Learn More2024-05-08 12:00:002024-05-08 13:00:00America/New_YorkResearch Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko, PhD. "The Acid We Inherit: Social and Behavioral Genomics in the Context of an Ugly History and Uncertain Future"
The Acid We Inherit: Social and Behavioral Genomics in the Context of an Ugly History and Uncertain Future
Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko, PhD
Assistant Professor
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
Social and behavioral genomics (SBG) uses molecular, genome-wide data, to examine whether and how genetic differences between individuals shape differences in characteristics and outcomes such as same-sex sexual behavior and educational attainment. The field is the ongoing subject of polarizing debate and controversy. While claims regarding genetic differences in behavior have long been used to justify social inequalities, misguided and harmful genetic myths continue today – wielded by White supremacists, academic researchers, and high-profile public figures who cite recent genomic studies as evidence to support their beliefs. Meanwhile, social and behavioral genomic data are increasingly available to consumers via direct-to-consumer genetic testing and polygenic embryo selection. This talk argues that the ethical and socially responsible conduct and translation of social and behavioral genomics calls for a full accounting of ‘the acid we inherit’: a dual inheritance process through which DNA and harmful myths about DNA get passed down from one generation to the next.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
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Learn More2024-05-09 12:00:002024-05-09 13:00:00America/New_YorkElaine L. Hill, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Elaine L. Hill, PhD , Associate Professor of Health Economics, Economics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Rochester
May 09, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Elaine L. Hill, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Economics in the Departments of Public Health Sciences, of Economics, and of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Rochester. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and hold a courtesy appointment at Oregon State University. Her research is at the intersection of health, health policy, and the environment and human capital formation.
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Learn More2024-05-14 12:00:002024-05-14 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Daniela Brissett, MD. "A Multimodal Approach to Exploring the Adultification of Black Girls and its Impact on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes"
A Multimodal Approach to Exploring the Adultification of Black Girls and its Impact on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes
Daniela Brissett, MD
Adolescent Medicine Fellow Physician
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Daniela Brissett, MD is a fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the Division of Adolescent Medicine. Her research focuses on the health of young Black girls addressing adultification, the intersection of racism and sexism, and underlying health disparities. Her career vision is to realize a better world for all youth through advocating for equitable policies, and fostering positive youth development.
Dr. Brissett earned her Doctor of Medicine degree and pediatric residency training at the University of California, San Francisco where she was chosen for the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved program and the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved, respectively.
Lunch provide.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)Penn Medical Ethics
Learn More2024-05-23 12:00:002024-05-23 13:00:00America/New_YorkJose Francisco Figueroa, MD, MPH│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Jose Francisco Figueroa, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
May 23, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also a practicing Internist and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the BWH Medicine Residency Management & Leadership Pathway.
Dr. Figueroa received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
His main research interests focus on understanding the drivers of health care spending and poor clinical outcomes among older, vulnerable populations with complex needs. To date, this has included work on racial and ethnic minorities, older adults with frailty, people with disabilities, and people with serious mental illness. His research also focuses on evaluating how policy interventions and payment reform aimed at improving quality of care and controlling costs are working, and in particular, how they affect safety-net providers and hospitals.
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Learn More2024-06-11 12:00:002024-06-11 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): M. Carmela Epright, PhD. "Self-Diagnosis and its Discontents: The Long Term Consequences of a BPD Label"
Self-Diagnosis and its Discontents: The Long Term Consequences of a BPD Label
M. Carmela Epright, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Furman University
M. Carmela Epright is a Professor of Philosophy at Furman University and a Clinical Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She has served as a visiting scholar to the Medical University of South Carolina, The University of South Carolina Medical School’s Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and to the Institute for Applied Ethics at Dartmouth College.
In addition to her work as a professor, Dr. Epright serves as a clinical ethicist and ethics consultant to numerous medical entities, including the South Carolina Medical Association, the Medical University of South Carolina, and both branches of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (Greenville and Columbia). She has published articles in bioethics, psychiatry, moral theory, and philosophy of law. Her current research focuses upon the evaluation and treatment of the criminally mentally ill.
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Learn More2024-06-12 12:00:002024-06-12 13:00:00America/New_YorkResearch Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Mark Neuman, MD, MSc. "Comparative Effectiveness Research"
Comparative Effectiveness Research
Mark Neuman, MD, MSc
Director, Research Partnerships, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Director, Penn Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation (CPORT), Perelman School of Medicine | University of Pennsylvania
Mark Neuman, MD, MSc is a practicing anesthesiologist and health services researcher. He is Director of Research Partnerships at Penn LDI. His research focuses on improving patient-centered outcomes for older adults undergoing surgery and anesthesia.
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Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
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Learn More2024-06-25 12:00:002024-06-25 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Alison K. McConwell, PhD. "Entwined Science & Values: A Complex Relationship Between Julian Huxley’s Biological & Social World Views"
Entwined Science & Values: A Complex Relationship Between Julian Huxley’s Biological & Social World Views
Alison K. McConwell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
UMass Lowell
While Julian S. Huxley’s (1887-1975) role in the Eugenics Society is well known, the ways in which his scientific research program intimately entwined with his broader social views is sometimes overlooked. This talk analyzes Huxley’s earlier and later research centering Individual (1912) and Modern Synthesis (1942) as two case studies in the context of his larger body of work.
This analysis demonstrates that idealizations separating his so-called serious empirical science from his popularizer persona and informal work masks the deeper coherence of his ideological commitments to the scientific management of human evolution, commitments which weave through the entirety of his research program. Huxley aimed to establish the biologist’s role for engineering human evolution towards sets of ideals conceived by the educated elite.
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