Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
February 2000
Volume Seven, Number Two
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: (716) 862-6563 FAX: (716) 862-5649 or (716) 862-8533
Website:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/
Send E-mail to: Wear@acsu.buffalo.edu.
**********NOTE NEW PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS*************
Newsletter Distribution
This newsletter can be delivered to you via e-mail or fax or over
the internet (forward your request to: Jack Freer, MD at:
jfreer@buffalo.edu).
If you prefer fax, call 862-3412 and
leave your fax number. We encourage and appreciate the use of
e-mail and fax distribution rather than paper for the newsletter.
Center Listservers
The Center now maintains two automated e-mail listservers.
BIOETH-LIST is primarily designed for those in the Greater Buffalo
area and permits subscribers to post to the list. This list is
available for posting local announcements, as well as a medium
for discussion of relevant topics. It will also distribute the
Center newsletter, "Bioethics Bulletin." If you are on this list,
you can send a message to the entire list by addressing the
message to: BIOETH-LIST@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu. Archives
of old BIOETH-LIST messages are maintained at:
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/bioeth-list.html
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.
Visit by Sir Donald Acheson
Thursday, February 3. The SUNY-Buffalo Department of Social &
Preventive Medicine is pleased to host the visit of Sir Donald
Acheson, K.B.E., M.D., to the SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences. Sir Donald Acheson has played a major role
in health and health policy within the United Kingdom and
internationally. He is currently Chair of the International
Centre for Health and Safety, University College London. He has
served as past Chief Medical Officer of England and past
president of the British Medical Association. He was the Chair
of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health and Head
of the United Kingdom Delegation to the World Health
Organization. His work on civil unrest, war, and genocide
included appointments as Special Representative for Humanitarian
Relief of the World Health Organization, for former Yugoslavia
and the Chechyna Region, Russia. In addition to numerous
scientific medals and citations, Sir Donald was crowned Knight of
the British Empire for outstanding contributions to the field of
medicine.
The following activities will take place:
Thursday, February 3:
3:30 - 4:30 PM: Informal reception to meet Sir Donald in Room
180, Farber Hall.
4:30 - 5:30 PM: Sir Donald will address medical faculty,
students, and interested individuals in Butler Auditorium, Room
150, Farber Hall. His topic will be: "Health Under Fire: Belfast,
Bosnia, and Beyond."
Friday, February 4:
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Informal health-related conversations with Sir
Donald will take place in Room 182, Farber Hall. Topics will
include issues related to inequalities in health care.
Webpage on Family Health Care Decisions Act
The new Family Health Care Decisions Act website is up and
running:
http://www.familydecisions.org/. There is also a
listserv for those interested in discussing the FHCDA initiative
or problems of decision making for incapacitated patients in
NYS. If you have any suggestions for the site, or for
promoting the bill, please contact Dr. Jack Freer at:
jfreer@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Upcoming Lectures
Tuesday, February 8. UB at Sunrise Speakers Series. "Breaking the
Genetic Code of Mental Illness." Michele T. Pato, MD and Carlos
N. Pato, MD, SUNY-Buffalo Associate Professors of Psychiatry and
Co-Directors of the SUNY-Buffalo Laboratory of Psychiatric and
Molecular Genetics. Center for Tomorrow, 7:30 - 9:00 AM. $15
per person ($12 per person for Alumni Association
Members/Faculty/Staff). For further information,
contact Jude Schwendler, 829-2608 (
alujas@acsu.buffalo.edu).
Tuesday, February 15. "Physician Assisted Suicide", a talk by
Dr. Timothy Quill, Viahealth Services, Rochester. 7:15 AM-8:45
AM. Blue Lounge, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo.
No reservations or registration fee. For further details,
contact Dr. Judy Schiffert, Chair, Department of Health Services
Administration, D'Youville College, at 881-8101, or e-mail Dr.
Paul Johnson:
Johnson@dyc.edu.
Wednesday, February 16. "Perinatal Loss." 10:15 AM, Kinch
Auditorium, Childrens Hospital Grand Rounds. Presenter: Kathy
Skipper, RNC, Perinatal Bereavement Counselor and Coordinator at
Millard Fillmore Hospital, and Dennis Weppner, MD, Interim Chair,
SUNY-Buffalo. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Wednesday, March 1. "Patient Autonomy in OB/GYN: When Patients
Request Departures From Standards of Practice." 9:15 AM, Kinch
Auditorium, Childrens Hospital Grand Rounds. Presenter: Stephen
Wear, PhD, Co-Director, SUNY-Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics
and Humanities in Health Care.
Rochester Bioethics Reading Group
The next meeting of the Rochester Bioethics Reading Group will be
held on Thursday, February 17 at 6 PM, at the Colgate Rochester
Divinity School, Kissell Portrait Lounge, first floor of Strong
Hall. Dr. Michael McQuillen will discuss the article "The
Persistent Vegetative State and Anencephaly: Problematic
Paradigms for Discussing Futility and Rationing" by S. Kirk
Payne, MD and Robert M. Taylor, MD, from _Seminars in Neurology_,
Vol. 17, No. 3. The January meeting has been rescheduled, due to
the illness of the discussant, and has been rescheduled for
Thursday, March 9. Dr. Sherrie Lyons will discuss the paper
"Morals, Metaphysics, and Heart Transplantation" from
the Winter 1998 _Perspectives in Biology and Medicine_. For
further information on the meetings, or for copies of the papers
to be discussed, please contact Tim Madigan at 716-424-3184;
e-mail:
timothymad@aol.com.
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.