[bioundgrd] MIT Hippocratic Society Conference and Banquet - REGISTER NOW- MARCH 9-10

[Janice Chang]

>Please join the MIT HIPPOCRATIC SOCIETY at our upcoming conference --
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>THE ORGAN TRAIL:
>THE SCIENCE AND ETHICS OF TISSUE ENGINEERING,
>TRANSPLANTATION AND ORGAN TRAFFICKING
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>March 9-10, 2007
>MIT Wong Auditorium, E51
>FREE to the MIT community
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>To REGISTER and for more information please visit
>http://web.mit.edu/hippocratic/www/info.html
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>KEYNOTE ADDRESSES and PANEL DISCUSSIONS
>Friday, March 9, 2007   5-8pm
>Saturday, March 10, 2007   9am-4:30pm
>Come hear about the exciting advances in organ transplantation, the ethical
>issues of organ trafficking, and the promising innovations in the fields of
>tissue engineering and biomedical devices.
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>BANQUET DINNER, Saturday 6pm in Walker Memorial $10
>Join us for fine dining and networking with today?s leading doctors,
>scientists and ethicists ? an opportunity you don?t want to miss!
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>REGISTER at http://web.mit.edu/hippocratic/www/info.html
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>We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
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>-- MIT Hippocratic Society
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>2007 Conference Speakers:
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>SCIENCE
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>Joseph Vacanti, M.D. - Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and
>Organ Fabrication at MGH, Director of Pediatric Transplantation at 
>MGH; Harvard
>Medical School
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>Ioannis Yannas, Ph.D. - Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical
>Engineering at MIT; Harvard-MIT HST Program
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>Frederick Schoen, M.D., Ph.D. - Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of
>Pathology at Brigham & Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School
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>MEDICINE
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>Douglas Hanto, M.D., Ph.D. - Chief of the Division of Transplantation at Beth
>Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School
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>Megan Sykes, M.D. - Chief of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Section at MGH;
>Head of the Cellular Immunology Laboratory at MGH; Harvard Medical School
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>Irene Lo, B.S. ? Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
>former MIT Hippocratic Society member
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>ETHICS
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>Dan Brock, Ph.D. - Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at 
>Harvard Medical
>School; Director of the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
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>Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. - Director of the Center for Bioethics at the 
>University of
>Pennsylvania
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>Michele Goodwin, J.D., LL.M. - Professor of Law at DePaul College of Law;
>Director of the Health Law Institute; Director of the Center for the Study of
>Race & Bioethics
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