Redlining in Medicine | Harborview Ethics Forum

This month’s forum, Redlining in Medicine, features three amazing speakers: Sherronda Jamerson, MA, SUDP, Sharon Reed, RN, MSN, BSN, AAACN, and Natalie McCarthy, JD. They will be presenting on cases that have been reported with concern for raced based discrimination and harm affecting our black patients with a goal of helping promote an equitable approach to healthcare. 

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Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department on Zoom for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

Reproductive Bioethics: A Local and National Perspective | HMC Ethics Forum

This presentation is an overview of timeless and emerging topics in reproductive bioethics, with a focus on topics in education and on recent challenges to patient autonomy and practice.

Objectives:

1. Define reproductive bioethics;

2. Describe unique ethical challenges in teaching and practice;

3. Review recent local and national bioethics cases.

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Gun Violence Prevention: What is Possible? | Harborview Ethics Forum

The Bioethics and Humanities department presents a Harborview Ethics Forum lecture by Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, PhD and Julia Schleimer, MPH: Gun Violence Prevention: What Is Possible?.

This presentation will summarize the scope of gun violence in the United States and review specific approaches with the greatest potential to prevent it and reduce its harmful consequences. Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar will describe the scope of gun violence in the United States and identify specific approaches with the greatest potential to prevent gun violence and reduce its harmful consequences.

Trauma Informed Care | Harborview Ethics Forum

The Bioethics and Humanities department presents a Harborview Ethics Forum presentation by Dr. Alexandra Hernandez, MD, MCR on "Trauma Informed Care." This presentation will review the definitions of trauma and trauma informed care and discuss ways in which we can apply trauma informed care in our daily practice. Dr. Alexandra Hernandez will also describe the current American College of Surgeons initiative to embed trauma informed care training in trauma centers nationally.

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The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids & Human-Animal Neural Chimeras | Grand Rounds

John H. Evans is the Tata Chancellor's Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of the Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and the University of California, San Diego. He is an elected member of three honorific societies representing bioethicists, sociologists, and scholars of the relationship between religion and science. He is the author of seven books and over 60 articles examining science bioethics, and religion.

The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids and Human-Animal Neural Chimeras Among U.S. Bioethicists and Public | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Medical research for neurological disorders has been limited by the fact that it is ethically difficult to experiment on live people’s brains.  In response, scientists have created small (4mm) pieces of human brains in a dish made from human stem calls to experiment upon called human brain organoids.  With the same motivation, there are now also animals that have had their brains “humanized” in various ways, result