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APRIL

April 17, 2018
Understanding Health Stigma in Clinical Settings as a Key to Preventing It.

Daniel Goldberg, PhD, JD, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
11:00 am

* Lecture will be livestreamed on the Center's Facebook Page.

April 18, 2018
Annual Dinner: Ethics Improv
Kansas City Marriott Downtown – Muehlebach Tower
5:30 pm Reception, 6:45 Dinner 

Celebrating the launch of our 35th Year
Honoring Myra J. Christopher, our founding CEO, upon her retirement and Vision to Action Honorees Mary Beth Blake and Rosemary Flanigan

 

Law, Medicine & Ethics: The Future of Bioethics
April 19, 8:00 am - 12:30pm
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

For more than three decades, much of the Center’s work has focused on engaging healthcare the professions in exploring their obligations to build a just society. This symposium will examine bioethics’ checkered past and present-day challenges through the lens of law, medicine and ethics and issue a call to demand more from the professions to advance the health and dignity of all persons.

 

AUGUST

 

August 9
24th Annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture

Ethics Perspective on Concussive Injury in Contact Sports: Ought Football Be Banned?

Steven Miles, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Bioethics, University of Minnesota
St. Joseph Health Center, Kansas City, MO
7:00 pm