Past Events Archive
2020
Informed Consent: Navigating Best Practices
- Jill Cordes, M Health Fairview
- Debra DeBruin, PhD, University of Minnesota
- Elizabeth Duffy, MPH, CCRC, Gillette Children’s
- Amanda Galster, MPH, University of Minnesota
- Megan Hoffman, MA, University of Minnesota
- Courtney Jarboe, MS MA CIP, University of Minnesota
- Susanna Kennedy, University of Minnesota
- Abbey Staugaitis, RN, MSN, University of Minnesota
Research Ethics Week is an annual week-long series of college and department-led educational opportunities focused on professional development and best practices to promote, maintain, and model high standards of ethics and integrity in…
Communicating about Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis: Influence of Norms, Evidence, and Stories
- Sarah Gollust, PhD, University of Minnesota
Most American women are not aware that routine mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer. Dr. Gollust presents findings from a 2019 survey assessing women's attitudes about breast cancer screening and their…
2019
Minnesota is Ready for the End of Life Options Act: Evolving Status of Medical Aid in Dying
- Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, Mitchell-Hamline School of Law
Each year, 44,000 Minnesotans die. Nearly one-fourth die from cancer. Many of these patients want to control the timing and manner of their death. Today, terminally ill patients have several “exit options” in Minnesota. But they generally…
Prenatal Decision-Making at the Limits of Viability: A Qualitative Examination of Neonatologists’ Consultation Practices
- Chris Collura, MD, MA, Mayo Clinic
When delivery of an extremely premature baby is anticipated at 22 to 24 weeks of gestation, the standard of care is for a specialist in Neonatology to consult with families to determine family-centered goals of care to best determine…
Ethical Issues in Public Health Crises
- Debra DeBruin, PhD, University of Minnesota
Infectious disease epidemics, natural disasters and terrorist attacks can overwhelm existing public health and healthcare systems. These crises raise a complicated array of ethical issues, from rationing scarce resources to protecting…
Tough Choices in Home-based Care
- Edward Ratner, MD, University of Minnesota
Discussions of bioethics typically focus on care in the hospital, while ethical conflicts occur in all settings. For families and community-based organizations, there are frequent ethical conflicts in home-based health care. These include…
Social Public Health and Ghana's National Response to HIV
- Amos Laar, MA, University of Ghana
Researcher, ethicist, and public health advocate Amos Laar, PhD, connects the dots between HIV and the social, cultural, ethical and human rights issues systemically integrated with the disease in Ghana. For his MA, Laar's completed a…
Consent for Genetic Testing: Challenges with the informed component
- Bonnie LeRoy, MS, CGC, University of Minnesota
What can genetic testing tell us? Do we learn different information from clinical testing vs. direct to consumer testing? Do we know what happens to our information? What are the risks and benefits? Not all genetic testing is the same and…
Vaccine Refusal: Ethical obligations of the health care community in the face of fraudulent science, social media misinformation, and mistrust
- Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, University of Minnesota
We are in the midst of the worst measles epidemic since it was declared to be eradicated in 2000. There is greater vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents, namely due to a perception that the risk of vaccine preventable diseases is…
Unproven "Stem Cell" Interventions in the U.S.: Ethical, Scientific, & Regulatory Concerns
- Leigh Turner, PhD, University of Minnesota
Health researchers have studied “stem cell tourism” to clinics in countries such as China, India, Mexico, Thailand, and the Ukraine but more recently, studies have found hundreds of clinics here in the U.S. selling unapproved and unproven…