Community Medicine Seminar Series

"What CABG Teaches Us About Innovation"

George J. Agich, Ph.D. †
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

Thursday, April 28, 2005 • 12:00 - 1:30 PM
The Link Room (CG076)
University of Connecticut Health Center

For lunch, please RSVP by April 25, 2005 to Theo Ungewitter at 860.679.5495.

About the Speaker

George J. Agich, PhD Dr Agich is a Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a member and former Chairman (1997-2004) of the Department of Bioethics with a joint appointment in the Transplant Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. During the 2003-2004 Winter Term, he was the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Visiting Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He earned his bachelor degree in Philosophy and English from Duquesne University and a masters and doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Agich directs the Cleveland Clinic's Ethics Consultation Service that provides over 240 ethics consultations annually as well as weekly Critical Care Ethics Liaison Rounds in six intensive care units. He has served on the CCF Liver and Heart Transplantation Selection Committees and is Chairman of the Ohio Solid Organ Transplantation Consortium Ethics Committee. He has also been active in professional societies and serves on a number of editorial boards and national grant review committees, including an NIH study section. Dr. Agich is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and four books on a wide range of topics including autonomy in long-term care, ethics consultation, philosophical aspects of psychiatric nosology, and research ethics. Cambridge University Press published his most recent book, Dependence and Autonomy in Long Term Care in 2003. His current research includes questions of authority and methodology in ethics consultation as well as the ethics of innovation in medicine and surgery.

† - Dr. Agich is a candidate for the Joseph M. Healey Endowed Chair in the Medical Humanities, Law & Bioethics

About the Educational Activity

Target Audience

Physicians and Other Health Professionals, Medical and Dental Students, Faculty

Objectives

At the end of this presentation, participants will:

appreciate that the standard model for thinking about innovation in medicine carries value-laden assumptions that complicate the social regulation of innovation;
understand that the structural and developmental features of innovations associated with CABG involve a unique process of social oversight; and
understand the importance of a multidisciplinary humanities approach to a complex problem like innovation in medicine.

Accreditation

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians accredits The University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 hours per session in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Conflict of Interest

All faculty participating in Continuing Medical Education activities sponsored by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of
their presentations. Professor Agich does not have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of his presentation, nor will he address any unlabeled use for a drug in this presentation.