Lyon Daughters
Lecture Series
About the Lyon
Daughters Lecture
Since 1992, the Rochester Academy of Medicine and the Lyon family have sponsored
the Annual Lyon Daughters Lecture. This is a series of lectures that explore
ethical issues of health care that appeal to the general public as well as to
physicians. The lecture series was the idea of Allis Van Voorhis D'Amanda, granddaughter
of Carolyn and Edmund Lyon. The lectures are held in the Lyon home which the
Lyon's three daughters gave to the Academy in 1938. The daughters, Elzabeth Lyon
Kidd born in 1898, the twins, Carolyn Lyon Remington and Linda Lyon Van Voorhis,
born in 1902, inherited their parent's sense of civic pride, philanthropy and
responsibility. It seems appropriate to honor these ladies in a way that would
expand the medical educational activities that are one of the Academy's missions
and reflect the humanitarian and cultural ideals of the Lyon family.
The 21st Annual Lyon
Daughters Lecture will be held Thursday 7:00 P.M., April 26, 2012
at the Rochester Academy of Medicine
Mark S. Lachs, M.D., M.P.H.
The 21st Lyon Daughters annual lecture
in bioethics will be held Thursday, April 26, 2012 featuring Mark S. Lachs,
M.D., M.P.H. presenting a talk tentatively entitled Geriatrics and Jerry
Seinfeld: Clinical and Ethical Issues on Ageism in which he will explore issues
of caring for the elderly.
Mark S. Lachs, M.D., M.P.H. is Director of Geriatrics for the New York
Presbyterian Health System, Co-Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and
Gerontology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and a tenured
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the College.
Dr. Lachs' major area of interest is the disenfranchised elderly, and he has
published widely in the areas of elder abuse and neglect, adult protective
services, the measurement of functional status, ethics, and the financing of
health care. He has lectured internationally on these topics. Recently, he has
been instrumental in advocating for the creation of a dedicated elder abuse
center in New York City. In September 2010, Penguin Viking published his book
Treat Me, Not My Age: A Doctor's Guide to Getting the Best Care as You or a
Loved One Gets Older.
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PAST PRESENTATIONS
OF THE LYON DAUGHTERS LECTURE
2011
Saving Lives or Selling Organs / The Ethics of Transplant Trafficking
Nancy Scheper-Huges, Ph.D.
Professor, Anthropology, University of
California, Berkeley
2010
"Building Better Brains: The Ethics of
Neuroenhancing Drugs"
Anjan Chatterjee, M.D.
Professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School
2009
"Deaf Children Are Not Hearing
Children Who Can't Hear"
Marc Marschark, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for
Education Research Partnerships, Rochester Institute of Technology - National
Technical Institute for the Deaf
Honorary Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen,
Scotland; and Honorary Professor, Moray House of Education, University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2008
"Alzheimer's Disease: The Crux of Growing
Old: Inevitable or Preventable?"
Berislav V. Zlokovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean’s Professor and Professor of
Neurosurgery & Neurology Director, Center for Neurodegenerative and Vascular
Brain Disorders
Director, Frank P. Smith Laboratories for Neuroscience and Neurosurgical
Research
Associate Chairman for Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center
2007
"Cochlear
Implants, Cool or Not So Cool"
Irene W. Leigh,
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet
University.
John
B. Christiansen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology of Gallaudet
University. Dr. Christiansen is
co-author, along with Dr. Leigh, of the book Cochlear Implants in Children: Ethics and Choices.
2006
"On
the Take: Commercial Influences on Medical Practice"
Jerome P.
Kassirer, M.D.
Distinguished
Professor, Tufts University school of Medicine and adjunct professor of Medicine
and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
2005
"Maternal-State Conflicts:
Judging Drug-Using Pregnant Women."
Lynn M.
Paltrow, J.D.
Executive Director and Founder of National Advocates
for Pregnant Women (NAPW)
2004
"More
Than a State of Mind: Ethics and Severe Brain Injury"
Joseph Fins,
M.D.
Director
of Medical Ethics at the Cornell campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital and Professor of Medicine,
Professor of Public Health and Professor of Medicine in
Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
2003
Who
Owns Life? and Other Controversies in Stem Cell Research
Glenn
McGee, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Education & Senior
Fellow, Center for Bioethics & professor of Bioethics, Philosophy and
History & Sociology of Science, Department of Bioethics, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2002
TAKE TWO ECHINACEA AND CALL ME IN
THE MORNING. Should your physician prescribe complementary and alternative
therapies?
Karen E. Adams, M.D.
Chairman, Ethics Committee of the
American Medical Women's Association, Assistant professor of Ob/GYN at the
Oregon Health & Science University
2001
HEALTH CARE: AT WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL
COST? A New Frontier in Bioethics
Andrew L. Jameton, PhD
Philosopher /Professor of Preventive
and Societal Medicine University of Nebraska Medical Center
2000
TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR PAIN:
Empowerment, Advocacy and Intervention
Betty R. Ferrell, RN, PhD
Research Scientist, City of Hope
Medical Center, Duarte, California
1999
SEEING VOICES: A JOURNEY INTO THE
WORLD OF THE DEAF
Oliver Sacks, MD
Neurologist; Author, Awakenings and
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
1998
ANIMALS & HUMANS: BRIDGING THE
GAP
Peter Singer, PhD
Founder of modern animal rights
movement
Author, Animal Rights Ethicist and
Professor, Monash University, Australia
1997
REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS: PERSONAL
CHOICE vs SOCIETAL REGULATION Debate Format
John Robertson, JD, Professor &
Chair, School of Law, University of Texas
Bonnie Steinbock, PhD, Professor
& Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Albany, SUNY
1996
PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: PRO
& CON Debate Format
Dan W. Brook, PhD (PRO), Director of
Center of Biomedical Ethics, Brozvn University Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD (CON),
Director of Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University
1995
HUMAN GUINEA PIGS? THE ETHICS of
RADIATION EXPERIMENTS in the COLD WAR
Ruth Macklin, PhD
Philosopher, Bioethicist &
Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
1994
GENETIC ENGINEERING: ITS PROMISE
& ETHICAL CONCERNS
George J. Annas, JD, MPH
Professor & Chair of Health Law
Department, Boston University School of Public Health
1993
THE OREGON HEALTH PLAN
John Kitzhaber, MD, Physician and
Oregon State Senator
1992
CONTROLLING DEATH: POSSIBILITIES
& LIMITS
Daniel Callahan, PhD, Cofounder and
Director of the Hastings Center
