News and Highlights
November 2009
Announcements
2009-2010 Medical Ethics Seminar Series
The Division of Medical Ethics presents its 2009-2010 Seminar Series, “Ethics, Technology, and Dignity: An Introduction to Twentieth Century Philosophers.” This series is designed for general informed readers whose interests are primarily in bioethics, clinical practice, public health, and law. No prior background in philosophy is required or assumed. The Program Co-Directors/Facilitators are Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, PhD, MS, Associate Professor of Public Health, and Wayne Shelton, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor at the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical College and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health in the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College.
New York Health Care Symposium November 20, 2009
This year's New York Health Care Services Symposium will be on Friday, November 20. As a partnering/sponsoring organization, the Department of Public Health will receive ten complimentary registrations. These will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you are interested, please contact Yuhua Bao, PhD (email: yub2003@med.cornell.edu; phone: 646-962-8037). More information is below:
United Hospital Fund / GNYHA Foundation
20 th Annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York:
Research and Practice
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
Featuring:
Keynote speaker Karen Davis, PhD, President, The Commonwealth Fund.
Sessions on HIT, substance abuse and chronic care, quality improvement collaboratives, and more
Poster session
Please note that Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Quality and Medical Informatics, will be one of the panelists.
