MacLean Center: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation

Francis Delmonico, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery at Harvard University, gives an international perspective on the ethics of organ donation and transplantation. Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challeng

Kimberly Olthoff, MD, the Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at Pennsylvania University, discusses the ethical dilemmas facing liver donation allocations. Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers st

Robert Veatch, PhD, Professor of Medical Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, predicts emerging controversies that face the future of organ transplantation. Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This tran

John Fung, MD, PhD, the Chair of the Digestive Disease Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, discusses the ethical issues surrounding prisoners as organ donors and as organ transplantation recipients. Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empo

Gary Becker, PhD, University Professor in the Departments of Economics and Sociology, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the University of Chicago Law School, and Julio Elias, Professor in the Department of Economics and Business School at Universidad del CEMA, provide an economic explanation for why the supply of kidneys for transplants is so dismal, and economic solutions that could increase the supply. Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center

Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD, FACS, Chair of the Department of Transplantation at the Lahey Clinic, debates if living donors should be used for patients with heptocellular cancer (HCC). Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students

John Roberts, MD, FACS, Professor in the Department of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Transplantation at University of California San Francisco, discusses how physicians should balance donor risk with recipient benefit when approaching living donor liver transplantation. Organ transplantation raises almost every important medical ethical issue, including: standards for determining death, informed consent, the fair allocation of scarce resources, research on human subjects, global health concerns, and more. The MacLean Center's Seminar Series has examined Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation. This year's interdisciplinary seminar series was organized by Mark Siegler, MD, Director of the MacLean Center. The seminars are cosponsored by the Transplant Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. Learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous