Scholars to Focus On Medical Ethics At Symposium

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Internationally renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, history and other fields will address the theme "Ethics and Values in Health Care and Medicine on the Frontiers of the 21st Century" at a University at Buffalo sesquicentennial symposium, to be held Nov. 15-16.

The symposium, sponsored by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will address critical issues arising from changing technologies and health-care delivery systems, the human genome project and new developments in the patient-provider relationship.

Sessions on Friday, Nov. 15, will be held in the New Buffalo Marriott, Millersport Highway, Amherst. Sessions on Saturday, Nov. 16, will be held in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. There is a registration fee. The symposium is presented in collaboration with the UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care.

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., professor of philosophy at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Rice University, will present the keynote address titled "Bioethics at the End of the Millennium: Fashioning Health-Care Policy in the Absence of a Content-Full Moral Vision" at 8:45 a.m. on Nov. 15.

Engelhardt, who also holds appointments as professor in the departments of Medicine, Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, will lecture again later in the morning on the topic "Toward Multiple Standards of Health Delivery: Taking Moral and Economic Diversity Seriously."

€ Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., professor in the departments of Medicine, Community Medicine and Medical Ethics in the Baylor College of Medicine -- "A Preventive Ethics Approach to the Managed Practice of Medicine"

€ E. Haavi Morreim, Ph.D., professor of human values and ethics at the University of Tennessee Medical School -- "Saving Lives, Saving Money: Shepherding the Role of New Technology"

€ Eric Juengst, Ph.D., associate professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University Medical School -- "The Challenge of Human Genome Research for the Professional Ethics of Medicine"

€ Diane Paul, Ph.D., of the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts/Boston -- "Lessons from the History of PKU Screening"

€ Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Ph.D., professor in the departments of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at Northwestern University Medical School -- "A Medicine of Neighbors"

€ Julie Rothstein, M.D., of Yale University -- "Can I Trust You Now? Trust and the Physician-Patient Relationship: Implications for Continuity of Care"

€ Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the departments of Family Medicine, Medical Humanities and Philosophy, and director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University -- "Can Relationships Heal -- Cheap"

Participating UB faculty are symposium co-chairs James J. Bono, Ph.D., associate professor in the UB departments of History and Medicine, and Gerald Logue, M.D., professor in the Department of Medicine and medical director of the Veterans Affairs Western New York Health Care System.

Also, Mecca Cranley, Ph.D., dean of the UB School of Nursing; Tom Rosenthal, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine; David Nyberg, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Educational Administration, Organization and Policy; David Triggle, Ph.D., dean of the UB Graduate School, and Stephen Wear, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and research associate professor in the departments of Medicine and Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Susan G. Regan, an attorney with the Buffalo law firm of Magavern, Magavern & Grimm and a member of the New York State Committee on Managed Care, also will participate.

For reservations, call 716-645-3705. For more information, call James Bono at 645-2282, ext. 553.