About Our Events

• Hagop S. Mekhjian, MD Lectureship and Institutional Grand Rounds in Medical Ethics and Professionalism

  Dr. Mekhjian, among many other things, was the long-time Chief Medical Officer for the Ohio State University Medical Center. In his decades of leadership, he impacted multiple areas. Throughout his career and even in his retirement, Dr. Mekhjian shares a passion for virtuous medicine. Before his retirement, he championed medical ethics and professionalism. Through his efforts and the generosity of several of his friends (including George and Tina Skestos), he formed the annual Institutional Grand Rounds in Medical Ethics and Professionalism and an Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics and Professionalism, both which now bear his name. Dr. Mekhjian helped recruit and mentor the first Mekhjian Chair and founding director of the Center for Bioethics, Dr. Nash.

  For more on Dr. Mekhjian, please explore the links below:

  https://www.dispatch.com/article/20130728/news/307289842

  Journey to Innovation: Dr. Hagop Mekhjian (VIDEO)

• The Chauncey D. Leake and Elizabeth W. Leake Lectureship and Student Essay Award in medical ethics and humanities in the health professions

  Chauncey Leake was a leader at OSU’s College of Medicine from 1956-1962. He has a remarkable career at OSU and beyond. A pharmacologist by training, he pioneered departments of pharmacology. He was a successful research scientist. But in this lectureship we remember his contribution to medical ethics, history of medicine, and medical humanities. This lectureship and essay award was established shortly after Dr. Leake’s death in 1978. Notably, Dr. Leake died doing one of the things he loved – he was reading original poetry on stage at a gathering in his honor.

  To learn more about Dr. Leake, explore the links below:

  https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/13/archives/dr-chauncey-d-leake-dies-at-81-pharmacologist-and-administrator.html

  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/541959

  http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p411y1977-78.pdf

  https://calisphere.org/item/888d91b6-c2e2-40f3-b6a3-8c11c1112be3/

• The H. Tristram Engelhardt Award “for a provocative voice in bioethics that makes us consider foundations”

  H. Tristram Engelhardt, MD, PhD was never student, trainee, nor faculty at OSU. Why then is he remembered annually here? He was the primary mentor for Dr. Nash, the founding director for the Center. As such, he helped guide the Center’s formation and he influenced all of the early members of the Center (even those who disagreed with him). In the formation of this Award and lecture the Center furthers 1) that one does not know bioethics without knowing the work of Engelhardt, we thus show gratitude for his contribution and 2) that we must take ethical diversity seriously and not pretend that all issues are settled or agreed upon. Engelhardt was an unparalleled scholar and great thinker. While having command over procedural and policy issues of bioethics, he demanded considerations at the foundational level. He did not shy away from controversy but instead leaned into it. He included robust considerations of ethics from theological or religious perspective as well, a perspective our Center explicitly engages.

  http://www.bioethics.net/2018/06/a-tribute-to-professor-h-tristram-engelhardt-jr-phd-md-1941-2018/

  https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/h-tristram-engelhardt-jr-md-phd/2002-02

  https://www.youtube.com/user/ndethics/search?query=engelhardt

• About the Conference on Medicine and Religion

  Founded in 2012 in Chicago, The Conference on Medicine and Religion has become annual conference drawing participants from across the country and around the globe. The OSU Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities is among the list of prestigious institutions that sponsors and hosts the event.

  http://www.medicineandreligion.com/

• About the Center for Ethics and Human Values

  The OSU Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities works closely with and partners with the OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values. While CEHV has a broader scope than biomedicine, they help the conversations in bioethics reach across our campus and community.

  https://cehv.osu.edu/