This pioneering year-long seminar series will explore ethical and legal challenges in surgery. Distinguished academic surgeons and ethicists from the University of Chicago and nationally will participate in this groundbreaking program. This seminar series will examine the nature and scope of surgical ethics and will provide a foundation for further research and teaching collaborations between the MacLean Center and the Department of Surgery. The Surgical Ethics Seminar Series will focus on several critical themes, including:
All Sessions on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00PM. (Please see room locations below.)
Fall Quarter
September 26, Room P117
The first conference on the ethics of organ transplantation
Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
October 3, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
A minority transplant surgeon’s journey: A thirty year retrospective
Clive Callender, MD, Howard University
October 10, Room P117
Commercialization of intellectual property in surgical innovation
F. Scott Kieff, JD, Washington University
October 17, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Surgical innovation vs. surgical research: A plastic surgery case study
Gregory Dumanian, MD, Northwestern University and Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
October 24, Room P117
Why doctors won’t treat lawyers: Is it ethical?
Robert M. Sade, MD, Medical University of South Carolina
November 7, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Medicine in a vortex
Edward M. Copeland, III, MD, University of Florida
November 14, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Medical devices and the FDA
Lazar J. Greenfield, MD, University of Michigan
November 28, Room P117
Ethical issues in embryonic stem cell transplantation to treat spinal cord injury
Richard Fessler, MD, PhD, Northwestern University
December 5, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Surgical advancement: Why innovation is not sufficient
Joel Frader, MD, Northwestern University and Children’s Memorial Hospital
December 12, Room P117
Conjoined twins: A challenging journey involving ethics, emotions, law and the struggle of life and death
Larry Gottlieb, MD, University of Chicago
Winter Quarter
January 9, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
PEG - Three decades later
Jeff Ponsky, MD, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
January 16, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Surgical palliative care: An evolving moral framework for surgical practice
Geoffrey P. Dunn, MD, Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pennsylvania
January 23, Room M137
Altruism's limits in organ transplantation
Michele Goodwin, JD, University of Chicago
January 30, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Ethical issues in bariatric surgery
John Alverdy, MD, University of Chicago and Heena Santry, MD, Cook County Hospital
February 6, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Is the surgical approach to research and innovation better than the gold standard of randomized control trials?
Richard Epstein, JD, University of Chicago
February 13, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Enrollment of children in risky clinical trials: Pilot trials in minors
J. Richard Thistlethwaite, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
February 20, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Decision making in vascular surgery
Gretchen Schwarze, MD, University of Wisconsin
February 27, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Needle sticks in surgery
Martin A. Makary, MD, Johns Hopkins University
March 5, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
The future of surgery and the future of surgical ethics
Thomas Russell, MD and C. Rollins Hanlon, MD, American College of Surgeons
March 12, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Operating on well folks: Genetic diagnosis and preemptive surgery
Ira Kodner, MD, Washington University
Spring Quarter
April 2, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Ethical and functional considerations in facial transplantation
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, DSc, Cleveland Clinic
April 9, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Ethical controversies in living donor transplantation
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
April 16, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Evidence-based compassion
Joan Cassell, PhD, Independent Scholar
April 23, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Ethical issues in composite tissue allograft
Warren Braidenbach, MD, University of Louisville
April 30, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Transplant ethics: Perspectives on China
J. Michael Millis, MD, University of Chicago
May 7, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
The ultimate financial, societal, and personal costs of staged correction for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Constantine Mavroudis, MD, Northwestern University and Children’s Memorial Hospital
May 14, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Disclosing medical errors: A challenge for surgeons
Wendy Levinson, MD, University of Toronto
May 21, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Beneficent deception? The 'medical excuse' in organ transplantation
Mary Simmerling, PhD, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
May 28, Room L168 (Dora De Lee Hall)
Ethical issues in cancer surgery
Murray Brennan, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
