January 2008
Inside This Issue
Bylaws Amendments Pass-Thank
you, Voters!
Call for Board and Nominating
Committee Nominations
Call for 2008 ASBH Annual Awards
ASBH 10th Annual Meeting-Future
Tense
11th Annual National
Undergraduate Bioethics
Conference
Bylaws Amendments Pass-Thank you, Voters!
The special membership meeting to cast the votes according to the proxies
received was held on January 29, 2008. All three bylaws amendments
passed. A total of 469 proxies were received, which was 29% of the
membership and well above the 10% required to vote. The Bylaw
amendments recommended by the ASBH Board of Directors to the
membership were: (i) lengthen the terms of the President, President-Elect,
and Immediate Past President from one year to two years; (ii) increase the
number, lengthen the terms, and revise the manner of election of Nominating
Committee members; and (iii) facilitate the use of electronic communication.
The 2008 Call for Board and Nominating Committee Nominations on the
ASBH Web site reflects these changes. The ASBH Board of Directors thanks
everyone who participated in this important vote. The Bylaws are currently
being revised according to the changes and will replace the Bylaws on the
Web site soon.
Opportunity with Academic
Medicine
Student Interest Affinity Group
Summer Internship Programs
ASBH Member Store
Jobs Update
ASBH Endorsed Meetings
Call for Board and Nominating Committee Nominations
ASBH requests your nominations for candidates for the positions of PresidentElect, Secretary, Director-at-Large and Nominating Committee. The elected
candidates will take office at the 2008 ASBH Annual Meeting.
To be eligible, nominees must be active voting members. Self-nominations are
welcome. All nominations must include the nominee's name and current
professional affiliation, suggested elected position, and the reasons for
nominating the individual. Nominees must be current members in good
standing.
Please see Call for Nominations on the ASBH Web site for more information,
including position descriptions and a listing of the current Board of Directors
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and Nominating Committee.
Send nominations no later than Thursday, May 1, 2008 to the ASBH national
office by mail or email to aclaver@connect2amc.com. If you have any
questions, please contact one of the members of the Nominating Committee:
Kayhan P Parsi (kparsi@lumc.edu), Lisa A Eckenwiler (leckenwi@gmu.edu),
Joshua Hauser (j-hauser@northwestern.edu), Ronald B Miller
(rbmiller@uci.edu), and Kathleen E Powderly
(kathleen.powderly@downstate.edu).
Call for 2008 ASBH Annual Awards
Lifetime Achievement and Distinguished Service
ASBH invites you to recognize leaders in the fields of bioethics and medical
humanities by nominating them for an award. ASBH offers awards to
recognize accomplishments for lifetime work and distinguished service.
Nominations can be submitted by any ASBH member and self nominations
are permitted. The awards will be presented in October during the ASBH
Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Recognizes outstanding contributions and
significant publications that have helped shape the direction of the fields of
bioethics and the medical humanities. The recipient agrees to make a major
presentation at the ASBH Annual Meeting.
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Distinguished Service Award: Recognizes outstanding and dedicated
service to ASBH. The award is presented to an individual or a group who has
advanced the mission of ASBH in a significant and lasting way.
The Awards Committee will consider all complete nominations. Nominations
should include the nominee's name and current professional affiliation as well
as the reasons for making the nomination. Nominations must be postmarked
no later than Friday, February 29, 2008 and sent to the ASBH national office
at aclaver@connect2amc.com. See the ASBH Web site for the listing of past
award recipients.
ASBH 10th Annual Meeting-Future Tense
The ASBH 10th Annual Meeting will take place October 23-26, 2008 at the
Cleveland Renaissance Hotel in Cleveland, OH. The Call for Proposals will be
open soon on the ASBH Web site and will be open until March 1, 2008.
The theme for the meeting is Future Tense. We invite you to think about the
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many meanings one might extrapolate from this term, for instance looking
ahead to the future of bioethics and the medical humanities or what about
bioethics and the medical humanities may make the future tense or uncertain
or perhaps even looking back over the last 10 years to discuss the major
issues and changes, what was resolved and what might the future still bring.
11th Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics
Conference
Union College, Schenectady, NY
April 4th and 5th 2008
Each year the ASBH selects a school to host an undergraduate conference on
bioethics. It is a celebration of undergraduate research and an opportunity to
introduce a new generation of students to the field of bioethics. In 2008 the
event will be hosted by one of the nation's oldest liberal arts colleges, Union
College, in Schenectady, New York. Reflecting the ASBH's commitment to the
medical humanities, the theme for this year's conference is "The Human Use
of Human Beings in Medicine and Science."
Tod Chambers, ASBH President and author of Narrative Bioethics, will open
the conference with a talk on "Witches, Punks, and Bioethicists." Another
keynoter will be the award-winning journalist Harriet Washington, who was a
Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and is the
author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on
Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Also addressing the
conference will be the prominent medical historian Susan Lederer, Chair of
the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, author of Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.
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In addition to student presentations and keynote speeches, a series of panels
and workshops will introduce students to bioethics and bioethicists. Editors
and former editors of leading journals (AJOB, Bioethics) will discuss behind
the scenes at a journal. Bioethicists based in medical facilities and research
institutes will share their experiences, as will medical students and bioethics
graduate students. Adding to the excitement will be a "Bioethics Bowl," a
series of formal debates on bioethical topics by teams from Dartmouth, the
National Hispanic University, Union College, University of Miami, and other
schools.
Please encourage interested undergraduates to join the festivities and/or to
submit papers, skits, plays or other presentations. For information on
submitting abstracts or proposals please see our website
http://go.reachmail.net/rmgo.asp?tid=610232&eid=938&sb_id=216661,216661
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS MARCH 1, 2008
Opportunity with Academic Medicine
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There is a new opportunity for ASBH members to submit peer-reviewed
articles in collaboration with ASBH to Academic Medicine, the official monthly,
peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
(AAMC). Academic Medicine serves as an international forum for the
exchange of ideas and information on undergraduate, graduate, and
continuing medical education. If you are interested in submitting an article to
Academic Medicine through ASBH, please contact the ASBH liaison with
AAMC, Joseph J. Fins, MD FACP at jjfins@med.cornell.edu with your idea for
a possible submission.
Also, because ASBH holds a membership in AAMC's Council of Academic
Societies, ASBH members can subscribe to Academic Medicine at the
discounted rate of $135.60. This is a new benefit offered by AAMC this year.
AAMC will send a mailing to all ASBH members about this in the spring.
Student Interest Affinity Group
If you would like to receive news about the Student Interest Affinity Group,
please email the co-chairs Chirag Patel chirag0@gmail.com and Gaia
Muallem Gaia.Muallem@uth.tmc.edu and visit their a Google-groups listserv
at
http://go.reachmail.net/rmgo.asp?tid=610233&eid=938&sb_id=216661,216661
for student resources and photos from the ASBH Annual Meeting in October.
See the complete list of Affinity Groups
Summer Internship Programs
Find out about internship opportunities in bioethics offered by universities,
colleges, and organizations in the US and abroad.
ASBH Member Store
Shop our new online member store for your ASBH logo gear. Choose from
shirts, coffee mugs, hats, hooded sweatshirts, and more. Pet, baby, and kid-
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sizes are also available.
Jobs Update
Job notices are posted on the ASBH Web site each week. There is no charge
to ASBH members to post a notice. If you would like to post an open position
related to bioethics or humanities, send your notice to Mark Waymack at
mwaymac@luc.edu in MS Word, plain text format.
ASBH Endorsed Meetings
PCA/ACA* Medical Humanities Area
*Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
March 19-22, 2008
Bay Area Marriott
San Francisco, CA
Tel: 585/475-4422
Dilemmas and Struggles in Transplantation
Frontiers of Ethics in Transplantation: Dilemmas and Struggles
Ethics, Psychosocial Considerations, and Policy
April 4-6, 2008, Chicago, IL
The meeting will include plenary sessions, topical paper sessions, as well as
poster sessions.
For further conference and hotel information please contact Northwestern
University's Feinberg School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical
Education at: 312-503-8533 or via email:
b-villanueva@northwestern.edu
The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Medical Humanities
Consortium
SEEING MAKING HEALING: Art, the Arts, and Creativity in Medicine and the
Medical Humanities
May 13-14, 2008
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Tel: 412/647-5700
The Fourth Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference
Predicting Our Future: Genetic Testing in Children and Their Families
July 25-26, 2008
Bell Harbor International Conference Center
Seattle, WA
Tel: 206/987-7825
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