WORKHOP

BIOETHICS COMMITTEE TURKISH NATIONAL COMMISSION for UNESCO

25 - 26 April 2011 Armada Hotel Istanbul Turkey

Program
Monday, 25 April 2011

8:30-9:30    Registration
Session I

9:30-10:00    Opening and Introductory Remarks
Meral Özgüç
Member, IBC* of UNESCO
Chair, Bioethics Committee, TNCU**
Faculty of Medicine Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

10:00-10:30 Ottoman Health System in Perspective: Social
Responsibility Through Charitable Endowments
Mehmet Akif Kireççi
Department of History, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

Berna Arda Session II Chair 

10.45-11:15 Social Responsibility and Health-Philosophical
Background in Approaches of Human Rights and Responsibility
Stefano Semplici
Member, IBC of UNESCO
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome tor Vergata Scientific Director, Lamaro Pozzani College, Rome, Italy

11:15-11:45 Awareness Raising in the Public for Emerging
Technologies in Biomedicine, and Related Bioethical Issues
Mehmet Oztürk
Former member, IBC of UNESCO
Director, BilGen Genetics and Biotechnology Research Center
of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Research Director, Institut Albert Bonniot, Grenoble, France

11:45-12:00 Discussion

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-14:30

Uygar Tazebay Session III Chair

Financing research in a small country of the European Union
Toivo Maimets Member, IBC of UNESCO
Director, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Director, National Center of Excellence for Gene and Environmental Technologies, Estonia

14:30-15:00
Bioethics committees and public policy implementation Hakan Orer
Bioethics Committee, TNCU
Director, Institute of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

15:00-15:30
Bioethics Education in Turkey
Berna Arda
Bioethics Committee,TNCU
Dept, of Medical History and Medical Ethics Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara, Ankara Turkey

15:30-15:45 Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

Hakan Orer Session IV Chair

16:00-16:30
Education of Women and Children in a Multicultural Society
Salwa Saniora Baassiri
Arab Ethics Committee for Science and Technology, Lebanon

16:30-17:00
UN Millennium Goals and Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
Nüket Örnek Büken
Bioethics Committee,TNCU
Dept, of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Tuesday, 26 April 2011 Session V
Nüket Örnek Büken Chair