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Ethics Grand Rounds: "Undocumented Aliens: Testing the Limits of Care"

Date: November 5, 2008 to November 5, 2008 
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Speaker(s): Case presentation by Alice Herb, JD, LLM, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center

Sponsored by: NYAM and The Metropolitan Area Ethics Network

Location: NYAM


Alice Herb, J.D., L.L.M.

Panelists:
Jean Callahan
Francesca Gany, MD
Carolyn Reinach Wolf, JD
Salvatore J. Russo, JD
Lorraine M. Ryan, JD
Andrea Snelson
Eugenia L. Siegler, MD

Schedule of Events:

  • Registration and Light Refreshments from 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Case Presentation and Discussion from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

    For more information please contact ethicsnetwork@nyam.org

    For the past thirteen years, Alice Herb has been Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Practice and Associate at Law, Division of Humanities in Medicine at State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. In addition, she has been a visiting professor at Sarah Lawrence College since 1996. Prior to her current role as attorney-ethicist, Herb was a producer, director, and writer for ABC News as well as independent news and cultural affairs cable programs from 1966 through 1988. After receiving her J.D. from NYU School of Law in 1955, she practiced law for eleven years.

    Herb serves on a wide variety of ethics committees and is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and The Hastings Center. Herb has authored numerous publications, including two articles which will be published this fall: Cochlear Implants in Children: Ethics, Informed Consent, and Parental Decision-Making, Journal of Clinical Ethics, co-authored with A. Berg and M. Hurst; Three Stubborn Misconceptions About the Authority of Health Care Agents, NYSBA’s Health Law Journal, co-authored with K. Burke and R. Swidler.

     

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