| Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| 7:30 | REGISTRATION |
| 8:00 | Welcome
Mark Sothman, PhD, Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost |
| 8:05 | Introductory Comments
Robert Sade, MD, Director, Institute of Human Values in Health Care |
| Session I: NEWBORN SCREENING |
| Moderator: Dorothea Jenkins (Associate Professor of Pediatrics) |
| 8:15 | Screening of Newborns for Disorders with High Benefit-Risk Ratios Should Be Mandatory —George Cunningham, MD, MPH, State of California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, CA |
| 8:45 | Parents Should Be Asked for Consent to Newborn Screening, Even for Disorders with High Benefit-Risk Ratios— Norman Fost, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics, School of Medicine and Public Health; Director, Medical Ethics Program, University of Wisconsin |
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| 9:30 | Panel: Cunningham and Fost |
| 10:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| Session II: VACCINCATION REFUSAL |
| Moderator: Fred Tecklenburg (Associate Professor of Pediatrics) |
| 10:30 | Refusing the Refusers: When Parents Refuse Vaccination for Their Children — Stan L. Block, MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, and University of Louisville Medical School, Louisville, KY, President, Kentucky Pediatric and Adult Research Inc. |
| 11:00 | Pediatricians Should Accept Care of Children Whose Parents Refuse Vaccination —Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 11:30 | Panel: Block and Diekema |
| 12:00 | LUNCH: TABLE-TALK SESSIONS, INDIVIDUAL FACULTY MEMBER DISCUSSIONS |
| Session III: INFANT MALE CIRCUMCISION |
| Moderator: Sally Webb (Associate Professor of Pediatrics) |
| 1:00 | Newborn Male Circumcision with Parental Consent, as Stated in the AAP Circumcision Policy Statement, is Both Legal and Ethical —Michael T. Brady, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University; Physician-in-Chief, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1:30 | Newborn Male Circumcision Is Unethical and Should Be Illegal—J. Steven Svoboda, JD, Founder and Executive Director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, Berkeley, CA |
| 2:30 | Panel: Brady and Svoboda |
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| 2:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| Session IV: SURGERY FOR TRISOMY 18 INFANTS |
| Moderator: Ross Ungerleider (Professor of Surgery, Wake Forest University) |
| 3:15 | Open Heart Repair Should Be Offered to Infants with Trisomy 18 and VSD— Minoo Kavarana, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Section of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, MUSC |
| 3:45 | Infants with trisomy 18 and VSD should not undergo open heart surgery—Eric Graham, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, MUSC |
| 4:15 | Panel: Kavarana and Graham |
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| 5:00 | ADJOURN FOR THE DAY |
| Saturday, October 19, 2013 |
| 8:30 | REGISTRATION |
| Session V: INTERACTIVE AUDIENCE AND FACULTY DISCUSSION |
| Moderator: Robert Sade, MD (Professor of Surgery, MUSC) |
| 9:00 | Seminar on Pediatric Controversies— Audience and Lecturers: Block, Brady, Cunningham, Diekema, Fost, Graham, Kavarana, Svoboda |
| 12:00 | ADJOURN |
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