In the News
There's Great Potential for AI in Health Care, but also Many Questions
Prof. Jennifer Gibson, director of U of T's Joint Centre for Bioethics, is leading a new research project, "Ethics and AI for Health," to study questions of privacy, responsibility and safety around artificial intelligence.
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My Mom Was Clear About Her Wishes
[April 16th] is National Advance Care Planning (ACP) Day – a time Canadians are reminded to consider their values and wishes and to communicate them to the people they care about, as well as their healthcare providers.
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Paying Surrogates in Canada Could Present New Problems for Parents-to-be, Experts Say
After expensive and ultimately futile in-vitro fertilization treatments, Kathryn Lee sent out a very public plea for help on Facebook: Would anyone be willing to be a surrogate for her family?
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#TorontoStrong Vigil: U of T Community Joins Thousands to Remember Victims of Van Attack
Thousands of people from all over the GTA gathered on Sunday at Mel Lastman Square to remember the victims of the van attack.
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Announcements
Patrick Jachyra was awarded a 2018 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award through U of T. It recognizes students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their college, faculty or school, or to the university as a whole.
Paula Chidwick received a Spark Innovation Grant through The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation for the project "CONNECT POET APP: Connecting On-Call Physicians with Residents’ Health Care Directives Using Prevention of Error-Based Transfers (PoET) App".
We have sadly learned that Beth Woods passed away last year after a short battle with cancer. She was with the JCB from 2008 until 2015. Our deepest condolences go out to her family.
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Publications
JCB members' publications for the month of May 2018.
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If you have a publication you would like to add to next month's list, please email newseditor.jcb@utoronto.ca.
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Employment Opportunities
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy and Ethics
University of Ottawa
Hosted at the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, the Chairholder will join a vibrant and growing community of scholars who are working on cutting-edge issues in health law, policy and ethics and will have the opportunity to interact with faculty members and graduate students from the faculties of social sciences, medicine, health sciences, education, management, and the arts.
Application Deadline: August 1, 2018
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Educational Opportunities
2018 University of Toronto Surgical Ethics Course
June 1, 2018
The Toronto Surgical Ethics Program offers surgeons of all levels a platform to understand, discuss, and manage ethical issues that arise in surgical practice.
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Summer Course in Health Law and Ethics
July 2-6, 2018
The Erasmus Observatory on Health Law / Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam) provides students, academics, professionals and practitioners, with an opportunity for intensive training in various aspects of health law and ethics over a one-week period, while absorbing the sights, sounds and culture unique to Rotterdam and the Netherlands.
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“Publish or Perish!” Intensive Course on Research and Publishing in Bioethics
September 12-14, 2018
The main goal of this course is to enhance your skills in doing research and writing research papers. The course gives you not only practical knowledge and information, but also allows to practice and master your writing skills.
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Call for Submissions
Awards:
Global Forum on Bioethics in Research Award
The annual GFBR award recognises an individual's significant contribution to progress in international research ethics.
Closing date: September 4, 2018
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Case Studies:
Global Forum on Bioethics in Research
The GFBR will hold a two-day meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, on 13-14 November 2018 on the theme of "the ethics of data sharing and biobanking in health research". As part of the upcoming meeting, the GFBR is seeking case studies that bring attention to key ethical issues that have emerged when conducting data sharing and biobanking in LMIC settings and proposals to participate in a session on guidance and policy issues.
Closing date: May 16, 2018
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JCB Seminars
May 2
"Responding to Refractory Psychiatric Suffering: What Could a "Palliative Psychiatry" Approach Involve?"
Justine S. Dembo, MD, FRCPC, Psychiatrist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Lecturer, University of Toronto; Kevin Reel, OT Reg (Ont), Practicing Healthcare Ethicist, Member, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto
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May 9
"Understanding Informed Consent: Seeking Coherence Between Ethics, Law and Regulation"
Louise Austin, LLB (Hons), LLM, MSc, PhD Candidate in Law, 1+3 ESRC, Centre for Health, Law, and Society, Centre for Ethics, University of Bristol
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May 16
NO SEMINAR
May 30
11th Annual Sue MacRae Lecture on Ethics and Patient-Centred Care - "Reframing Social Justice: Towards Palliative Care Equity in Our Communities"
Naheed Dosani, M.S.C, MD, CCFP(PC), BSc, Founder & Lead Palliative Care Physician, Palliative Education And Care for the Homeless (PEACH), Inner City Health Associates, Lead Palliative Care Physician, Journey Home Hospice, Inner City Health Associates, Palliative Care Physician, William Osler Health System, Palliative Care Regional Medical Lead, Central West Local Health Integration Network (CW LHIN), Lecturer, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Division of Palliative Care, University of Toronto, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care, McMaster University
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Note: To see the full schedule or view past archived seminars please visit our website.
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JCB Awards - Calls for Submissions
We are current accepting submissions for our faculty and student awards for 2018. These awards will be presented at the 7th Annual Research & Awards Celebration on Wednesday, June 6th. Submissions are being requested for the following awards:
- Christine Harrison Bioethics Education Award for Integration of Theory and Practice
- Ross Upshur Course Director Award
- Barbara Secker Award for Professional Innovation in Health Ethics Practice
- Larry Librach Prize in Ethics and End of Life Care
- Peter A. Singer Award in Bioethics
- Mervis-Simon Family Award in Bioethics
The deadline for all awards is May 9th (midnight). For more information on each award and how to nominate candidates or apply, please visit our website.
If you are interested in attending, and haven't yet sent in your RSVP, please email Olga Klymenko (jcb.ea@utoronto.ca).
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Events
Dalla Lana School of Public Health Leadership Series
Toronto, ON
May 1, 2018
"Decriminalizing Opioids and Addiction in Canada"
Keynote: Donald MacPherson, Executive Director, Drug Policy Coalition, Simon Fraser University
5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Rosalie Silberman Abella Moot Court Room, Jackman Law Building, 78 Queen's Park Crescent.
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Ethics Grand Rounds
Toronto, ON
May 15, 2018
"Informed Consent Delegation: Exploring the Ethical and Policy Issues Pertaining to a Capable Patient Delegating Treatment Decisions to a Substitute Decision-Maker"
Speakers: Sally Bean, Director, Health Ethics Alliance & Policy Advisory, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Kathryn Morrison, PhD (c), University of Waterloo
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Mississauga Hospital- CA4 Large Boardroom, Credit Valley Hospital - 1A221 Surgical Oncology, and Queensway Health Centre – Streetsville Room. All are welcome to attend.
Public Health Reconciliation, Starting from Within
Toronto, ON
May 22, 2018
Indigenous people in Canada have faced a number of social, political and legal issues from the Indian Act to residential schools to the Sixties Scoop to overcrowded housing and homelessness, Indigenous people continue to struggle against the structural inequalities that face them. The Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto in partnership with Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (WBIIH) will be presenting speakers and knowledge to start reconciliation in public health.
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Canadian Bioethics Society Conference 2018
Halifax, NS
May 23-25, 2018
The theme of this year's conference is "Balancing Interests, Needs and Obligations". This conference will provide an opportunity to explore the range of ways that we can both think and act in response to justice and injustice as they affect health and health care from concept through to practice.
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2nd Annual Humanism in Surgery
Toronto, ON
May 31, 2018
This year's guest speaker is Dr. Carlos A. Pellegrini, professor of surgery and chief medical officer for University of Washington Medicine. He will be speaking on the topic of Trust: The Keystone of the Physician Relationship with Patients and Providers.
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14th World Congress of Bioethics and 7th National Bioethics Conference
Bangalore, India
December 5-7, 2018
The Congress theme is 'Health for All in an Unequal World: Obligations of Global Bioethics'. The inequity in access to healthcare continues as much in the global North as the global South. In this context, the global bioethics community needs to engage with and strengthen the scholarship in the field of enquiries such as 'justice' and 'solidarity' in the coming times.
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