Robert Buckman

Day: Saturday, April 23
Hour: 9:00 - 9:30 am
Presentation: Bioethics and Religion – Is there a role for faith-based absolutes?
Final remarks (saturday 2:30 pm)

Dr. Robert Buckman lives in Toronto, Canada, where he is a medical oncologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital, and a full Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and adjunct Professor at the M.D.Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, specializing in breast cancer and also in teaching communication skills in oncology to physicians and nurses.

For the last twenty years Dr. Buckman has also had a second career in communication and broadcasting, presenting television science-and-medicine programmes in Britain and then Canada, including his series Magic or Medicine? for which he won a Gemini award (the Canadian TV Industry equivalent of an Emmy). Dr. Buckman has written fourteen books including How To Break Bad News a medical textbook for physicians and healthcare professionals, What You Really Need To Know About Cancer a comprehensive guide for patients and their families, Not Dead Yet an autobiography and Can We Be Good Without God? Biology, Behavior and the Need to Believe, which was a national best-seller. He is the president of the Humanist Association of Canada and Chairman of the IHEU’s Advisory Board of Bioethics.