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70 Years After the Nuremberg Code: What Have We Learned?

This program will bring together internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners for a presentation and panel discussion regarding the relevance of bioethics and the Holocaust for modern medical practice, health law, public policy, and human rights efforts. We will reflect upon what we have learned in the 70 years since the Doctors’ Trial and the publication of the Nuremberg Code and identify areas that still need to be addressed in order to fulfill our obligation to those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazi medicine.

Panelists Include:

*Ira Bedzow, Ph.D. – Director, Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College

*Tessa Chelouche, M.D. – Co-Director, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust; Co-Chair, Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa); Lecturer, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion Institute; Family Physician

*Nancy Dubler, L.L.B. – Professor Emerita, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center; Consultant for Ethics, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; Adjunct Professor, Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center

*Irit Felsen, Ph.D. – Clinical Psychologist, Adjunct Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University; Member of the Yale University Trauma Study Group

*Stacy Gallin, D.M.H. – Founding Director, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust; Co-Chair, Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa); Director, Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Medicine, and Health at Misericordia University

*Omar Sultan Haque, M.D., Ph.D. – Faculty Member, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Program in Psychiatry and Law at Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics- Boston

This program is free and open to the general public. Registered participants are invited to visit the galleries of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust free of charge before the program begins. Get your free ticket for the galleries upon arrival at the Museum.











When: Thu., Nov. 9, 2017 at 12:00 am
Where: Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Pl.
646-437-4202
Price: Free
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This program will bring together internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners for a presentation and panel discussion regarding the relevance of bioethics and the Holocaust for modern medical practice, health law, public policy, and human rights efforts. We will reflect upon what we have learned in the 70 years since the Doctors’ Trial and the publication of the Nuremberg Code and identify areas that still need to be addressed in order to fulfill our obligation to those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazi medicine.

Panelists Include:

*Ira Bedzow, Ph.D. – Director, Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College

*Tessa Chelouche, M.D. – Co-Director, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust; Co-Chair, Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa); Lecturer, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion Institute; Family Physician

*Nancy Dubler, L.L.B. – Professor Emerita, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center; Consultant for Ethics, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; Adjunct Professor, Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center

*Irit Felsen, Ph.D. – Clinical Psychologist, Adjunct Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University; Member of the Yale University Trauma Study Group

*Stacy Gallin, D.M.H. – Founding Director, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust; Co-Chair, Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa); Director, Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Medicine, and Health at Misericordia University

*Omar Sultan Haque, M.D., Ph.D. – Faculty Member, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Program in Psychiatry and Law at Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics- Boston

This program is free and open to the general public. Registered participants are invited to visit the galleries of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust free of charge before the program begins. Get your free ticket for the galleries upon arrival at the Museum.

Buy tickets/get more info now