Lecture Series Archives

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 Clarian 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.



2009-2010 Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series

  • Date: September 02, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Healing as Calling
    Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, Ph.D
  • Date: October 07, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Where are we with Moral Distress?
    Presenter: Lucia D. Wocial, RN, Ph.D
  • Date: November 04, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Clinical & Ethical Aspects of Caring for Transgendered Persons
    Presenter: Melissa Cavaghan, MD, Alexia M. Torke, MD, MS, & Lucia D. Wocial, RN, Ph.D
  • Date: December 02, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Ethical Issues in STD research in adolescents
    Presenter: Mary Ott, MD
  • Date: January 06, 2010
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series- Myths and Realities in the Modern Practice of Ethics Consultation
    Presenter: Paul R. Helft, MD
  • Date: February 03, 2010
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series- Honoring Treatment Preferences at the End of Life
    Presenter: Susan Hickman, Ph.D
  • Date: March 03, 2010
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series- Privacy: An Evolving Legal Concept
    Presenter: Valita Fredland, JD, MA
  • Date: April 07, 2010
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series- Ethical Treatment of the Defiant and Disruptive Patient
    Presenter: Michael Webber, MD

2008-2009 Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series

  • Date: September 17, 2008
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture - National Health Insurance: Facts, not Rhetoric
    Presenter: Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS
  • Date: October 15, 2008
    Title: 9th Annual Clarian Leadership Ethics Lecture- The Ethics of Teamwork
    Presenter: Suzanne Gordon
  • Date: November 19, 2008
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- “Professionalism Conflicts Created by Physician-Industry Interaction”
    Presenter: Carey Chisholm, MD
  • Date: December 17, 2008
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- “Leadership in Healthcare”
    Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • Date: January 21, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Disclosing Medical Mistakes: Is ‘I’m Sorry’ All You Need to Know?
    Presenter: Sandra Petronio, PhD
  • Date: February 18, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Will they take the medicines?
    Presenter: Rachel C. Vreeman, MD, MS
  • Date: March 18, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Vegetative State and Related Disorders
    Presenter: Edward J. Dropcho, MD
  • Date: April 15, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Organ Transplantation/Transplant Ethics
    Presenter: Paul Y. Kwo, MD
  • Date: May 27, 2009
    Title: Fairbanks Ethics Lecture- Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing
    Presenter: Kimberly A. Quaid, Ph.D

2007-2008 Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series

  • Date: September 26, 2007
    Title: Biomedical Theology and Ethics - Eighth Annual Clarian Leadership Ethics Lecture
    Presenter: Visiting Professor Kenneth L. Vaux, Dr. Theol.
  • Date: October 24, 2007
    Title: Life Support Decisions Involving Imperiled Infants
    Presenter: Lucia Wocial, RN, CCNS, PhD
  • Date: November 28, 2007
    Title: Human Growth Hormones: Treatment or Enhancement?
    Presenter: Peter Schwartz, MD, PhD and Linda DiMeglio, MD
  • Date: January 09, 2008
    Title: Equity in Research in Kenya – Compensation or Coercion
    Presenter: William M. Tierney, MD
  • Date: February 27, 2008
    Title: Miracles: An Examination of the Miraculous in Healthcare
    Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • Date: March 26, 2008
    Title: Pediatrics & Geriatrics: Ethics Across The Life Course
    Presenter: Greg Sachs, MD
  • Date: April 23, 2008
    Title: Narrative Bioethics: How Stories Matter
    Presenter: Martha Montello, PhD
  • Date: May 14, 2008
    Title: The Challenges of Surrogate Decision Making in the Hospital
    Presenter: Alexia Torke, MD, MS
  • Date: May 28, 2008
    Title: Strange Bedfellows: Torture and Medical Professionals
    Presenter: Meg Gaffney, MD

2006-2007 Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series

  • Date: September 13, 2006
    Title: And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
    Presenter: Sharon Kaufman, PhD
  • Date: September 27, 2006
    Title: The Ethics Foundation of the Clinician-Patient Relationship
    Presenter: Paul R. Helft, MD
  • Date: October 25, 2006
    Title: Triage & Resource Allocation in Disaster and Pandemic Emergencies
    Presenter: Eugene Lammers, MD, MPH, FACP, AGSF, Steven S. Ivy, MDiv, Phd, and Paul R. Helft, MD
  • Date: November 15, 2006
    Title: Seventh Annual Clarian Leadership Ethics Lecture
    Presenter: Charles Bosk, PhD
  • Date: November 29, 2006
    Title: Teachings of Islam in Health Care Ethics
    Presenter: Shahid Athar, MD
  • Date: December 13, 2006
    Title: Ethics Town Hall Meeting
    Presenter: Paul R. Helft, MD and the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics faculty
  • Date: January 10, 2007
    Title: Physicians and Philanthropy
    Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • Date: January 24, 2007
    Title: Organ Transplants, Biobanks, and the Ethics of Biological Philanthropy
    Presenter: Eric Meslin, PhD
  • Date: February 14, 2007
    Title: For Crying Out Loud: Reflections on Moral Distress
    Presenter: Patty Bledsoe, MEd, MSW, LCSW
  • Date: February 28, 2007
    Title: Ethics Town Hall Meeting
    Presenter: Paul R. Helft, MD and the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics faculty
  • Date: March 14, 2007
    Title: Physician Patient Communication and Medical Malpractice Risk: A Critical Link?
    Presenter: Richard M. Frankel, PhD
  • Date: April 11, 2007
    Title: Ethical Dilemmas in Geriatric Care
    Presenter: Eugene Lammers, MD, MPH, FACP, AGSF
  • Date: April 25, 2007
    Title: The Mentally Ill in the Acute Care Setting: Challenges to Providing Ethical Care
    Presenter: Alan Schmetzer, MD and Meg Gaffney, MD
  • Date: May 09, 2007
    Title: Truth-Telling and Hope
    Presenter: Paul R. Helft, MD
  • Date: May 23, 2007
    Title: Pain and Suffering at the End of Life
    Presenter: Greg Gramelspacher, MD

2005-2006 Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series

  • Date: September 14, 2005
    Title: The Language and Practice of Bioethics
    Presenter: Julie Andre, PhD (Michigan State University)
  • Date: September 28, 2005
    Title: Ethics in the ICU: Withholding and Withdrawing of Life Sustaining Therapies
    Presenter: Tom Ferry, MD
  • Date: October 12, 2005
    Title: DNR and Advance Directives
    Presenter: Gene Lammers, MD, MPH, FACP, AGSF
  • Date: October 26, 2005
    Title: Fundamentals of the Doctor-Patient Relationship I: The Hippocratic Oath
    Presenter: Paul Helft, MD
  • Date: November 09, 2005
    Title: Fundamentals of the Doctor-Patient Relationship II: Goals of Medicine
    Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD and Peter Schwartz, MD
  • Date: November 16, 2005
    Title: Past and Present Contributions of Clinical Ethics—Sixth Annual Clarian Leadership Ethics Lecture
    Presenter: Mark Siegler, MD (University of Chicago)
  • Date: December 14, 2005
    Title: Medical Futility
    Presenter: Paul Helft, MD and David Orentlicher, MD, JD
  • Date: January 04, 2006
    Title: Fundamentals of the Nurse-Patient Relationship
    Presenter: Karen Iseminger, BSN, MSN, PhD
  • Date: January 18, 2006
    Title: Clinical Ethics and Pastoral Care
    Presenter: Stan Mullin
  • Date: February 01, 2006
    Title: Ethics Consultation I
    Presenter: Meg Gaffney, MD, Paul Helft, MD, and Gene Lammers, MD, MPH, FACP, AGSF
  • Date: February 15, 2006
    Title: Ethics Mediation: Moving from Conflict to Solutions
    Presenter: Patty Bledsoe, MEd, MSW, LCSW
  • Date: March 01, 2006
    Title: Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care
    Presenter: Greg Gramelspacher, MD and Mike Buran, MD
  • Date: March 15, 2006
    Title: Health Care Ethics & Indiana Law
    Presenter: Valita Fredland, JD, MA and David Orentlicher, MD, JD
  • Date: April 12, 2006
    Title: Decisional Capacity and Competence
    Presenter: Alan Schmetzer, MD
  • Date: April 26, 2006
    Title: Special Topics in Pediatric Ethics
    Presenter: Becky Milan and Mary Ciccarelli, MD
  • Date: May 10, 2006
    Title: Nursing Ethics Panel Discussion: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Practice
    Presenter: Marilyn Cox and Larry Creech
  • Date: May 24, 2006
    Title: Organizational Ethics
    Presenter: Steven Ivy, MDiv, PhD
  • Date: June 21, 2006
    Title: Hierarchy and the Authority Gradient in Staff Communication
    Presenter: Meg Gaffney, MD
  • Date: July 05, 2006
    Title: Cultural Sensitivity in Ethics
    Presenter: Frances Williams
  • Date: August 02, 2006
    Title: Maternal/Fetal Ethics and HIV
    Presenter: William Engle, MD and Elaine Cox, MD