Events
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Megan Doherty, MPH and Paul Lu, MD
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2020-12-01 12:00:00
2020-12-01 13:00:00
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Megan Doherty, MPH and Paul Lu, MD
Special considerations for ethics in short-term global health training programs
Megan Doherty, MPH | Director of Operations and Programming, Center for Global Health
Paul Lu, MD | Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/98216476818
Abstract:
Opportunities to participate in short-term experiences in global health (STEGH) are now commonplace at many medical schools as well as private, fee-based organizations located in high-income countries (HICs). The purposes for STEGH are diverse and include low-skilled project volunteering, high-skilled research assistantships, and clinical rotations that typically occur over weeks to months. While the impact of STEGH on HIC medical trainees has been reported as predominately positive in nature, the impact of these experiences on the institutions and individuals who host these trainees is not fully understood, particularly in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings. Ethical concerns pertaining to STEGH have been described in the literature and include burdening resource-constrained systems with little-to-no benefit to the host site, power imbalances, and harms in patient care. We provide a brief overview on the ethical challenges related to STEGH while highlighting perspectives of LMIC hosts and describe strategies to address ethical concerns with a specific focus on PSOM’s Center for Global Health efforts.
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Megan Doherty, MPH is the Director of Operations and Programming in PSOM’s Center for Global Health (CGH). In this capacity, Megan develops and leads CGH training opportunities and partnership programming for Penn and global partner trainees, identifies internal and external research and collaborative opportunities and manages stakeholder engagement. Previously, Megan was the Director for International & Service-Learning Programs in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Megan’s approach to global health partnerships is largely informed by her in-service training and experience as a health sector Peace Corps volunteer in Mali before coming to Penn.
Paul Lu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He is a co-director for the PSOM global health pre-departure training course with Megan Doherty. He is passionate about global health, medical education, and capacity building. While at Penn, Paul has travelled to Botswana and Vietnam on multiple occasions to help with curriculum development and has led several faculty development workshops.
Please contact Mary Pham (mary.pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) if you would like to be added to the Medical Ethics events listserv.
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Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Nuala J. Meyer, MD, MS
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2020-12-07 12:00:00
2020-12-07 13:00:00
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Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Nuala J. Meyer, MD, MS
Research and rapidly evolving care during a pandemic
Nuala J. Meyer, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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https://zoom.us/j/98084534828
Dr. Meyer is Associate Professor of Medicine and directs the Center for Translational Lung Biology at Penn. A translational scientist, she and her team pivoted their ongoing sepsis cohort study to enroll moderately and severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 into an observational molecular study that is yielding insights into the varied host immune response incited by SARS-CoV2. She is also involved in several clinical trials for COVID-19 subjects. This lecture will highlight policy decisions and ethical concerns that arose both early in the pandemic, while clinical care was highly uncertain, and issues that persist as the pandemic evolves. Dr. Meyer will attempt to balance the clinician’s perspective as a critical care doctor, the researcher’s desire to maximize and disseminate knowledge, and the administrator’s concerns about justice, transparency, and safety.
Please contact Mary Pham (mary.pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) if you would like to be added to the Medical Ethics events listserv.
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Yolonda Y. Wilson, PhD
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2020-12-08 12:00:00
2020-12-08 13:00:00
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Yolonda Y. Wilson, PhD
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Yolonda Y. Wilson, PhD | 2019-2020 fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2019-2020 Encore Public Voices fellow
Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/96173440308
Please contact Mary Pham (mary.pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) if you would like to be added to the Medical Ethics events listserv.
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Ethics, COVID-19, and Caring for Children
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2020-12-11 16:00:00
2020-12-11 17:00:00
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Ethics, COVID-19, and Caring for Children
The Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy is hosting a free, live webinar on Ethics, COVID-19, and Caring for Children on December 11 from 4-5 PM Eastern. This course is eligible for CME credit!
Read the course overview below and find more details on the Penn Medicine Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education page.
Course Overview
Caring for children during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of ethical challenges. When children suffer from COVID-19, or the multi-system inflammatory response sometimes associated with it, how should unapproved therapies be used and what sort of oversight is appropriate for innovative approaches outside the research context? How can the impact of the pandemic best be mitigated for pediatric patients suffering from other diseases and conditions, including considerations related to hospital visitation policies and delays in care? Finally, as we consider promising COVID-19 vaccines, how should we go about ethically including children in vaccine research?
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