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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST) Zoom Webinar: Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety Value Based Payment in Academic Health Centers: A Pathway to…
Medical Center Hour with Shirlene Obuobi, MD, Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00 Humanizing Healthcare: Using Narratives for Advocacy and Improving Patient Doctor Communication Click here for more information.Medical Center Hour: Diabetes and the Politics of Difference, Wednesday February 19, 2025
History of the Health Sciences Lecture with the Medical Center Hour Featuring Professor Richard McKinley Mizelle Jr. “Diabetes and the Politics of Difference” Wednesday February 19, 2025 12-1pm EST Zoom…
HEALTH WORKFORCE WELL-BEING DAY, March 18, 2024 (youtube.com) Monday, March 18, 2024 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST) McLeod Auditorium In recognition of the first Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness, the UVA…
Jess Walters (they/them) is a mixed-media artist, disability justice advocate, and independent scholar from Charlottesville, VA. As one of the inaugural Virginia Health Equity and Justice Fellows in collaboration with…
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics, director of the School of Medicine’s Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, and professor of…
Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care
Irène Mathieu Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Assistant Director, Program in Health Humanities and Ethics University of Virginia While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century…
A program of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics University of Virginia School of Medicine Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing Wednesday,…
Prof. Epstein Lauded by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has selected School of Nursing professor Beth Epstein for its 2020 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics, which recognizes an SCCM member’s efforts…
This new book assists health care providers to understand the specific interplay of the roles and relationships currently forming the debates in pediatric clinical ethics. It builds on the fact…
Eating Disorders in Youth Rose During COVID — But the Signs Aren’t What Parents Might Expect
A peer-reviewed study out of the British Journal of Psychiatry suggests that eating disorder diagnoses increased 15% in 2020 among people under 30 compared to previous years. Researchers believe the increase is…
Our Picks: February 5–18 1) KEN BURNS AND LONNIE BUNCH DISCUSS THE MAKING OF CULTURAL MEMORY Join Filmmaker Ken Burns and Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch for “History is now:…
Former Center Director, Daniel Becker, MD, Publishes Debut Book of Poetry
Dr. Becker's 2nd Chance The Center congratulates former director, Dr. Daniel Becker, on the publication of his debut book of poetry, 2nd Chance. A nod to his first chapbook length…
Medical Center Hour is moving to Zoom. Our 2020-2021 season—Medical Center Hour's 50th!—starts on Wednesday, 16 September 2020. Join our Zoom webinars on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00 pm, from the Zooming device…
AMA Journal of Ethics essay by James Childress and Marcia Day Childress
In its May 2020 issue, the AMA Journal of Ethics carried an essay by James Childress and Marcia Day Childress, "What Does the Evolution from Informed Consent to Shared Decision…
The popular online ARTNET news service did a story about "Confronting Epidemics—Perspectives from History, Ethics, and the Arts," an intensive required course for the UVA School of Medicine Classes of…
This portion of our website provides relevant articles from the literature regarding ethical issues that have or may arise during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will keep it updated, and welcome…
In fall 2018, Medical Center Hour offered Influenza! 1918-2018, a three-program series on the 1918 global influenza pandemic to raise awareness for 21st century public health preparedness. Looking back helps…
Medical Center Hour’s two latest Hayden-Farr Lectures, in October 2018 and November 2019, dealt with the challenges of global pandemic infectious disease. In 2018, physician-scientist Jeffery Taubenberger discussed lessons from…
Dr. Marshall is consulted in a Kaiser Health News article about the case of Tinslee Lewis, a Texas baby at the center of a dispute between family and health care…
Lois Shepherd publishes new AJOB commentary on “usual care” studies
Professor Lois Shepherd, in this peer commentary published in January 2020 in the American Journal of Bioethics, explains that much of the debate about comparative effectiveness research “involves a disagreement…
Now in print, from Oxford University Press: 40th anniversary and 8th edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Cheers to Jim Childress of the Center’s core faculty and to Tom Beauchamp…
See this UVA Today story about the Clinician’s Eye workshops completed at UVA’s Fralin Museum during the week of Halloween by all second-year medical students. The museum director will be…
Core Faculty Member Featured in NPR Story on Childhood Type 1 Diabetes
Julia Taylor, MD MA a core faculty member at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, was recently interviewed for an NPR story about Type 1 Diabetes in children and…Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player
Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player. Donna Chen, M.D., M.P.H., and Lois Shepherd, J.D., along with former bioethics interns Eleanor Muse and…