Ethics Talk: Could Trusting Science Mean Not Trusting Some FDA Decisions?
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Caleb Alexander about the US Food and Drug Administration's controversial decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
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G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS is professor of epidemiology and medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Recorded on June 22, 2021
Neurology Patient Care
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Dr Alexander is past chair and current member of FDA's Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee. He is a co-founding principal and equity holder in Monument Analytics, a health care consultancy whose clients include the life sciences industry as well as plaintiffs in opioid litigation. He was also a member of OptumRx's National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Visibility and Measurability in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Polling, Politics, and Health Policy in the COVID-19 Era
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Mollyann Brodie about the science of polling, public opinions on COVID-19, and politically divergent views on policy options to achieve universal health care coverage.
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Mollyann Brodie, PhD is the executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Public Health, Personal Liberties, and COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Professor Lawrence Gostin about the challenges of balancing public health ethics and personal civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lawrence Gostin, JD is the founding O'Neil Chair in Global Health Law at Georgetown University and a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey about the social and economic hurdles confronted by those among us in low-wage jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, PhD is the executive director of the Center for Employment Equity at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19
In this special video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talked with Dr Edmund Pellegrino (1920-2013) about personal virtues in shaping ethical behavior and moral authority in promoting the common good.
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Edmund Pellegrino, MD was professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics at Georgetown University.
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Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee is assumed to have no conflicts of interest.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Humor in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 2
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.
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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Part 1 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism Systems-Based Practice
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 1
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with members of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission charged with developing recommendations aimed at restoring trust in our constitutional democracy.
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Antonia Hernandez, JD is chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation.
Wallace Jefferson, JD is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2004-13).
Eric Liu, JD is chief executive officer of Citizen University.
Part 2 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees are members of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 2
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with members of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission charged with developing recommendations aimed at restoring trust in our constitutional democracy.
Click here to read the transcript.
Antonia Hernandez, JD is chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation.
Wallace Jefferson, JD is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2004-13).
Eric Liu, JD is chief executive officer of Citizen University.
Part 1 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees are members of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: Equitable Allocation of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ruth Faden about how to fairly distribute any potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine when supply is limited.
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Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH is a professor of biomedical ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
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Infectious Disease Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Dr Faden is principal investigator of a Wellcome Trust funded-project on COVID-19 and Nigeria. She is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on the Immunization Working Group on COVID-19 Vaccines in the World Health Organization.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Solutions to Avoid Relying on Them
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Prof Debbie Kaminer about vaccine mandates and other policy solutions to promote herd immunity against COVID-19.
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Debbie Kaminer, JD is a professor in the Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Behavioral Architecture in Health Care
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