v. HCA
11:45
Lunch Break
12:45 - 1:45
Panel 7: Surgical Ethics
Chair: Mark Siegler
David Cronin - Allocation of the Expanded Donor in Liver
Transplantation
Megan Crowley - Living Organ Donation: Expanding Pool,
Expanding Responsibilities
Gretchen Schwarze - Ethical Issues in Decision Making for
Vascular Surgery
2:00 - 3:15
Panel 8: Medical Training
Chair: Bill Meadow
Ken Iserson - Resident "Capping": Rationale, Ethics, and
Effects
Laura Roberts - Developmental Ethical Milestones During
Medical Training
Commentator: Jinger Hoop
3:30 - 4:10
Panel 9: Ethics and Genetics
Chair: Lainie Ross
David Rubin - Bringing Complex Genetics to Patients and
Their Families: What should we be thinking?
Jay Jacobson - Ethical Implications of Vertical Transmission
of Infectious and Genetic Diseases
4:15 - 5:30
Selected Abstracts
Chair: Tracy Koogler
Rob Orr - Organizational Ethics is Not for Sissies
Lisa Anderson Shaw - Ethical Issues in the Outpatient
Setting
Bill Ellos - Ten Narrative Approaches in Clinical Ethics
Ira Kodner - Medical Ethics and Frankenstein's Monster
