Grand Rounds

Aiming Higher: Ethical Challenges in the Care of Children Without Parents

1.5.12
Maureen Kelley, PhD
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The Baby Will Tell Us

10.6.11

Treuman Katz Ethics Lecture

Albert Jonsen, PhD

Research Involving Benefit to Others: When 'Others' May Be Hard to Appreciate

5.12.11

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Dave Wendler, PhD, Head, Unit on Vulnerable Populations, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center

SCH Case Presenter: Bryan H. King, MD, Director, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital; Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington

Parental Requests for Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children with Overwhelming Neurological Injury

1.20.11

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Walter Robinson, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University

SCH Case Presenters: Margaret Hood, MD, Medically Complex Child Service; Sid Gospe, MD, PhD, Neurology

Why We Play: Ethics, Drugs and the Future of Sport

10.14.10

Treuman Katz Bioethics Lecture

Thomas H. Murray, PhD, President and CEO, The Hastings Center

Use of Placebos

8.12.10

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Gary Walco, PhD, Director, Pain Management, Seattle Children’s

SCH Case Presenter: Benjamin Wilfond, MD, Bioethics

When Parents Make Life-and-Death Decisions in the NICU Based on Cultural Views About Disability

5.13.10

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Sadath Sayeed, JD, MD, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University

SCH Case Presenter: David Woodrum, MD, Neonatology

Determining Adolescent Competency and Decision-Making Capacity: An 18-Year-Old with an Eating Disorder

1.21.10

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Paul Appelbaum, MD, Director, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Columbia University

SCH Case Presenter: Kym Ahrens, MD, Adolescent Medicine

Faith, Hope and Informed Consent: Ethical Challenges in Maternal-Fetal Research

10.1.09

Treuman Katz Bioethics Lecture

Larry R. Churchill, PhD, Director, The Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt

Challenges of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing in Children

9.10.09

Holly Tabor, PhD, Scholar, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Washington

Ethical Issues in Organ Donation After Cardiac Death

8.20.09

Robert D. Truog, MD, Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Should Children Be Told They Have a Serious Illness?

7.2.09

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Alan Fleischman, MD, Senior Vice President and Medical Director, March of Dimes

SCH Case Presenter: Ann Melvin, MD, Infectious Disease

Physician Obligation to Inform Families About Alternatives They Consider Unethical: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Palliative Care

5.14.09

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, Director, Dept. of Medical Ethics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

SCH Case Presenters: Mark Lewin, MD, Cardiology; Gordon Cohen, MD, PhD, Cardiac Surgery

Parental Requests for Reconstructive Surgery in Children with Profound Developmental Disabilities

1.8.09

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

SCH Case Presenters: Carrie L. Heike, MD, MS, Craniofacial; Richard Hopper, MD, Plastic Surgery

Growth Hormone for Non-GH-Deficient Children, or What's Wrong With the American Healthcare System?

10.2.08

Treuman Katz Bioethics Lecture

Norman Fost, MD, MPH, Professor, Pediatrics and Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin

Do Physicians Have Obligations to Report Children's Infectious Risk to Schools?

8.14.08

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentators: Bonnie Steinbock, PhD, Professor, Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY; Danielle Zerr, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Seattle Children’s

SCH Case Presenter: Ron Gibson, MD, PhD, Pulmonary

Withholding Fluids and Nutrition in Children with Progressive Neurological Deterioration

6.5.08

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Joel Frader, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University

SCH Case Presenter: Mark Hannibal, MD, PhD, Genetics and Developmental Medicine

When Should Adolescents Be Permitted to Refuse Life-Saving Treatments?

2.14.08

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, Professor, Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Chicago; Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

SCH Case Presenter: Russ Geyer, MD, Hematology/Oncology

Two Cheers for a Two-Tiered Health Care System

12.20.07

Treuman Katz Bioethics Lecture

John Lantos, MD, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Parental Discretion to Withdraw a Ventilator from a Child with Congenital Central Hypoventilation

10.4.07

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Alexander A. Kon, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Bioethics, University of California-Davis

SCH Case Presenter: Maida Chen, MD, Pulmonary

Discharging a Child When Their Local Medical Care Is Not Adequate: Should There Be a Double Standard for the Developing World?

6.7.07

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Christine Grady, RN, PhD, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health

SCH Case Presenter: Patrick Healey, MD, Transplantation Surgery

Attenuating Growth in Children with Profound Developmental Disability

9.28.06

Sconyers/Godfrey Bioethics Grand Rounds

Commentator: Jeffrey Botkin, MD, Professor, Pediatrics, University of Utah

SCH Case Presenters: Doug Diekema, MD, MPH, Bioethics; Dan Gunther, MD, Endocrinology

Surgically Shaping Children: Ethical Dilemmas

9.28.06

Cassandra Aspinall, MSW, LICSW, Craniofacial Social Work