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Annual Conference on Bioethics

Friday, October 8 - Saturday, October 9, 2010
The Park Place Hotel • Traverse City

In its fourteenth year, this conference will review a potpourri of bioethical challenges and decisions physicians and other health care professionals face in their practice.  Join your peers to hear stimulating discussions from statewide and nationally recognized speakers.  Discussions will include allocation of scarce resources, difficult clinical scenarios, ethical consequences, and more.

Who Should Attend: Physicians, bioethicists, researchers, residents, medical students, other health care professionals, and all individuals interested in bioethical issues

Times: 
Friday Registration Opens: 5:00 p.m.
Friday Hors d' oeuvres Reception: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday Dinner Program: 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Saturday Program: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Fees: 
MSMS and MMGMA Members: $175
MSMS Bioethics Committee Members: $100
Non-members: $250
Spouse/Guest: $100

Location: This year's conference will be held in the heart of Downtown Traverse City at the historic Park Place Hotel.  This beautiful facility is a step away from State Street and a block from Front Street making it easy to visit the numerous small town shops, restaurants, and the theatre.  To make room reservations please contact the hotel directly at (231) 946-5000.  A block of rooms at a discount rate has been saved, please be sure to mention you will be attending the MSMS Conference on Bioethics.  To receive the discount, reservations must be made by September 10, 2010. 

Featured Topics and Speakers 

· Dark Humor in Medicine;When to Laugh, When to Wince
  Tom Tomlinson, PhD

· Bioethics, Islam, and Muslims:  What Can We Learn?
  Hasan Shanawani, MD

· Family Member Requests for Resuscitation in Advanced Illness: 
  Whose Assessment of Quality of Life Prevails?
  Robert Zalenski, MD

· Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making:  New Findings 
   Maria Silveira, MD

· Beyond Opioid Regulation:  Why a Social and Cultural Analysis of Pain
  is Key to Ameliorating its Undertreatment in the US
  Daniel S. Goldberg, JD, PhD

· Beyond Priority o the Waiting List:  Current Ethical Issues in Organ
  Transplantation
  Michael Volk, MD

· Top 10 Reasons Doctors Get in Trouble
  Susan Goold, MD, MS, MHSA

· When Physicians refuse to Provide Care to Patients - Ehtical Matters
  Andrew R. Barnosky, DO, MPH

Click here to register online now!
Phone MSMS registrar at (517) 336-5785
Fax registration form: (517) 336-5797
Mail registration form: MSMS Foundation, 120 W. Saginaw, East Lansing, MI 48823
Click here for a registration form.  Note: Conference code is BIO100810   


More Information:
Please contact Caryl Markzon at (517) 336-7575 or cmarkzon@msms.org