Community Tools: Bioethics Seminar Series

The JCB offers a weekly seminar on a wide variety of bioethics topics. The speakers come from the local, national and international community in bioethics. These seminars are open to the public and free and do not require prior registration. All seminars take place every Wednesday from 3:10 - 4:30 pm. Click here for current seminar information. Most JCB seminars are webcast live through ePresence.
Click here to view ePresence instructions.

 

This schedule is subject to change. If you are coming to hear a particular speaker or topic, we suggest you consult this schedule again the week of the seminar.

 

September 2010 - June 2011

 

Date

Speaker

Topic

ePresence

< 2010 >

 

 

 

Sept 15

Tom Koch, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Medical Geography, University of British Columbia; Bioethicst, Canadian Down Syndrome Society (Resource Council); Consultant in Bioethics and Gerontology, Toronto and Vancouver;  Director of Information Outreach, Ltd.

Difference and Disability:  Where is the ethics in bioethics?

ePresence Registration web link

Sept 22

Adam Rapoport, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, Division of Pediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children and Pediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Max and Beatrice Wolfe Children's Centre, Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital

Pediatric Capacity and Consent:  What’s legal and what’s right?”

 

Sept 29

CanPREP

 

   

Oct 6

Gardar Arnason

 

   

Oct 13

Debora Diniz

 

   

Oct 20

TBA

 

   

Oct 27

Alloway Lecture

 

   

Nov 3

Sholom Glouberman

 

   

Nov 10

TBA 14th Annual Jus Lecture in honour of Dr. Andrzej Jus  

Nov 17

David Sackett

The ethical implications of different statistical early-stopping rules for randomized clinical trials

 

Nov 24

Robert Buckman

30th Annual Philippa Harris Lecture on Bioethics Issues in Cancer – There’s always hope…but can hope ever be a bad thing?

 

Dec 1

Sara Rosenthal

 

   

Dec 8

Kelley Ross

 

   

< 2011 >

 

 

 

Jan 5

NO SEMINAR

 

 

 

Jan 12

Ross Upshur

 

   

Jan 19

Bob Parke

 

   

Jan 26

TBA

 

   

Feb 2

Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics

 

 

Feb 9

TBA

 

   

Feb 16

MHSc in Bioethics International Student

 

 

Feb 23

READING WEEK – NO SEMINAR

 

   

Mar 2

John Berkman

 

   

Mar 9

Randi Zlotnik-Shaul

 

   

Mar 16

Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics    

Mar 23

TBA

 

   

Mar 30

MHSc in Bioethics International Student

 

   
Apr 6

TBA

 

   
Apr 13

Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics

 

   
Apr 20

TBA

 

   
Apr 27

MHSc in Bioethics International Student

 

   
May 4

TBA

 

   
May 11

TBA

 

   
May 18

Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics

 

 
May 25

TBA

 

 

 

Jun 1

TBA

4th Annual Sue MacRae Lecture on Ethics and Patient-Centred Care

 

 

Archived Seminars


ePresence Registration Instructions:

Most of our bioethics seminars are now being webcast live. All archived seminars are available under Published Events. ePresence supports both PC and MAC videostreaming. You can register to view and participate in live events by following the steps below:

  1. Go to the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation’s ePresence window
  2. Click on the Join button (at the top blue bar)
  3. Enter your information in the join screen, including userid and password
  4. You will need remember your userid and password so that you can join future seminar web casts
  5. Please report by email to brenda.knowles@utoronto.ca email if you have any difficulties registering
  6. You will only need to register once
  7. For subsequent seminars, login with your userid and password – you do not have to re-register.

Please note this registration process should be done well before the event itself.  If you have difficulty viewing your first seminar, you should check with your IT professional.