Protecting Children and Decisionally-Impaired Adults
in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Is Bioethics Enough?

Summer Ethics Institute
National Catholic School of Social Service
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
June 6, 2003

Program Schedule
June 6, 2003

8:30 - 9 a.m. - Late Enrollment and CEU Application

9 to 9:15 a.m. - John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D., "Welcome and Introduction"

9:15 to 10:30 a.m. - Gregor Wolbring, Ph.D., "Animal Farm Philosophy: Reality
                                                                     of Bioethical Discourse?"

    Reactor: Karen L. Sadler, MS Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Ph.D. Science Education Candidate, University of Pittsburg, and Consultant for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and Vcom3D, Inc.

10:30 to 10:45 a.m. - Break

10:45 a.m. to 12 noon - Karen J. Maschke, Ph.D., "Politics of Protection: Regulating Research
                                                                            with Decisionally-Impaired Individuals"

    Reactor: Robert Dinerstein, J.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, American University, Washington College of Law

12 noon to 1 p.m. - Box lunch

1 to 2:15 p.m. - Vera Hassner Sharav, M.S.L., "Impact of Bioethics Advisory Panels on
                                                                      Pediatric Research: Helpful or Harmful?"

    Reactor: TBA

2:15 to 2:30 p.m. - Break

2:30 to 3:45 p.m. - John R. Berkman, Ph.D., "Beyond the Bioethics Principle of Autonomy:
                                                                    Decisionally-Impaired Adults and a Vision
                                                                    of the Human Good"

    Reactor: Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.; former bench research biochemist (NIH/NCI); Lecturer, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

3:45 to 4 p.m. - Closing Remarks