Learn More2023-09-26 12:00:002023-09-26 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Patrick Gurian, PhD
Value of a Life: Is it Making a Difference?
Patrick Gurian, PhD
Professor
Environmental Engineering Program Head
civil, architectural and environmental engineering
drexel university
Federal regulations and rulemaking require benefit-cost analyses that involve weighing the cost of investment against the protection of human health and life achieved by the regulation. The policies and rules resulting from these analyses and estimates are further impacted by political, social, and psychological factors. In this talk, we will consider whether the practice of quantifying estimates of investment to reduce risk is achieving positive outcomes. This is explored through 3 case studies: 1) the response of the federal government to arsenic in drinking water, 2) the response of the federal government to bioterrorism risk, and 3) efforts to mitigate carbon monoxide risk in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The divergence from strict adherence to benefit-cost considerations is most strongly demonstrated in the management of bioterrorism risks to civilians. This divergence is consistent with favoritism towards societally powerful groups, and with the common tendency to highly value changes from baseline conditions and overweight small risks. Understanding how the results of benefit-cost analyses are used in practice may better enable us to identify and effect opportunities for meaningful risk reduction.
Lunch provided for in-person participants
Livestreaming available via Zoom
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Learn More2023-09-28 12:00:002023-09-28 13:00:00America/New_YorkOtis W. Brawley, MD│HP/CHIBE/PC3I/CCP Research Seminar
HEALTH POLICY/CHIBE/PENN CENTER FOR CANCER CARE INNOVATION RESEARCH SEMINAR
“Cancer Control in the 21st Century: Observations on Disparities in Health” with Otis W. Brawley, MD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST | Hybrid Event
Attending in person?
1104 Blockley Hall is located at 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 1910
Lunch will be provided.
Attending virtually?
Click the following link to join at noon EST on 9/28: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.
The talk objectives include:
Discuss trends in cancer death rate over past three decades.
Define disparities in health.
Discuss some solutions and health equity.
Otis W. Brawley, MD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an authority on cancer screening and prevention and leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort focused on cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Brawley is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and one of the few physicians to be named a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Brawley is a graduate of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Case-Western Reserve University and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. He is board certified in Internal medicine and medical oncology.
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Learn More2023-10-04 12:00:002023-10-04 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Lori Freedman, PhD
Practicing Medicine Under Abortion Bans: Catholic Health Systems and Ban States
Lori Freedman, PhD
Associate Professor (she, her)
University of California, San Francisco
ANSIRH/Bixby/Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Lori Freedman, PhD, is a sociologist and a professor of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in bioethics. Her research is based within Advancing New Standards In Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), a program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UCSF. Dr. Freedman investigates the ways in which reproductive health care is shaped by our social structure and medical culture. Her book, Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care, is a qualitative study of the challenges to integrating abortion into physician practice. Unexpected findings from those physician interviews led her to research and write about the intersection of religion and health care, especially in the case of Catholic-owned hospitals, with an interest in how conscientious objection in medical practice operates at the institutional level. Her 2023 book, Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. Dr. Freedman received her bachelor of arts degree at the University of Oregon and her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Davis.
Lunch provided for in-person participants
Streaming available via Zoom
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Learn More2023-10-05 12:00:002023-10-05 13:00:00America/New_YorkMolly Candon, PhD │Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
HEALTH POLICY AND CHIBE RESEARCH SEMINAR
“Comprehensive Pain Care in a Post-Opioid World: The Role of Insurance”
Molly Candon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Perelman School of Medicine) and Health Care Management (Wharton School), University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST | Hybrid Event
Attending in person?
1104 Blockley Hall is located at 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 1910
Lunch will be provided.
Attending virtually?
Click the following link to join at noon EST on 10/5: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.
Given the continued drop-off in opioid prescribing, it is critical that people with pain are able to access pharmacologic, nonpharmacologic, and interventional treatment alternatives. Insurance coverage and plan design, including cost sharing, could be leveraged to improve access to comprehensive pain care. This body of research explores trends in coverage and cost sharing for comprehensive pain care, with a focus on acupuncture, using Optum claims.
Molly Candon, PhD is a health economist and an Assistant Professor in the Center for Mental Health (Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine) and in the Department of Health Care Management (Wharton School) at the University of Pennsylvania. Molly studies how insurance design and reimbursement can be leveraged to improve access to and the quality of chronic pain management and behavioral health care. She currently has a K award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health that focuses on coverage and cost sharing for acupuncture therapy. She also co-directs the Evaluation Center, a joint venture between the Center for Mental Health, Community Behavioral Health, and Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services, where she is leading projects on data-driven suicide prevention and the differential effects of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments for opioid use disorder.
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Learn More2023-10-10 12:00:002023-10-10 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD
Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIETY & GENETICS
INSTITUTE FOR PRECISION HEALTH
UCLA
Dr. Garrison is a bioethicist and geneticist engaged in research to explore perspectives of tribal leaders, physicians, scientists, and policy makers on genetic research with tribes. Her research focuses on the ethical, social, and cultural implications of genetic and genomic research in Indigenous communities.
Additional details forthcoming.
Lunch provided for in-person participants.
Streaming available via Zoom.
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Learn More2023-10-11 12:00:002023-10-11 13:00:00America/New_YorkBronstein Lecture: Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD
Ethical, Social, and Cultural Implications of Genetic and Genomic Research in Indigenous Communities
Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Society & Genetics
Institute for Precision Health
UCLA
Dr. Garrison is a bioethicist and geneticist engaged in research to explore perspectives of tribal leaders, physicians, scientists, and policy makers on genetic research with tribes. Her research focuses on the ethical, social, and cultural implications of genetic and genomic research in Indigenous communities.
Additional details forthcoming.
Lunch is provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)Penn Medical Ethics
Learn More2023-10-23 17:15:002023-10-23 19:30:00America/New_YorkMBE/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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Learn More2023-10-24 12:00:002023-10-24 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Myrisha Lewis, JD
Ethical, Legislative, and Political Responses to Assisted Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Genetic Innovation
Myrisha Lewis, JD
Professor of Law
William & Mary Law School
Professor Lewis' research considers how health law, family law, and criminal law respond to scientific innovations. Her research and teaching interests include health law, family law, administrative law, and bioethics. In 2018, Professor Lewis was one of four professors selected nationwide as a Health Law Scholar by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the Saint Louis University Law School’s Center for Health Law Studies.
Additional details forthcoming.
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Learn More2023-10-26 12:00:002023-10-26 13:00:00America/New_YorkKimberly Narain, MD, MPH, PhD | CHIBE X LDI Research Seminar
Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor In-Residence of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST | In-person Event
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk
Register to attend here: https://share.hsforms.com/1l4Ld0o4PTGOx2hFvVwhIZw5gwp1.
Please note: In-person attendance at this event is preferred. Virtual access will be provided to registrants who are unable to be on campus.
This talk will discuss the results of a pragmatic evaluation of a primary care provider-pharmacist collaborative care intervention (UCMyRx) among Hispanic patients with Type 2 diabetes, obtaining primary care within the University of California Los Angeles clinic network. UCMyRx pharmacists use electronic health records data and standardized adherence surveys to develop tailored adherence-improvement interventions and augment guideline-concordant care among participating patients.
Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor In-Residence of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty in the Department of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at UCLA, Dr. Narain was an Advanced Health Services Research Fellow in the West Los Angeles VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy. Broadly, she has an interest in evaluating the implications of health and social policies for health equity among women, individuals with low socioeconomic status, and racial/ethnic minorities.
Co-sponsored with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
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Learn More2023-10-31 12:00:002023-10-31 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Andrew Murray, PhD
Andrew Murray, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania | Perelman School of Medicine
More details to follow.
Lunch provided for in-person participants.
Streaming available via Zoom.
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