Spring School 2024 Lectures
Monday, March 25th, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Frontline Bioethics: War, Disease, Politics and the Impact on Humanity, Francis P. Crawley, Executive Director of the Good Clinical Practice Alliance – Europe (GCPA)
1:00 PM-3:00 PM Reflections on Generative AI, Bioethics and Health? Threats, Risks, and Opportunities for Humanity, P. Elif Ekmekci, Associate Professor and the Deputy Dean of the TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Is Universal Health Coverage an Answer to the Health Injustices in Africa? Joyce M. Tsoka-Gwegweni PhD, Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Free State, South Africa
12:00 PM-1:00 PM “Absolutely Essential”: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order, Keynote Speaker: 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
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM When We Cannot Cure: Thoughts on the Ultimate Challenge to the Bond of Patient and Doctor – Reflections on the Role of Humanism in Medicine, Michael R. Berman MD, MBI, FACOG, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Preserving Integrity in Science, Keynote Speaker: Jeanne Frances Loring, PhD, founding Director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Scripps Research, Professor Emeritus at Scripps Department of Molecular Medicine, and co-founder of Aspen Neuroscience
2:00 PM-4:00 PM Holding on to our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots , Eve Herold, Director of Policy Research and Education Healthspan Action Coalition
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Bioethics in the Public Space: Lessons from the Covid Years, Keynote Speaker: Bryn Williams-Jones, PhD, Senior Faculty Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Public Health (EPSUM)
1:00 PM-3:00 PM Current and Future Lessons from the COVID Pandemic, John 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
Friday, March 29th, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Scientific Foundation for the Ethical Discussion of Fertility Treatments, Keynote Speaker: Frederick Licciardi, MD, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
1:00 PM-3:00 PM Risk & Resource Allocation in Times of Crisis: Lessons from the Recent Pandemic, Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education and Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai.
Saturday, March 30th, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM AI Ethics: Why it matters!, Adarsh Srivastava, PGDISAD, Head of Data & Analytics Quality Assurance at Roche Diagnostics
2:00 PM-5:00 PM Final Open Forum with Participant Discussion
Closing Remarks