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Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Calendar

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August 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Recent Developments in the Health Care System & Nursing in Germany”
Discussants: Professors Axel Olaf Kern and Birgit Vosseler of the Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten

September 2012

Wednesday, September 5, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Financial sustainability education program for low-income women in Omaha”
Discussants: Julie Kalkowski and Tina Gray of Creighton University's Financial Hope Collaborative

October 2012

Thursday, October 11, 7:00pm (Joslyn Art Museum)
Women & Health Lecture: “From Physician to Fiction”
Speaker: Tess Gerritsen

Wednesday, October 24, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Responsibilities of biomedical scientists vis-a-vis the prevention of bioterrorism: deadly viruses and the dissemination of research findings
Discussants: Jason Bartz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

November 2012

Thursday, November 1, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Hospital Becic Dining Room)
HEC Ethics Education Presentation: "Dilemmas in Caring for Undocumented Patients on a Long Term Basis"
Discussant: Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, CHPE
Ethics education sessions for doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, other health care professionals, and the public. Registration is not required for this event.

Thursday, November 8, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Diabetes Education in Culturally Appropriate Talking Circles with Native Americans”
Discussant: Marty Wilken, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing

Wednesday, November 14, 12:00-1:00 p.m. (Morrison Seminar Room, 601 N. 30th Street)
Clinical Ethics Series: “Healthcare Inequalities in the Elderly: Ethics and Quality Improvement”
Lecturer: John Stone

December 2012

Wednesday, December 12, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Evaluating Factors for Successful Aging by Experience of Active Centenarians
Discussant: Faustas Stepukonis, PhD, a Fulbright scholar from Klaipeda University in Lithuania

January 2013

February 2013

Thursday, February 14, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Projects of the Douglas County Health Department”
Discussants: Mary A. Balluff, MS RD, LMNT, Chief, Community Health and Nutrition Services, Douglas County Health Department and Stephen B. Jackson, MPH, Supervisor, Health Promotion Section, Community Health and Nutrition Division

Monday, February 18, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “The Nebraska tax debate and implications for nonprofits”
Discussant: Renee Fry, JD, Executive Director, OpenSky Policy Institute

March 2013

Thursday, March 21, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Do racial or ethnic disparities exist to outpatient rehabilitation services?”
Discussant: Allie Bruns, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, 2012-2013 Student Research Program Awardee

April 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 11:30-12:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Genetics and Patent Law: What will the Supreme Court Decide?”
Discussant: Rebecca Rae Anderson, J.D., M.S., C.G.C., Associate Professor, College of Public Health, UNMC

Thursday, April 18, 11:00am-12:15pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Webinar: “Our Immigrant Neighbors, Catholic Health Care, and the New World of Health Care Reform”

Thursday, April 18, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Anatomy of an error: Moral management of major patient safety incidents”
Discussant: Marcel Devetten, MD, CMQ, Chief Quality Officer, the Nebraska Medical Center

Tuesday, April 23, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: “Reflections on Health and Human Rights Study Abroad Experience: Palliative Care in Mumbai.”
Discussant: Steele Valenzuela, College of Arts and Sciences, Senior