Dr. Peter Agre, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, is scheduled to speak for the Osler Medical Symposium on April 23, 2019 from 6-7pm. At his event, Dr. Agre will speak on behalf of his current work in combating malaria at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute as well as his experience in international diplomacy through medicine. Dr. Agre has led multiple visits of American scientists to North Korea, Cuba, Myanmar/Burma, and Iran.

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The Lacks family plays a prominent role in advocating for privacy and patient rights. Though the East Baltimore campus has an annual symposium for the community to attend, undergraduates on the Homewood Campus have not yet had the opportunity to engage with the Lacks Family, vital stakeholders in Johns Hopkins’ story of bioethics and patient consent. The Lacks family will address issues of communication, ethics, and race in the context of healthcare.

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Dr. Gerald Brandacher (Scientific Director, Reconstructive Transplant Program) and Dr. Jeffrey Kahn (Director, Berman Institute of Bioethics) will discuss the ethics of transplants for donors, patients, and their families. In addition, they will discuss Dr. Brandacher’s medical team’s successful penis and scrotum transplant and ethics of transplanting gene-generating tissue such as testicles. Finally, as medicine progresses to allow us to transplant more organs, Dr. Brandacher and Dr. Kahn will examine future ethical topics, such as uterus transplants.

This event will be co-sponsored with Conversations in Medicine (CiM).

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Dr. Redonda Miller, President of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is scheduled to speak on February 5, 2019 from 6-7pm. The event will be a 30 minute keynote address, followed by a 30 minute moderated discussion with Dr. Perry Tsai, President of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).

Healthcare is undergoing a seismic shift.  Hospitals and health systems are increasingly under pressure to provide create more consumer-friendly, value-laden, and population-focused care for patients.  Dr. Miller will discuss how The Johns Hopkins Hospital is evolving – through use of technology, innovative programs, and personalized care – to create the healthcare that patients both want and need.

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