FEATURE EVENTS:
Annual Dinner and Symposium
Annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture
“Race and Medical Education: Narrative Reflections of a Black Doctor”
August 9, 2017
BIOETHICS LECTURE SERIES:
JUNE
Good Death or Assisted Suicide
Mr. Perry wants doctors to turn off his pacemaker. Would doing so respect Mr. Perry’s rights and autonomy? Or, would it be physician-assisted suicide? (Read Blog Post)
Join us for an ethics discussion about Mr. Perry’s case led by Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
7:00-8:00 pm
Westport Presbyterian Church
201 Westport Road
Kansas City, Missouri
Free Admission, Parking and Light Refreshments
Parking is located behind the church (on the south side). To find it - drive around the block. It is on the corner of Central St. & Archibald Ave. A stone wall surrounds the lot.
JULY
Personalized Medicine: Your Future or Big Data Voodoo?
Former President Obama said precision medicine promised to deliver “the right treatments at the right time, every time, to the right person.”
Fantasy or our future? How can it make a difference in your healthcare now?
Join us for lecture and discussion led by Kumar Ethirajan, MD.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
7:00-8:30 pm
Kansas City Public Library/Plaza Branch
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri
Free Admission, Parking and Light Refreshments
Personalized medicine, individualized medicine, precision medicine, genetics-based medicine are among terms we read to describe medicine that uses information about a person’s genes, proteins and environment to prevent, diagnose and treat disease. In cancer, personalized medicine uses specific information about a person’s tumor to help diagnose, treat and measure success.
Dr. Ethirajan, a community oncologist specializing in cancer genetics in the Kansas City area since 1993, will explain the basics about genes and personalization in healthcare…and raise tough questions: Who owns your genetic information? For you or the greater good?
* Lecture will be livestreamed on the Center's Facebook Page.
Partially funded by Missouri Humanities Council and the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
AUGUST
August 9 (Flanigan Lecture)
Race, Racism and Medical Education
Damon Tweedy, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and Staff Physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center
St. Joseph Medical Center | 7-8:30 pm
* Lecture will be livestreamed on the Center's Facebook Page.
Funded by the Center's Rosemary Flanigan Chair endowment, KCU College of Medicine, St Joseph Medical Center, Missouri Humanities Council, and the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
SEPTEMBER
September 7
Hippocrates vs. Chuck Grassley: The Politics of Pain
Myra Christopher
Kathleen B. Foley Chair for Pain and Palliative Care
Village Presbyterian Church | 7:00 to 8:30 pm.
* Lecture will be livestreamed on the Center's Facebook Page.
Partially funded by Missouri Humanities Council and the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
OCTOBER
October 5
So You Plan to Live Forever:
How a Conversation Can Change a Family’s Life
Linda D. Ward
Chief Operating Office/Executive Vice President
UMKC Miller Nichols Library, Room 325 | 6:00 to 7:30 pm.
* Lecture will be livestreamed on the Center's Facebook Page.
Partially funded by Missouri Humanities Council and the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
NOVEMBER
Football, Brain Injury and Professional Responsibility
Richard Payne, MD
John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics
Kansas City Public Library – Plaza Branch |7-8:30 pm
* Lecture will be livestreamed on the Center's Facebook Page.
Partially funded by Missouri Humanities Council and the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
