Spring 2006 Program Schedule
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30 pm
Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium
25 January
Talking with Children:
The Tough Conversations
David Waters, Ph.D., Department of Family Medicine, UVA
Catherine Casey, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, UVA
Co-presented with Chaplaincy and Spirituality in Medicine
Focusing "Down Low":
Sexual Behavior and Identity Issues
in Clinical Medicine and Public Health
David J. Malebranche, M.D., M.P.H., Emory University
Co-presented with the medical student Committee on Confronting Health Inequalities
8 February
How Doctors Think:
Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine
Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Daniel M. Becker, M.D., Center for Humanism in Medicine, UVA
Carol Muske-Dukes, University of Southern California
Dearing W. Johns, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, UVA
Co-presented with the Creative Writing Program
of the Department of English
22 February
Beyond Symptoms and Suffering:
Human Development Through the End of Life
Ira Byock, M.D., Dartmouth College
Charles Czeisler, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Irving L. Kron, M.D., Department of Surgery, UVA
Co-presented with the Center for Biological Timing
The Meaning of "Everything":
Responding to Patient Requests for Aggressive Treatment
at the End of Life
Human Neurodegenerative Disease
Lawrence Goldstein, Ph.D.,
Pamela Spiro Wagner
Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D.
Co-presented with the Department of Psychiatric Medicine
and the Virginia Festival of the Book
Ethical Ways to Increase the Supply
of Organs for Transplantation
James F. Childress, Ph.D., Institute for Practical Ethics and Public LIfe, UVA
Richard Bonnie, L.L.B., UVA School of Law
Tim Pruett, M.D., Department of Surgery, UVA
Co-presented with Institute for Practical Ethics in Public LIfe