TRENT CENTER FOR

BIOETHICS, HUMANITIES & HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series

From the Bedside to the Desktop:

How Risk is Remaking Medicine
Jason Karlawish, MD
Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 12:00-1:00 pm Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2003

Lunch provided at NOON Talk begins at 12:10 PM
For much of the modern era, medicine worked at the bedside. Go to the bedside was a senior physicians command to trainees, a command indicating where to discover, diagnose, and treat disease. The patients chief complaint and the detailed history and physical that followed were the foundation of the medical encounter and medical knowledge. But today medicine occupies a new space. Physicians discover diseases and diagnose and treat patients at the desktop. Desktop medicine describes how risk assessment and information technologies are transforming medicine. The desktop with a networked computerand that computer with its own virtual desktopare where researchers examine and discover risks and where clinicians and patients meet to assess a patients risk factors and decide whether the patient needs treatment. This talk will consider this new model of medicine and its broad implications for medical training, the doctor-patient relationship, and the practice of medicine. Jason Karlawish, MD is Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of Penns Neurodegenerative Disease Ethics and Policy Program and the Director of the Alzheimers Disease Centers Education, Recruitment and Retention Core. His clinical practice centers on the diagnosis and treatment of persons with Alzheimers disease and related disorders. Professor Karlawishs research focuses on neuroethics, particularly on research and care of older adults and persons with late-life cognitive disorders such as Alzheimers disease and Parkinsons disease. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Greenwall Foundation and is the associate editor for ethics, policy and economics for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Lecture Hall 2003 is one floor above the main lobby of Duke Hospital. For more information, please contact us at 919 668-9000 or trent-center@duke.edu