AUB - Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program

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The Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program (SHBPP) at the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine (AUB FM) is an interdisciplinary resource for faculty, students, and healthcare providers who are involved in bioethics education, research, and consultation in Lebanon and the region. Launched in April 2010, it is the first targeted initiative in the Arab world that seeks to educate, research, and champion issues related to professionalism, medical humanism and bioethics. Thus, the SHBPP aims at enhancing public awareness and understanding as well as scholarly work on contemporary issues related to bioethics, humanism and professionalism. It promotes and encourages the development of the requisite skills, attitudes, and behaviors among those who practice medicine on issues such as end of life care, stem cell research, medical economics, health administration, law and policy, and ethics and research. Brochure

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Research in Developing Countries
Call for abstracts
* Date: September 13-14, 2013
* Location:Golden Tulip Serenada Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon

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The Lebanese Society of Critical Care Medicine holds its 6th Annual meeting opening with an Ethics Lecture (March 1-3, 2013)
The Lebanese Society of Critical Medicine held its 6th Annual meeting on March 1-3, 2013 at the Movenpick Hotel & Resorts in Beirut. The meeting was launched with a lecture on “Physicians, Patients and Critical Care” which emphasized the importance of ethics in critical care and the impact of ethics consultation on patient care and management. The presentation was given by founding director of SHBPP, Dr. Thalia Arawi who also was also a moderator during the event.

Lawyer of the Lebanese Order of Physicians talks to MED III students about the revised Lebanese Code of Medical Ethics (February 1 & 8, 2013)
As part of their Physicians, Patients and Society II (PPS II) course, Maître Charles Ghafari, lawyer of the Lebanese Order of Physicians, was invited by Dr. Thalia Arawi (coordinator of PPS II) to address MED III students and to discuss with them the revised Lebanese Code of Medical Ethics (2012).