March 1999
Volume Six, Number Three
Co-Directors:
Gerald Logue, MD and Stephen Wear, PhD
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Associate Director:
Jack Freer, MD
Research Associates: Adrianne McEvoy and Larry Torcello
Address: Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Veteran's Affairs Medical Center
3495 Bailey Avenue Buffalo, NY 14215
Telephone: 862-3412 FAX: 862-4748
Website:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/
Send E-mail to: Wear@acsu.buffalo.edu.
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BIOBUL-LIST is strictly used for distribution of "Bioethics Bulletin" and is mainly for those outside of Western New York. If you have further questions about this service, contact Jack Freer at 887-4852 or at: jfreer@buffalo.edu.
Upcoming Center Meetings
The Center currently has three committees: Community Affairs,
Education and Research. All Center members are welcome to
participate in these committees.
Upcoming Lectures
Monday, March 1. 7:30 PM. "What Feminism Can Do For Bioethics."
Presenter: Laura Purdy, Professor of Philosophy, Wells College
and University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.
Welles-Brown Room - Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
River Campus. For details, call Andrea Ehmann at 275-5800.
Tuesday, March 16. Research Conference, Department of Medicine, SUNY-Buffalo. 5:45 - 7:00 PM. Joseph L. Izzo, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, will speak on "Vascular Compliance and Vascular Reactivity", and John M. Canty, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, will speak on "Apoptosis in Hibernating Myocardium: Death Without a Trace." University Inn, Amherst. To RSVP, fax 859-2999.
Thursday, March 18. "Gender and the Changing Curriculum: Education With(out) Difference(s)." A conference sponsored by the SUNY-Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Center for Tomorrow, SUNY-Buffalo Amherst campus. 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Keynote speaker: Professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University: "Science Matters! Integrating Gender and Science into the Curriculum." No advance registration is required, but prepaid reservations for lunch are necessary. The cost is $6.25. Call 829-3451 for details.
Wednesday, March 24. The George Washington Corner Society of Rochester presents a talk on "Blood Clots: the Use of Clot Busters in the Treatment of Strokes." Speaker: Richard Satran, MD, professor emeritus of neurology, University of Rochester. 6:30 PM, Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue, Rochester. The talk is free and open to all. A dinner follows at 7:30 PM, for which there is a $27.00 charge. If you would like to attend the dinner, contact Andrea Ehmann at 275-9781.
Friday, March 26. "Democracy and Evil", a lecture by SUNY-Albany Professor of Philosophy John Kekes. University of Rochester, 3:00 PM. Location to be announced. For details, call 275-5800.
Wednesday, April 7. The Philippa Harris Lecture on Bioethical Issues in Cancer will be held on Wednesday, April 7, 1999 at 5:00 PM at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto. The lecture will take place in the Auditorium (610 University Avenue, 6th Floor). Joanne Lynn, Director of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, Institute for Health Policy, Outcomes, and Human Values at the George Washington University Medical Center will be speaking on "When All is Said and Done: Improving End of Life Care." For more information, contact Margot Smith (e-mail: margot.smith@utoronto.ca; fax: 416-978-1911; tel: 416-978-0871.
Wednesday, April 7. The Philippa Harris Lecture on Bioethical Issues in Cancer will be held on Wednesday, April 7, 1999 at 5:00 PM at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto. The lecture will take place in the Auditorium (610 University Avenue, 6th Floor). Joanne Lynn, Director of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, Institute for Health Policy, Outcomes, and Human Values at the George Washington University Medical Center will be speaking on "When All is Said and Done: Improving End of Life Care." For more information, contact Margot Smith (e-mail: margot.smith@utoronto.ca; fax: 416-978-1911; tel: 416-978-0871.
Thursday, April 15-Friday, April 16. Ontario Gerontology Association 18th Annual Conference. The Colony Hotel Downtown, Toronto. The 9th Annual GRCO Bayne-Galloway Lecture will be given by Dr. Rosalie Kane of the University of Minnesota, entitled "Long Term Care: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." For more information, call 416-535-6034; fax: 416-535-6907; e-mail: dvigoda@compuserve.com.
Thursday, April 15-Friday, April 16. Ontario Gerontology Association 18th Annual Conference. The Colony Hotel Downtown, Toronto. The 9th Annual GRCO Bayne-Galloway Lecture will be given by Dr. Rosalie Kane of the University of Minnesota, entitled "Long Term Care: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." For more information, call 416-535-6034; fax: 416-535-6907; e-mail: dvigoda@compuserve.com.