Thursday, April, 7, 2005
Albany Medical College Huyck Auditorium

AGENDA
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Session I: The Annual Richard T. Beebe, MD Lecture
"Is That a Bioethicist in Your Pocket?"
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD

6:00 - 7:00
Reception: Neil Hellman Lobby

Admission to this lecture is free, pre-registration is required, and limited to 100 attendees.

AMA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT = 1 Hour

Friday and Saturday, April 8-9
Union College / College Park Inn

8:00 - 8:45 am
Registration, Continental Breakfast and Exhibits

8:45 - 9:00
Welcoming Remarks & Introductions
Robert Baker, PhD and Arthur Derse, MD, JD

9:00-11:00
Session II: Contemplating the Ethics of Contemporary Bioethics
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD
Loretta Kopelman, PhD
Virginia Ashby Sharpe, PhD

11:00 - 11:15
Break

11:15 - 12:45
Session III: Ethics of Bioethics Workshops & Panel Sessions

1. Conflict of Interest (Ballroom)
   Lisa S. Parker, PhD
   Michael Davis
   Christopher Meyers, PhD
   Glenn McGee, PhD
   
2. Specialists or Special Interests? The Ethics of Disability Ethics (Room 101)
   Debjani Mukherjee, Ph.D.
   Mark Kuchewski, PhD
   Teresa Savage, PhD, RN
   Dominic Sisti, Mbe
   
3. Professionalizing Bioethics (Room 107)
   Hospital Ethics Committees: Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
   Don Milmore, M.D., M.A.
   Conflicts of Interest: Two Cases
   Ralph Baergen, PhD
   A View from Industry, A Challenge to Bioethics
   Linda M. Axtell-Thompson
   Social Injustice and Bioethics
   Victor M. Sidel, MD
   
4. Conflict of Interest in Research Ethics (Room 102)
   Eliminate the Conflict, not the Bioethicist
   Michael Yesley, JD
   Informing Research Participants of Research Results: Analysis of Canadian University-Based Research Ethics Board Policies
   S. Danielle Mac Neil & Conrad V. Fernandez, MD, FRCPC2
   Institutional Review Boards and conflicts of interest in biomedical research: the case for a centralized and independent system whereby clinical trials are reviewed, conducted, monitored, and reported
   Howard Mann, M.D.
   The Role of Bioethics in Society – A View From the Private Sector
   David G. Forster, JD, MA, CIP
   

1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 4:00
Session IV: Do Bioethics Have Professional Obligations?
Francoise Baylis, PhD
Arthur Derse, MD, JD
Rosamond Rhodes, PhD

4:00 - 4:15
Break

4:30 - 6:00
Session V: Contributed Papers

1. Conflict of Interest in Research Ethics (continuation) (Room 102)
   Cindy Province, RN, MSN, MA
   Peter Houghton MSC
   Laura A. Kicklighter, PhD & Richard R. Sharp, PhD
   Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD
   
2. Danger and Opportunity: A Town Hall Discussion on Bioethics in Industry (Ballroom)
   David Perlman, Ph.D.
   Chris MacDonald, PhD
   Gary Cohen, JD
   Trisha Philips, PhD
   
3. Bioethics And Ethical Theory (Room 101)
   Laura M. Purdy, PhD
   Fritz Allhoff
   Allen Andrew A. Alvarez
   Jessica P. Miller, Ph.D.
   
4. Codes of Ethics for Bioethicists (Room 107)
   Felicia Cohn & Lisa Eckenwiler
   Abraham Schwab
   Linda MacDonald-Glenn
   

Saturday, April 9

8:00 - 8:45 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00
Welcome and Introductions
Glenn McGee, PhD

9:00 - 10:15
Session VI: Conflicts of Interest
Tom Beauchamp, PhD
Arthur Caplan, PhD

10:15 - 12:15
Session VII: Pharma Financing of Bioethics: Panel Discussion
Tom Beauchamp, PhD
Arthur Caplan, PhD
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
Leigh Turner, PhD

12:15 - 1:30
Lunch

1:30 - 3:30
Session VIII: Codes 1 - The Possibility of a Code of Ethics for American Bioethicists
Robert Baker, PhD
Laurence McCullough, PhD
Kenneth Kipnis, PhD

3:30 - 3:45
Break

3:45 - 5:15
Session IX: Codes 2 - The Difficulties of Implementing and Enforcing
a Professional Code of Ethics
Stephen Latham, JD, PhD
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH

5:15
Closing Remarks
Glenn McGee, PhD & Matthew Wynia, MPH, MD

Adjourn

AMA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT = 6 Hours

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