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Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Calendar
August | September | October | November | December
January | February | March | April | May | June
August 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable:
Promoting Healthy Behaviors: The carrot or stick approach?
Discussants: Anthony Bull, PhD, Associate Professor, Exercise
Science; Teresa Cochran, PT, DPT, GCS, MA, Associate Professor,
Physical Therapy; Thomas Lenz, PharmD, Associate Professor,
Pharmacy; Ann Laughlin, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Nursing
September 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Food, Ethics, and
Public Health
Discussant: Charles Harper, PhD, Professor, Sociology and
Anthropology
Wednesday, September 17th, 7:00pm (Joslyn Art Museum)
19th Annual Women & Health Lecture
The Glass Castle: Demon Hunting and
Other Life Lessons
Wednesday, September 24th (Harper Center for Student Life
and Learning)
Community Forum Breakfast: A Kick-off Event to the Workshop
"Mental Health and Criminal Justice: A Community Collaboration"
7:30 - 9:00 a.m. (Breakfast)
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Workshop)
October 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Police Responses to
Individuals with Mental Illnesses
Discussant: Captain Joseph W. Wright, Lincoln Police
Department
Tuesday, October 14 **Note NEW time and location!**
4:00-5:00pm (Criss II, Room 217)
Roundtable:
Red (Ink) Alert: Causes and
Consequences of Rising US Health Care Costs
Discussant: Eugene Rich, MD, Tenet Professor of Medicine,
School of Medicine
Wednesday, October 15, 3:00-4:30pm (Skutt Student Center East Ballroom)
Forum Discussion:
Homelessness and its impact on mental health:
The responsibility of the health professional
Discussants: Marley Doyle, Creighton Medical Student M3
and Magis Psych Clinic Manager; Christy Rentmeester, PhD, CHPE;
Richard O’Brien, MD, CHPE; Marlene Wilken, PhD, School of
Nursing
Friday, October 31, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Personalized
Healthcare: Medical Future or Fantasy?
Discussant: Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, Georgetown
University
November 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Lessons from the
Margins:Jewish and Feminist Bioethics
Discussants: Toby Schonfeld, PhD, Associate Professor,
College of Public Health, UNMC; and Julia Fleming, PhD,
Associate Professor, Theology, Creighton University
Wednesday, November 19, 12:00-1:00pm (Morrison Seminar
Room, CUMC)
Clinical Ethics Series: What Next? Ethics &
Healthcare Disparities
Lecturer: September Williams, MD, Physician, Clinical
Medical Ethicist & Filmmaker
December 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 3:30-4:30pm (CHPE
Conference Room)
Roundtable: STDs: A Community
Response
Discussants: Adi Pour, PhD, Douglas County Health
Department; Ellie Archer, Women’s Fund of Greater Omaha;
Richard L. Brown, PhD, FACHE, Charles Drew Health Center; Valda Boyd Ford, MPH, MS, RN,
Community Response Coordinator for the Douglas County Community STD Initiative
January 2009
February 2009
Monday, February 9, 7:00 PM (Omaha Public Schools TAC
Building)
Is Health Care Reform
within Our Reach?: A Community Discussion
Dr. Richard O’Brien, Center for Health Policy and Ethics;
Jennifer Carter, Nebraska Appleseed; Jean Fleming Kleeb SEIU;
Jon Bailey, Center for Rural Affairs
Wednesday, February 11, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Getting the Public
Engaged in Research
Beth Furlong, RN, PhD, JD, Associate Professor, School of
Nursing
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS
March 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: The interface of
ethics consultation, conflict engagement and end of life
disputes
Discussant: Debra Gerardi, RN, MPH, JD, Adjunct Faculty,
Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution,
President & Chief Creative Officer, EHCCO, LLC
Wednesday, March 25, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Social Determinants: Determining Life in El Salvador
Discussant: Caitlin Mulcahy, Senior in Creighton
University’s Health Administration and Policy and Spanish
program
Tuesday, March 31, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Discussant: Suzanne Poirier, PhD
April 2009
Saturday, April 4 (Hixson-Lied Science Building, G-04)
Seminar:
Addressing Health Disparities: Focus on Mental Health
Keynote Speaker: United States Senator Mike Johanns
Wednesday, April 15, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: No One Dies Alone
Discussant: Marie Micheletto, A Sister of Mercy of the
Americas, psychotherapist in private practice, project
person and trainer for Alegent Hospice, international speaker,
and educational humorist
Wednesday, April 22, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Can Evolution Evince
Ethics?
Discussants: Dan Wilson, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman of
Psychiatry, and Allen B. Schlesinger, PhD, Professor Emeritus,
Department of Biology
May 2009
Friday, May 1 **Note NEW time and location!**
noon-1:00 pm (Room 131, Boyne Building)
Roundtable: Preventive and Therapeutic Implications in Promoting
Oral Health in Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Discussant: Martina Majstorović, DDS, Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Croatia to New York University College of Dentistry.
Dr. Majstorović will present at Creighton as part of Fulbright’s Occasional Lecturer Program.
Tuesday, May 12, 3:30–4:30 p.m. (CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: Post-Soviet Tajikistan and Democracy: Strengthening Civil
Society as a Tool of Conflict Prevention
Discussant: Dr. Shamsiddin Karimov, Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Tajikistan at the Center for
Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Wednesday, May 20, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Roundtable: High Stakes Science: Conflicts of Interest in effectiveness research
Discussant: Gene Rich, MD, Scholar in Residence, Association of American Medical Colleges, Professor of Medicine,
Creighton University School of Medicine, Faculty Associate, Center for Health Policy & Ethics
Friday, May 29, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
(CHPE Conference Room)
Online Master of Science in Health Care Ethics Open House