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COBRA Workshop "Bioethics in Ireland"

April 1st, 2007
Moore Centre, Seminar Room, NUI Galway

The Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis (COBRA) at NUI Galway will be hosting an informal workshop on “Bioethics in Ireland” on Sunday, April 1, 2007, directed at researchers in bioethics in Ireland. This workshop will take place in conjunction with COBRA’s first postgraduate conference in bioethics on the topic of “ Ethics at the Margins of Human Life”. The main aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in Bioethics in Ireland, to inform each other of their bioethics activities and reflect on possible ways forward to strengthen the profile of bioethics in Ireland. Every participant will have the opportunity to describe their activities in the area of bioethics and their primary research interests.

Introduction

10:00-10:30 Welcome and introductions

Considering Death

10:30-11:30: Presentation and Roundtable Discussion

Paul Ivory (Irish Council for Bioethics, Dublin): Advance Healthcare Directives: an Irish perspective

Joan McCarthy (UCC, Cork): Reflections on a good death: a research project

Health Care Ethics Teaching

11:45-12:45 Presentation and Roundtable Discussion

Louise Campbell (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick): Challenges in developing Health Care Ethics modules in Midwifery Ethics

Heike Schmidt-Felzmann (NUI, Galway): Developing an integrated interdisciplinary module on “Professionalism” for 1st year medical students

Ethics Outreach

14:00-15:00 Presentation and Roundtable Discussion

David Hunter (University of Ulster, Coleraine): Forward Thinking: A Teaching Project

Sorcha Ui Chonnachtaigh (REMEDI, NUI, Galway): Ethics Outreach on Stem Cell Research

Postgraduate Futures in Irish Bioethics

15:15-16:00 Roundtable discussion

Perspectives for Bioethics postgraduates in Ireland

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