2006

"Stem Cells: Dispelling Myths & Exploring Truths"

UCLA Covel Commons
8:30am - 12:00pm
February 11, 2006

The UCLA Health Care Symposium is an annual student-run event designed to increase knowledge and awareness of a current, important issue in medicine. The 10th annual symposium was centered on stem cell research and what it means for the medical communities of California, the U.S., and the world.

On November 2, 2004, the California voters passed a bond measure to provide state funds for human embryonic stem-cell research at California's public and private academic research institutions. The questions now are: What comes next? How and when will this change physician practices? What ethical guidelines will be enforced in stem cell researches? These are some of the questions that were addressed in "Stem Cells: Dispelling Myths & Exploring Truths".

Schedule of Events

8:30 AMRegistration & Breakfast

9:00 AMSpeaker: Irving Weissman, M.D.
"Normal and Leukemic Stem Cells"
Director, Stanford University's Institute of Cancer/ Stem Cell Biology and Medicine

9:45 AMSpeaker: Robert Klein, J.D.
"The Promise of Stem Cell Research and the California Endeavor"
Author, Proposition 71: The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative

10:30 AMSpeaker: Stanley Korenman, M.D.
"Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research"
Associate Dean for Ethics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

11:00 AMPanel Discussion
Moderated by Judith Gasson, Ph.D
Co-Director, UCLA Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine

12:00 PMLunch & Raffle

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