The IU Center for Bioethics is proud to announce a new series of talks on bioethics and related fields for the upcoming school year. IU Bioethics Grand Rounds will occur regularly, led by faculty from IU and elsewhere discussing their work. The sessions will be hybrid, held in person on the IU Medical School campus and accessible over the internet, and will include time for Q&A and discussion. The sessions will be recorded and archived on the IU Center for Bioethics website (https://bioethics.iu.edu/.
Dr. Kyle Brothers, MD, PhD will present the first session of the year, “Race-Based Medicine: What Can we Learn from Genetics?” Dr. Brothers is Chief Scientific Officer for Norton Children’s Research Institute Affiliated with the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
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- Description: Genetic ancestry products from companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe have become wildly popular in recent years. In this talk, Dr. Brothers will explore what these tests can tell us – and NOT tell us – about the responsible use of race in making medical decisions.
- Date and time: Thursday, Sept. 14, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
- Location: Emerson Auditorium, EH 304
Other IU Bioethics Grand Rounds Talks scheduled for the year:
- October 17, 2023, 3:30 PM: Dr. Insoo Hyun, Wolen Lectureship in Pharmacology and Bioethics, co-sponsored with the Division of Pharmacology. Dr. Insoo Hyun, PhD, is the Director at the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Boston Museum of Science, and a faculty member of the Center for Bioethics and senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
- Location: Research Building R3, Room 203.
- November 2, 2023, 12:30 PM: Dr. Eric Meslin, Where Should Our Genomics Go…In the Future? Eric Meslin, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, was the Founding Director of IU Center for Bioethics (2000-2015), and is the President and CEO, Council of Canadian Academies and an Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
- Location: Emerson Hall EH 304.
- January 11, 2024, 1 PM: Dr. Meg Gaffney, Conscience and Ethics: When Principles are Not Enough. Meg Gaffney, MD, is a Faculty Investigator, Indiana University Center for Bioethics and is an Emerita Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine.
- Location: Emerson Hall EH 304.
- March 7, 2024, Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, Title & Location TBD. Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, is the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, and Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University, Location TBD
- April, 2024: Silvers Annual Lecture on Holocaust, Genocide, and Contemporary Bioethics. Speaker, date/ time, and title TBD.