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•  NCE 2010 - San Francisco, CA - October 2-5, 2010, "Childrens Health - Climbing to New Heights". SAVE THE DATE.
• 2009 SFSM Program at the NCE: Click Here to view Highlights of NCE SFSM 2009 "What You Don't Know May Harm You". Althouogh NIH Scientist and bioethics researcher, Dr. Ezekial Emanuel, the brother of President Obama's Chief of Staff was unable to attend, you might want to read some of Dr. Emanuel's recent publications and concepts. Click on highlighted title below to view.
• Guaranteed Healthcare Access Plan
• "Whose Right To Die" from The Atlantic
• "Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions" from The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9661, Pages 423-431, G. Persad, A. Wertheimer, E. Emanuel
• "Zeke Emanuel, The Death Panels and Illogic in Politics" from The Atlantic.
• 2009 SFSM NCE Program Speaker: Edmund Pelligrino MD will speak on Ethics and Aging. This noted bioethicist and researcher is Chair of the Presidents Council on Bioethics. Publications (not available by hyperlinks) include:
• "Biotech and the Ends of Medicine"
• Dignity and Dying: A Christian Appraisal (out of stock)
• "Managed Care's Challenges to the Relationship Between Physician and Patient"
• "The Needs of the Patient vs. the Needs of Others"
• "A Public Debate on Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide"
• 2009 SFSM NCE Speaker Woodie Kessel MD will speak on "Medical Politics - a Child Health Risk Factor. Dr. Kessel is a former Asst. Surgeon General in the USPHS and a long-time friend of children and the AAP.
• Other AAP CME Meetings - One click to the AAP PediaLink Learning Center for AAP and Chapter CME activities
• Other non-AAP Meetings of Interest
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• The 26th International Pediatric Association Congress of Pediatrics "Simunye - we are one". To be held in Johannesburg, South Aftrica August 4-9, 2010. Click Here for more information.

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