Lectures and Events
The events below include our weekly Montgomery Lectures, other events we host, and relevant events hosted by other groups at Northwestern University and its affiliated clinical partners.
The Montgomery Lectures Series is presented weekly on Thursdays from noon to 12:45pm, and is open to all. Presenters are faculty in the Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program, CBMH members, and special guests. This series was named in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
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Oct
27
NMH Ethics presents Virtual Schwartz Rounds - Complex, Contentious and Chaotic...“not so nice” cases?
Online - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Presents
VIRTUAL SCHWARTZ ROUNDS
Complex, Contentious, and Chaotic:
How do we bring our best selves to “not so nice” cases?
Panelists:
Dana Holiona, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
NMH Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics
Eileen Johnson, PhD CFTP
NMH Manager Patient Relations and Interpretation Services
Sara Schussler MSN, CCRN
Clinical Coordinator
NMH Neuro-Spine Intensive Care Unit
Heather Sears, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Feinberg 10W – Neurology
Moderator:
Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA, HEC-C
NMH Medical Ethics Program
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+1 872-240-1267 United States, Chicago (Toll)
Conference ID: 219 486 307#
Schwartz Center Rounds is a multidisciplinary forum where caregivers discuss difficult emotional and social issues that arise in caring for patients.
Learning Objectives for This Program:
1. Examine social and emotional aspects of patient care delivery.
2. Discuss the impact of interdisciplinary collaboration on patient care delivery.
This event is not presented by the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. We are sharing it here with permission.
Oct
29
Creating Moral Commodities: Marketing in the For-Profit Global Health Volunteering Industry - Noelle Sullivan
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Noelle Sullivan, PhD
Associate Professor of Instruction
Program in Global Health Studies
Northwestern University
Creating Moral Commodities:
Marketing in the For-Profit Global Health Volunteering Industry
Global health travel interest has spiked over the last two decades. In response to the demand by students in particular, hundreds of international “voluntourism” companies have emerged. These companies offer placements in health facilities in the so-called Global South where students can intern, complete an elective, or volunteer. As public debates about the ethics of “voluntourism” have become common, companies have responded by advertising themselves as providing ethical, safe, and worthwhile placements where students can help “make a difference” in under-resourced health facilities. Yet in spite of companies’ advertising pivot emphasizing the impact and ethical nature of their projects, the industry nonetheless creates an enabling environment for unethical engagements and practices that undermine the safety and quality of health care. This talk emerges from Sullivan’s book manuscript in progress, The Business of Good Intentions: Reframing the Global Health Volunteering Debate, based on ethnographic and online research undertaken from 2008-2017.
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Nov
05
TBA - Montgomery Lecture Series
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
Speaker/topic to be announced
The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Formerly called "Special Topics in MH&B", this series was renamed in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
Nov
12
Religious Exceptionalism in Healthcare: Is it Defensible? - Jeanne Wirpsa
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA BCC HEC-C
Clinical Ethicist and Program Manager, Medical Ethics
Research Chaplain, Spiritual Care and Education
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics
Religion, Bioethics and Medicine
University of Chicago
Religious Exceptionalism in Healthcare: Is it Defensible?
Patients, clinicians, and healthcare institutions appeal to moral claims embedded in religious traditions to request or refuse medical interventions. Accommodation for religion is granted a privileged status by the religious liberty clause of the First Amendment. The creation of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division under the US Department of Health and Human Services and high-profile court cases asserting the right to gather to worship during the COVID pandemic, among other recent political events, suggests growing support for religious exceptionalism in healthcare. When clinical ethicists confront real-life cases involving religious claims -- from family refusal to accept death by neurological criteria, patient requests for products free of porcine or bovine components, pleas to "do everything" to give God time to work a miracle for a dying loved one, or clinician recusal from caring for a patient post gender transformation surgery -- the stakes of religious exceptionalism are high. As bioethicist Dan Sulmasy argues, these cases call for the exercise of epistemic moral humility in medicine, even as limits on accommodations may need to be set if they present an undue burden or threaten the common good.
Nov
19
Misestimating Frozen Eggs - Susan Duyar
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Susan Duyar, MD, MA
Resident Physician, Department of OB/GYN
Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center
Misestimating Frozen Eggs
Over the last decade oocyte vitrification, or egg freezing, has developed as a way of fertility preservation for women who are unable or unwilling to create and freeze embryos. While this technology was largely driven by the need for better ways to preserve fertility in young cancer patients, a large and thriving market for egg freezing has arisen in women who wish to delay childbearing for non-medical purposes, or “planned oocyte cryopreservation”. However, its rising popularity in this population has raised a host of problems, particularly in the way that it has been advertised to women. In this talk we will briefly review oocyte cryopreservation, including its risks, benefits, and costs. We will discuss the historical development of planned oocyte cryopreservation and highlight some of the inherent flaws in how it has come be. Finally, we will delve into some of the coercive advertising frameworks that are used to promote planned oocyte cryopreservation and which shapes both the public discourse on the technology and private decision making by women who may consider using this technology.
Dec
03
Montgomery Lecture Series
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Speaker/Topic to be announced
The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Formerly called "Special Topics in MH&B", this series was renamed in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
Dec
10
Montgomery Lecture Series
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Speaker/Topic to be announced
The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Formerly called "Special Topics in MH&B", this series was renamed in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
Jan
07
Jordan Brown - Montgomery Lecture Series
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Jordan Brown
Topic to be announced
The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Formerly called "Special Topics in MH&B", this series was renamed in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
Jan
14
Montgomery Lecture Series
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Speaker/Topic to be announced
The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Formerly called "Special Topics in MH&B", this series was renamed in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
Jan
21
Montgomery Lecture Series
Online - 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Speaker/Topic to be announced
The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students, faculty, and the general public. Formerly called "Special Topics in MH&B", this series was renamed in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.