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The Department of Bioethics is pleased to offer standing educational events each month.

  • Bioethics Grand Rounds is held the second Tuesday of each month and focuses on an intriguing Bioethics related topic. Staff and/or fellows present on a topic and welcome feedback from audience members.
  • In-Depth Case Study is held on the fourth Tuesday of the month and focuses on an interesting, provocative, troubling and/or instructive case from the recent past. These sessions are held with the intention to strive toward excellence in ethics consultation.
  • "Food for Thought" takes place on the first Thursday of the month and is a discussion session focused on the spiritual and ethical issues arising in health care.

Please contact the Department of Bioethics at 216.444.8720 with questions regarding these events.


Upcoming Grand Rounds

Bioethics Grand Rounds are held at noon on the second Tuesday of each month.

All are welcome to attend.  This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM

May 21, 2013

Title: "Globetrotting with Grief: How One Theather Artist Put Male Loss into Words"
Speaker: David Hansen
Location: Bunts

June 7, 2013

Title: "Truth Telling and Patient Centered Care: How Often and Why Doctors Are Not Always Open or Honest with Patients"
Speaker: Eric Campbell, PhD
Location: Bunts

2013»

Bioethics Grand Rounds

January 8, 2013

Title: "Lessons from the Drug Safety Wars"
Speaker: Steven Nissen, MD
Location: Q1-201

February 12, 2013

Title: "Ethical Issues in Conducting Observational Research with Severely Mentally Ill Persons"
Speaker: Sana Loue, PhD
Location: NA1-138

March 12, 2013

Title: "Medical Turn Down for Kidney Transplantation - When the Patient Disagrees with the Decision"
Speaker: David Goldfarb, MD
Location: Q1-201

April 9, 2013

Title: "Ethics of Returning Opioid Abusing Resident Physicians to Anesthesiology Practice"
Speaker: David L. Brown, MD, John Tetzlaff, MD, Patricia Murphy, RN, LSW, MBA, CDCA, CIC
Location: Q1-201

2012»

Bioethics Grand Rounds

January 10, 2012

Title: "Promoting Diversity in Medicine: The language we use and arguments we make"
Speaker: Lois M. Nora, MD, JD
Interim, President and Dean of The Commonwealth Medical College

February 14, 2012

Title: "Obtaining Fully Informed Consent in Cancer Clinical Trials: Progress and Pitfalls"
Speaker: Shlomo Koyfman, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Radiation Oncology
Location: Q1-201

March 13, 2012

Distinguished NeuroEthics Lecture
Title: "Neurosurgical Leadership: Lessons Learned"
Speaker: James Rutka, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Location: J3-105
Time: 5:30 p.m.
*In collaboration with Neurosurgery

April 10, 2012

Title: "How to Reform Health Care: 10 Key Lessons from Dialysis"
Speaker: Alvin “Woody” Moss, MD
Director, Center for Health, Ethics & Law
Location: Q1-201
*In collaboration with Nephrology

May 15, 2012

Bioethics Week Grand Rounds
Title: ""Surrogate Decision Making for Patients: Innovating on an Old Standard"
Panel/Presenters: Anne Lederman Flamm, JD; Shlomo Koyfman, MD; Martin L Smith, STD
Location: Bunts Auditorium
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.

May 17, 2012

Bioethics Research Day Keynote Speaker
Title: "Can We Get More Justice in Health and Health Care through Health Reform?" 
Speaker: Norman Daniels, PhD
Location: NA5-03/04
Time: 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

June 12, 2012

Speaker: Lt. Col. William D. Casebeer, PhD, USAF, Ret.
Location: Q1-201

September 11, 2012

Title: "Ethical Implications of Research on the "Daily Spiritual Experience Scale"
Speaker: Lynn Underwood, PhD, Gradiate Faculty, Cleveland State University
Honorary Fellow, Center for Reading, Information Systems and Linguistics, University of Liverpool
Location: Q1-201

October 9, 2012

Title: "Health Information Technology and the Physician-Patient Relationship"
Speaker: Mark Rothstein, JD, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law
Location: Q1-201

November 13, 2012

Panel Discussion
Topic: "Ethical Choices Facing Physicians with Serious Illness"
Panelists: Arman Askari, MD, Travis Gullett, MD & Carmen Paradis, MD
Moderator: Dr. J. Harry Isaacson
Location: Q1-201

December 11, 2012

Title: "Ethics of Research in Pregnancy"
Speaker: Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH
Location: Q1-201

2011»

Bioethics Grand Rounds

December 13, 2011

Title: "Cardiac Assist Devices: Quality of Life, Deactivation, and other Ethical Considerations"
Speakers: Martin Smith, STD, Cleveland Clinic, Director of Clinical Ethics
and Leo Pozuelo, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Section head, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

November 8, 2011

Title: "Myth of the Therapeutic Misconception"
Speaker: Scott Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Director of CBSSM

October 11, 2011

Grand Rounds Cancelled

September 13, 2011

Title:“Patients and Families as Abusers: An Ethical Analysis”
Speaker: Deborah Miller, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis

June 7, 2011

Title: "Informed Consent, Bioethical Equipoise, and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome"
Speaker: Constantine Mavroudis, MD, Cleveland Clinic

April 5, 2011

Title: "Laughing at the Fat Man: The Ethics of Humor in the Hospital" 
Speaker: Julie Aultman, PhD, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy

March 1, 2011

Title: "The Evolution of Admission to Medical School" 
Speaker: Kathleen Franco, MD, Cleveland Clinic

February 1, 2011

Title: "It's Shocking!: Regulation of Electroconvulstive Therapy by State"
Speaker: Susan Stagno, MD, University Hospitals

January 18, 2011

Title: "Institutional Review Boards: A Road Block or a Competitive Advantage?"
Speaker: Duncan Neuhauser, PhD, Case Western Reserve

Bioethics Research Day

May 19, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carol Gilligan
"Why is the Ethic of Care Still Embattled?"


Read the archives from previous years.

Sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care, Food for Thought is a monthly brown-bag educational discussion session focused on the spiritual and ethical issues arising in health care.

The sessions take place on the first Thursday of each month, Noon – 1 p.m., usually in Q1/Glickman Conference Center. The sessions use a variety of resources to focus discussion, e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles, short stories, poetry, book chapters, short films, guest presenters. Preparatory written reading material is posted on a dedicated SharePoint site.

All are welcome to participate!! For access to the SharePoint site and to receive email notification of upcoming sessions, e-mail your name and e-mail address to:
Jennifer Cook
cookj@ccf.org

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Previous Events

2012 International NeuroEthics Conference
Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology

October 24-25, 2012

Our Next Bioethics Research Day

May 24, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Arthur Derse
"What can bioethics research do for clinicians?"

Previous Bioethics Research Day Events

May 17, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Norm Daniels
"Can We Get More Justice in Health and Health Care through Health Reform?" 

May 19, 2011

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carol Gilligan
"Why is the Ethic of Care Still Embattled?"

May 27, 2010

Keynote Speaker: Marion Danis, MD
"The Role of Bioethics Research in Improving Patient Care and Clinical Practice"

May 21, 2009

Keynote Speaker: John Lantos, MD
"Bioethics Research in the Next Decade"