This is the program for the conference to be held on April 21-23, 2006, presented by the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics and Genetics Policy Institute assisted by The Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI). Click on the name of each participant for biography and abstract(s) of her/his presentation(s). Friday, April 21, 2006

6:00pm-9:30pm

Cocktail Reception Turkish Consulate General, Culture & Tourism Office, 821 United Nations Plaza, New York City, NY 10017 Speakers: Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. - Director: Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Paul Kurtz, Ph.D. - Center for Inquiry Transnational Johan Schölvinck, Ph.D. is currently Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economics and Social Affairs (DESA).

Saturday, April 22, 2006

	Conference - Day 1 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY 10017
8:30am-9:30am	Registration
9:30am-10:00am	Louis J. Appignani - President, The Louis J. Appignani Foundation Ana Lita, Ph.D. - Director: IHEU- Appignani Center for Bioethics Glenn McGee, Ph.D. - Director: Alden March Bioethics Institute (NYBI) at Albany Medical Center, NY Bernard Siegel, J.D. - Director: Genetics Policy Institute Welcome and Introductory Remarks
10:00am-10:30am	Glenn McGee, Ph.D. The importance of being regional: in defense of the American federalist system of state experimentation as a model for bioethics
10:30am-11:45am	Panel discussion: Biotechnology, Justice and Equality Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D., is Associate Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society James Hughes, Ph.D. - Director: Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut Stephen E. Levick, M.D. - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Moderator: Glenn McGee, Ph.D.
11:00am-11:30am	Coffee Break
11:30am-12:00am	Alyssa Bernstein, Ph.D. The 2005 Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) and the Duty of International Assistance
12:00am-12:30pm	Adrienne Asch, Ph.D. - Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, NYC Does Reproductive Choice Mean Reproductive Selection
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm-3:30pm	Panel discussion: Women's reproductive and sexual rights Taina Bien-Aimé, J.D. - Executive Director of "Equality Now" Marin Gillis, Ph.D. - Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston Laura Purdy, Ph.D. - Wells College, NY Bonnie Spanier, Ph.D. - State University of New York, Albany Moderator: Alyssa Bernstein, Ph.D.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

	Conference - Day 2 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY 10017
9:00am-9:30am	James Stacey Taylor, Ph.D. - The College of New Jersey Personal Autonomy, Organ Sales, and 'Coercive' Markets
9:30am-10:00am	Cheryl Cox Macpherson, Ph.D. - St George's University, Grenada Partnering with Stakeholders to Promote Palliative Care in the Caribbean
10:00am-10:30am	Abraham P. Schwab, Ph.D. International Standards of Research
10:30am-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am-1:00pm	Panel discussion: Embryonic stem cell research and human rights Janet Dolgin, J.D., Ph.D. - Hofstra University School of Law Louis M. Guenin, Ph.D. - Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School Stephen E. Levick, M.D. - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Moderator: Bernard Siegel, J.D.
1:009m-2:00pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm-2:30pm	Jason Lott Towards a Global Human Embryonic Stem Cell Bank Authors: Jason Lott; John Harris, Ph.D.; and Julian Savulescu, Ph.D.
2:30pm-3:00pm	Colleen Lyons, University of Pennsylvania Bioethics and Business: The UN MDG Challenge
3:00pm-3:30pm	Harry Stopes-Roe, Ph.D. Secure Foundations for Morality
3:30pm-3:45pm	Ana Lita, Ph.D. Closing remarks