DIBSS 2016

PROGRAM DIBSS2016

Dubrovnik International Bioethics Summer School will address different bioethical problems in the context of emerging global society. The summer school aims at an interdisciplinary debate, especially between: clinical medicine and public health, law, philosophy, sociology and political sciences, psychology, psychiatry and behavioural sciences. Goal of the Dubrovnik International Bioethics Summer School is to provide interested students and professionals with information pertaining to different aspects of bioethical issues encouraging international debates at the intersection of health, biotechnology and medicine.
Dubrovnik International Bioethics Summer School will consist of 6 consecutive modules and a two-day Conference:
• Module 1. Evidence Based Bioethics
A. Ethical Issues in Preparing Cochrane Review
B. Bioethics in Bibliographic Resources and Publishing Practice
• Module 2. Ethics in HIV/AIDS Surveillance
• Module 3. ORPHEUS Ethics in Science
• Module 4. A. Bioethical Aspects of Mental Illness in the Media (in Partnership with Croatian Journalist Association)
• Conference: Price of Health
 
Day 1 - Saturday, August 6^th 2016
Module 1. Evidence Based Bioethics

A. Ethical Issues in Preparing Cochrane Review: Marta Čivljak and Livija Puljak
9:30 – 9:45 Introduction
9:45 – 10:00 Evidence-based medicine and the hierarchy of evidence in medicine
10:00 – 10:15 Distinction between a systematic review and a traditional narrative review (Exercise 1)
10:15 – 10:30 Steps in preparing a systematic review (Exercise 2)
10:30– 11:00 Finding and extracting data from randomized controlled trials (Exercise 3)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30– 12:30 Evaluation of the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials (Exercise 4)
12:30 - 12:45 Data analysis, statistics in systematic reviews, meta-analysis
12:45 - 13:45 Assessment of quality of systematic review - AMSTAR (Exercise 5)
13:45 - 15:30 Lunch Break

B. Bioethics in Bibliographic Resources and Publishing Practice
15:30 - 17:00 Lovela Machala Poplašen and Ana Borovečki
       Information Literacy
       Evidence Based Medicine
       Evidence Based Bioethics
       Searching and Information skills for finding the Evidence
       Example of literature search in PubMed

Day 2 - Sunday, August 7^th 2016
Module 1. Evidence Based Bioethics

A. Ethical Issues in Preparing Cochrane Review: Marta Čivljak and Livija Puljak
9:30 – 9:45 Searching the Cochrane Library (Exercise 6)
9:45 - 10:15 Registration for the development of Cochrane systematic review (Exercise 7)
10:15 – 11:15 Drafting the systematic review; PRISMA guidelines (Exercise 7) 
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45 Ethics in Cochrane systematic reviews (Personal conflict of interest, Publication         bias, Funding issues, Difficult access to data)
12:45 – 15:30 Lunch Break 

B. Bioethics in Bibliographic Resources and Publishing Practice
15:30 - 17:00 Ana Borovečki
     Bioethics resources on the web
     Being in an editorial board of a bioethics journal 
18:00 - 19:30 Religions in Dubrovnik

Day 3 - Monday, August 8^th 2016
Module 2. Ethics in HIV Surveillance

9:30 - 11:00 Zoran Dominković: Lecture and Exercises 
  Key principles and ethical issues in HIV surveillance in key populations; challenges with recruitment is surveys due to stigmatization; pre and post-test counselling and link to HIV care; criminalization of HIV
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Zoran Dominković: Lecture and Exercises
Key principles and ethical issues in HIV surveillance in key populations; challenges with recruitment is surveys due to stigmatization; pre and post-test counselling and link to HIV care; criminalization of HIV
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 17:30 Aleksandar Štulhofer: Lecture and Exercises
Selection and training of staff, data confidentiality, data dissemination principles, presenting data to media
Module 3. ORPHEUS Ethics in Science
9:30 - 10:15 ORPHEUS, Zdravko Lacković
10:15 - 11:00 Ethics in Science, Zdravko Lacković
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Tutorials Columbia Edu, Ana Borovečki
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00 The Lab, Ana Borovečki
18:00 - 19:30 Dubrovnik History of Medicine Tour

Day 4 - Tuesday, August 9^th 2016
9:30 - 11:00 Round table Discussion - Experiences in Teaching Ethics of Science and Research for PhD Students, Zdravko Lacković and Ana Borovečki
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Oath of Ethics in Science, Zdravko Lacković and Ana Borovečki
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break
15:30 - 17:00 - Concluding Remarques, Zdravko Lacković and Ana Borovečki
18:00 - 19:30 Museum War Photo Limited

Day 5 - Wednesday, August 10^th 2016
10:00 - 17:00 Field Trip: Lokrum Island

Day 6 - Thursday, August 11^th 2016
Module 4: Bioethical Aspects of Mental Illness (media depictions and public attitude)
09:30 – 09:45 Introduction
09:45 – 10:30 Media depictions of mental illnesses - bioethical issues, Tea Vukušić Rukavina
10:30 – 11:15 Portraying mental illness and drug addiction as treatable health conditions, Howard     Goldman
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Use of coercive measures during involuntary hospitalization, Alexander Nawka
12:00 – 12:45 History of psychedelic research & politics, Nina B.L. Urban
12:45 – 13:30 Medical cannabis: medical necessity vs political agenda, Ognjen Brborović
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break
15:30 – 16:45 Small group work: Pro & con debate
16:45 – 17:30 Closing Lecture: Contemporary Challenges of Body Commodification, Judit Sandor

Day 7 - Friday, August 12^th 2016
9:30 - 11:00 Students' Presentations

1. Mirella Ballista Callera, Brasil, University of Sao Paulo (USP)
   "The End of Life and Its Legal Consequences"

2. Laura Buzia, U.S.A., New York City, Registered Nurse at HYC Government, HRA - Home Care Survids "Bioethics in Nursing"

3. Seda Bakirci, France, University of Sophia Antipolis - Nice, School of Medicine
    "Bioethical Issues in Anti-Vaccination Campaigns"

4. Valentina Cikojević, Croatia, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
    "Internet Addiction: Bioethical Issues"

5. Kristen Elwell, U.S.A., Northeastern University
    "Case Study on Conflict of Interest - Joseph Biederman from MGH/Harvard"

6. Patrick Guo, Hong Kong SAR, West Island School "Parental Responsibility of Embryo Preservation and Disposal"

7. Bianca Hanganu, Romania, Forensic Medicine
    "Bioethics of Human Enhancement"

8. Ana Jozepović, Croatia, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
    "Medical Cannabis"

9. Lucia Labašová, Slovakia, Comenius University Bratislava
    "Contraception and Side Effects"

10. Karla Margetić, Croatia, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
     "Media Depictions of Mental Illnesses - Bioethical Issues

11. Lela Nadashvili
    "Ethics in HIV Surveillance" 

12. Katja Samoligo, Russia, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration "Brain Imaging and the Policy of Neuromarketing"

11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:15 Students' Presentations

1. Dickson Tong, Hong Kong SAR, West Island School
    "Obstetric Service for Pregnant Women from Mainland China - Ethical Issues"

2. Lucija Ana Trtanj, Croatia, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
    "Contemporary Challenges of Body Commodification"
       
3. Tomislav Zaluski, Croatia, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
    "Ethics in Science"

4. Marijan Zovko, Croatia, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
    "HIV Surveillance in Key Populations, Challenges in Surveys Due to Stigmatization"

12:30 Winner Announcement DIBSS Prize 
14:00 Opening & Welcome Conference: Price of Health