Dr Silvia Camporesi

I am delighted to announce two upcoming Bioethics & Society coffee breaks in August focused on getting published in bioethics.

The first one will be on Wednesday August 3^rd from 9 am to 10 am BST  via Teams ( email me for link).

Our first guest is Tessa Holzman, class of 2019, PhD candidate at Monash University in Melbourne.  (Please note the early start to accommodate the 9 hours time-zone difference!)

Tess is currently doing her PhD at the Bioethics Centre at Monash University in end-of-life ethics. Her PhD focuses on the same topic as her Master’s dissertation (and subsequent publication), namely the ethical implications and difficulties involved in granting voluntary assisted dying for existential, rather than physical or psychological suffering. She is also writing a novel on the same topic. 

Here is the link to Tessa’s article, based on her MSc dissertation

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10084-x

The second coffee break  will feature Yuxuan Su, class of 2021, and will take place via Teams on Tuesday August 9th at 4:30 pm BST. Here’s the link to Yuxuan’s article, based on his MSc dissertation:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2021.1910995

If interested email me for the link.

This is an informal networking & career development series in bioethics, which I launched during lockdown in 2020. Each coffee break session features the career of one of the amazing Bioethics & Society alumni. The session lasts for about 1 hour and offers the opportunity to network with peers. The sessions are usually not recorded as they’re informal.

Here are some of our recent guests:

Alex Pearlman (class of 2018). Alex Pearlman is a science and technology journalist and a bioethicist. Her reporting and commentary on emerging issues in research, health policy, and biotechnology has appeared in numerous leading national and international media outlets, including Stat, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, The Boston Globe, Vice, and elsewhere. Her work was featured in the recent Showtime documentary “Citizen Bio.” You can subscribe to her weekly email about emerging biotech (“Sex, Drugs, and Biotech“), follow her on Twitter @lexikon1, and on Instagram @a_n_pearl. 

Louisa Howard (class of 2017). Louisa Howard is currently a resident in Family Medicine at the University of Michigan (class of 2024). She was recipient of the 2020 Pisacano scholarship of the George Washington University School of Medicine for an outstanding medical student who has made a commitment to family medicine.  Louisa studied Bioethics & Society at King’s in 2016/2017. Before coming to King’s, Louisa spent two years as a clinical research fellow in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the NIH, where she worked within Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Laboratory of Immunoregulation, supporting an investigational medication research trial for the treatment of Hepatitis C. Louisa has a passion for integrative medicine and reproductive health. Her essay “Trapped by Texas “TRAP” (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) Laws: The conflict between law and conscience” (whicih she wrote while she was a postgraduate student at King’s)  won the 2018 Academy of Medicine of Washington D.C. Essay contest.

Soho Yoon (class of 2019). Soho completed the MSc programme in 2019 with her dissertation “Qualitative Analysis of Health Communication Strategies in the Korean Anti-Smoking Campaign”. She is currently working as a researcher at the Asian Institute of Bioethics and Health Law which is housed in the Yonsei University, South Korea. The projects that she is currently managing are 1) Designing National Plan for Rare Disease Management in South Korea (with Korean CDC) and 2) Ethical Implication of Usage of Nano-medicine Technology. She is responsible for conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis of research as well as managing multiple sub-projects.

Frances Butcher (class of 2016). Fran is a public health doctor (registrar) and PhD candidate at the University of Oxford.  After completing the Bioethics & Society programme, she started specialty training in public health in Oxford, where she worked at organisations including the University of Oxford, Oxfordshire County Council, NHS England, Public Health England, and was a 2019 Fellow on the John Hopkins Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Programme.  In 2019, she started her PhD at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, supported by a Wellcome Trust Fellowship for Health Professionals in Humanities and Social Science. Her research explores ethical dimensions of global health security in the context of acute infectious disease outbreaks.

If you’re interested in attending or giving one of the sessions drop me a note at silvia.camporesiATkcl.ac.uk

I am excited conferencing is going back to being in person! I will be giving two papers at the 19th Biennal European Society for Health and Medical Sociology conference (August 25th-27th), with theme “Healthscapes. Shaping the future of the post-pandemic society”, at the University of Bologna- Forlì campus.

https://eshms2022.wixsite.com/eshms2022

The first paper is titled “What experts? Whose advice? The “Delphi oracle” and “Moses tablets” in the management of the covid19 health emergency in Italy” with Giorgia Dal Fabbro (University of Trento), Federica Angeli (University of York) and builds on our research for the ESCaPE project.

The second paper is titled “A public health ethics perspective on age-based COVID-19 preventive measures in Southern Switzerland” and is a work-in-progress with Dr Laurie Corna (University of Applied Sciences & Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)), David Maciariello (University of Applied Sciences & Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)), Stefano Cavalli (University of Applied Sciences & Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI))

The full programme of the conference can be dowloaded here.