Past Members' Receptions 

• Annual Reception featuring Jane Brody - Personal Health Columnist, The New York Times; Best-selling Author - gave lecture, book sale and book signing on "Jane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond," May 24, 2011.

• Annual Reception featuring Dr. Ira Byock - Director of Palliative Care Service - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Professor - Dartmouth Medical School; and Author - Dying Well and The Four Things That Matter Most - who spoke about, "Mortality, Morality and Religion," June 17, 2010.

• Annual Reception featuring Carol Levine - Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund, who spoke about "Family Caregiving: New Demands and Ethical Challenges," June 11, 2009.

• Annual Reception featuring Josephine Johnston, LLB, MBHL–Associate for Law and Bioethics, Director of Research Operations – The Hastings Center, who spoke about "Stem Cell Update: What's Going on In Stem Cell Research and What Does It Mean?" June 19, 2008.

• Annual Reception featuring Strachan Donnelley, PhD, President and Bruce Jennings, MA, Director, The Center for Humans and Nature, who spoke about "Putting the Life (bios) back into Bioethics" May 31, 2007.

• Annual Reception featuring Dr. Joseph Fins, MD, FACP, Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of Medical Ethics, New York Presbyterian -- Weill Cornell Medical Center, who spoke about "The Challenge of Brain Injury: Neuroethics After Schiavo" June 22, 2006.

• Annual Reception featuring Tia Powell, MD, Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life & Law, who spoke about "Dietary Supplements: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You" June 16, 2005.

• Annual Reception featuring Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, contributing Editor of Health Affairs, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at George Washington University, Attending Pediatrician at Upper Cardozo Health Center, Founding President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, who spoke about "Big Doctoring: Primary Care in America - Vital and Endangered" June 3, 2004.

• Annual Reception featuring Bernice Harper, MSW, MsC.PH, LLD, Medical Care Advisor, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Washington, DC; President, Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa, who spoke about "The Modern Health Care System: Access and Diversity"  October 2003.

• Annual Reception featuring Kevin D. Porter, Esq., the head of the Healthcare Practice Group at Thurm & Heller, L.L.P., who spoke about "Ensuring Quality Health Care – What is the Proper Societal Response?" June 2000.

• Annual Reception featuring Daniel R. Tobin, M.D., Director FairCare Health System. Author, "Peaceful Dying: The Step-By-Step Guide to Preserving Your Dignity, Your Choice and Your Inner Peace at the End of Life." June 1999.

• "New-Old Issues in Palliative Care: The Costa Rican Experience," featuring Dr. Lisbeth Quesada Tristan. June 1998.

• "The New American Search for a Good Death," featuring Marilyn Webb, Author. June 1997.

• "Patient-Centered Care: Where Patient’s Values Count," featuring Steven F. Horowitz, M.D., Medical Director, Samuels Planetree Unit, Beth Israel Hospital. This annual members' reception focused on the model holistic, patient-centered Planetree program. June 1996.

• "Training Doctors for the Twenty-First Century: Striking a Balance," featuring Peter Williams, J.D., Ph.D. June 1995.

• Annual Reception featuring Samuel C. Klagsbrun, M.D. June 1994.

• Annual Reception featuring Robert C. Cassidy, Ph.D., Chief of Bio-Ethics and Social Policy, Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center. June 1992.