Evidence-Based Medical Ethics: Opportunities and Examples

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

SPECIAL BIOMEDICAL ETHICS GRAND ROUNDS

FALL 2004

Friday, November 5, 2004

Noon

Room M-104

Evidence-Based Medical Ethics:

Opportunities and Examples

Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.

Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University

Empirical research is now an established component of medical ethics. This presentation will include a description of some of the important roles for this research, focusing on a series of examples related to informed consent and research ethics.

Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine and Deputy Director for Medicine of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Sugarman serves on the Institutional Review Board for Family Health International and the Scientific and Research Advisory Board for the Canadian Blood Service. Dr Sugarman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, and the Hastings Center.