Johns Hopkins University
The Thomistic Chapter of Johns Hopkins University presents a lecture featuring Prof. John Keown of Georgetown University with Dr. Joseph Marine of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine titled “Should We Legalize Physician Assisted Suicide?”
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, AMEB 402
Monday, February 17
12:00 PM
Parking and Event Information:
To park, go to 1501 McElderry St Baltimore, MD, the "McElderry Garage". After parking, exit north/east, and walk across the traffic circle to the Armstrong Building. Please see the campus map below for reference.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Attendees who do not have an official university affiliation should bring a government-issued photo ID and check in with the security desk for a visitor ID.
About the speakers: Dr. John Keown is the Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He graduated in law from Cambridge and took a doctorate in law at Oxford, after which he was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple). After a spell teaching medical and criminal law at the University of Leicester, he became the first holder of a lectureship in the law and ethics of medicine at Cambridge, where he was elected to a Fellowship at Queens' College and, later, a Senior Research Fellowship at Churchill College. In 2015 he was made a Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in recognition of his contribution to law and bioethics.
He has published widely in the law and ethics of medicine, specializing in issues at the beginning and end of life. The second and heavily revised edition of his widely acclaimed book Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.His research has been cited by distinguished bodies worldwide.
Joseph Marine, MD, MBA, FACC, FHRS, is a board-certified clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who practices primarily at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and holds appointments as Vice-Director of the Division of Cardiology and Section Chief of Cardiology for Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. He trained at UC San Francisco Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston University Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Marine has lectured widely on a variety of arrhythmia topics and has served as a co-director of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Cardiovascular Overview and Board Review Course for 10 years.