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• Human Rights and the COVID-19 emergency regulations in Israel (20.5.2020)

       Oren Asman, LLD (Israel)

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• Human Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic (4.5.2020)

       Prof. Michael Stein, Dr. Sagit Mor, Dr. Meytal Segal-Reich, Prof. Yechiel Michael Barilan, Dr. Oren Asman

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Global Bioethics, Medical Law and International Human Rights Law

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• Ethics at the Horizon: A Proposal for a Future-Facing Global Bioethics

       Jeffrey Kahn,PhD (USA)

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• The Medicalization of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law

       Yechiel Michael Barilan, MD, MA (Israel)

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• Medical Law and Bioethics – Connecting the Dots Internationally

       Oren Asman, LLD (Israel)

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• Donation Legal Regulation for Reciprocal Benefit:  Stopping Organ Trafficking and Improving UnpaidAlexander Capron, MA, LLB (USA)

 

 

Humanitarian Medicine, Ethics and Current Challenges in Israel

 

• The Situation in Syria – Geopolitical Background

       Eyal Zisser,PhD, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University

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• The Unique Humanitarian Aid Project to the Syrian Casualties

       Col.(res.) Salman Zarka, MD, M.P.H., M.A, Director of Ziv Medical Center.          

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• Removing  borders: The Humanitarian Treatment of Syrian Nationals Injured In the Ongoing Civil War

       Samuel Tobias, MD (Israel)

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• Bioethics and Law in the Faculty of Medicine

       Ehud Grossman, MD, Dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine (Israel)

 

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Humanitarian Medicine – Historical, Ethical and Legal Aspects

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• 70 years of the Geneva Conventions – A Timely Re-Appraisal of their Impact on Medical Personnel and Human Rights

       Roy Beran, MD., John Devereux, PhD (Australia) 

 

• The Evil of Josef Mengele, Twin Experiments, Auschwitz and Informed Consent

       Ken J. Berger, M.D (Canada)

 

• Bioethics and the Holocaust: Teaching the Past for Improving the Future

       Tessa Chelouche, MD (Israel)  

 

 

Forensic Medicine and Ethics

 

• Official Medicolegal Investigation of Deaths Involving Celebrities and Prominent Political Individuals:  Special Concerns and Considerations

       Cyril Wecht, MD (USA)

 

• Challenges Incapacitating Terrorists:  Causes of Death, Ethical and Interpretive

       Chen Kugel, MD; Maya Furman, MD; Sivan Chaviv, MD (Israel)

 

• Life achievement Award to Prof. Thomas Noguchi

 

• An Urgent Need to Establish Guidelines for Ethics in Practice of ForensicSciences

       Thomas Noguchi, MD  (USA)

 

 

Disability Rights

 

• Dialogue Legal Capacity and Mental Disability: A Need for Cross-Disciplinary

       Michael Stein,PhD (USA)

 

• Nothing About Us Without Us:  A Disability Challenge to Bioethics

       Sagit Mor, PhD (Israel)

 

• Desiring Motherhood Despite Severe Disability

       Esther-Lee Marcus, PhD (Israel)

 

• Patient’s Rights in Mental Health:  Problems of Residential Care in Serbia

       Hajrija Mujovic, PhD (Serbia)

 

• Application of Eugenic Practices to People with Disabilities in Israel

       Chaya Gershuni LL.M (Israel)

 

• Significance of Natural Will Relating to Sexual Health

      Dr. Özge Yücel, LL.M., PhD (Turkey)

 

 

Psychiatry, Ethics and Law

 

• Finding the Yellow Brick Road – Highlights of Ethical Dilemmas in Setting Mental Health Services - Ethics of Public Policy

      Tal Bergman Levy, MD, MsC  (Israel)

 

• Recent advances in the genetics and neurobiology of mental health – Social and ethical implications

       Steven A. Kushner, MD, PhD, (Netherlands)

 

• Standard of Protection of Human Rights of Patients in Psychiatric Hospitals

       Tomasz Sroka, PhD  (Poland)

 

• Compulsory Admission Based on Public Authority in Japan

       Shigeki Takahashi M.D. PhD (Japan)

           

• Mental Health Legal Representation in Israel

       Advocate Daniel Raz, LL.M  (Israel)

 

• Psychiatric Patient Restraint In Israel  - Between Medicine and law

       Sharon Primor, LL.M, PHD Candidate (Israel)  

 

• Advance Directives and Mental Health in Czech Law

       Tomáš Holčapek, PhD (Czech Republic)     

 

• Capacity and Self-Determination in Mental Health - The Portuguese Law

       Carla Barbosa, Lawyer (Portugal)  

 

• Please Let Mentally Ill Patients Make True Self-Decision Under the Macau Law

       Man Teng Iong M.S, PhD Candidate(Macau)

 

• The Obligations and Rights of a Psychiatrist

       Tugce Oral, LL.M, PhD (Turkey)

 

• Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Neurodevelopmental Disability       

       Anthony Kearns FRCPsych (Ireland)

 

• Homicide While Asleep and Israeli Law

       Jean Askenasy, MD, PhD; Haran Feinstein, Judge (ret.)(Israel)      

 

• Legal (or Illegal) Denial of Micro Trauma in Mental Injuries

       Samuel Wolfman, PhD (Israel)

 

 

End of Life Care

 

• End-of-Life Care Decision-Making in Japan: Past, Present & Future Perspectives

       Takeshi Miyashita, LL.M (Japan)

 

• The Belgian Case of the ’Deacon of Death’: Ending the Life of the Patient Without Their Consent

       Thierry Vansweevelt, PhD (Belgium)

 

• Ethics and the Patient’s Religious Beliefs in Physician Assisted Death

       Richard Wilbur, MD, JD (USA)

 

• Euthanasia for Psychiatric Patients in the Benelux: Reasons for Concern?

       Sylvie Tack, JD. (Belgium)

 

• Cost-Benefit Model for Antibiotic Treatment at End of Life

       Yael Dishon-Benattar, RN, MA, PhD Candidate (Israel)

 

• End of life excessive/persistent treatment – who takes the decision?

       Bilha Kreisberg, RN, MA (Israel)   

 

 

Old Age and Legal rights

 

• Philosophy Living with Advanced Dementia and the Law: Lessons from Practice and

       Julian Hughes, MD,PhD (England)

 

• Elder Law – What the Future Holds

       Israel (Issi) Doron, LL.M,PhD, (Israel)

 

• Age Discrimination of Doctors Versus Quality Care

       Filip Dewallens,PhD (Belgium)

 

• Challenges for Public Health in a Fast-Aging Society

       Eduardo Dantas, LL.M, PhD Candidate (Portugal)

 

• The Older Patient with Dementia as a Sexual Offender

       Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD, Ella Holtzman, MA, Eliezer Witztum, MD (Israel) 

 

• Using Humor Intelligently in Interactions Between Doctor and Elderly Patient

       Edna Katzenelson, PhD (Israel)

 

 

Genetics, Ethics and Law

 

• Genetic v. Legal Identity

       Judit Sandor, PhD (Hungary)  

 

• Ethical Implications of Deep Genomics Analysis Becoming Mainstream

       Noam Shomron,PhD (Israel)

 

• Can Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Relatives?

       Cindy Cornelis, PhD Candidate  (Belgium)  

 

• Accompanying Family Members in Genetic Counseling: Clinicians' Perception

       Sivia Barnoy, RN, Ph.D, Roy Gilbar, LLM. PhD  (Israel)

 

 

Religious Law, Sexuality and Fertility

 

• Islamic Jurisprudential Gerontology in Bioethics: Personhood and Parenthood

       Osman Tastan, PhD (Turkey)  

 

• Attitudes to Sexual Disabilities in Islamic Law: the shift from classical fiqh to contemporary solutions

       Vardit Rispler-Chaim, PhD (Israel)

 

• Legal and Ethical Status of Embryotomy in Yerushalmi vs Bavli

       Moshe Pinchuk, PhD  (Israel)

 

• Fertility Treatment for Couples With Mental Disabilities in Jewish Law

       Rabbi Gideon Weitzman, B.Ed. (Israel)

 

• Hermeneutics matters! A new approach to the famous debate between Feinstein and Waldenberg on abortion

       Melanie Mordhorst-Mayer, Ph.D. (Israel)

  

• Halacha and Modern Medicine in the Lithuanian Environment:  The Metzitza Debate

       Elimelech Westreich, PhD and Roi Westreich, MD (Israel)    

 

 

Jewish Law and Medicine

 

• Jewish Law, Medical Ethics and the Regulator

       Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, MD (Israel)

 

• Big Data and Medical Decision-Making from the perspective of Halacha

       Rabbi Shabtai Rapoport (Israel)

 

• The Right to Procreate in Israel: The Case of Postmortem Sperm Retrieval

       Avishalom Westreich,PhD (Israel)

 

• The Enduring Power of Attorney in Jewish Law

       Yardena Cope-Joseph, LLM (Israel)

 

• Mental Illness and Halacha: Sensitivity and Ethical Commitment in Jewish Law to the Psychiatrically Ill Individual

       Rael Strous, MD (Israel)

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