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Annual Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Baylor College of Medicine)

April 2 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Baylor College of Medicine)

April 2, 2025 | 5-6:30 PM | Murphey 116

 

Please join us for the 2025 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture, co-sponsored annually by the Parr Center and the Center for Bioethics. The 2025 Joint Lecturer will be Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby.

Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Ph.D., is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, with a specialization in bioethics, from Michigan State University. Her research focuses primarily on the ethical issues raised by research on human judgment and decision-making (e.g., decisional biases and heuristics, behavioral economics). Dr. Blumenthal-Barby has been the recipient of a prestigious Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics and a Pfizer Bioethics Fellowship, and she has served as the Principal Investigator on four awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study and improve decision making in advanced heart failure. Most recently, she received funding as a Co-Principal Investigator to study ethics and decision making in pediatric deep brain stimulation through the NIH BRAIN initiative.

 

Light refreshments will be served at 6:30.

Details

Date:
April 2
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Organizer

Parr Center for Ethics
Phone
(919) 843-5640
Email
parrcenter@unc.edu
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