18 - 21 May 2009
Congress Hall of the FIDMA
Gijon (Spain)



PROGRAM

Monday, 18th May 2009

Morning
 
After
10 h.
Meeting of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Bioethics (SIBI)
Meeting of the Latin-American Division of the SIBI
Meeting of the African Group
 
11,00 h. Collection of Documentation
 
13,00 h. INAUGURAL Act
Mr. Marcelo Palacios
President of the Scientific Committee of SIBI and Organization
Mr. Vicente Gotor Santamaría
Rector Honourably University of Oviedo
Mrs. Paz Fernández Felgueroso
Mayoress of Gijon and President of the SIBI Foundation
Mrs. María Jesús Álvarez
President of the House of Representatives of the Principality of Asturias (JGPA)
 
Opening lecture (video)
Mr. Jacques Diouf (Senegal)
Director General of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
14,00 h. Spanish Wine
 
Afternoon SUBJECT: Hunger, Poverty and Bioethics
 
  17,00 h. Chairmanship Mr. Georges Kutukdjian (Lebanon)
Lecturer Mr. José Esquinas Alcázar (Spain)
Agricultural Biodiversity, Biotechnologies and Bioethics in the fight against Hunger and Poverty
  17,30 h. Debate
 
  18,00 h. Chairmanship Mrs. Rose Rita Kingamkono (Tanzania)
Existential exposition with questions
  Mr. Kike Figaredo (Cambodia, Spain)
Basic questions from the life in Cambodia, a change of paradigms
 
  18,45 h. ROUND TABLE
  Chairmanship Mrs. Francoise Shenfield (United Kingdom)
Lecturers
  Mr. Rodrigo Caetano (Brazil)
  Poverty, Bioethics and the Press in Brazil: as see the media to the excluded ones
  Mr. Kayhan P. Parsi (EE.UU.)
  Service Learning, Social Justice and Bioethics: An Integrative Approach
19,25 h. Debate
20,00 h. End of the Session


Tuesday, 19th May 2009

SUBJECT: Hunger, Poverty and Bioethics
Morning
 
  9,30 h. Chairmanship Mr. Jean Michaud (France)
Lecturer Mr. Salvador Dario Bergel (Argentine)
Global Justice, Poverty and Bioethics
10,00 h. Debate
 
10,30 h. ROUND TABLE
Chairmanship Mr. Juan Ramón Lacadena (Spain)
Lecturers
Mr. Claudio Lozano (Paraguay) SOTERMUN
Latin America: a continent of inequalities
Mrs. Laurence Azoux Bacrie (France)
The consent on proof of Poverty: the mediation a new via
11,10 h. Oral Presentations
11,30 h. Debate
12,00 h. COFFE - BREAK
 
12,15 h. Chairmanship Mr. Erwin Bernat (Austria)
Lecturer Mr. Nicolás Castellanos (Bolivia, Spain) Project New Men
  Poverty, global Problem. The end of the Extreme Poverty is possible
12,45 h. Oral Presentations
13,15 h. Debate
 
14,00 h. PAUSE - LUNCH
 
Afternoon
 
16,30 h. Chairmanship Mr. Rev. Maurice Dooley (Ireland)
Lecturer Mrs. Jacinthe Nkongolo (Cameroon)
  To be woman today in Africa. A continent in crisis
17,00 h. Debate
 
17,30 h. ROUND TABLE
Chairmanship Mr. Luís Martínez Roldán (Spain)
Lecturers
  Mr. Gonzalo Figueroa (Chile)
  Dignity and Poverty
  Mr. Daniel Maynas Inuma (Peru) CEPODRA
  Biodiversity and indigenous people of Ucayali
  Mr. Devline Msowoya (Malawi)
  Poverty and Bioethics in Africa
18,30 h. Oral Presentations
19,00 h. Debate
19,30 h. End of the Session


Wednesday, 20th May 2009

SUBJECT: Hunger, Poverty and Biotechnology
Morning
 
  9,30 h. Chairmanship Mr. Hector Gros Espiell (Spain)
  Lecturer Mr. Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (Colombia)
Research on Malaria
10,00 h. Debate
 
10,30 h. ROUND TABLE
Chairmanship Mr. Amos Shapira (Israel)
Lecturers
Mrs. Juntra Karbwang-Laothavorn (Thailand) WHO
Poverty and Biotechnology: Equity in Health?
Mrs. Nanette Elster (EE.UU.)
Global Inequality in Infertility Treatment
Mr. Lluís Magriñá (Spain)
Africa, an unknown continent. Challenges of the present
11,30 h. Debate
12,00 h. COFFE - BREAK
 
12,15 h. Chairmanship Mr. Francesc Abel Fabre (Spain)
Lecturer Mrs.Rose Rita Kingamkono (Tanzania) COSTECH
Poverty in Africa: Can Biotechnology make a difference?
12,45 h. Oral Presentations
13,15 h. Debate
 
14,00 h. PAUSE - LUNCH
 
Afternoon
 
16,30 h. Chairmanship Mrs. Fátima Zohra El Kebir (Algeria)
Lecturer Mrs.Doris Schopper (Switzerland) MSF
Ethical challenges in humanitarian medical interventions: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontiéres
17,00 h. Debate
 
17,30 h. ROUND TABLE
Chairmanship Mr. Pedro Pablo Palma (Spain) MSF
Lecturers
Mr. Valentín Kulinichenko (Ukraine)
Children as a vulnerable social group: bioethical aspects of problem
Mr. François Zioko (Republic of Congo)
Conditions of the poverty of the congoleses and their accessibility to the primary cares of health
18,30 h. Oral Presentations
19,00 h. Debate
 
19,30 h. End of the Session


Thursday, 21th May 2009

SUBJECT: Informed Consent
Morning
 
9,30 h. Chairmanship Mr. Volnei Garrafa (Brazil)
Lecturer Mr. Amos Shapira (Israel)
Ethical Biomedical Experimentation on Humans: informed consent and risk/benefit calculus
10,00 h. Oral Presentations
10,20 h. Debate
 
10,50 h. ROUND TABLE
Chairmanship Mr. Erwin Deutsch (Germany)
Lecturers
Mrs. Paula Martinho da Silva (Portugal)
New perspectives on informed consent
Mrs. Isolina Riaño (Spain)
Validity of informed consent in the poor countries?
11,30 h. Oral Presentations
12,00 h. COFFE - BREAK
 
12,15 h. Chairmanship Mrs. Victoria Camps (Spain)
Lecturer Mrs. Svitlana Pustovit (Ukraine)
Informed consent: theoretical and practical aspects
12,45 h. Oral Presentations
13,15 h. Debate
 
14,00 h. PAUSE - LUNCH
 
Afternoon
 
16,30 h. Chairmanship Mr. Jesús Aquilino Fernández (Spain)
Lecturer Mrs. Michèle Stanton-Jean (Canada)
Informed consent: A good idea facing many old and new challenges
17,00 h. Debate
 
17,30 h. ROUND TABLE
Chairmanship Mrs. Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Greece)
Lecturers
Mr. Carlos Mª Romeo Casabona (Spain)
New perspectives of the consent: the patient who participates in advances biomedical researches
Mrs. Erin Williams (EE.UU.)
What was that form I just signed? U.S. federal governing informed consent and associated issues
Mr. Mihail Kritikos (Greece)
Ethics Review in the EU: challenges and achievements
18,30 h. Debate
 
19,00 h. End of the Session
 
19,30 h. Act of CLOSURE
Mr. Marcelo Palacios
President of the Scientific Committee of SIBI and Organization
  • Awarding of SIBI PRIZE 2009 to Mr. Francesc Abel Fabre
    President of the Institute Borja of Bioethics
  • Lecture and approval of the Declaration of Gijon against Poverty and Hunger (high school students and teachers of Asturias)
  • Date and venue of the VII World Conference on Bioethics
Mrs. Paz Fernández Felgueroso
Mayoress of Gijon and President of the SIBI Foundation
Mr. Vicente Álvarez Areces
President of the Government of the Principality of Asturias
 
CLOSING CEREMONY
Mr. Enrique Múgica Herzog (Spain)
Spanish Ombudsman
 
21,00 h. Dinner typical from Asturias (espicha) in honour of the Attendants (in the site of the Pueblo of Asturias)