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APRIL 26, 2006
  Invitation to Cover: Penn’s Center for Bioethics Presents 10th Anniversary Symposium
  The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why is it so hard to die in America?
   
WHAT: The University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics marks its 10th anniversary by sponsoring a special symposium - The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why is it so hard to die in America? The two-day symposium is designed to encourage a national dialogue about the future of end-of-life issues - including lessons learned, challenges that remain, and ways these types of issues should be handled moving forward.
WHO:

Hosted by Dr. Arthur Caplan, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Symposium speakers include:

  • Michael Schiavo, Terri Schiavo’s former husband
  • Circuit Judge George W. Greer, Schiavo case judge
  • Julia Duane Quinlan, mother of Karen Ann Quinlan
  • Mary J. Labyak, Program Director, The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, hospice where Terri Schiavo died
  • Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD, Terri Schiavo’s court-appointed guardian
  • Robert Bazell, Chief Science and Health Correspondent, NBC News
WHERE: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Auditorium and Lobby, Biomedical Research Building II/III
421 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Click here to view map (launches in new window)
WHEN: Sunday, April 30, 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Monday, May 1, 2006
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Editor’s Notes: Attending media must pre-register with Kate Olderman at (215) 662-2560, (215) 200-2312, or kate.olderman@uphs.upenn.edu.

Due to limited seating capacity, media representatives will be assigned to a designated Press Room that will include a telecast of the symposium. A mult box will be set up that will provide audio and composite video outputs.

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