Ethics Grand Rounds

Since 2000, the Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy has sponsored an occasional Ethics Grand Rounds Series featuring local, national, and international bioethics scholars. The lectures are held over the lunch hour on the medical campus and are free and open to the public.  

• Ethical Principles in Research: The Complicating Cases of Pets and Phase I Healthy Human Studies
  Rebecca L. Walker, PhD
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Noon, Tuesday, April 30, 2024
  Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, 5th floor auditorium

• The Soul of Care: The Moral and Emotional Education of Doctors
  Arthur Kleinman, MD
  Harvard University
  Noon, Thursday, January 30, 2020
  Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3023

• Politics and Medical Journals: The Case of The Lancet and the Palestinians
  Rafael Beyar, M.D., D.Sc., M.P.H.
  Director, Rambam Health Care Campus Women’s Division
  Dr. Phillip and Sara Gotlieb Chair
  Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering,Technion
  Haifa, Israel
  1 p.m., Tuesday, February 10, 2015
  Gordon Center Auditorium, 1st Floor, Clinical Research Building 

• Physicians with Cancer in an Informatics-Focused World: The Ethics, Science and Limitations of an Evidence-Based Approach to Care
  David Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D., (UM Medicine Class of 1987), Director, Indiana Institute for Personalized Medicine and Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D., Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
  1 p.m., Monday, January 26, 2015
  Clinical Research Building (CRB) Room 1270A

• Lies, Truth and Their Consequences: Consolation for the Perplexed Professional
  Panagiota V. Caralis, M.D., J.D., FACP
  Professor of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
  Integrated Ethics Program Officer, Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  10 a.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2012
  2nd Floor Central Auditorium, Jackson Memorial Hospital

• Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST): A Better Approach to End-of-Life Care
  Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.
  Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor and Chair,
  Department of Geriatrics
  The Florida State University College of Medicine
  11 a.m., Wednesday, October 19, 2011
  University of Miami Hospital Seminar Center

• Literature and Medicine
  Perri Klass, M.D.
  12 Noon, Wednesday, April 22, 2009
  Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3023

• Terri Schiavo in Perspective: Ethics, Politics and Medicine
  Jon Eisenberg, JD Practice of Law Oakland, California
  Michael Hirsh Author Punta Gorda, Florida
  Robert Walker, MD Director, Medical Ethics University of S. Florida
  Jay Wolfson, DRPH, JD Professor of Medicine University of S. Florida
  11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Friday, February 29, 2008
  Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, 4th Floor Auditorium
  University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

• Fragile Innocence: Illness, Courage and Medicine
  James Reston, Jr.
  12 Noon, Monday, November 20, 2006
  Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3023 

• Clinician-Patient Communication: Why A Caribbean Perspective Matters to South Florida
  D. Aarons, M.D., M.Sc., and A. Mullings, M.D., M.P.H.
  University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
  2 p.m., Friday, October 31, 2003
  Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3023 

• An Alternative to Assisted Suicide
  Bernard Gert, Ph.D.
  Dartmouth College
  10 a.m., Friday, February 18, 2000
  Mailman Center Auditorium, 8th Floor