Perelman School of Medicine Events Calendar

Judy Hirst (Cambridge), "Mitochondrial complex I: what do we know about the mechanisms of energy transduction and reactive oxygen species production?"

Mark your calendars!

Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care will be hosting it’s 2^nd “Global Health” Interest Evening on Thursday, March 3, 6-8pm in the Dripps library.

Speakers:

Michael Ashburn, MD, MPH Disaster Relief in Haiti

Josh Atkins, MD, PhD Administrative Partnerships in China

Shannon Bianchi, MD WHO Internship, Geneva

Nabil Elkassabany, MD Academic Exchange in Egypt

Maureen McCunn, MD, MIPP, FCCM Trauma Care and Program Development  in Egypt/India/Vietnam

Jesse Raiten, MD Founding an orphanage in Tanzania/Humanitarian Missions to Bangladesh

Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD Global Outreach

Daniel Vo, WHO Internship, Geneva

Eric Witze, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"Understanding Wnt5a regulated cell polarity and directional movement in melanoma"

Qi Zhang (UCLA), "Dynamic activation of RNA functions"

Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.E.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Epidemiology

"Improving Equity and Efficiency in Transplantable Lung Allocation"

Location: 701 Blockley Hall

David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
"Your World and Mine: Brain Research and Public Life"
Class of 1949 Auditorium, Houston Hall (3417 Spruce)

C. Ralph Daniel, MD
Professor of Dermatology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham

"The Nail and Forensics: Dealing with Chronic Paronychia and Onycholysis"

Translational Research Center Auditorium

Judy Hirst
Cambridge University

"Mitochondrial complex I: what do we know about the mechanisms of energy transduction and reactive oxygen species production?"

Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building

Qi Zhang
University of California, Los Angeles

"Dynamic activation of RNA functions"

251 Biomedical Research Building II/III

Eric Witze, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

“Understanding Wnt5a regulated cell polarity and directional movement in melanoma”

702 Clinical Research Building

George Cotsarelis
"Hair and Scalp Disorders"

10 Penn Tower Conference Room

The Appignani Bioethics Center will host an exceptional panel discussion under the auspices of the 55th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

One of the most the most lucrative and fastest-growing criminal activities in the world today is sex trafficking, which generates estimated global market revenue of about 42.5 billion dollars annually. Under recent estimates, a single captive female held for sexual exploitation in Western Europe and North America alone retails at a gross annual profit of about $68,000 (e.g. 2010 International Labor Office, Report and Statistics).

The hottest markets for young women and children held in brothels and in various pornographic venues (including film, tape, DVD, online, closed circuit, paid daily intimate camera feeds, etc.) are in developed countries particularly the EU and the US compared with other parts of the world. Efforts to alleviate sex trafficking in all its various platforms and formats are riven by cultural and social disputes, including significant religious differences and cultural norms. Some people argue that prostitution is always unlawful, discriminatory and abusive, and must be banned, whereas others want to decriminalize, legitimize and regulate it. Marketing unwilling sex workers across national and international borders is another aspect of the equation, making arrest or apprehension of traffickers more difficult and fraught than internal state trafficking.

Is there adequate discussion of the manifold roots of the problem nationally and internationally? Does education of women and girls help alleviate the mass of sex trafficking? Is prostitution ever voluntary? Should society criminalize so-called high end prostitution?

Our expert panel will address these complex questions.

Speakers :

Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University

Frances Kissling, Visiting Scholar, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Rachel Resnick, M.F.A., Author, Founder and CEO of Writers On Fire

Adele M. Stan, Journalist and editor whose work has appeared in The New Republic, the Village Voice, The Nation, The Advocate, the Washington Blade as well as on the op-ed pages of the New York Times

Panel moderator:

Ana Lita, Director, Appignani Bioethics Center