A WORLD LEADER IN BIOETHICS
The Center for Bioethics is a leader in bioethics research and its deployment in the ethical, efficient, and compassionate practice of the life sciences and medicine. The Center has become a world-renowned educational and research enterprise that employs over 20 full and part-time faculty with appointments in a number of University of Pennsylvania schools and departments including medicine, law, nursing, business, education, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religious studies, public policy and public health.

CENTER NEWS
May 1, 2008
Ulrich Receives Junior Faculty Research Award
Connie M. Ulrich, PhD, RN, was award the Junior Faculty Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.  This award is given to a junior faculty member who has made a distinguished contribution to nursing scholarship.  The person will have shown evidence of significant and outstanding contributions to nursing scholarship through funded research, publications, major reports, offices, and regional or national leadership.  This person will also have shown evidence of influence on the discipline and profession of nursing, and evidence of local, regional and national recognition.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
May 12, 2008
The Provosts Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Conflict
Conflict of Interest: New Interpretations and Approaches for Changing Times

Title of talk to be announced.

Theodore Ruger, JD
Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

4:00pm
Reunion Hall
John Morgan Building (map)
3620 Hamilton Walk
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Wine and cheese reception following the lecture. For more information, contact Lise Miller at 215-898-1184 or lise@gcrc.upenn.edu

Theodore Ruger joined Penn Law’s faculty in July 2004 after three years at Washington University in St. Louis. In his brief career, Ruger’s scholarship has endeavored to bring fresh insight to the study of some of the oldest questions of American constitutional law – namely the theoretical justifications for, and empirical contours of, the application of judicial authority. In exploring these issues Ruger supplements traditional legal analysis with the methods of other disciplines, including history and political science. His work has appeared in sources such as the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern Law Review, and as the centerpiece of a symposium in Perspectives on Politics, a leading peer-reviewed political science journal. In addition to his interests in constitutional law and legislation, Ruger also teaches and writes in the area of health law and pharmaceutical regulation. His current research in that field draws on his broader work on judicial power, and addresses the manner in which American courts – and particularly the United States Supreme Court – have shaped the field of health law in recent decades

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IN THE MEDIA
May 8, 2008
Free pens and pizza come at a high cost for docs
In his latest column for MSNBC.com, Arthur Caplan writes that a marketing ban at medical schools is the ethical prescription.

The American Association of Medical Colleges recently released a long-awaited report recommending that pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers knock off their efforts to bribe medical students and faculty. The Association said in no uncertain terms: No more freebies. That means no more doling out free lunches, tickets, trips, pens, binders, flashdrives, bookbags, free samples and other trinkets in classrooms, offices, exam rooms and reception areas of medical schools.  Read more...
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Colloquium Series
10th Anniversary Symposium

CENTER PROJECTS

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (ANH) Conference
Ethics of Vaccines Project
Visit VaccineEthics.org
Penn High School Bioethics Project
The Ethics of Gene Patenting
Toward an Understanding of Benefit Sharing
Neuroethics
Ethics of Nanotechnology
Nanocasts: Nanotech Podcasts


FACULTY TALKS
May 12, 2008
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey presents a conference on "A Troubling Abundance of Care: Over-treatment at the End of Life"

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Arthur Caplan
Director, Center for Bioethics
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics
University of Pennsylvania

For more information including a full list of featured speakers and panelists, travel directions, and registration information, please visit the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey website.
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