Introductory Lectures on Bioethics: Lecture 1 & 2

Lecture 1: Foundations of Bioethics Lecture 2: Fundamental Concepts in Bioethics Date: Saturday, 17 October 2015 Time: 2:00 p.m.- 3:30p.m. | 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. Venue: Lecture Theatre 6, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), CUHK campus Location map: Please click here Online Registration: Please click here  (Free Admission. Prior Registration is required.) Flyer: Please click here Target: All Are Welcome About the Lecture Series: […]

Workshop 1 on Dying Well: End of Life Care, Advance Directives, and Physician-Assisted Death

Date: Monday – Tuesday, 9-10 November 2015 Time: 9:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. Venue: Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Location map: Please click here Online Registration: Please click here  (Free Admission. Prior Registration is required.) Flyer: Please click here Programme Rundown: Please click here Target: All Are Welcome Event recaps: Presentation slides by Prof. Jean Woo “Medical Ethics […]

Clinical Ethics Grand Round: NG Tube Feeding in Dementia Patients

Co-organized by Clinical Ethics Committee, NTEC & CUHK Centre for Bioethics Date: 7 October 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 17:30 – 19:00 Venue: Lecture Theatre, 2/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital Objectives: Clinical Ethics Education and Case Sharing Target: Clinical staff (doctors, nurses, allied health), Medical and Nursing students Contact: Ms. Envy Lee (Tel.: 2632 3824) Flyer: please click […]

Incidental Findings and The Nature of Research Ethics

Date: 7 October 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Venue: Room 301, 3/F Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital Speaker: Dr. Mark Sheehan, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Ethics Fellow, The Ethox Centre, The University of Oxford Online Registration: Please click here Flyer: Please click here About the talk: How do we manage incidental findings in research […]

When Doctors become Patients: Implications for Bioethics

Date: 6 August 2015 (Thursday) Time: 17:30 – 19:00 Venue: Seminar Room 1, 2/F Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin Online registration: Registration closed Flyer: Please click here About the speaker: Prof. Robert Klitzman, Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Masters of Bioethics Program, Columbia University Robert Klitzman, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, […]

Ethical and policy aspects of cost-effective analysis: The case of screening and treatment

Date: 7 July 2015 (Tuesday) Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Venue: Seminar Room 1, 2/F Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital Speaker: Prof. Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine Online registration: Please click here Flyer: Please click here About the talk: Costly technological innovations present ethical and policy challenges when budgets are […]

Clinical Ethics Grand Round: Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in a brain-death child at PICU

Co-organized by Clinical Ethics Committee, NTEC & CUHK Centre for Bioethics Date: 26 June 2015 (Friday) Time: 17:30 – 19:00 Venue: Lecture Theatre, 2/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital Objectives: Clinical Ethics Education and Case Sharing Target: Clinical staff (doctors, nurses, allied health), Medical and Nursing students Contact: Ms. Envy Lee (Tel.: 2632 3824) Flyer: Please […]

CUHK Centre for Bioethics Public Lecture by Prof. Jonathan Jacobs and Prof. John Lizza

Date: Friday, 8 May 2015 Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Venue: Lecture Theatre 7, 2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (near University Station Exit D, click here for map) Topics and Speakers: “Where in the World are Ethical Values, and are they Objective?”by Professor Jonathan Jacobs Professor Jacobs is Professor, Presidential Scholar, and Chair […]

Peter Singer’s Lecture on: “Ethics and Animals” Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Date: Thursday, 23 April 2015 Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Venue: (Changed) Lecture Theatre 3, G/F, Yasumoto Academic International Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (near University Station Exit D, click here for map) Speaker: Professor Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University Event Flyer: Please click here Registration: Registration closed […]