Bioethics Symposium Huge Success

National leaders shared their expertise and analysis of controversial issues in bioethics on May 8, the morning after the Center's annual dinner. Audio podcasts of those presentations are available via the links below.

The morning concluded with a live broadcast of KCUR Radio’s Up to Date program. Drs. Susan Goold and John Lantos were guests on the program discussing the ethics of pandemics and national health reform. Audio podcast also available at link below.

Presenters and Podcasts

Pediatric Research – Money, Motives and Morals

Eric Kodish, MD
F.J. O'Neill Professor and Chairman
Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Podcast -- 37 minutes 34 seconds

Ethical Issues Related to Organ Donation After Cardiac Arrest

David Magnus, PhD
Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Associate Professor, Division of Medical Genetics

Podcast -- 43 minutes 39 seconds

Legalization of Physician Aid in Dying: An Inevitability, An Error, or Both?

Alan Meisel, JD
Director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics
Professor of Law and Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh

Podcast -- 42 minutes 7 seconds

The World According to Autism: Ethical and Social Issues in the Condition that is Reshaping Humanity

Glenn McGee, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Bioethics
Director, Institute for Ethics and Autism

Podcast – 32 minutes 54 seconds

Health Care Rationing with Universal Coverage and in Time of Pandemics, Up to Date, KCUR Radio, May 8. Drs.   Susan Goold and John Lantos. 1 hour