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Spring 2025 Colloquy Registration
Date and Time
Monday, April 14, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Location
Loosemore Auditorium
Grand Valley State University's Pew Campus
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Building E
Description
2025 Devos Medical Ethics Colloquy
April 14, 2025
Hors
d'Oeuvres served at 5:30 p.m.
To Clamp or Not to Clamp: The Controversy of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) in Organ Donation.
When does death truly become irreversible? Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) is a cutting-edge technique in organ donation that restores circulation to vital organs after death -- but in so doing it challenges the ethical and legal boundaries of determining death and when it is ethical to take a person's organs. This debate will explore the tension between medical innovation, the Dead Donor Rule, and the trust that underpins organ donation. Join experts in ethics and medicine as we explore this complex and urgent issue.
Speakers:
- James L. Bernat, MD
- Emeritus Professor of Neurology at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
- Dartmouth College
- Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Division of General Internal Medicine
- University of Colorado
- Michael G. Dickinson, MD
- Medical Director, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant
- Corewell Heath
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Contact
GVSU Alumni Relations
(616) 331-3590
alumni@gvsu.edu