Summer School 2022 Lectures

Monday, July 18th, 2022

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Bioethics, Military Necessity, and International Humanitarian LawMichael Gross PhD, Professor of Political Science, The University of Haifa, Israel

1:00 PM-3:00 PM: The Gene Editing Revolution: A CRISPR PerspectiveJohn Loike PhD, Director of the Master of Science Degree and the Graduate Certificate program in Bioethics and Humanities at the New York Medical College, Adjunct at Columbia University and Professor of Biology at Touro University

Tuesday, July 19th, 2022

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Reconsidering the Nuremburg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and CIOMS guidelines in the context of the war in UkraineFrancis P. Crawley MA, Executive Director of the Good Clinical Practice Alliance, Founder and Director of the Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review

1:00 PM-3:00 PM: End-of-Life and Pallitative CareJoseph Lowy MD, NYU Langone Medical Center, Clinical Professor in Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, Director of Palliative Care Service NYU Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care

Wednesday, July 20th, 2022

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: When We Cannot Cure: Thoughts on the Ultimate Challenge to the Bond of Patient and Doctor, Michael R. Berman MD, MBI, FACOG, Senior Faculty member in the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai

1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Bioethics in the Second Cold War, Jonathan D. Moreno PhD, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Trauma Informed Research & Trauma Informed Research Practices, Mary Simmerling PhD, Senior Research Advisor & National Leadership Council Member, RAINN (Rape and Incest National Network)

Thursday, July 21st, 2022

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Risk and Resource Allocation in Times of CrisisJacob M. Appel MD, JD, MPH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education and Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and Assistant Director of Academy for Medicine & the Humanities, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai

11:00 AM-1:00 PM: Understanding Research Risk: A Cautionary Tale, Ilene Wilets PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Chair for the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai

1:00 PM-3:00 PM: Scientific Foundation for the Ethical Discussion of Fertility Treatments, Fredrick Licciardi MD, Professor in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology NYU Langone Medical Center, Director of Oocyte Donation Program NYU Fertility Center

Friday, July 22nd, 2022

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Ethical Challenges in Pediatric Research, Phaik-Yeong Cheah PhD, Professor of Global Health at University of Oxford, Founder and Head of Bioethics and Enagegmentat Oxford University’s MORU Tropical Health Network in Bangkok

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Towards a New Era in Medicine: AI and Bioethics, Perihan Elif Ekmekci PhD, MD, Head of History of Medicine and Ethics Department and Deputy Dean at TOBB University of Economics and Technology

1:00 PM-3:00 PM: Against All Odds: Maintaining Integrity in Wartime and the Conscience of a SurgeonBryan Pilkington PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences in the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at Seton Hall University, Junior Scholar in Bioethics at the Paul Ramsey Institute

Saturday, July 23rd, 2022

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccines in Southern AfricaJoyce Tsoka-Gwegweni PhD, Vice-Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Public Health and Vice Dean in Research, Transformation and Marketing, in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Free State, South Africa, Current Chair of the UFS Faculty Research and Postgraduate Committee