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Greetings!
Welcome to Bioethics International's (BEI) quarterly newsletter containing the world's top bioethics news and news of our work to empower responsible decision-making in healthcare, life science and biotechnology.
2008 has been a year of expansion for BEI, particularly with respect to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Along with completing numerous meetings with the world's top pharmaceutical companies, BEI organized and co-hosted the United Nations-affiliated 2008 bioethics conference, which included a panel on the ethics of pharmaceutical R&D (more info below). BEI also expanded its involvement with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) by serving as an author for BIO's online publications BIO on the Road and Blogging Biotech and by providing three breakout session proposals for BIO's 2009 Convention. Thank you to Navigant Consulting and CRT-Tanaka for sponsoring BEI's participation in BIO's 2008 convention.
Or course we have not forgotten about our doctors, nurses, and hospital executives. At the end of this month we will head to Chicago for our quarterly American Medical Association meetings. As many of you know, BEI is a voting member and advisor to the AMA's National Consortium for Disaster Preparedness. We have also reserved April to help Jameson Health System with their disaster preparedness needs, particularly their physician training on just resource allocation and triage ethics. Additionally, we submitted a grant application to the Greenwall Foundation to study the efficacy of providing an ethical framework to guide disaster decision making. The lack of an ethical framework has been identified as a major gap in disaster preparedness by The US Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland Security (DHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others. Bellevue Hospital in New York City will partner with BEI for the study involving 1,000 clinicians.
Finally, we are preparing for BEI's 2009 ERA Gala, tentatively in February. Stay tuned so as not to miss the event and/or opportunity to become a leader in championing ethics by sponsoring a table or program page.
Cordially yours,
Jennifer Miller,
Executive Director
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1. BEI partners with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) to write for their online publication Bio on the Road, discussing current and emerging ethical issues affecting global healthcare. BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, with more than 1,150 members worldwide.
2. BEI joins BIO's online publication Blogging Biotech as a contributor. BEI also participates in BIO's CEO investors' conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City and interviews Ken Carter, CEO of Avalon Pharmaceuticals, on their promising biomarker screening cancer therapeutics. 
3. BEI is nominated for a best Medical Blog Award.
4. BEI co-sponsors and executes the 2008 United Nations-affiliate bioethics conference discussing current and emerging ethical concerns affecting global healthcare. Panels included: (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. BEI organized panelists from Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Harlem Hospital, NY Presbyterian Hospital, et al. Additional information here and photos here.
5. BEI is elected a voting member of the American Medical Association's National Disaster Life Support Education Consortium and continues to advise on the drafting of national disaster medicine curriculum.
6. BEI ran Grand Rounds programs and meetings with hospitals throughout Pennsylvania, in March, on disaster preapredness ethics covering (1) the just allocation of limited resources, particularly ventilators, (2) duty to care and triage ethics, (3) end-of-life decision-making, and (4) a framework for ethical decision-making. BEI also advised Pennsylvania pharmacists on pandemic preparedness vaccine allocation plans. Special thanks to Roger Legreid of Central Coast Pharmacy Specialists in California and Kim Tran of Bellevue Hospital in New York for above and beyond commitment to assisting hospitals to prepare for an influenza pandemic.6. BEI's executive Director, Jennifer Miller, served as an expert for the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) World Congress in Washington, DC discussing "Balancing Autonomy and Community in promotion of Human Dignity." 7. BEI advises the media on disaster preparedness and just resource allocations, "Blueprint for medical crises must be re-examined, says bioethicist."8. BEI partnered with the World Youth Alliance to provide an educational program at the University of Ottawa on Canadian Healthcare Policy and Human Dignity. 9. BEI advised the IMF-Canada on clinician autonomy and the Samuel Golubchuk withdrawal of care case. Read the IMFC article and BEI's Executive Director's commentary here. 10. BEI provided an educational program for Bishop Foley High School in Oxford, Michigan for 250 youth entitled "Bioethics, Hope for the Future." |
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