The annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship in Medical Ethics will occur Friday and Saturday, October 30-31, in Room 204 of the College of Health Professions Bldg A. The 2009 symposium theme is “The Graying of America: Challenges and Controversies.” Registration, which is free for MUSC faculty, staff and students, is available at http://www.values.musc.edu. Discussion topics include: Rationing Health Care; Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Health Care Disparities in the Elderly; Caring for Persons with Advanced Dementia; and Physician Assisted Suicide. The format will include interactive audience and faculty discussion. Presenters include the following:

• Daniel Callahan, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School; President Emeritus, Hastings Center 

• Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD, Professor Of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina 

• Muriel Gillick, MD, Clinical Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School 

• David Gruenewald, MD, Associate Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Washington 

• Yale Kamisar, JD, Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Michigan 

• William F. May, Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics Emeritus, Southern Methodist University 

• Thomas Miller, JD, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 

• Timothy Quill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities, University of Rochester

For more information, contact BJ Hawley at 782-0775 or email hawleyb@musc.edu.

Source: MUSC Broadcast message, September 22, 2009