UPCOMING PROGRAMS
2nd Annual Pledge to Preserve Human Dignity in Health Care Program
January 28, 2019; Misericordia University, Dallas, PA
On January 28, 2018, MIMEH is proud to partner once again with the Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Health, and the Holocaust to present the Pledge to Preserve Human Dignity in Health Care program. Held each year to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this program is dedicated to reflecting on the responsibilities and challenges of the medical profession in modern society. The title of this year's keynote lecture will be, "The Case for Keeping our Borders Open to Immigrants" presented by Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD. Dr. Boyd is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. He is a staff psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and is the co-founder and co-director of the Global Health and Human Rights Clinic at CHA.
January 28, 2019; Misericordia University, Dallas, PA
On January 28, 2018, MIMEH is proud to partner once again with the Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Health, and the Holocaust to present the Pledge to Preserve Human Dignity in Health Care program. Held each year to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this program is dedicated to reflecting on the responsibilities and challenges of the medical profession in modern society. The title of this year's keynote lecture will be, "The Case for Keeping our Borders Open to Immigrants" presented by Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD. Dr. Boyd is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. He is a staff psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and is the co-founder and co-director of the Global Health and Human Rights Clinic at CHA.
2019 Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program - Bioethics in a Violent World: Health Professionals in
Times of War, Genocide, and Political Conflict
April 29 - May 3, 2019; University of Colorado
The 2019 HGCB program will pay homage to the past while discussing contemporary ethical considerations for health professionals and communities today. How do the principles of justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence apply in situations of mass casualties, inadequate facilities, documented human rights violations, and scarce supplies? This program will address the ethical challenges faced by health professionals working during times of war and political conflict as well as ethical challenges faced by health professionals working with refugees and displaced persons, exploring lessons learned from the Holocaust through the challenges facing health professionals today in the fall out of contemporary war crimes and political violence.
Times of War, Genocide, and Political Conflict
April 29 - May 3, 2019; University of Colorado
The 2019 HGCB program will pay homage to the past while discussing contemporary ethical considerations for health professionals and communities today. How do the principles of justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence apply in situations of mass casualties, inadequate facilities, documented human rights violations, and scarce supplies? This program will address the ethical challenges faced by health professionals working during times of war and political conflict as well as ethical challenges faced by health professionals working with refugees and displaced persons, exploring lessons learned from the Holocaust through the challenges facing health professionals today in the fall out of contemporary war crimes and political violence.
Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire Conference
May 7-8, 2019; Krakow, Poland
MIMEH is proud to co-sponsor the 2nd international conference, Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire, which will take place on May 7–8, 2019 in Kraków, Poland. The aim of the conference is to educate the world’s medical community about the violations of medical ethics during World War II, with special focus on the behavior of physicians and other medical professionals in Nazi medical institutions and concentration camps or other places of imprisonment, and the ethical implications of Nazi medicine for contemporary medical practice and health care policy.
May 7-8, 2019; Krakow, Poland
MIMEH is proud to co-sponsor the 2nd international conference, Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire, which will take place on May 7–8, 2019 in Kraków, Poland. The aim of the conference is to educate the world’s medical community about the violations of medical ethics during World War II, with special focus on the behavior of physicians and other medical professionals in Nazi medical institutions and concentration camps or other places of imprisonment, and the ethical implications of Nazi medicine for contemporary medical practice and health care policy.