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start date and time: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 4:30 PM

end date and time: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 5:30 PM

categories:   legal & courtroom   health & wellness

event description:

video webcast -

Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, OH presents the Oliver C. Schroeder, Jr. Scholar-in-Residence Lecture entitled "What Is and Is Not Ethical in Trying to Increase the Supply of Organs for Transplant," presented by The Law-Medicine Center. The lecture is presented by Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.. He serves as the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics; Chair, Department of Medical Ethics; and Director, Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The lecture will discuss proposals for increasing the supply of organs available for transplant in the U.S. Proposals include donor ambulances, using more marginal donors and organs, relying more on living donors, increasing the use of donation after cardiac death, and more. These proposals all raise legal and regulatory concerns.

Related issues to be discussed include definitions of death and brain death, Federal policies related to organ procurement, how to encourage people to become donors, and liabilities arising when a transplanted organ is the source of a communicable disease.

Highlights of Arthur L. Caplan's career include:

- Joining the University of Pennsylvania in 1994

- Teaching at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University

- Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984-1987

- Ph.D in history and philosophy of science from Columbia University

- Author or editor of 29 books, including his most recent entitled "Smart Mice Not So Smart People"

- Author of more than 500 papers in refereed medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics, and health policy journals

- Served on a number of national and international committees including:
- Chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group
- Chair of the Advisory Committee to the U.N. on Human Cloning
- Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability
- Member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses
- Member of the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy
- Member of the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy
- Member of the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects

- Consultant for many corporations, not for profit organizations and consumer organizations

- Member of the board of directors of The Keystone Center, Tengion, the National Center for Policy Research on Women and Families, Octagon, Iron Disorders Foundation and the National Disease Research Interchange

- Chair of the advisory committee on bioethics at Glaxo

- On board of visitors of the Columbia University School of Nursing

- Co-Director of the Joint Council of Europe/U.N. Study on Trafficking in Organs and Body Parts

- Author of a regular column on bioethics for MSNBC.com

- Frequent guest and commentator on various media outlets

- Awarded McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association

- Awarded the Franklin Award from the City of Philadelphia

- Named a person of the Year-2001 from USA Today

- Named one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine

- Named one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal

- Named one of the ten most influential people in the ethics of biotechnology by the editors of Nature Biotechnology

- Holds 7 honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools

- Fellow of the Hastings Center, the NY Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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