January, 2000
Volume Seven, Number One
Co-Directors:
Gerald Logue, MD and Stephen Wear, PhD
NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
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: 862-6563 FAX: 862-5649 or 862-8533
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
Friday, January 7, 2000, Patient Empowerment and Successful
Aging. 8 9:15 am. Anderson Rm.. (G-8534) at the University of
Rochester Medical Center. Drs. Paul Katz and Jurgis Karuza. Paul
Katz, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at the U of R. He
is currently Medical Director at Monroe Community Hospital and
Director of the Geriatric Fellowship at the U of R. Dr. Katz is
Senior Editor for the Springer Series, Advanced in Long-Term Care
as well as co-editor for Practice of Geriatrics and Psychiatry in
the Nursing Home. Jurgis Karuza, PhD is a Visiting Professor in
the Department of Medicine at the U of R School of Medicine, and
is the Director of Evaluation and Research of the federally
funded Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center. He also holds
academic appointments as Research Professor of Medicine at the
University of Buffalo, and Professor of Psychology at the State
University College at Buffalo. His funded and published research
includes: patient empowerment and quality of life, changing
practice patterns, and outcome-based evaluations of geriatric
education. Dr. Karuza serves as a consultant to the Bureau of
Health Professions on outcome-based evaluations and is involved
as an investigator in the Health Care Finance Administration
sponsored project, A Randomized Controlled Trial of Consumer
Directed Care for People with Chronic Illnesses, awarded by
ACCESS/Monroe County Long Term Care.
Wednesday, January 12 Interdisciplinary Clinical Ethics Rounds. Mindful Practice: Ethics in Primary Care, presented by Ronald M. Epstein, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry. 12:00 noon 1:00 PM, K-307 (room 3-6408), University of Rochester Medical Center. Open to all. You are most welcome to bring your lunch.
Wednesday, January 12 In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the University of Rochester Medical Center and the 100th anniversary of the Rochester Academy of Medicine, the George Washington Corner Society presents a talk on Rochester Surgeons and Surgical Landmarks, by Seymour Schwartz, MD, Professor of Surgery. Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. 6:00 PM: Informal Gathering. 6:30 PM: Lecture. 7:30 PM: Dinner (reservations required). The informal gathering and talk are free and open to all no reservations required. To make dinner reservations, please contact Andrea Ehmann at 275-9781 and send your check ($27.00, $12.00 for students and their guests), made payable to The Corner Society, to her attention at the Division of Medical Humanities, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 676, Rochester, NY 14642. Dinner reservations must be received by Friday, January 7
Thursday, January 13. "Hot Topics in Critical Care Medicine." 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Buffalo Marriott Hotel, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. Faculty: M. Jeffrey Mador, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, SUNY-Buffalo; Sanjay Sethi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, SUNY-Buffalo; Brydon J. B. Grant, MD, Professor of Medicine & Physiology, SUNY-Buffalo; Alfred Connors, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Virginia. For further information, contact Marie Wysocki at 898-3941; fax: 898-3279.
Thursday, January 13 - Rochester Bioethics Reading Group Meeting.
6:00 PM, Kissell Portrait Lounge, Colgate Rochester Divinity
School, 1100 South Goodman Street. Dr. Sherrie Lyons will
discuss the paper "Morals,Metaphysics, and Heart Transplantation:
Reflections on Richard Selzer's Wither Thou Goest, from the
Winter 1998 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. If you would
like a copy of the paper, please contact Tim Madigan at 424-3184
or
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 -
COMMUNITY INVITED TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE ENGEL.
Dr. Engel joined the U of R in 1946 where he pioneered a model
that stressed treating patients instead of just their diseases.
His idea was called the biopsychosocial model. His work helped
turn the attention of healthcare toward understanding how
patients backgrounds and lifestyles could affect their health. In
1977 Dr. Engel published an article in Science where he detailed
his concept of the biopsychosocial model and challenged the
traditional biomedical model by pointing out the traditional
model leaves no room within its framework for the social,
psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness. His
influence extends far beyond Rochester, said Dr. Edward Hundert,
URs Senior Associate Dean for medical education. Today the goal
of almost every medical school is to train doctors to use the
biopsychosocial model. Dr. Engel received the Albert Kaiser Medal
from the Rochester Academy of Medicine, a medal on which was
inscribed Physician, psychiatrist, teacher and clinical
scientist, he is foremost in his time in bringing together
psychiatry and medicine. For more information, contact Kristen
Wondrack at the U of R at 275-3676
PLEASE NOTE: Anyone knowing of residents and fellows who
trained with Dr. Engel and who now live out of the Rochester
area, please pass this information on to them. We would greatly
appreciate your help.
June 3-8 - The American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP)
National Interviewing Course in Rochester will focus on Improving
Communication at the End of Life. The course brochure and
application are available on the AAPP web site at:
www.physicianpatient.org For local information, contact:
maria.milella@viahealth.org
Friends and colleagues from across the country will congregate in
Rochester to celebrate the life of George L. Engel, MD, at a
Memorial Service on Saturday, January 29th. The community is
also invited to attend the service to be held at 3 pm at the
University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel on Wilson Boulevard,
followed by a reception in the River room of the Chapel. Dr.
Engel, who died Friday, November 26th at the age of 85, is widely
known for bringing about a dramatic change in how doctors
interact with their patients.Dartmouth Institute
The
Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College
will offer a two-week Faculty Summer Institute (mid to late
June) on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human
Genome Project. Applications are being solicited from
two-person interdisciplinary teams and individual faculty. For
information, contact Barbara Hillinger at: 603-646-1263; fax:
603-646-2652; e-mail:
barbara.hillinger@dartmouth.edu. This
program is pending final approval from the National Institutes
of Health.Members Corner
The Members Corner is designed to note research, presentations
and published articles and books by Center members. Please send
all such information to the newsletter editor so that the Center
can keep members informed about the work occurring in this area.Comments and Suggestions
The deadline for material for the next newsletter is January 15.
Please send it to: timothymad@aol.com.; phone: 424-3184;
fax: 271-8778.