Recently held
conferences:
March 20, 2010
Just Healing: The Faces of
Health Care
This conference is a
dialogue regarding the health care professions and strategies to
advocate for the health of the community.
The medical students and
nursing students of Loyola University Chicago and the students of
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (CRJHS) and the CRJHS community will share insights with each other
in a variety of ways. (more...)
January 8, 2010
Patient Safety and Clinical
Issues
The
Illinois Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
and Health Policy and the DePaul University College of Law Health Law
Institute presents
this one day conference
featuring Keynote Speaker:
Rosemary Gibson, the author of
"Wall of Silence- The Untold Stories of the Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of
Americans"
October 9, 2009
The 8th Annual
Conference on Contemporary Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Featured
presenters:
Farr Curlin, MD,
University of Chicago
Medical
Center,
Chicago,
IL
Ron Hamel, PhD,
Catholic Health Association,
St. Louis, MO
Therese
Lysaught, PhD,
Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI
Douglas Anderson, MD,
Loyola University Health System, Maywood, IL
Fr. Kevin O'Rourke, OP, JCD, STM,
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine,
Maywood, IL
Click here
for schedule and presentation information.
April 4, 2009
Just
Doctoring
A Medical Leadership Summit on
Sustainable Partnership and Empowerment
from the Local to the Global
This program was designed
primarily for medical students from the greater Chicago and upper Midwest
areas who have demonstrated interest and leadership aptitude toward
empowering the underserved and reforming the health-care system.
Participants engaged in a daylong dialogue regarding the connection
between health and social justice both domestically and abroad. This summit served to develop a network of student leaders in this region who are
poised to address the social pathologies of disease both in policy and in
everyday practice.
(more...)
Keynote
Speakers:
Marilyn H. Gaston, MD & Gayle
Porter, PsyD
Co-Directors of the
Gaston and
Porter Health Improvement Center, Inc.
and
Luke Hansen, MD,
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program,
Yale University School of Medicine
January 9, 2009
Ethical
Issues in Palliative and Hospice Care
The
Illinois Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum at the University of Illinois at
Chicago and The
Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
and Health Policy presents this
one-day conference.
(more...)
Featured Keynote Speaker:
Pauline W.
Chen, MD
Author of the NY Times
Best Seller, “Final Exam"
P Chen MD photo © Joanne Chan
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