MedConference organized by the American Association of Medicine and the Person

2015 Program Sessions

Session I:
Medical care in pregnancy: technology and wonder

Laura Toso, MD
Lucia Pederiva, Midwife
Dorothy Smok, MD
Moderator: Laura Toso, MD

Session II:
Personalized medicine:  The state of the art
 
Mark Basik, MD

Personalized medicine:  The ethical basis 
Daniel Sulmasy, MD
Moderator: Mark Basik

Session III:
Personalizing family medicine
 
Monica Goodwin, MD
David Goodwin, MD
Lise Poirier-Groulx, MD
Moderator: Federica Fromm, MD

Session IV: 
Rediscovering the person in the medical encounter
 
Andrea Cooke, RN
Cristiano Ferrario, MD
Moderator: Aline Mamo, PhD

Caring for the disabled person 
Interview with: Jean Vanier

My brother Oliver 
Mr. Christopher DeVinck
Moderator: Sabrina Paganoni, MD

Session V:
Judgment-based medicine

Jerome Groopman, MD
Pamela Hartzband, MD
Moderator: Andrea Mariani, MD

Why am I going to med school? A student viewpoint

Daniel Webb Markwalter, med student
Francesco Belia, med student
Moderator: Sabrina Paganoni, MD

“I hate diseases, I love patients”

Interview with: Professor Jerome Lejeune