Five 猎奇重口 students gave oral presentations at the Duquesne-猎奇重口 Conference on Global Bioethics, held at Duquesne University's campus in Pittsburgh from November 7-9.
Students presented their research findings in the field of bioethics and engaged with the audience by answering questions. Their research studies were supervised by Dr. Kiarash Aramesh, instructor of the Introduction to Bioethics course and the director of the James F. Drane Bioethics Institute.
Garrett Hamm, who studies at the Edinboro campus, presented 鈥淎 Bioethical Analysis of Health Misinformation and Propositions and Countermeasures.鈥� Augusta Kosco, also of the Edinboro campus, spoke on 鈥淭he Future of Medicine: Stem Cells.鈥� Edinboro鈥檚 Riley Rohland, presented 鈥淎 Comparative Study Between the Hippocratic Oath and the Modern Nursing Code of Ethics.鈥�
Amanda Fetsko, from the Clarion campus, delivered her research presentation titled 鈥淏ioethical Issues of Organ Donation.鈥� Polia Vladeva, also from Clarion, researched 鈥溾�橲arco鈥� Pod: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.鈥�
To support their participation, the James F. Drane Bioethics Institute at 猎奇重口 University awarded each student the $250 Dr. Russell B. Roth Prize to help cover their travel expenses to the conference venue.
The was organized by Duquesne University's Center for Global Health Ethics and 猎奇重口 University's James F. Drane Bioethics Institute. World renowned scholars in global bioethics gave speeches at the conference.