Editor: Tim Madigan
May 1995
Volume Two, Number Five
Co-Directors: Gerald Logue, MD and Stephen Wear, PhD
Secretary: Lisa Bolton
Address:
The Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
VAMC
3495 Bailey Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14215
Telephone: 862-3412
FAX: 8624748
E-mail sent to Lisa Bolten LBolten@ubmedc.buffalo.edu.
"Is There A Role for a Bioethics Committee in Home Health Care?: A Case Study." Thursday, May 25, 8:00 AM. Sheehan Memorial Hospital. Presenters: John Zoll, MD, Reverend John Ross Dixon, and Deborah Zimmerman, MSW. For information, please contact John Zoll, MD at 885- 3736.
"An Overview of Family Medicine's Medicaid/Managed Care Program for Special Care Populations." Thursday, May 4, 7:30 AM, Erie County Medical Center, Family Modular Complex conference room. Presenter: mary Horowitz, MA. Contact Heather Hebeler at 898-4743 for further information.
"Research 2000: A Vision for Tomorrow. Health Planning and Policy Challenges in New York State." Friday, May 5, 8:00 AM. Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Kinch Auditorium. Presenters: Shao Linn, PhD, Edward Salsberg, MS, Elysa P. Ferrara. Sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo through the Departments of Pediatrics and the Primary Care Resource Center and the Women and Children's Health Resource Center of the Children's Hospital of Buffalo. Approved for 1.0 hours of AMA/PRA Category 1 credit. For further information call the Women and Children's Health Research Foundation at 878-7890.
The first international mega-meeting focusing on the history of medicine and health care, centering around the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), will be held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, May 11-14. In addition to the traditional AAHM meeting, over one dozen national and international history of medicine/health care societies will be organizing and conducting their own sessions in conjunction with the AAHM. For further information, contact the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) Chair: Jonathon Erlen, PhD, 123 Northview Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15209. Telephone number 412-862-4748.
"8th Annual Health Policy Conference," May 18-19, Park Plaza Hotel, Toronto. Sponsored by the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University. Registration is $330 Canadian ($140 for students). For information please contact the conference administrator, 905-525-9140, extension 22135.
"Traversing the Interet, Part II: Using Gopher and Mosaic." Friday, May 19, 2:15 PM - 4:30 PM, Room 240, CFS Auditorium, UB South Campus. Sponsored by the Primary Care Resource Center and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Registration fee is $10.00, and seating capacity is strictly limited to 30, so please register eearly. For further information call 829-3176.
"The Power of Prayer and Healing." Thursday, June 1, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Presenter: Larry Dossey, MD, co-chair of the Panel on Mind/Body intervention of the Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Sponsored by Independent Health, this Hospice Association Lecture will be held at the new Hospice Mitchell Campus, 225 Como Park Boulevard, Cheektowaga. Registration fee is $45.00, and the registration deadline is May 22. For information, call 836-6460.
Judge Richard Posner, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, recently cited favorably an article by Joseph Kelly, associate professor of Business Law at Buffalo State College, entitled "The Liability of Blood Banks and Manufacturers of Clotting Products to Recipients of HIV-infected Blood: A Comparison of the Law and Reaction in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and Australia." It was published in 27 _John Marshall Law Review_ 465-491 (1994). Posner is perhaps the most influential legal scholar who has written on behalf of the modified laissez-faire economic theory advocated by the present-day Chicago School of Economics.