Events

The  Scattergood Program Summer Institute for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health of 2008 will take place at the University of Pennsyvania Center for Bioethics. Claire Pouncey, MD, will act as the 2008 Summer Institute Director.

The Summer Institute will cover topics relevant to clinicians and academics in the field of behavioral health, such as: Introduction to bioethics; what makes behavioral health ethics different; competence and capacity; moral and cultural relativism; parity and access to care; behavioral health research; forensics and forced commitment issues; neuroethics;and recovery and stigma.

For further information or to register to attend the Summer Institute, please contact us at spaebh@mail.med.upenn.edu.

Due to overwhelming demand, please note that the conference was relocated to: Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room G06 Ambani Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, 3730 Walnut Street.

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The ScattergoodEthics Program will be holding a conference on Alternative Strategies for Alcoholism Treatment on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 from 8:30am - 3:00pm.

The conference is organized by the ScattergoodEthics program in cooperation with the Center for Studies of Addiction, University of Pennsylvania.This program is co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and is funded through an educational grant from Alkermes, Inc.

The conference will examine the role and ethical implications of comprehensive treatment for alcoholism, including the ethical challenges of different treatment strategies and the latest empirical research and clinical evidence. Participants include a panel of experts from the local alcohol treatment community.

Professionals in the alcohol dependency treatment community are encouraged to attend.
Social Work Continuing Education Units are available to participants.

Please RSVP by noon on May 16, 2008 to spaebh@mail.med.upenn.edu as space is limited.

Lunch will be provided to pre-registered participants only.

Please see the documents attached below for more information.

View conference recording Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (Windows Media Player required).

Robert Klitzman, MD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He co-founded, and for five years co-directed the Center for Bioethics, and is currently the Director of the Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center. He has extensively studied and published on ethical, social, and psychological issues in medicine and psychiatry, including issues of privacy and disclosure of genetic and other medical information; reproductive technologies; stigma and discrimination related to HIV infection; neuroethics; issues of medical education and doctor-patient communication; and ethical issues that arise in conducting research in other cultures. His books include: A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship; In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming A Psychiatrist; Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV; The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease; Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS, and most recently, When Doctors Become Patients. He was recently named a gubanatorial appointee to the New York State Stem Cell Commission, and has received numerous awards for his work, including a Burroughs-Wellcome Fellowship (for Future Leaders in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association), an Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellowship, a Picker-Commonwealth Scholar Award, a Visiting Scholar Award at the Russell Sage Foundation, Fellowships at Yaddo, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residence.

Events planned for Dr. Klitzman's visit to ScattergoodEthics include:

APRIL 7, 12:00pm
Lecture and lunch with the faculty, students and staff of the Center for Bioethics
"The Genetic Self: Privacy and Fate in the New Genetic Age"

View recording Part 1 and Part 2 (requires RealPlayer).

APRIL 7, 4:15-5:15 pm
Informal conversation with undergraduate students, Steinberg-Dietrich Hall 215

APRIL 7, 7:30pm
Public lecture and book signing at the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, 36th and Walnut
Based on his new book, "Double Lives: When Doctors Become Patients"

View recording (requires RealPlayer).

APRIL 7, 9:00pm
Informal conversation with LGBT Medical Students Society

APRIL 8, 8:30-10:30am
Joint program with Center for AIDS Research & Penn AIDS Awareness, in Dunlop Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School
8:30am Complimentary Breakfast
9:00am Public lecture and program
"Our Guinea Pigs Abroad?: IRBs, Ethics and Experimentation in the Developing World"

View recording (requires RealPlayer).

APRIL 8, 1:30 - 3:00pm
Workshop for professionals in behavioral health, Center for Bioethics, 3401 Market St., Room 321, Philadelphia, PA 19104
"Burnout and Mental Health Among Providers and Patients"
Seating is limited. RSVP to spaebh@mail.med.upenn.edu by March 27, 2008.

View recording (requires RealPlayer).

APRIL 8, 4:30pm
Informal conversation with the Strecker Psychiatry Society at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, BRBII/III Room 252

Please see the attached flyers below for more information about each event.

On November 12th, 2007 the ScattergoodEthics Program held a community outreach forum with local behavioral health practitioners and clinicians. The meeting took place at Friends Hospital in Philadelphia and served both to inform local mental health practitioners of the resources available through the Program, as well as identify the particular needs of local clinics and programs. The ScattergoodEthics Program intends to continue to cooperate with local behavioral health organizations, practitioners, clinicians, and with the City of Philadelphia behavioral health services.

On November 5th, 2007 the ScattergoodEthics Program launched its first Public Letures Series. Paul Appelbaum, MD, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, and Director of the Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics at Columbia University disucssed the genetic basis of criminal behavior. Arthur Caplan, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, and Stephen J. Morse of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, offered responses. The lecture was attended by students and faculty members from across the University as well as local practitioners and interested laypersons from the Philadelphia area.

View recording of event (requires RealPlayer).

In an effort to identify the current needs of behavioral and mental health ethics, the ScattergoodEthics Program sponsored a meeting of seventeen nationally renowned experts in the field. The participants convened at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for a day of stimulating discussion and debate with the intent to clarify the priorities that will help shape the ScattergoodEthics Program’s early emphasis and future evolution.

The meeting was comprised of the following experts:

Paul Appelbaum, M.D.
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law
Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Emanuel & Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics
Director, Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania

Barbara Drew, Ph.D., M.S.N.
Associate Professor
College of Nursing
Kent State University

Dwight Evans, M.D.
Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Fred Frese, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Coordinator, Summit County Recovery Project
Board of Directors, National Association on Mental Illness

Gregg Gorton, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Staff Psychiatrist, Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA

Phyllis Harrison-Ross, M.D.
Emerita Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
D.L.F.A.P.A Sciences, New York Medical College
Emerita Attending and Chief of Psychiatry, Metropolitan
Hospital Center
President, All Healer’s Mental Health Alliance
Trustee and Service Board Chair, New York Society for Ethical Culture

Scott Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Core Faculty, Bioethics Program
Investigator, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School

Susan McLeer, M.D.
Professor and Chair of Psychiatry
Drexel University College of Medicine
Clinical Chief of Psychiatry, Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children

Franklin G. Miller, Ph.D.
Bioethicist, Intramural Research Program
National Institute of Mental Health
Head, Unit of Clinical Research
Department of Clinical Bioethics
National Institutes of Health

Joseph Pyle, M.A.
President
The Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation


Anthony Rostain, M.D.
Director of Education
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania Health System

Suzanne Sankar, M.S.W.
Director of Field Education and Associate Professor
School of Social Work
Simmons College

Harold Schwartz, M.D.
Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Vice-President Behavioral Health, Institute of Living
Hartford Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Steven Sharfstein, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
M.P.A Sheppard Pratt Health System
Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry
University of Maryland
Lecturer in Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins University

Ilina Singh, Ph.D.
Wellcome Trust University Lecturer in Bioethics and Society
Associate Director, BIOS, Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society
London School of Economics and Political Science

Shimon Waldfogel, M.D.
Medical Director, AMH Geropsychiatry
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Jefferson Medical College

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.
Departments of Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, and Sociology
Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
Director, Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health