Dr. Baruch Brody, director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, is the featured speaker at West Virginia University’s Applied Ethics Day Thursday, Sept. 28.
Brody, nationally regarded scholar in the field of bioethics, will discussPatents on Pharmaceuticals: Balancing Private Incentives with Public Needs for Affordable Accessat 2 p.m. in the John Jones Conference Center at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, on the Evansdale Campus.
He will also speak at 8 p.m. that day onEthical Issues in Pharmaceutical Researchin Room 459 of the College of Business and Economics on the Downtown Campus.
Brody earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and studied at Oxford University on a Fulbright Fellowship.
He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rice University before joining the faculty at Baylor as the Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics. He continues to serve as Andrew Mellow Professor of Humanities at Rice University and as director of ethics at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.
He currently heads the Data Safety Monitoring Board for NASA ’s Pre-Breath protocols, leads the coordinating committee for theAltering Naturestudy funded by the Ford Foundation, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
He has written or edited 26 books and some 150 articles and chapters on the sanctity of human life, ethical issues in drug testing, and the ethics of biomedical research. Over the years he has helped 11 health care institutions organize their ethics committees.
Applied Ethics Day began in 1998 as an effort to identify areas of research focus at WVU . In earlier years, programs have addressed ethical issues related to human genetics, the environment, public administration, engineering, journalism and business.
Brody’s visit is sponsored by WVU ’s Department of Philosophy and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with the School of Pharmacy.
For more information, contact Dr. Mark Wicclair, professor of philosophy, at mark.wicclair@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-3641, ext. 33309.