Spring 2025 Colloquy Registration

Monday, April 14, 2025
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Alumni, Students

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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Location Information

Loosemore Auditorium
Grand Valley State University's Pew Campus
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Building E

Contact Information

GVSU Alumni Relations
(616) 331-3590
alumni@gvsu.edu

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This event was added to the calendar by Abigail Tannhauser (s_tannhaab@gvsu.edu) on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 and was last updated on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 8:34 a.m.