The MUSC Institute of Human Values in Health Care is presenting the 16th Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship in medical ethics entitled “The Graying of America: Challenges and Controversies”. The conference will be held October 30-31, 2009 in the College of Health Professions, Complex A (115 Rutledge Ave.). This conference is free for MUSC, College of Charleston, The Citadel, Charleston Law School faculty, students or staff. Interested participants should register at http://www.values.musc.edu/.

The format of the conference features key points on ethics and the elderly as well as keynote speakers. The focus of the conference will highlight:

• Rationing health care in the elderly
• Physician-assisted suicide
• Caring for persons with advanced dementia
• Racial, ethic and gender health care disparities in the elderly

Keynote speakers include:

• Daniel Callahan, PhD – The Hasting Center
• Peggy Dilworth-Anderson, PhD – University of North Carolina
• Muriel Gillick, MD – Harvard Medical School
• William Hazzard, MD – University of Washington School of Medicine
• Yale Kamisar, JD – University of Michigan Law School
• William May, PhD – Former Member, President’s Council on Bioethics
• Thomas Miller, JD – American Enterprise Institute
• Timothy Quill, MD – University of Rochester

Source: MUSC Broadcast email, August 7, 2009.