President's Council on Bioethics

December 8-9, 2005
Meeting Agenda
City Center Hotel - Washington, DC
1143 New Hampshire Ave. NW
Washington, D C 20037
Phone: 202-775-0800


THURSDAY, December 8
8:45 am Session 1: Bioethics and American Children

Norman Fost, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics, University of Wisconsin Hospital

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Session 2: Ethical Issues in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care
Robert M. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.,
The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

12:30 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Session 3: Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving for Children, Too

Loretta Kopelman, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Medical Humanities, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

3:30 pm Break

3:45 pm Session 4: Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research

Sara Goldkind, M.D., M.A., Bioethicist, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, Office of the Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration

4:30 pm Adjournment


FRIDAY, December 9

8:30 am Session 5: Human Dignity as a Bioethical Concept

Paul Weithman, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

James Childress, Ph.D., Hollingsworth Professor,
Department of Religious Studies, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Session 6: Discussion of Staff Working Paper on Bioethics and Human Dignity

Council Discussion


11:45 am Session 7: Public Comments


12:00 pm Adjournment

Thank you for this. I think that it's worrying--at least to me, as a professional bioethicist--that only one of the participants in this programme is recoghnizable as a trained bioethicist. This is not to impugn the other participants, but it seems to be worthy of note.