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1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Sharrona Pearl, PhD
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2020-02-25 12:00:00
2020-02-25 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Sharrona Pearl, PhD
“Face/off or on: Face transplants and the resistance to categorization”
Sharrona Pearl, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor of Medical Ethics
Drexel University
1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Penn Medical Ethics
Class of 1962 Auditorium, John Morgan Building (3620 Hamilton Walk)
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Alison Bateman-House, PhD, MPH, MA
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2020-03-02 12:00:00
2020-03-02 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Alison Bateman-House, PhD, MPH, MA
What Expanded Access and Right To Try Can and Cannot Do
The most common way for people in the United States to get access to investigational medical products is by participating in clinical trials. For patients who are unable to participate in clinical trials but who wish to try an experimental drug, device, vaccine, or other medical product, there are two pathways that permit non-trial access to products that are still in clinical development and not approved for any use. These are Expanded Access, which has existed for several decades, and Right to Try, which is much newer. Alison Bateman-House will compare and contrast the two pathways and explain why Expanded Access is preferable to Right to Try, both for patients and for the companies whose investigational products will be involved in such “compassionate use” attempts. She will underscore that the existence of such regulatory pathways are necessary but far from sufficient for patients to be able to use experimental medical products outside of clinical trials and highlight what other obstacles, real and perceived, reasonable and unreasonable exist.
Alison Bateman-House, PhD, MPH, MA
Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics
New York University Langone Medical Center
Commentary by Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil
John H. Glick Abramson Cancer Center Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
Class of 1962 Auditorium, John Morgan Building (3620 Hamilton Walk)
Penn Medical Ethics
1402 Blockley Hall (423 Guardian Drive)
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Dominic A. Sisti, PhD
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2020-03-03 12:00:00
2020-03-03 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Dominic A. Sisti, PhD
Ethics in psychedelic psychiatry
Dominic A. Sisti, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
1402 Blockley Hall (423 Guardian Drive)
Penn Medical Ethics
The Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
Franklin Institute Speaker Series: Emerging Therapies in a New Era of Care
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2020-03-03 18:00:00
2020-03-03 19:30:00
America/New_York
Franklin Institute Speaker Series: Emerging Therapies in a New Era of Care
Philadelphia has long been a world leader in the development of innovative drug treatments and emerging therapies. Most recently, breakthroughs in cell and gene therapies for cancer from the University of Pennsylvania have focused headlines on our region as a global epicenter for life sciences research.
But as with all exciting medical advances, potentially life-saving treatments come with many challenges, from safety and side effects to cost and distribution. Penn Medicine bioethicist and pediatric oncologist Dr. Steven Joffe joins Franklin Institute’s Dr. Jayatri Das for a dynamic discussion exploring the promise and the realities of these breakthrough therapies.
How do clinical trials ensure that new treatments are safe and effective? Who has access to these new treatments? Should terminally ill patients have access to experimental or unapproved drugs? What has been the impact of the recently passed Right-to-Try Act?
Please join us for the debut of the 2020 Speaker Series: Emerging Therapies in a New Era of Care.
Moderator:
Dr. Jayatri Das, Chief Bioscientist, The Franklin Institute
Featured Guest:
Steven Joffe, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Ticket Prices:
Free, advance registration required
The Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
Penn Medical Ethics