[BIC-announce] FW: "Sir William Osler, Wilder Penfield and the Birth of Neuroethics" lecture at MNI, May 1 "Sir William Osler, Wilder Penfield and the Birth of Neuroethics"

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

MNI - WB317

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Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4

Telephone:  514-398-8554

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Subject: "Sir William Osler, Wilder Penfield and the Birth of
Neuroethics" lecture at MNI, May 1



 "Sir William Osler, Wilder Penfield and the Birth of Neuroethics"

 

Joseph Fins, MD

Chief, Division of Medical Ethics

Weill Cornell Medical College

 

Friday, May 1, 8:30 am

Jeanne Timmons Amphitheatre, Montreal Neurological Institute and
Hospital

 


Dr. Joseph Fins, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill
Cornell Medical College in New York, will deliver a lecture at the
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital on May 1 at 8:30 am in the
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, entitled "Sir William Osler, Wilder
Penfield and the Birth of Neuroethics" 

A continental breakfast will be served and all are welcome to attend.  

 

Dr. Joseph Fins

Dr. Fins is a practicing internist who chairs the ethics committee and
teaches medicine and bioethics at the New York Presyterian-Weill Cornell
Medical Centre.  His most recent book is A Palliative Ethic of Care:
Clinical wisdom at Life's End (2006) received a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and a Soros Open
Society Institute Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar Award. 

 

His research interests include ethical and policy issues in brain injury
and disorders of consciousness, palliative care, research ethics in
neurology and psychiatry and methods of ethics case consultation. 

 

Dr. Fins is the guest of Dr. Eric Racine at IRCM and the Montreal
Neuroethics Network, and will deliver this lecture as a Neurology
Conference. If you would like to meet with Dr. Fins individually, please
contact Deborah Rashcovsky at Deborah.rashcovsky at mcgill.ca
<mailto:Deborah.rashcovsky at mcgill.ca>  or 514-398-6047.

 

Dr. Fins will lecture at IRCM on May 4 at 11:30 am on "Neuroethics and
Disorders of Consciousness: Can Neuroscience give Voice to Human
Rights?"