Cong茅lation des ovules: Libert茅 ou fardeau?
Le Groupe de recherche en sant茅 et droit de 缅北强奸 vous convie 脿 une table ronde interdisciplinaire avec la professeure Vardit Ravitsky, la Dre. Karen Buzaglo, et Katie Hammond, PhD, qui se pencheront sur les d茅bats juridiques, 茅thiques et m茅dicaux qui entourent la cong茅lation d'ovules pour raisons non-m茅dicales d'un point de vue canadien. Le panel sera anim茅 par la professeure Alana Klein.
Cette activit茅 est admissible pour 1,5 heures de formation continue obligatoire tel que d茅clar茅 par les membres du Barreau du Qu茅bec.
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VARDIT RAVITSKY is Associate Professor at the Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal and Director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She is President of the International Association of Bioethics, member of CIHR鈥檚 Standing Committee on Ethics and of the Advisory Board of CIHR鈥檚 Institute of Genetics. Her research focuses on the ethics of genomics and reproduction and is funded by CIHR, FRQSC, SSHRC, and Genome Canada. She published over 140 articles and commentaries on bioethical issues.
DR. KAREN BUZAGLO (MDCM 2004) graduated from 缅北强奸鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine and pursued her residency at 缅北强奸 in Obstetrics & Gynecology. She became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2011, then completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (GREI) at Universit茅 de Montr茅al with Royal College certification in 2013. Dr. Buzaglo is co-medical director of Procrea Fertilit茅, part of IntegraMed, the largest network of fertility clinics in North America. She is immediate past chair of the Fertility Preservation special interest group of CFAS and vice-president of Fertile Future, a non-profit organization that offers financial assistance for fertility preservation for cancer patients. In 2019, she launched Fertilit茅 & F茅minit茅, located at Clinique Medic Elle, promoting active optimization of one鈥檚 reproductive, sexual and post-menopausal health providing the most advanced technologies in these areas. She is a passionate advocate for women taking charge of their own health throughout their lives.
KATIE HAMMOND (BCL/LLB 2019) is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law in the Faculty of Law at 缅北强奸, and a visiting scholar with the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. She completed her PhD in Sociology with the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge as a Commonwealth Trust scholar, and an MPhil in Gender Studies as a Gates Cambridge scholar.聽 Her work explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, and their resulting markets and regulation. She has been involved with policy development in the area of reproduction for organizations such as the World Health Organization, where she was involved with organizing, and participated in the consultation for the WHO鈥檚 first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility. In particular, she specializes in the areas of egg, sperm and embryo donation, surrogacy, and egg freezing.
