Jewish Medical Ethics 2016 -New Frontiers in Organ Transplantation (session 4)
New frontiers in organ transplantation
11:20-11:45 – Paying for organs – Jewish vs. secular approach - Rabbi Dr. R. Bulka
11:45-12:10 – Choosing the recipients of donated organs - Dr I. Bezdow
12:10- 12:35 – Is donation after cardiac death permissible in Halacha? - Rabbi A. Glatt MD
12:35- 1:00 - New issues in the Brain Death controversy in Israel - Rabbi A. Steinberg MD
1:00 – 1:30 - Q & A panel discussion
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Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka
Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa since 1967. In addition to being an accomplished author of more than 30 books and countless articles in the fields of religion, health, and psychology, he is also host of Sunday Night with Rabbi Bulka on CFRA and regular contributor to "Ask the Religion Experts" in the Ottawa Citizen. A dedicated grass-roots volunteer, he is renowned for his tireless commitment to the Ottawa community through service on charitable and civic boards and regular participation in charity…
Dr. Ira Bedzow
Ira Bedzow, Ph.D. is assistant professor of medicine and director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College, and he is Senior Scholar of the Aspen Center for Social Values. Dr. Bedzow received his Ph.D. from Emory University, an M.A from Touro College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Princeton University. He is also an Orthodox rabbi (yoreh yoreh and yadin yadin). Dr. Bedzow is editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal En Route and…
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt
Rabbi Aaron E. Glatt, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA is the Associate Rabbi at Congregation Anshei Chesed and Assistant Rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere. He has been giving a Daf Yomi shiur for over 25 years and gives a weekly gemara be’iyun shiur, daily halacha shiurim, and many other classes including a daily on-line Dirshu Mishnah Brurah yomi shiur on OU Torah. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Rabbi Dr. Glatt is currently Chairman of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at South Nassau Communities Hospital,…
Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Prof. Steinberg was born in Hoff, Germany. He studied in the Rabbinic Academy of Yeshivat Harav Kook, Jerusalem after which he studied medicine and completed his internship in the Hebrew-University Hadassa Medical School, Jerusalem.Prof. Steinberg served as a Medical Officer in the Israeli Air Force. He was a resident in the department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek, and the department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx, New York, after which he became a fellow…