MEDICAL HUMANITIES

NEWS AND NOTES

August 2008

8/15/08: Mr. Silverman announced that Dhrubajyoti (Dru) Bhattacharya accepted an offer to become an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Humanities, where he will engage in research and teaching in the areas of health policy and law.  He will join the department in early September.

A Chicago native, Dru is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he majored in biological sciences; Michigan State University College of Law, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medicine and Law; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he received a Master of Public Health degree concentrating in Health Policy and Finance, earned a certificate in Maternal and Child Health, and served as a Fellow at the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities; and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as a Global Health Law Fellow.  He spent this past summer working as a Congressional Fellow for Representative Henry Waxman on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Dru’s research interests include social determinants of health, maternal and child health, global health and population health law and policy. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the American Journal of Public Health, and the American Journal of Disaster Medicine.  Dru also is a published author of fiction.

The Illinois Times recently (July 31-August 6, 2008) published an article featuring the Pearson Museum. Please click to read the article "Pearson's legacy" by Tara McClellan McAndrew.

July 2008

Bethany Spielman recently had two articles accepted for publication:

Bethany Spielman, Pushing the Dead into the Next Reproductive Frontier: Post Mortem Gamete Retrieval under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. The Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006) has rapidly become the majority version of UAGA in the U.S. and is targeted for adoption by all states by 2009. With the support of the Act's principal drafter, a judicial interpretation of the act in Christy merges two previously disparate areas of health care servides: cadaveric organ and tissue retrieval, and postmortem gamete retrieval. "Pushing the Dead" analyzes the far-reaching implications of the case and makes recommendations for commissioners on uniform state laws, state legislators, and healthcare institutions.

Keith Miller and Bethany Spielman, Review of Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, edited by Jeroen van Den Hoven and John Weckert. This review asses a volume of the Cambridge Sries in Philosophy and Public Policy that presents the work of 22 international experts on the effects of information technology on moral philosophy, and the application of moral philosophy to information technologies.

July 2008: Ross Silverman has been recognized as one of the Springfield Business Journal's "Forty Under 40" in the July 2008 issue.

June 2008

June 29-30, 2008: Ross Silverman was invited to attend a meeting in Boston, MA as a member of the planning committee for the national conference of the Public Health Law Association.

Ross Silverman's paper, "Enhancing Public Health Law Communication Linkages," has been accepted by the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and will appear in a supplement to an upcoming issue as part of a series on building a consensus agenda on the use of law to protect and improve the public's health.

June 26, 2008 -- Dhrubajyoti (Dru) Bhattacharya, JD, MPH, will speak on: "From Kos to Carbondale: Controlling infectious diseases at the intersection of halth, law, ethics, and culture." Telehealth Conference Room 1252 at 913 N. Rutledge. 11:00 a.m.

June 24, 2008 -- Evelyn Bernadette McKinney, JD, PhD, will be giving a videoconferenced presentation in 913 N. Rutledge, Room 1252 (Telehealth): Apologizing for Medical Errors: Limiting Harm, Promoting Professionalism. 12:00 noon.

June 15, 2008: Ross Silverman served as project director and annotator (along with Gene Basanta and Sharon Hull) for the 2008-09 edition of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs Code of Medical Ethics: Current Opinions with Annotations. This edition marks the first time the publication has included citations to the Code appearing in medical, as well as legal, sources.

April 2008

Ryan Visiting Professor in Bioethics: April 4, 2008, Amy M. Haddad, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University and Professor, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Dr. Haddad has been involved in health sciences education since 1979, and she has taught ethics in the health sciences since 1984. Her publications include numerous journal articles and several books; she is the author of "Ethics in Action," a bimonthly column for RN magazine, a role she has held since 1991. In 2001, she was selected as a national Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie.

March 2008

On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, the Departments of Internal Medicine and Medical Humanities presented Marshall B. Kapp, J.D., M.P.H., FCLM, as the Distinguished Visiting Professor in Health Policy. Mr. Kapp, the Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law and Medicine at SIU School of Law in Carbondale, spoke on "The Changing Face of Long Term Care: Law, Policy and Financing."

Marshall Kapp

The second annual Theodore R. LeBlang Distinguished Lecture was held on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, with Christine Cassel, M.D., M.A.C.P. discussing "Professionalism: What the Public Expects." Dr. Cassel is the President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a recognized expert in medical ethics and quality of care.

Dr. Cassel

February 2008

February 29, 2008: Ross Silverman presented a paper on immunization policy at the American College of Legal Medicine Annual Meeting in Houston.

November 2007

November 5, 2007: Mr. Silverman was re-elected as Chair of the Health Law Special Primary Interest Group of the American Public Health Association at their annual meeting in Washington, DC

November 5, 2007: Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH delivered the presentation "Public Health Law Education: Critical Competencies and Communication in the Field" with Daniel O'Brien at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

November 4, 2007: Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH presented the paper "Enahncing Public Health Law Communication Linkages" at a summit of the Public Health Law Association, Washington, DC.

November 1, 2007: Mr. Silverman was named the Primary Investigator, American Medical Association Code of Ethics Annotation Project.

October 1 - November 15, 2007: Gary E. Myers, PhD, MDiv presided as President at the Association for Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education.

September 2007: Just published! The Law of Medical Practice in Illinois, 3d, Vol. 21-22 by Robert Kane, Ross Silverman, and  Lawrence E. Singer.

July 24, 2007: This year's Annual Emmet F. Pearson Medical History Lecture featured author and Washington Bureau Chief of online magazine Slate David Plotz. Mr. Plotz presented "The Genius Factory," the story of the "Nobel Prize" sperm bank. Attached is the “permanent” link to the video-stream of the Genetics Revolution program held at SIU School of Medicine on July 24, 2007: http://www.illinoischannel.org/Genetics070724.htm.

June 2007: Sharon Hull, M.D., Medical Humanities and Karen Broquet, M.D., Residency Affairs, co-authored "How to Manage Difficult Patient Encounters" in Family Practice Management. link: http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20070600/30howt.html

Also in June: Ross Silverman, J.D., M.P.H., Medical Humanities, presented "Licensure and Other Barriers to Technologically Mediated Mental Health Care" at the Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH) in Padua, Italy.

May, 2007: Bethany J. Spielman, J.D., Ph.D., M.H.A., SIU School of Medicine Department of Medical Humanities, presented "When Does Bioethics Matter to U.S. Judges?" at the Canadian Bioethics Society and the Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation in Toronto.

April, 2007: Bethany J. Spielman, J.D., Ph.D., M.H.A., SIU School of Medicine Department of Medical Humanities, presented "Who Needs To Be at the Mediation Table?" at the Symposium on Ethical Standards for Elder Mediation in Philadelphia in April.

March, 2007:

Transparency, Transformation and Value Exchange: New Opportunities for Quality Improvement

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Department of Health & Human Services, spoke to the Senior Class of SIU Medical Students during Medical Humanities Doctoring Clerkship on Thursday, March 8, 2007. Dr. Clancy spoke on health information technology and the need for transparency in health care through communication.

February, 2007:

Theodore R. LeBlang Distinguished Lecture

The inaugural lecture of the Theodore R. LeBlang Distinguished Lecture series took place on February 27, 2007. The speaker was Dr. William Sage, formerly a professor at Columbia University, currently Vice Provost for Health Affairs and the James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in Law at the University of Texas at Augstin. Dr. Sage is a nationally known expert on medical malpractice.

December, 2006: Bethany J. Spielman, J.D., Ph.D., M.H.A., SIU School of Medicine Department of Medical Humanities, saw her book Bioethics in Law, published by Humana Press. ISBN-10: 158829434X, ISBN-13: 978-1588294340, 181 pp.

November, 2006: Gary E. Myers, Ph.D., M.Div., SIU School of Medicine Department of Medical Humanities, was elected to a 2-year term as president of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education (ABSAME). In the late 60's ABSAME grew out of the NIH initiatives to enhance the integration of the behavioral and social sciences into the training of physicians and other healthcare professionals. It continues this work today through annual meetings, publication of its journal The Annals of Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education, the authoring of a textbook "The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care" and a curriculum guide.

http://www.absame.org/