Maimonides Society

Network and learn with other Jewish healthcare professionals.

The Associated’s Maimonides Society hosts industry-related programs, through a Jewish lens, that are open to all healthcare professionals. Maimonides Society members stand among a national group of leading donors in the health industry who contribute $1,000 or more to the Annual Campaign.

Explore the intersection of human genome editing and ethics.

Tuesday, November 5 | 7:00 p.m. Networking, 7:30 p.m. Program
Temple Oheb Shalom
7310 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore

$25 for Maimonides Society level donors

$35 for donors under $1,000 and non-donors

FEATURED PRESENTER: JEFFREY KAHN, PHD, MPH
Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy
The Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

MODERATOR: YORAM UNGURU, MD, MS, MA
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai
Chairman, Sinai Hospital Ethics Committee
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Food and drinks will be served.

Dietary laws observed.

You will have the opportunity to make your gift to The Associated.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Questions? Contact Alexis Miller at ammiller@associated.org or 410-369-9295.

LEADERSHIP

Maimonides Society Committee

Michele Shermak, MD, Maimonides Society Chair

Barry Waldman, MD, Maimonides Society Vice Chair

Nancy Bailowitz, MD, Marshall Bedine, MD, Jeffrey T. Brodie, MD, Dov Frankel, MD, Harvey H. Kasner, MD, Avi Leibowitz, MD, Scott London, MD, Lisa Miller, DPM, Jeffrey Posner, MD, Yanna Rachinskaya, Ph.D, Joshua P. Weintraub, DDS

Linda A. Hurwitz & Philip E. Sachs, Chairs, Development
Catherine G. Applefeld, Chair, Keynote Gifts
Maury Garten, Chair, Annual Campaign Strategies
Debra S. Weinberg, Chair of the Board
Marc B. Terrill, President

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Speakers

Jeffrey Kahn

Jeffrey Kahn is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy. He is also Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include the ethics of research, ethics and public health and ethics and emerging biomedical technologies. He speaks widely both in the U.S. and abroad, and has published four books and over 125 articles, and is currently co-PI for the Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Ethics and Policy Research on Genomics and Infectious Disease (NIH-NHGRI). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the Hastings Center, and has chaired or served on committees and panels for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Medicine, where he is currently chair of the Board on Health Sciences Policy. His education includes a BA in microbiology (UCLA, 1983), MPH (Johns Hopkins, 1988), and PhD in philosophy (Georgetown, 1989).

Dr. Unguru

Dr. Unguru is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist with joint faculty appointments at The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai and The John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where he is a Core Faculty member. He is also Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His BA in historical studies and MA with a concentration in the history of medicine and medical ethics were granted at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Unguru also received a Master of Science (valedictorian) in interdisciplinary studies in biological and physical science at Touro College / Barry Z. Levine School of Health Sciences. He earned his MD (valedictorian) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology / Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital at Sinai and his pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. Dr. Unguru was a postdoctoral Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Unguru is board certified both in pediatrics and in pediatric hematology/oncology.

Dr. Unguru is the Chairman of the Ethics Committee at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore where he implemented and directs a clinical ethics curriculum for the pediatric house staff at The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai. He is a recipient of “Teacher of the Year” as chosen by the pediatric house staff at The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital and leads a multidisciplinary, transnational working group examining the ethical and policy implications of chemotherapy shortages in childhood cancer.