In the past several years since its inception, CMATH has brought together thought leaders and experts from diverse fields including medicine, law, research and ethics for a series of seminar and workshops on the effects of the Holocaust on medical practice and research. Access many of these presentations at the links below.
2019: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia after the Holocaust
January 17, 2019 – These invitation-only presentations from Euthanasia after the Holocaust featured two guest speakers:
Palliative Care, Hospice and Last Resort Options
Timothy E. Quill, MD, the Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professor of Palliative Care and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing, University of Rochester School of Medicine, will explore several options, including some of the clinical, ethical, religious and legal similarities and differences between these possibilities, as well as a strategy for finding common ground among patients, families, clinicians and society.
End-of-Life: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Pros and Cons
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, MD, Director of Medical Ethics Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, and Co-chair of the Israeli National Council on Bioethics, will present the position that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are inherently and consequentially morally and religiously wrong and should be forbidden with no exceptions. He emphasizes that any dying patient should receive the best possible comprehensive palliative care.
2017: Bioethics after the Holocaust
January 23-24, 2017 – This workshop, held January 23-24, 2017, focused on bioethics after the Holocaust.
Topic: Introduction to Workshop
Speaker: Sheldon Rubenfeld, MD
Topic: Incorporation of Holocaust Education Into the Required and Elective Curriculum for Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education
Speaker: Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA
Topic: Medical and Spiritual Responses to Nazi Policy: Lessons from the Ghettos and Camps during the Holocaust
Speaker: Michael A. Grodin, MD
Topic: The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Twenty Years Later
Speaker: Jonathan D. Moreno, PhD
Topic: The Belmont Report and the research/Practice Distinction
Speaker: Howard Brody, MD, PhD
Topic: Autonomy vs Obligation in the Shadow of Nuremberg
Speaker: Paul Root Wolpe, PhD
Topic: Killing and Allowing to Die: Revisiting the Distinction
Speaker: Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, MACP
Topic: Creating Bioethical Standards in Israel, A Country with Innumerable Religious and Secular Points of View
Speaker: Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, MD
Topic: Doctors as Warriors: America’s Frisson with Torture
Speaker: M. Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
Topic: American Eugenics & Genetics Then and Now
Speaker: Amy L. McGuire, JD, PhD
Topic: The Invention of Professional Secular Medical Ethics, An Indispensable Legacy of the
Scottish and English Enlightenments
Speaker: Laurence B. McCullough, PhD
2015: First International Scholars Workshop on Medicine after the Holocaust
March 2-4, 2015 – The first Scholars Workshop on Medicine after the Holocaust brought together thought leaders and scholars to discuss the history, current impact and future implications of Eugenics after the Holocaust. Discussions centered on delineating what was needed to establish this subject as an academic discipline, and understanding the relevance of the Holocaust to contemporary healthcare policy, medical practice and research.
Topic: Introduction to FISWMATH
Speakers: Michael Berenbaum, PhD; Michael A. Grodin, MD; Sheldon Rubenfeld, MD, FACP, FACE
Topic: Scapegoats or self-reflection?
Speakers: Sheldon Rubenfeld, MD, FACP, FACE
Topic: Holocaust and Medicine Curriculum Supporting Humanistic, Ethically Vigilant, and Resilient Professional Identity Formation in Health Care
Speakers: Hedy S. Wald PhD, and Alicia DH Monroe, MD
Topic: Medicine and the Holocaust as a Model for Interprofessional Education
Speaker: Patricia Starck PhD, RN
Topic: Bioethics after the Holocaust
Speakers: Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Speaker: Cardinal Daniel DiNardo
2012: Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust Conference
December 5, 2012 – By bringing to the forefront various probing aspects of human subject research after the holocaust, the event engaged future doctors, nurses, scientists and allied healthcare professionals with the ethical lessons learnt from the Holocaust and their applications to contemporary medicine and research.
Topic: Welcome by Dr. Mauro Ferrari
Speaker: Mauro Ferrari, PhD
Topic: Twin Experiments at Auschwitz
Speaker: Eva Mozes Kor
Victim of Josef Mengele’s twin experiments, forgiveness advocate, and founder of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Topic: The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Speaker: Howard Brody, MD, PhD
Topic: A Portrait of Nanomedicine and its Bioethical Implications
Speaker: Mauro Ferrari, PhD
Topic: Questions for HSRAH Conference Panelists and Speakers
Speakers: Howard Brody, MD, PhD, Mauro Ferrari, PhD, Eva Mozes Kor
Topic: Nurses and Human Subjects Research During the Third Reich and Now
Speaker: Susan Benedict, DSN, RN, FAAN
Topic: The story of the White Rose, The (Medical) student anti-Nazi resistance group
Speaker: Dr. Traute Lafrenz-Page
Dr. Page tells the story of The White Rose Society, an anti-Nazi student resistance group. She is also presented with the inaugural CMATH Champions Award.
Topic: Human Subjects Research at the End of Life
Speaker: Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD
Topic: Health Care Disparities in Human Subject Research
Speaker: Edith Mitchell, MD, FACP
Topic: The Rights of Patients with Severe Brain Injury, Specifically Patients in the Minimally Conscious State
Speaker: Joseph J. Fins, MD, MACP