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Events
Hybrid! 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive and via Zoom
Penn Bioethics Seminar (PBS): Behavioral Interventions to Promote Adherence to Guidelines with Catherine Pollak, PhD
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2023-06-13 12:00:00
2023-06-13 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar (PBS): Behavioral Interventions to Promote Adherence to Guidelines with Catherine Pollak, PhD
Behavioral Interventions to Promote Adherence to Guidelines
Catherine Pollak, PhD
Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, MEHP, PSOM
Lunch is provided for in-person attendees.
Livestreaming available via Zoom.
Catherine Pollak, PhD, is a senior economist at the Direction for Statistics, Research and Evaluation at the Ministry of Health in France. She is currently a 2022/23 Harkness Fellow in Policy and Practice of The Commonwealth Fund, based at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and CHIBE University of Pennsylvania. This presentation will discuss two ongoing randomized controlled trials that use behavioral insights to promote adherence to clinical guidelines.
Hybrid! 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive and via Zoom
Penn Medical Ethics
RCH B102AB, Richards Building, 3700 Hamilton Walk
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): The Burden of Uncertainty: Raising Regulatory Standards to Improve Health Equity with Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS
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2023-06-14 12:00:00
2023-06-14 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): The Burden of Uncertainty: Raising Regulatory Standards to Improve Health Equity with Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS
The Burden of Uncertainty: Raising Regulatory Standards to Improve Health Equity
Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine),
School of Medicine, Yale University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine
Lunch is provided for in-person attendees.
Livestreaming available via Zoom.
Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS is a board-certified family physician and health services researcher. Her research focuses on the realignment of incentives for healthcare stakeholders including pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and universities towards prioritizing equitable patient access to safe, effective health technologies.
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been placing greater emphasis and implementing reforms focused on improving health equity. The focus of the reforms has been largely on increasing representation in clinical trials, enhancing transparency and access to available data on the effect of medical products on minority populations, and promoting health and safety communication to these populations. Concurrently, FDA continues to increasingly adopt regulatory flexibility in their review process, accepting less rigorous evidence as the basis of approval of novel medical products. In the case of accelerated approval, the agency allows for residual uncertainty at the time of approval, but then requires sponsors to complete additional studies that confirm clinical benefit in a timely manner; should these not be completed or if the studies yield negative results, FDA can withdraw these drugs from the market. However, the expanded and more flexible use of this pathway by the FDA has raised questions about which communities will bear the burden of such uncertainty and whether this may in fact exacerbate health disparities.
In this presentation, Dr. Ramachandran will discuss trends in FDA’s adoption of regulatory flexibility in the approval of novel medical predicts, the implication of such policies, and proposals to center health equity in regulatory decision-making.
RCH B102AB, Richards Building, 3700 Hamilton Walk
Penn Medical Ethics
Virtual via Zoom
Penn Bioethics Seminar (PBS): Policy Supports for Formal and Family Caregivers
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2023-06-20 12:00:00
2023-06-20 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar (PBS): Policy Supports for Formal and Family Caregivers
Policy Supports for Formal and Family Caregivers
Katherine Miller, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MEHP, PSOM
Description forthcoming.
Virtual via Zoom
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Grace Riddle-Lee. "Challenges in Second Opinions for Patients in Urgent Need of Liver Transplantation"
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2023-09-18 17:15:00
2023-09-18 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Grace Riddle-Lee. "Challenges in Second Opinions for Patients in Urgent Need of Liver Transplantation"
Speaker: Grace Riddle-Lee, MD, MBE '17
Talk: "Challenges in Second Opinions for Patients inUrgent Need of Liver Transplantation"
All talks will be hybrid format.
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Penn Medical Ethics
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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Jonathan Kole. "App Based Mental Health: A View from an MBE Psychiatrist Accidentally in Industry"
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2023-10-23 17:15:00
2023-10-23 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Jonathan Kole. "App Based Mental Health: A View from an MBE Psychiatrist Accidentally in Industry"
Speaker: Jonathan Kole, MD, MBE '13
Talk: "App Based Mental Health: A View from an MBEPsychiatrist Accidentally in Industry"
All talks will be hybrid format
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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Matthew Drago. "Imperiled Newborns: Converging Ethical Perspectives"
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2023-11-13 17:15:00
2023-11-13 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Matthew Drago. "Imperiled Newborns: Converging Ethical Perspectives"
Speaker: Matthew Drago, MD, MBE '11
Talk: "Imperiled Newborns: Converging Ethical Perspectives"
All talks will be hybrid format
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Penn Medical Ethics
RCH B102AB, Richards Building, 3700 Hamilton Walk
Bronstein Lecture: TBA with Sheila Varadan
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2023-12-13 12:00:00
2023-12-13 13:00:00
America/New_York
Bronstein Lecture: TBA with Sheila Varadan
Bronstein Lecture: TBA
Sheila Varadan
PhD candidate, Leiden University
Lunch is provided for in-person attendees.
Livestreaming available via Zoom.
Description forthcoming.
REPS events are now on the 2nd Wednesdays, September-June.
RCH B102AB, Richards Building, 3700 Hamilton Walk
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Michael DiStefano. "Determining the starting point for Medicare drugprice negotiations"
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2024-02-21 17:15:00
2024-02-21 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Michael DiStefano. "Determining the starting point for Medicare drugprice negotiations"
Speaker: Michael DiStefano, PhD, MBE '14
Talk: "Determining the starting point for Medicare drugprice negotiations"
All talks will be hybrid format
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Penn Medical Ethics
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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Kayte Spector-Bagdady. "Data Justice"
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2024-03-19 17:15:00
2024-03-19 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Kayte Spector-Bagdady. "Data Justice"
Speaker: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBE '09
Talk: "Data Justice"
All talks will be hybrid format.
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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz. "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening"
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2024-04-11 17:15:00
2024-04-11 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz. "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening"
Speaker: Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz, JD, PhD, MBE '13
Talk: "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence ofPolygenic Embryo Screening"
Hybrid
Penn Medical Ethics