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Greetings!
It is with great joy that we are mailing you Bioethics International's News Release for 2008 updates. This year has been very successful for BEI so far, and we are pleased and thankful for all of your support!
This month, BEI is participating in the BIO 2008 International Convention in San Diego, CA so be sure to click the link to read what I've written on coverage for their blog, Bio on the Road.
We look forward to hearing your feedback and as always, ways to serve you better!
All the best,
Jennifer Miller |
| 2008 Highlights |
1. BEI begins construction on its new website and launches the 2008 World News Blog and quarterly e-journal newsletter issues. 2. BEI's blog is nominated for the 2007 Medical Blog Award under the category of Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog. BEI completes Canadian healthcare policy and human dignity research project. Special thanks to: BEI is asked to co-sponsor the United Nations-affiliate conference on New Medical Dilemmas scheduled for May 23, 2008. Additional information below.
- BEI lectures at the University of Ottawa on Canadian Healthcare Policy and Human Dignity for the Emerging Leaders Canadian Policy Seminar sponsored by the World Youth Alliance.
- BEI's Executive Director, Jennifer Miller, is quoted in IMFC article on clinician autonomy and the Samuel Golubchuk withdrawal of care case. Excerpt:
Jennifer Miller, Executive Director of Bioethics International, says while
it is possible in certain circumstances that doctors, by virtue of
being emotionally removed from a case and their clinical knowledge, are
better equipped to make end-of-life care decisions; this question of "who-knows-best" misses the point.
The
real issue behind the Grace Hospital and CPSM decisions is what she
calls "utilitarian and socio-biological" outlooks regarding human life.
These outlooks reduce people to their functions, for example equating a
human solely with their brain function or their function in society.
This opposes the view that all people, regardless of age, health,
gender and race, possess equal, intrinsic value. Click Here for full article.
- BEI participates in Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) CEO investors' conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, with more than 1,150 members worldwide.
- BEI interviews Ken Carter, CEO of Avalon Pharmaceuticals, on their promising biomarker screening cancer therapeutics.
- BEI Meets with pharmaceutical experts and pharmacists on pandemic preparedness vaccine allocation plans. Special thanks to Roger Legreid, Central Coast Pharmacy Specialists in California and Kim Tran, Bellevue Hospital.
- Emergency preparedness workgroup formed
with diverse stakeholders. Incorporating bioethics training into the
curriculum was top priority,
 particularly just resource allocation,
triage ethics, end of life decision-making, and duty to care ethics. - BEI joined the "Bioethics, Hope for the Future"
Bioethics Conference,in Oxford, Michigan.
- The National Disaster Life Support Education
Consortium meeting, which was cohosted by American Medical Association (AMA) and
National Disaster Life Support Foundation, was held at Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. BEI is voting member of
consortium and was pleased to be involved.
- March was Pandemic Preparedness Month for the State of Pennsylvania; BEI ran Grand Rounds programs and meetings with hospitals throughout the state on (1)
the just allocation of limited resources, particularly ventilators, (2)
duty to care ethics, (3) triage ethics, (4) end-of-life
decision-making, and (5) a guide to ethical decision-making.
- Bob Baughman and Paul Clark joined BEI's board members.
- "Dilemmas in Modern Medicine: Genetics,
Religion & Big Pharma" United Nations, New York, NY.
- BEI's Jennifer Miller was a panelist for "Balancing Autonomy and Community in
Promotion of Human Dignity". IHEU World Congress, Washington, DC. Click Here for a copy make sure to add Bioethics
International (C) 2008 By Jennifer Miller at bottom of post)
- This year's Biotech International Convention, in San Diego, CA asked Bioethicist Jennifer Miller to blog for Bio on the Road,the BIO blog for the convention.Click Here to Read More on Bio 2008 International Convention.
Thanks to CRT-Tanaka and Navigant Consulting for your sponsorship!
- BEI was featured in The Pandemic Preparedness Ethics Grand Rounds: Hamot Hospital and St. Vincent's Health System, PA. BEI presents the 2008 Winter ERA (Empowering Responsible Action) award to Hamot Hospital for its commitment to maintaining excellent ethics in emergency preparedness.
Special mention goes to Jayne Sheehan of Jameson Health System for convening an impressive emergency preparedness team and meeting in the middle of a snow storm! Thank you to all participants!
- BEI welcomes its first summer interns,
 Media Studies majors Courtney Kampa and Nicole Pelella.
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UN Conference Highlights
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Thank you to all who joined us for this UN- Affiliated Bioethics Conference on May 23rd, 2008. We had close to 150 attendees over three panel discussions concerning:
(1)To Have the Best Child Possible:
The Coming Age of "Procreative Beneficence?"
(2) Ethics and
Pharmaceutical R&D: Who Should Be Responsible for Tomorrow's Drugs?
(3) Saying "No" to Patients: Medical Professionals as Conscientious
Objectors.
As a result of the conference, BEI has been asked
to co-sponsor a conference with the American College of Physicians and Surgeons
- on emergency preparedness ethics - particularly covering just
resource allocation. BEI's success in this event could not have been possible without the support of all of you! A most sincere Thank You to all participants and panelists.
   
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