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40th Anniversary and 8th Edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, by Jim Childress and Tom Beauchamp

11/22/2019

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…

Clinician’s Eye workshops discussed in UVA Today Story

11/22/2019

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

10/22/2019

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

10/18/2019

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…

Medical Center Hour Speaker’s New Book

9/24/2019

MEDICAL CENTER HOUR SPEAKER’S NEW BOOK Writer Leslie Jamison’s newest book, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, earns high praise for being, according to a review on NPR, “a heady…

Medical Center Hour Speaker Creates an Inspiring Barbie Doll

9/24/2019

MEDICAL CENTER HOUR SPEAKER CREATES AN INSPIRING BARBIE DOLL Tree biologist Nalini Nadkarni, who has spoken at two Medical Center Hours, was featured in NPR’s special video series, “Maddie about…

Beth Epstein, PhD, RN, HEC-C, FAAN, awarded the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2020 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics

9/13/2019

Please join the Center in congratulating our colleague, Beth Epstein, who has just received word that she has been awarded the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2020 Grenvik Family Award…

Medical Center Hour – Wednesday, 25 September 2019 – The Public University and the Public’s Health – Dayna Bowen Matthew JD

9/5/2019

Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:00 - 1:00 THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH   Dayna Bowen Matthew JD, Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and…

Justin Mutter, MD, named Section Chief for the section of Geriatrics

8/28/2019

Dr. Justin Mutter will become Section Chief for the section of Geriatrics beginning September 1, 2019. Dr. Mutter received his Undergraduate Degree from UVA followed by Rhodes Scholarship. He graduated…

Just Published: landmark handbook in public health ethics

8/28/2019

Just published: landmark handbook in public health ethics with chapters by Lois Shepherd, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Richard Bonnie, and Heather Zelle. Read the press release here.