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The lecture will take place on-campus at UCD Smurfit School on 20th January 2025 from 6.30pm - 7.30pm. Registration is from 6pm with refreshments.  The event will be followed by a wine and canapes reception. 

Lecture Title:  The Ethics of Predictive Technologies in Biomedicine

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	Each year UCD Smurfit School hosts the annual Laurence Crowley Lecture Series. Running since 2014, this year's lecture features Professor Judit Sandor who will speak about The Ethics of Predictive Technologies in Biomedicine.

Abstract

Prediction has always been an important element of medicine and health care. While prediction has been based traditionally on past experience and existing case studies in health care, it is more future oriented today and works with various degrees of presumption. The Human Genome Project allowed for an increasing use of genetic tests, for the analysis and interpretation of big data within biobanks, for the application of diagnostic laser, artificial intelligence, and several other prediction technologies in healthcare. The use of these emerging technologies in human reproduction, therapy and biomedical research has expanded rapidly. But what are the ethical challenges of using these technologies in health care? Should we reinterpret the standards of informed consent?  What is the role of genetic consultation today? How and to what extent uncertainty should be communicated to patients? How should digital healthcare be personalized? Technoethics, together with bioethics, should be integrated into the rapidly developing field of predictive medicine. The presentation will explore the possibilities and consequences of this integration.    

Biography

Judit Sandor is a full professor at the Department of Political Science, the Department of Law and the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. She was a global fellow at NYU, a research fellow at the University of Chicago, at the University of Stanford, at McGill University in Montreal, and the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris. In 2004 - 2005 Prof. Judit Sandor was the head of the Bioethics Unit of UNESCO in Paris. She is the director of CELAB (Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine) in Budapest. She has also been involved in numerous research projects funded by the European Union. In 2019 she received the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy research grant as part of a recognized research team with the research project LEVIATHAN (Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good). Judit Sandor has published numerous books and journal articles in English, in French and in Hungarian, in the fields of human rights and bioethics, in different topics, including bioethics, medical negligence, biobanks, genetics and law. biopolitics and on human reproduction. She is a governor at the World Association of Medical Law (WAML). 

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