The President's Council on Bioethics: September 2007 Meeting Agenda

The Carolina Inn
211 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27516
Phone: (919) 933-2001

9:00 am	Session 1: The Draft White Paper on the Determination of Death Discussion by Council Members
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Session 2: The “Crisis” in the Ethics and Profession of Medicine: A Historical Perspective David Rothman, Ph.D. Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Director of the Center for Medicine as a Profession Columbia University
12:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Session 3: The “Crisis” in the Ethics and Profession of Medicine: The Perspective of Medical Education Jordan Cohen, M.D. President Emeritus Association of American Medical Colleges David Leach, M.D. Executive Director Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Session 4: The “Crisis” in the Ethics and Profession of Medicine: Some Concluding Reflections Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. Council Chairman
5:15 pm	Adjournment

8:30 am	Session 5: Nanotechnologies and Ethics: European and Global Perspectives Henk A.M.J. ten Have, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Division of Ethics of Science and Technology United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Session 6: Nanotechnologies: Science, Risk and Ethics Richard Superfine, Ph.D. The Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:30 am	Session 7: Public Comments
11:45 am	Adjournment