Session 1: The Healing Professions

Patricia Benner, M.S.N., Ph.D.
Senior Scholar
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Break

Session 2: The Professions in Contemporary America: Promise and Peril

William M. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Senior Scholar
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Session 3: Health Care—Who Is Responsible? The Individual? Society? Both?

Allen Buchanan, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Duke University

Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
Director of International Programs and Former President
The Hastings Center

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics
National Institutes of Health

Break

Session 4: Nanotechnology: Benefits and Risks

Andrew D. Maynard, Ph.D.
Chief Science Adviser
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Session 5: Nanotechnology, Medicine, and Ethics

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.
Professor, Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine, and
Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Professor of Experimental Therapeutics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center