International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2014 World Congress
22-24 June 2014 Mexico City, Mexico
The next FAB World Congress will be in Mexico City, 22-24 June 2014. The Congress theme is Health Care Ethics: Local, Global, Universal.
17th Annual Meeting of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancers
17th Annual CGA-ICC Meeting Anaheim, California October 7-8, 2013
This will be just prior to the 32nd Annual Education Conference of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC).
Featured Topics for 2013:
• EMR-based clinical decision support tools in hereditary CRC
• Variants of uncertain significance including analytical approaches, updates and progress from InSIGHT, and clinical cases and counseling challenges
• Next generation sequencing, whole genome/exome sequencing, and cancer gene panels for clinicians including defining medically actionable incidental findings and the ethical, legal, and social issues of newer sequencing platforms and their use
• Hereditary CRC and ethnic minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics
• Prevention of cancer in hereditary CRC syndromes including timing of surgery in MYH and hamartomatous polyposis syndromes, use of chemoprevention in the intestine and beyond, and evidence-based approaches to cancer screening and surveillance
Special Sessions for 2013
• Cases with the Experts (bring your challenging cases to discuss with the experts)
• Plenary research presentations and posters of distinction
• Update on the optimal approach for identification and management of gynecologic malignancies within hereditary CRC
• Impact of pre-operative genetic and tumor testing on surgical decision-making
• Back by popular demand: Hereditary CRC "Jeopardy!", hosted by Randall Burt, MD
• Continuing by popular demand: Hot topics in Behavioral Science, Basic Science, and Clinical Science by world-renowned experts!
• New for 2013: Video forum, moderated by Patrick M. Lynch, MD
For further information, please contact admin@cgaicc.com.
Illness, Narrative, and Phenomenology
Tuesday, July 9 2013 Medical Humanities research cluster, University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom
This one-day workshop will inaugurate the Medical Humanities research cluster at the University of Bristol. We welcome papers on any area of illness narrative, phenomenology of illness, narrative medicine, and phenomenology of health from a variety of disciplinary approaches, including (but not restricted to) literature, philosophy, medicine, psychology, arts & health, death studies, medical anthropology, health research, and medical education. We welcome submissions from practitioners and researchers in any domain of health research and practice.
Organizers:
Dr Havi Carel (Philosophy) - havi.carel@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Ulrika Maude (English) - ulrika.maude@ bristol.ac.uk.
The workshop is free and all are welcome. To register please email the organizers.
International Summer Course in Bioethics
July 2nd -July 12th, Rome, Italy
The 2013 Summer Course in Bioethics is organized by the School of Bioethics in collaboration with the Institute of Science and Faith and the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences and will be held from July 2nd -July 12th.
The topic of the course will be: “Bioethics at the crossroads of Faith, Reason and Science".
Simultaneous translation: English-Italian-Spanish.
The topic of the course will be: "Bioethics at the crossroads of Faith, Reason and Science".
Bioethics often studies subjects related to advances in biological and medical sciences, but they cannot be reduced to scientific rationality.
Ethical dilemmas concerning life and death, healing and suffering, the relationship between people, and so on, cannot be separated from an integral vision of reality. This vision can be opened or closed to transcendence, i.e., with reason enlightened by faith alone or with faith. The aim of the course is to analyze these deep relationships, to be a platform of dialogue between different views, even opposing ones, to arrive at the greatest good for all.
It is possible to attend both tracks - or just one.
The first track will deal with fundamental issues: the relationship between faith and reason, the relationship between science and philosophical reason, scientism, science and technology in the face of human life, secular and Catholic bioethics, theological study of bioethics; natural law and bioethics, different religious visions, and the pastoral application of bioethics.
The second track will address some of the specific problems of bioethics considered under different points of view: from the beginning of life to the end of life, from procreation to the respect for the environment, genetic manipulation and eugenics, etc.
The lectures will be offered by professors of the School of Bioethics, with participation of experts and professors from different countries.
In addition to the conferences, meetings and activities for reflection and discussion will be organized to encourage active participation of all the students.
12th Congress of the International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement
November 21-24, 2013 Sydney, Australia
Contact Us
Congress Secretariat
2013 Organ Donation Congress
c/o The Transplantation Society
Professional Conference Services
1255 University Street, Suite 605
Montreal, QC, H3B 3V9
Canada
Phone: 1-514-874-1717
Fax: 1-514-874-1716
Email: info@isodp2013.org
2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
October 24-27, 2013 Atlanta, Georgia
The 2013 Annual Meeting, "Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courage," will take place October 24-27, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Theme: Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courrage
The theme for the 2013 ASBH meeting, “Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courage,” encourages participants to respond to the ways bioethics is inspired and shaped by various moral traditions, beliefs, and methodological approaches, as well as how these very traditions and practices become the foci of contemporary bioethical work bearing on moral progress and moral “innovation.” This year’s ASBH theme invites members to reflect on the dialectic among moral traditions, moral inquiry, and moral innovation, and the ways that cultures identifying themselves as morally progressive might conceptualize the meaning and role of moral courage in realizing that progress. With bioethical work being received with ever increasing public scrutiny and impact, the 2013 ASBH conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, whose cultural roots and evolution reflect the ways tradition and innovation propelled and shaped a history in which moral courage played and continues to play a quintessential role.
European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics Annual Conference
September 19-21, 2013 Bochum, Germany
“Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice
The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the EACME annual conference in 2013. The conference will be organised in cooperation with the Centre for Medical Ethics Bochum (ZME e.V.) and supported by the Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum.
Contact details and further information:
President of the Conference: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann
Scientific Secretary: PD Dr. med. Jan Schildmann, M.A.
Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Ruhr University Bochum
Markstrasse 258a
44799 Bochum
Germany
Tel.: 0049 234-32-23394
Fax: 0049 234-32-14205
E-mail: info(at)eacme2013.org
Conference website: www.eacme2013.org
3rd World Congress of the International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP)
November 7-9, 2013 Valencia, Spain
We invite you to take part in the 3rd World Congress on the International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP) which will take place in Valencia, Spain on November 7-9, 2013.
Fertility preservation is a substantial quality of life issue for young cancer survivors. As a consequence, the demand for fertility preservation has dramatically increased. The aim of the Congress is to update current scientific and clinical development of fertility preservation strategies. The Congress will not only propagate the current knowledge but also provide an opportunity for networking.
This congress is designed for reproductive endocrinologists, hematology-oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, psychologists, basic scientists, clinical researchers, oncology nurses, REI nurses, oncology social workers and others interested in fertility preservation.
During this congress, participants will be able to:
- Educate medical professionals to facilitate FP referrals
- Define the ethical and legal issues related to FP
- Explain the impact of cancer treatment on fertility and reproduction.
- Evaluate the current status of gamete Cryopreservation.
- Assess the strategies and values of emerging technology in ovarian transplantation.
- Recognize basic physiology and effects of Cryopreservation.
- Analyze physiology and current techniques of folliculogenesis and IVM.
- Identify new fertility preservation technologies
WCN 2013 XXI World Congress of Neurology
September 21-26, 2013 Vienna, Austria
Join leading neurologists at WCN 2013, the world’s biggest neurology event. The XXI World Congress of Neurology will feature a rich scientific programme, including the latest developments in clinical practice and research, distinguished plenary speakers, teaching courses, workshops, and lectures, all on the increasingly global aspect of our work.
List of Proposed Topics
Epilepsy (Joint WFN & ILAE)
Movement Disorders
Stroke (Joint WSO & WFN)
Neuro-critical care
Dementia
MS & Demyelinating Diseases
Neuromuscular disorders
Headache
Pain
Neurorehabilitation
Neurooncology
CNS infection
Vertigo and balance disorders
Sleep
Leukoencephalopathies & Child neurology
Autoimmune encephalitis
Neurology, Health economics & outcomes
Metabolic and mitochondrial diseases
Neuroepidemiology
Environment, Climate Change
Autonomic nervous system
Neuroophthalmology
Brain & Behavior
Motor neuron disease
Channelopathies
Palliative care
Nutritional disorders & Neurotoxins
Stem cells in Neurology, hopes, uses and abuses
Neurological surgery for the neurologist
Psychiatry for the neurologist
Neuroethics
Interventional Neuroradiology
Advances in Neuroimaging
Advances in Neurophysiology
Therapeutic Neurotoxins
Biomarkers
World History of Neurology
You Tube neurology
Movies and neurology
Sports neurology
Training in neurology around the world
WHO Neurology Initiatives (Noncommunicable disease Initiative, MhGAP Program, ICD-11 revision of neurology codes)
Cases from around the world
Making the Case for Neurology
Contact Us
Please email us at wcn@kenes.com for more information or any queries.
