The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics has provided the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series since 2005 as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Indiana University Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
2011-2012 Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series Schedule
Date: September 7, 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Methodist Petticrew Auditorium
Title: Dying, Meaning & Wholeness: Reflections on Healing & Incurable Disease
Presenter: Visiting Professor- S. Kay Toombs, Ph.D
Date: October 5, 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Title: Approaches to the Problem of Futile Treatment
Presenter:Paul R. Helft, MD
Date: November 2, 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Methodist Petticrew Auditorium
Title: Religious and Cultural Conversations Regarding Pregnancy Termination: Beyond Silence or Conflict
Presenter: Steven S. Ivy, M.Div, Ph.D
Date: December 7, 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Title: The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia
Presenter: Susan Mitchell, MD (Co-Sponsored by the RESPECT Center)
Date: February 1, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00PM
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Title: Listen- Dealing with Conflict with Families of Critically Ill Patients
Presenter: Visiting Professor Robert Arnold, MD (Co-sponsored by the RESPECT Center)
Date: March 7, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Title: TBA
Presenter: Visiting Professor Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, Ph.D (Co-sponsored by the MHHS Spirit of Medicine Program)
Date: April 4, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Methodist Petticrew Auditorium
Title: Bearing the Fire
Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, Ph.D
Date: May 4, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Title: TBA
Presenter: TBA