"The Three Ages of Medicine and and the Doctor-Patient Relationship". October, 19th and 20th at Barcelona.
"The Three Ages of Medicine and and the Doctor-Patient Relationship". October, 19th and 20th at Barcelona.
This year's Egozcue Lecture Cycle will enjoy the presence of Mark Siegler as guest speaker. He is professor of Medicine and director of the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Siegler is the author of various books and articles on bioethics, and is co-author of Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. This book has been published in Spanish, by Ariel with sponsorship from the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation.
Thursday, October 19 at 7pm
Lecture: "The Three Ages of Medicine and the Doctor-Patient Relationship (with reference to Professor Pedro Lain-Entralgo)" followed by the Foundation's annual grants and awards ceremony.
Wednesday, October 20 at 10am
Lecture: "Past and Future Contributions of Clinical Ethics to Patient Care" with a discussion about shared decision making.
Institut d'Educació Contínua
Balmes, 132-134, Barcelona
Registration free of charge. To register for this event, enter the calendar and go to 19th October.
Rafael Bengoa, Regional Health Minister of the Basque Country, and Ellen Nolte, Director of Rand Europe, presented some strategies to deal with the treatment of chronic diseases.
They both spoke at the conference sponsored by the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation as part of the Global Health Leadership Forum, a specialist health-care management seminar organised by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, the Economy and Health Research Centre (CRES) and the University of Berkeley.
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Coorganized with Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo from Barcelona " Centre Ernest Lluch on 11 and 12 November.
The Foundation and the Consorci Universitari Internacional Menéndez Pelayo-Centre Ernest Lluch de Barcelona (CUIMPB) have renewed their collaboration to organize this training activity. On this occasion, the topic of the course is "The elderly patient". It will take place on 11 and 12 November at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona, under the direction of Marc Antoni Broggi, president of the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia and member of the board of trustees of the Foundation.
The course will explore the issue of the competency of elderly people, how they are treated, and how we accompany them. The speakers will be James Drane, professor at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Begoña Román, professor of ethics at the University of Barcelona, and Mercè Pérez Salanova, head of the Psychosocial Area and Participation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Place: CCCB. Montalegre, 5 08001 Barcelona
Registration
15 grants available. Applications to fundacio.grifols@grifols.com
for the lecture at the Global Health Leadership Forum sponsored by the Foundation. Speakers will be Ellen Nolte and Rafael Bengoa. July 22, 2pm.
"Individual healthy behaviour and healthy life styles. Advances in prevention and Chronic Care Management"
Joint Session: Dr Ellen Nolte, Director Health and Healthcare
RAND Europe and Rafael Bengoa, Consejero de Sanidad y Consumo del
País Vasco (Councillor for Health and Consumerism, Basque
Autonomous Government)
Free registration on web's calendar (click on July 22)
July 22, 2 - 4:30 pm.
Place: Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. c/Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27.Barcelona
Please remember that the closing date for the submission of entries for this year's awards and grants in bioethics is May 31st.
Prize for Research
Research grants
Journalism prize
The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation organized a discussion day attended by professionals from the worlds of journalism and communication.
The Foundation workshop "Maleficence in prevention programmes" was attended by forty public health professionals from institutions and public bodies across Spain
The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation yesterday organized a workshop in "Maleficence in prevention programmes," attended by forty public health professionals from institutions and public bodies across Spain.
As Mateu Huguet, director of the Institute for Health Studies of the Government of Catalonia, explained, "the ethical aspect of public health is still relatively neglected, and that is why courses such as this are so innovative." Huguet went on to say that he was keen to collaborate with the Foundation in organizing annual activities to address these issues.
The workshop was designed to address ethical aspects of secondary breast cancer prevention programmes which use biannual breast scans to screen populations of apparently health women aged between 50 and 74. Although this initiative has reduced mortality in the target population, many individuals receive no direct benefit and some of them suffer adverse effects. These programmes and the information provided to those taking part in them were analysed from an ethical perspective.
Foundation collaborates with Bioethics Committee of Catalonia to produce publication
The Foundation has collaborated with the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia to publish the manual Recomendaciones a los profesionales sanitarios para la atención a los enfermos al final de la vida. [Advice to health professionals caring for patients at the end of their lives] The document is designed to help professionals caring for patients who are near the end of their lives, whatever the discipline or specialism.
The handbook has not been designed as a theoretical treatise or a technical protocol, but rather is intended to be a useful document which will help understand the values which should underpin care for those who are dying. The issues it considers include basical clinical decisions, providing assistance in different care settings, and clarifying some of the confusions regarding ethical and legal issues.
The book has been published in Spanish and Catalan, and can be downloaded in PDF format.
Publications request:
Comitè de Bioètica de Catalunya
In the Calendar section, dates for seminars, courses and conferences can be found.
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On 9 March at the Official College of Nursing in Barcelona (COIB)
The handbook, Ética en enfermería( Essentials of Teaching and Learning in Nursing Ethics) written by Anne Davis, Verena Tschudin and Louis de Raeve, is published by Triacastela, with translation sponsored by the Foundation. The presentation will be attended by one of the book's authors, Verena Tschudin, who will give a lecture on the need for ethical training for health professionals in general and for nurses in particular.
9 March, 18:30 pm.
Registration
Program
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The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Awards Jury has announced the winners of its prizes and grants for 2008-2009.
Research Prize:
David Rodríguez-Arias Vaihen, for his work: Brain death and organ transplants: international and ethical aspects.
Research Grants:
To the team led by Josefa Fernández Barrera of the Department of Social Work and Social Services in the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona for the study: Social work with families: the responsibility of social workers in the self-determination of the most vulnerable groups.
To Ana Lucía Noreña Peña and Elena Ferrer of the University Hospital of San Juan in Alicante for their work: Research protocol: "Listening to the voices of children. Ethical aspects of the process of informing hospitalized minors."
To José Luís Pérez Tr
Summaries of the Egozcue lectures and the course "Care during the process of dying" are now available on the website.
Summaries of Ruth Macklin's lectures on "Ethics and clinical research", delivered on 27 and 28 October, and of the course "Care during the process of dying" now available on the website. In the Activities completed section, users can download summaries and other related documents.
The Foundation aims to make the materials related to the workshops, courses and lectures it organizes available to all users. All these documents are available in PDF format via the Activities completed section.
Summary of Ruth Macklin's lectures
Summary of the course ""Care during the process of dying"
The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Awards Jury has announced the winners of its prizes and grants for 2008-2009.
Research Prize:
David Rodríguez-Arias Vaihen, for his work: Brain death and organ transplants: international and ethical aspects.
Research Grants:
To the team led by Josefa Fernández Barrera of the Department of Social Work and Social Services in the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona for the study: Social work with families: the responsibility of social workers in the self-determination of the most vulnerable groups.
To Ana Lucía Noreña Peña and Elena Ferrer of the University Hospital of San Juan in Alicante for their work: Research protocol: "Listening to the voices of children. Ethical aspects of the process of informing hospitalized minors."
To José Luís Pérez Triviño of the Department of Legal Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona for the study: Positive eugenics and its impact on sporting practice.
To the team led by María Isabel Tamayo Velázquez of the Andalucian School of Public Health for the work: Portal on advance directives across the world.
Journalism prize:
To the programme Einstein a la platja by Barcelona Televisió titled: Adéu als gens omnipotents (Farewell to omnipotent genes) broadcast on 1 November 2008.