Faculty Events, Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University

Faculty Events

Spoke on September 12, 2012 at an International Workshop in Madrid, Spain organized by the University of Salamanca.
- Topic: "Bioethics Scholarship, Bioethics Advocacy, and Bioethics Politics: Is There a Difference?
Release of: Youngner SJ, Kimsma GK (Eds) Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Assessing the Dutch Experience. London:Cambridge University Press. 2012
President Elect, Association of Bioethics Program Directors

Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain, September 2012.
Keynote Speaker for 23rd Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012, on professionalization and bioethics.
Mark P. Aulisio, “Advance Directives and the Physician-Patient Relationship: A Surprising Metamorphosis?” for Advance Directives Ed. Biller-Andorno, Brauer, and Lack. LIME Series, Springer 2013 (in submission).

Appointed as the inaugural Oliver C. Schroeder, Jr. Distinguished Research Scholar.
"All for One and One For All: Informed Consent and Public Health" forthcoming in the Houston Law Review.
"Surrogate Decision Making in Internet Age," along with a response to commentators, American Journal of Bioethics, Oct 2012.
"Testing the Baby and the Bathwater: Prenatal Genetic Testing and the Law", International Society of Prenatal Testing, Miami, June 2012.
Quoted in front page article on IVF raffles, New York Times, October 21, 2012.

Nicole Deming worked with Cleveland Early College High School @ John Hay on a project focusing on the life of Henrietta Lacks, Bioethics, and stem cell research.
Faculty Scholar 2012; Scholars Collaboration in Teaching and Learning, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Professor Deming and Jessie Ellner (a second year medical student) are working with the Hospice Unit at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center to provide medical student volunteers with an opportunity to deliver non-medical care to patients at the end of life.
Keynote talk: "Teaching Ethics as Both Everyday and Extraordinary." Eighth National Conference on Bioethics, Cluj, Romania, September 14, 2012. Professor Deming was invited to give this talk as part of her work on the Fogarty-funded International Research Ethics Training Program, based at Case in the Department of Bioethics. She is looking forward to future opportunities to work with colleagues and students in the program.

Dr. Goldenberg was appointed to the Expert Condition Review Committee for the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Conditions in Newborns and Children.
Dr. Goldenberg was appointed to the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Working Group for the Alpha-1 Foundation.
Dr. Goldenberg was awarded an NIH grant to study Parental Attitudes on the Collection and Research Use of Biological Samples from Newborns.

Dr. Hyun served on an Institute of Medicine committee that was tasked with evaluating the performance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). This IOM report is due to be released by the end of 2012.
Dr. Hyun's book, Bioethics and the Future of Stem Cell Research, is in production with Cambridge University Press. It will be released in late May 2013.
On November 28, 2012, Dr. Hyun will give a lecture on stem cell tourism at Harvard Law School.

Forensic epidemiology in the international context: Is there no place to call home? Symposium on the Use of Scientific Evidence in Criminal and Civil Litigation, October 1, 2012, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK [invited].
Keynote: Religious ethics and the ethics of religion. Eighth National Conference on Bioethics, Cluj, Romania, September 15, 2012 [invited].
Ethical and methodological issues in the recruitment of research participants. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, April 14, 2012 [invited].

Elected to the Council of Fellows, The Hastings Center.
Member of the International Working Group for ELSI 2.0, an International Collaboratory for Genomics and Society. Following an initial meeting at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, a manuscript was published by Kaye J, Meslin E, Knoppers B, Juengst E, Deschênes M, Cambon-Thomsen, Chalmers D, De Vries J, Edwards K, Hoppe N, Kent A, Adebamowo, Marshall P, Kato K, (2012). “ELSI 2.0: for Genomics and Society Research.” Science 336: 673-674.
Collaborator, grant funded by the Wellcome Trust Foundation, 9/1/12 – 8/31/17, PI: A Amoah; “International Consortium, Gene-Environment Factors in Type 2 Diabetes, Sub-Saharan Africa.” Study sites for our international consortium include 10 Sub-Saharan countries.

Juengst, Eric T., Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Jennifer R. Fishman & Michelle L. McGowan. (2012). “After the Revolution: Ethical and Social Challenges in Personalized Genomic Medicine.” Personalized Medicine, 9(4), 429-439.
McGowan, Michelle L. and Julie Redding. (2012). “Reframing the justice implications of preserving the right to future children.” The American Journal of Bioethics, 12(6), 53-55.
October 2012: Presented "Justice in the Context of Family Balancing" at the Society for Social Studies of Science conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Elected to the Board of Directors for the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
Appointed to the Compliance and Administration subcommittee of the Board for the Council of Governmental Relations (COGR)
Blog posts about research ethics and science policy can be found at: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/billofhealth/category/contributors/suzanne-rivera/