Cme Jewish Medical Ethics Of Organ Tansplants And Time Of Death

June 13, 2011 - PRLog -- The South Florida Center for Jewish Ethics presents “Organ Transplants and Brain Death,” the sixth lecture in its medical ethics series.  The lecture will cover topics important to ethical considerations for physicians related to death and dying, including the process of organ transplant and how much death is needed to be un-alive.  The series is a continued effort of the Center to educate the medical profession in South Florida about Jewish law and ethics in American life.

The lecture will be given by instructors Sam Salama, and Ari Ciment, MD.  Salama is the donor coordinator for Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency at the University of Miami.  Dr. Ciment is the Pulmonary/Critical Care Attending and Associate Professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center and a 2001 graduate of Rush Medical College of Rush University in Chicago.

The South Florida Center for Jewish Ethics was founded in 2010 as a place where professionals and lay people can study ethical issues in the areas of the law, medicine, and business with clear guidance from a Jewish perspective.  The center offer lectures, classes, and conferences that bring together medical experts, legal scholars and ethicists of international stature to dialogue with rabbinic and Talmudic scholars.

“Organ Transplants and Brain Death” will be offered Tuesday, June 16, from 7:15pm to 9:00pm at Talmudic University, 4000 Alton Road, Miami Beach.  Cost is $25.00 for physicians, $20.00 for non-physicians, and $10.00 for medical students. . The Class is Accredited for one and one-half (1.5) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™,  Refreshments will be served.  For more information, please visit http://www.sfcje.org