Medical Ethics Leader Lectures at Sacred Heart

Clotilde Dudley Smith, assistant professor of health science at SHU, hosts a guest lecture in the University Commons Nov. 4 with Arthur Caplan, founder of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

Caplan, who is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor at NYU, lectured on health care ethics. He is best known for helping to found the National Marrow Donor Program, initiating the country’s policy of required request in cadaver organ donation, helping to create the system for distributing donor organs, advising on the content of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 and being involved in legislation and regulation in many other health-care areas, including blood safety and compassionate use. Caplan has authored and edited 35 books and more than 725 papers in peer-reviewed journals. More than 250 administrators, faculty, staff, students, and guests attended the lecture, which was made possible by the ACT Grant awarded to Dudley-Smith.