The 24th annual Medical Ethics Conference will take place on March 27-29, 2009. More information will follow. Please check back for updates.
General Information
Program Fee
This year's conference fee is $659, and it includes conference materials, two lunches, and refreshments during the conference. There will be a $35 fee for dinners on Friday and Saturday nights with fellow conference participants.
Enrollment
Registration enrollment is limited. Early registration is strongly encouraged. The registration deadline is March 6, 2009. Notre Dame reserves the right to cancel or reschedule a program and to change lecturers.
Cancellation
The program fee (less a $50 service charge) will be refunded only if a written cancellation of enrollment is received two (2) weeks prior to the first day of the program.
Location
This program will be held at the McKenna Hall/Center for Continuing Education located near the main gate of the campus on Notre Dame Avenue, across the street from the University’s Morris Inn.
Hotel Registration
Hotel reservations are billed and processed separately from conference registrations. Call the Morris Inn for reservations at (574) 631-2000. Please tell the reservations agent that you will be attending the medical ethics conference.
Continuing Medical Education Credits
For information on CME credits, please contact Claire Brown at (574) 631-9656 or cbrown13@nd.edu.
Conference Agenda
Friday, March 27
12:00-1:00 PM Opening Luncheon
1:30-3:30 PM Case presentations and discussions
4:00-5:30 PM The Philip & Doris Clarke Family Lecture in Medical Ethics
5:30-6:30 PM Reception
6:30 PM Dinner (optional)
Saturday, March 28
9:00 am-Noon Case presentations and discussions
12:15-1:15 PM Luncheon
1:30-4:45 PM Case presentations and discussions
5:15-6:00 PM Mass
6:30 PM Dinner (optional)
Sunday, March 29
8:30-10:00 AM General forum and summary discussion
This year's J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture will be given by Edmund Pellegrino, M.D. Dr. Pellegrino is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center. He also holds the distinction of being Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics. He is a prolific writer, having over five hundred articles to his credit and having authored or co-authored twenty books. Dr. Pellegrino’s lecture is entitled “A Moral Foundation for the Helping Professions: Medicine, Law, Ministry, and Teaching."
Frequently, the moral foundation for medicine is thought to be derived from features specific to the medical profession, from, for instance, the fact that healing the suffering and the dying is at the heart of the profession. In his lecture, Dr. Pellegrino will consider broadening the framework of the foundations for medicine. In doing so, he will explore whether the moral grounds for medicine can sustain, not only the medical profession, but also the other helping professions of law, ministry, and education.
Established by Notre Dame alumnus Dr. Philip Clarke, this conference enables discussion between practicing physicians and specialists in medical ethics about issues confronting the medical community. Since its inception nearly twenty years ago, this series of conferences has been organized by the Notre Dame Alumni Association, with its academic content managed by David Solomon and, since 1999, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. The conferences bring together one hundred practicing physicians and workers in the field of health care from around the country to work with and learn from experts in medical ethics from the Notre Dame community and beyond. Physicians, theologians, and philosophers meet in small groups to discuss and analyze case studies submitted by conference participants that pose as ethical dilemmas in various areas of clinical practice.
Topics covered in past conferences include:
The generous support of Dr. Mark Lindenmeyer has made possible the compilation of the past seventeen years' worth of conference materials into electronic format. Past participants of the conferences are invited to click here to access the electronically archived materials. If you would like to be able to access these archives but do not know the password, please email us at ndethics@nd.edu.
