Upcoming Events:

National Colloquium for Catholic Bioethicists

January 29th – February 1st 2006

Sunday 29th January evening

7.30pm New Issues in Palliative Care

9.30pm Supper

Monday 30th January, 9am-1pm, 3-5.30pm

Organ Donation

1. Differing Medical Approaches to The Diagnosis of Death by the Brain Function Criterion and Cultural Differences

2. The Role of the Donor Coordinator and the Designated Officer

3. Donation after Cardiac death and ante-mortem procedures for organ donation in expectation of controlled death and palliative care issues

4. Living donation by children: do parents have the authority?

5. Paired and remunerated living “donation”

Tuesday 31st January, 9am-1pm, 3-5.30pm

New National Guidelines on Ethics of Human Research

1. The New Structure and Content of the Draft National Statement on Ethic

2. Governance of research ethics: not the HREC’s role?

3. Uses of Human Tissue, the Human Genome and Stem Cells

4. Issues in the Use of Foetal Tissue in Research and Related Developments including the new approach taken by the Bishops Task Force on Abortion

Wednesday 1st February, 9am-1pm, 3-5.30pm

Issues in the Care of People with Post-coma Unresponsiveness State

1. Diagnosis of PCU

2. Medical and Nursing Care of People in PCUS

3. Is there a need for specialist units for the care of people with severe brain damage?

4. Ethical Issues in the Care of People in PCU

5. Planning Future Care and Advance Directives