'Who Shall Live?' seminar with noted bioethics experts August 9, 2012

Northwest Kidney Centers sponsors 'Who Shall Live?' seminar
Aug. 9, 2012, with noted bioethics experts

Event
Northwest Kidney Centers sponsors "Who Shall Live?," a public seminar on bioethics, to be held 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, at 700 Broadway, Seattle. For information call 206-292-5351 or register at [email protected]. This free event is open to the public.

Speakers
Albert R. Jonsen, PhD, of San Francisco, biomedical ethicist and author. Jonsen is emeritus professor of ethics in medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he was chairman of the Department of Medical History and Ethics from 1987-1999. He is co-director of the Program in Medicine and Human Values at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.

Michael Kelly, MD, of Seattle, medical director of special care and chair of the ethics committee at Northwest Kidney Centers. He is also a member of the Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation Board and former chair of the board of trustees at the nonprofit kidney care provider. He is clinical Professor of Medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Christopher Blagg, MD, of Seattle, executive director emeritus of Northwest Kidney Centers and professor emeritus of medicine in the division of nephrology at the University of Washington. He is editor of the journal Hemodialysis International.

Context
In 1962 when Northwest Kidney Centers was founded, the eyes of the world were on Seattle, where the community wrestled with how to allocate the new, expensive, scarce resource of life-sustaining kidney dialysis. This seminar, sponsored by Northwest Kidney Centers in its 50th anniversary year, probes the issues raised at that time along with health care ethics questions that linger today.

Official Website: http://www.nwkidney.org/kidneyInformation/events/eventsList.html?events=08%2F01%2F2012