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“Patient Advocacy
and
Research Ethics”
Featuring
Rebecca Dresser, J.D.
Author of
When Science Offers Salvation
(Oxford University Press, 2001)
Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law
and
Professor of Ethics in Medicine at
Washington University
Thursday, March 7, 2002
11:30a.m—Reception
Noon—Lecture
Shriners
Burns Hospital
Seventh Floor Auditorium
815 Market Street
Sponsored
by the UTMB President’s Council
Organized by the UTMB Institute for the Medical Humanities
Free
parking is available in the lot on the corner of Sixth and Market streets.
Tokens will be provided.
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RSVP or for more information , call (409) 772-6377 or contact
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Law
Professor Dresser to discuss
‘Patient advocacy and research ethics’
Health
Policy Forum speaker sits on Bush’s Council on Bioethics
Professor
Rebecca Dresser, named in January to President Bush’s 18-member Council
on Bioethics, will speak at noon Thursday, March 7, on “Patient Advocacy
and Research Ethics” in the auditorium on the seventh floor of the
Shriners Burns Hospital.
Dresser,
the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in
Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, is the featured lecturer
at the inaugural UTMB Health Policy Forum of 2002. Prior to the lecture,
starting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, a reception for her will be held in the
foyer of the auditorium. Copies of Dresser’s book, When Science
Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics, will be
available there for sale and for autographing by the author.
Both
the reception and the talk are free and open to the public. Tokens
permitting free parking in the Administration Building Garage at 6th and
Market Streets will be available at the auditorium for off-campus
visitors.
Sponsored
by the UTMB President’s Council, the Health Policy Forum is organized by
the UTMB Institute for the Medical Humanities.
Dresser
is one of just four women on the President’s Council on Bioethics, the
first assignment of which is to advise Mr. Bush by producing a report on
human cloning. Shortly after her appointment, Dresser told the St.
Louis Post Dispatch that she hopes the panel will spend at least part
of its time debating “everyday bioethics” – issues such as how to
care for elderly patients who can’t make decisions for themselves; who
should have access to health care; and what responsibility the United
States should have to people in the developing world.
Later
the same day as the Health Policy Forum, at 3 p.m., Dresser will lead a
colloquium on “The News Media and Research Ethics” in Room 1.102 of
the School of Nursing Building. That session, too, is open to interested
faculty, students, staff and the public.
Shortly
after noon on Friday, March 8, Dresser will address a combined meeting of
UTMB’s two Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) discussing “Patient
Advocates as Members of IRBs.”
Dresser
received her juris doctor degree from Harvard University in 1979. She also
holds a master of science degree in education and a bachelor of arts
degree in psychology and sociology from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Prior
to her appointment at Washington University, she was professor in the
School of Law and Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve
University’s School of Medicine; a fellow in the Program in the Ethics
and the Professions at Harvard; an assistant professor in the Center for
Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston; a teaching fellow at the School of Law at the University of
Chicago; a law clerk to United States District Clerk James E. Doyle in
Madison, Wisconsin; and a postdoctoral fellow on a National Institute of
Mental Health Training Grant in Social Science Research Methods in the
Psychiatry Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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