Enhancing the lives of children. How far should we go?
Tuesday 29 June 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
Registration Details:
Evening meeting only: Free of charge
Student: £45
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £85
Trainee: £85
Consultant/GP: £150
RSM Student: £35
RSM Trainee: £45
RSM Associate: £45
RSM Fellow: £60
Meeting ref: PDA15
CPD (Applied for)
9.30 am |
Registration |
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From theory to practice |
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10.00 am |
Welcome and introduction |
| Dr Victor Larcher, President, Section of Paediatrics & Child Health | |
10.10 am |
The moral imperative to enhance human beings |
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Professor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford |
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10.50 am |
Can reproductive technologies enhance the lives of future babies? |
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Dr Alastair Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in General and Adolescent Pediatrics, Institute of Child Health, London |
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11.25 am |
Coffee break |
11.55 am |
Can neonatal intensive care enhance the lives of small babies? Lessons from research |
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Professor Neil Marlow, Directorate of Women's Health, University College London |
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12.30 pm |
Enhancement of children's lives through improving socialisation by parents: New Jerusalem or Big Brother? |
| Professor Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London | |
1.10 pm |
Lunch |
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Possibilities and boundaries |
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2.10 pm |
The use of surgery to enhance lives of children. What are or should be the limits ? |
| Mr Robert Wheeler, Consultant in Paediatric and Neonatal Surgery, Southampton University Hospitals Trust | |
2.45 pm |
Enhancing children's cognition and behaviour by chemicals: what's possible; what's right? |
| Professor Eric Taylor, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London | |
3.25 pm |
Tea break |
3.55 pm |
Should we - and can we - regulate techniques intended to enhance lives of children? |
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Professor Jonathon Montgomery, Professor of Law, Southampton University |
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4.30 pm |
Enhancement from the young persons' perspective: what should we do? |
| Members of the Youth Advisory Panel of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health London and Bharti Mepani, Children and Young People's Participation Manager | |
5.05 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
5.10 pm |
Close of meeting |
5.30 pm |
Annual General Meeting |
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Alex Russell Memorial Lecture |
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6.30 pm |
Enhancing the lives of children: taking the broader view |
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Professor Terence Stephenson, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Nuffield Professor of Child Health Institute of Child Health, London |
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7.30 pm |
Closing remarks |
