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 November
2000
Main Session
11 am - 12:30 pm
Squires Studio Theatre
This session
was broadcast to additional rooms to meet high demand..
The moderator
pursued a variety of organ transplantation scenarios, beginning
with a case study. For instance:
Maria and
Alfred both need an organ transplant. An organ becomes available.
Maria is the better match, but Alfred is closer. Who should get
the transplant?
MODERATOR
George J. Annas
Edward
R. Utley Professor and Chair, Health Law Department, Boston University
Schools of Medicine and Public Health; cofounder, Global Lawyers
and Physicians; author of Some Choice: Law, Medicine & the Market,
and numerous other publications on health law and bioethics; former
Chair, Massachusetts Organ Transplant Task Force.
PANELISTS
David Ayares
Vice
President of Research, PPL-Therapeutics, Inc.; engaged in research
on the production of pharmaceutical proteins; xenotransplan- tation;
and animal cloning.
E. Haavi
Morreim
Department
of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee;
author of Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New
Economics and other works on the ethical and legal implications
of the shifting medical marketplace.
William
D. Payne
Immediate
Past President, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); Director,
Liver Transplant Program, Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis;
founding officer and former President, LifeSource Upper Midwest
Organ Procurement Organization.
Sheila
M. Rothman
Director,
Programs in Human Rights and Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians
& Surgeons; author of The Willowbrook Wars, Living in the Shadow
of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American
History, and other works on the experiences of patients and the
special needs of vulnerable populations.
Andrew
Rowan
Senior
Vice-President, The Humane Society of the United States; Advisory
Board Member, Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing;
former board member, Scientists Center for Animal Welfare; author
of Of Mice, Models and Men and The Animal Research Controversy.
Evelyne
Shuster
Founder
and chair, Ethics Advisory Committee, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs
Medical Center; former member, National Ethics Committee of the
American Society for Reproductive Medicine; author of From Nuremberg
to Nuremberg: Medical Ethics and Human Rights and articles on health
care and research ethics.
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