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If you wish to participate in the conference via Zoom, please send an email to Denise Hafen Hauri (sekretariat@sozethik.uzh.ch) or to Nina Streeck (nina.streeck@uzh.ch).

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Thursday, 15 June                                                                                                                                                                                              University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71,  KOL-H-317

12:00    Arrival & Lunch Bag

12:30    Welcome & Introduction

12:45    Rachel Grob (University of Wisconsin): Diagnostic information and uncertainty in the newborn period: qualitative dimensions of families’ experiences with novel technologies

13:45    Bernice Elger (University of Basel): Genetic testing of children: Child welfare versus parental autonomy

14:45   Coffee Break

Parallel sessions: KOL-H320/KOL-H-321/KOL-H-322

15:15

 

Sebastian Wäscher (University of Zurich)

The burden of rare diseases. Patient narratives on managing their disease

 

Danielle Pacia (Hastings Center)

Individualized genetic therapies as a treatment-research hybris

 

Susanne Wehrli (University of Zurich)

Access to healthcare among Swiss adults with rare diseases – the influence of facilitating and inhibiting individual factors

 

16:00

 

Lainie Friedman Ross (University of Rochester)

Thinking zebras not horses when the herd runs past: Atypical Diabetes Mellitus

 

Urte Laukaityte (UC Berkeley)

Rare diseases in the context of effective altruism

 

Jacopo Morelli (University of Modena-Reggio)

Kantian constructivism applied to rare diseases

 

 

16:45   Coffee Break

17:00    Deborah Mascalzoni (Uppsala University): Respecting the rights of children with rare disease in research within their lifespan: challenges and perspectives

18:00    Eva Winkler (University of Heidelberg): Data use for research in rare disease. Ethical considerations on the governance of data initiatives

19:00   End

19:30   Dinner

 

Friday, 16 June                                                                                                                                                                                                    University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71,  KOL-H-317

9:00     Marcello Ienca (Technical University of Munich and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL): Patient-engagement in rare disease research. The case study of rare neurological diseases

10:00    Dana Mahr (University of Geneva): Citizen science and biomedical research: the experiential knowledge of a lived genome

11:00   Break

Parallel sessions: KOL-H320/KOL-H-321/KOL-H-322

11:30

 

Lucie Perillat (University of Toronto)

Rare diseases: a universal priority

 

Francesca Greco (Insubria University)

Understanding orphan drugs: roles and perspectives regarding orphan drugs for rare diseases

 

12:15

 

Nina Streeck (University of Zurich)

The vulnerable orphans: Does vulnerability constitute a right to solidarity?

 

 

Rebeca Méndez-Veras (Universidad Mariano Gálvez de Guatemala)

Ethical issues regarding clinical exome and targeted gene sequencing. A Guatemalan experience

 

13:00   Lunch Break

14:00    Havi Carel (University of Bristol): Rare diseases, epistemic injustice and the good life

15:00    Heiner Fangerau (University of Duesseldorf): Diagnoses and historical concepts of disease – is the end of a diagnostic odyssey a useful fiction?

16:00   Coffee Break

17:00    Niklas Juth (Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet): Prioritization of orphan drugs: considerations of ethics and justice

18:00   End