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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Kayte Spector-Bagdady. "Data Justice"
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2024-03-19 17:15:00
2024-03-19 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Kayte Spector-Bagdady. "Data Justice"
Speaker: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBE '09
Talk: "Data Justice"
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Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE. "Evolving ethical considerations in HIV status discussions in the age of HIV treatment-as-prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis"
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2024-03-26 12:00:00
2024-03-26 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE. "Evolving ethical considerations in HIV status discussions in the age of HIV treatment-as-prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis"
Evolving Ethical Sonsiderations in HIV Status Discussions in the Age of HIV Treatment-as-Prevention and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE
Instructor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE (she/her) is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in the Infectious Disease Division. Dr. Watson’s clinical practice and research program focus on LGBTQ+ health, destigmatization of sexual health, and equitable delivery of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and HIV treatment for Black LGBTQ+ populations.
More details to follow.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
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Jonathan Zhang, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-03-28 12:00:00
2024-03-28 13:00:00
America/New_York
Jonathan Zhang, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Jonathan Zhang, PhD , Assistant Professor of Economics at McMaster University
March 28, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Jonathan Zhang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Economics at McMaster University. He is also affiliated with the US Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University in 2020-21 after receiving his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2020 and his BSc from UBC.
His research fields span health economics and public finance. He studies the impacts of physician behavior, health policy, and safety net programs on patient health and economic outcomes. Much of his research focuses on topics around mental health and substance use.
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Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Dorothy E. Roberts, JD. "The 2023 NASEM Report on Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research"
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2024-04-10 12:00:00
2024-04-10 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Dorothy E. Roberts, JD. "The 2023 NASEM Report on Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research"
The 2023 NASEM Report on Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research
Dorothy E. Roberts, JD
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology
Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
University of Pennsylvania
In 2021, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Academies to conduct a study to review and assess existing methodologies, benefits, and challenges in using race, ethnicity, ancestry, and other population descriptors in genomics research. To accomplish this task, the National Academies empaneled a committee of 17 members with expertise in various genetics fields, anthropology, sociology, social epidemiology, demography, and population statistics, as well as historical, ethical, legal, and social implications research, including Penn professor Dorothy Roberts. Professor Roberts will discuss the committee’s consensus report, issued in March 2023, which examines the current use of population descriptors in genomics research, presents a set of guiding principles and overarching approaches, and recommends best practices.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
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Leila Agha, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-04-11 12:00:00
2024-04-11 13:00:00
America/New_York
Leila Agha, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Leila Agha, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
April 11, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Leila Agha, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Her research investigates microeconomic questions about how productivity is shaped by innovation, technology, and the organization of work, in the context of the US health care system. Agha’s work has investigated the determinants of innovation in healthcare markets, a key engine of both rising costs and improvements in health outcomes. In other research, she analyzed how the organization of provider teams affects health care efficiency. Her ongoing research studies how physicians adopt and realize value from new technology, in contexts with limited information about patient-specific risks and benefits.
Agha’s work has been published widely in leading economics, science, and medical journals. She completed her S.B. and Ph.D. in economics at MIT. Prof. Agha is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and she currently serves as an associate editor of Management Science.
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Penn Medical Ethics
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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz. "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening"
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2024-04-11 17:15:00
2024-04-11 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz. "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening"
Speaker: Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz, JD, PhD, MBE '13
Talk: "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence ofPolygenic Embryo Screening"
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Penn Medical Ethics
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Daniel Zeltzer, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-04-18 12:00:00
2024-04-18 13:00:00
America/New_York
Daniel Zeltzer, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Daniel Zeltzer, PhD, Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
April 18, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Daniel Zeltzer, PhD, is currently a Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and a Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. He is an affiliate of the CESifo and IZA research networks. Zeltzer’s research explores the intersections of Health Economics, Networks, and Machine Learning. His scholarly contributions include telemedicine, digital health technologies, end-of-life spending, and physician networks as moderators of technology diffusion and gender homophily in patient referrals. His work has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation and published in prominent academic journals such as the American Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Health Economics, and JAMA Surgery. Zeltzer received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton University.
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Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Cassie Houtz, PhD.
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2024-04-23 12:00:00
2024-04-23 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Cassie Houtz, PhD.
Cassie Houtz, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics & Genomics University of Pennsylvania
Cassie Houtz (she/her/hers) received her PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University, where she studied the intersections of philosophical, religious, and biomedical conceptions of what it means to live a "good life.” Her interests in disability bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and the “quality of life” have led her to the ELSI Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is working on two primary research areas: (1) the ethics of treating polygenic and monogenic “obesity” and (2) ethical dilemmas related to newborn genetic screening.
More details to follow.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
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Jessie Handbury, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-04-25 12:00:00
2024-04-25 13:00:00
America/New_York
Jessie Handbury, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Jessie Handbury, PhD, Associate Professor of Real Estate, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
April 25, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Jessie Handbury is an Assistant Professor at The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her research interests include urban economics, trade, and industrial organization. Her recent work, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, studies the role of product availability in household consumption and location decisions, as well as issues in inflation measurement. She received her PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2013.
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Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
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2024-04-30 12:00:00
2024-04-30 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Desmond Upton Patton, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary fusion of social work, communications, and data science, is the Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor, with joint appointments in the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication along with a secondary appointment in the department of psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine.
Professor Patton’s groundbreaking research into the relationship between social media and gang violence – specifically how communities constructed online can influence often harmful behavior offline – has led to his becoming the most cited and recognized scholar in this increasingly important area of social science. His early work attempting to detect trauma and preempt violence on social media led to his current roles as an expert on language analysis and bias in AI and a member of Twitter’s Academic Research advisory board and Spotify’s Safety Advisory Council. As a social worker, Patton realized existing gold standard data science techniques could not accurately understand key cultural nuances in language amongst predominantly black and Hispanic youth. In response, he created the Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach to center and privilege culture, context and inclusion in machine learning and computer vision analysis. CASM can be applied by businesses and other organizations to observe social media and workplace communication channels for potentially incendiary language, which taken out of context can lead to violence. With this methodology, organizations can better foster diverse and inclusive environments and minimize employee conflict. Further, Patton’s insights on creating non-biased and culturally nuanced algorithms give tech companies a holistic perspective on various business and social issues. The companies that adopt these proactive measures are then able to ensure they are not unintentionally propagating bias.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics