For decades, Harvard Medical School alumni have returned to the Quad for Alumni Week. The event features the annual lunch meeting of the HMS Alumni Association, an Alumni Council meeting, the annual leadership dinner, and the Alumni Day program, which includes the Alumni Association’s business meeting and a symposium on Medical Ethics.
Alumni Day Symposium: "Practical Issues in Medical Ethics"*
Alumni Week Program- June 5th – 8th, 2008
Moderator
George E. Thibault, MD ’69
Director of Alumni Relations
Dan W. Brock, PhD
Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics , Department of Social Medicine,
Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
“Avoiding and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas”
Lachlan Forrow, MD ’83
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Ethics
Programs, Director, Palliative Care Programs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
“What is an Ethics Consult?”
Discussion
“Practical
Issues in Medical Ethics-Part two”
Robert D. Truog, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Children's
Hospital
“Saying I’m Sorry”
Sadath Sayeed, MD , J.D.
Instructor, Division of Medical Ethics
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine,
Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital
“Ethical Dilemmas in the NICU”
Discussion
HMS:
State of the School Address
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine