Torah in Motion - Local Programs - International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics

Conference Speakers

Rabbi Kenneth Brander
Dean, Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future; Advanced level of ordination in the field of medical ethics, in particular reproductive technology and Halakhah
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Rabbi Michael Broyde
Academic Director, Law and Religion Program, Emory University, Atlanta; Dayan Beit Din of America
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Dr. Beni Gesundheit
Hematology-Oncology; Jewish Philosophy Department, Hebrew University
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Rabbi Dr. Aaron E. Glatt
President and CEO, New Island Hospital: Orthodox Union Scholar In Residence on Jewish Medical Ethics; Assistant Rabbi Young Israel of Woodmere
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Dr. Cliff Librach
Director of the Create Fertility Centre; Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto
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Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Director, Medical Ethics Uni, Shaare Zedek Medical Cente, Jerusalem
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Conference Committee

Dr. Jonathan Abrams, MD CCFP , Palliative care

Dr. Gerald Friedman MD FRCP(C) Pediatrics

Dr. Warren Goldstein MD FRCP(C), Neurology

Rabbi Jay Kelman
Founding Director of Torah in Motion

Ilana Kelman
Occupational Therapist

Dr. Elliottt Malamet
Professor Jewish Education

The 2010 International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics is scheduled for the weekend of July 1-4 in beautiful Lake Placid New York. We hope you will join us as we build on the tremendous success of last years' s conference (see below). Details of this year's conference will be posted shortly. Thank you

August 20th to 23rd, 2009
At the luxury Fairmont Hotel in majestic Tremblant, Quebec

This learning activity meets accreditation criteria for 15 hours of Category 1 MOCOMP and AMA credits (MAINPRO credits application is pending)

Join a group of medical practitioners and lay enthusiasts for a bouquet of fascinating lectures panels, shiurim , and text based study with some of the world's leading figures in Jewish Medical Ethics. Topics include genetic screening, stem cell, treating terrorists, end of life issues including living wills, treatment options of terminal illness, and the Israel Dying Patient act , Shabbbat and the Physician, economic issues in the practice of medicine as well as a variety of "other" topics.

The aim of this conference is to analyze those ethical concepts that are dealt with on a day to day basis in light of Jewish sources and Jewish law. Jewish Medical Ethics follows a tradition that spans centuries and its impact reaches far beyond the Jewish world. This alone will provide ample material for discussion with Jewish specialists in the field.

We invite not only rabbis and medical doctors but also dentists, pharmacists, therapists, midwives, nurses, biologists, ethicists and interested laymen to join us at this important conference.