Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel
999 9th St NW
Washington, DC
Wednesday, September 2
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
Commission Chair
9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Working Group Reports and Consideration of the Intersection between Deliberation and Bioethics Education
9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Session 1: Facilitating Public Dialogue About Bioethics
Dennis Thompson, Ph.D.
Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University (Emeritus)
Sir Roland Jackson
Executive Chair
Sciencewise
Marion Danis, M.D.
Head, Section on Ethics and Health Policy
Department of Bioethics
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Florence Evans
Deliberative Poll Participant
What’s Next California
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 – 12:00 p.m. Session 2: Fluency in Science and Ethics
Lisa M. Lee, Ph.D., M.A., M.S.
Executive Director
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Seth Mnookin
Associate Director
MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:45 p.m. Session 3: Ethical and Deliberative Skills Across the Lifespan
Sue Knight, Ph.D.
Curriculum Author
Primary Ethics Limited
Australia
Robert F. Ladenson, Ph.D.
Emeritus Faculty Associate
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Illinois Institute of Technology
1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session 4: Fostering and Measuring Success in Ethics and Deliberation
Carol Ripple, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Education Research and Engagement
Duke University Social Science Research Institute
Raymond De Vries, Ph.D.
Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Michigan
John Gastil, Ph.D.
Head and Professor
Communication Arts and Sciences and Political Science
The Pennsylvania State University
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 – 3:50 p.m. Session 5: Roundtable Discussion
3:50 – 4:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
