Bioethicist Wilfond To Offer Inaugural Lecture At Muhlenberg College
Benjamin Wilfond, M.D., a member of Muhlenberg College’s Class of 1981, will present “The Commercialization of Genetics: Consumer Advertising and Internet Sales of Genetics Testing to the Public,” the inaugural RJ Fellowship Symposium Lecture.Wednesday, March 12, 2003 03:09 PM
Benjamin Wilfond, M.D., a member of Muhlenberg College’s Class of 1981, will present “The Commercialization of Genetics: Consumer Advertising and Internet Sales of Genetics Testing to the Public,” the inaugural RJ Fellowship Symposium Lecture, Monday, March 24, 7:30 p.m., in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Wilfond is head of bioethics research in the medical genetics branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md. He earned his M.D. at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in 1985, before completing his residency and fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. He has been affiliated with the NIH since 1998 and serves as a visiting associate professor in the department of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
Wilfond conducts research on ethical and policy issues related to genetic testing. He has focused on understanding the relationship between empirical data and policy decisions, how information is communicated to subjects and patients, and unique considerations of genetic testing in children. His current research projects are in the areas of informed consent for genetic transfer research and the use of stored biological specimens for research.
The RJ Fellows Program is one of Muhlenberg’s three scholar programs. It prepares students who have exhibited particular intellectual and personal passion and aptitude for exploration of change in the world, including the nature of, adaption to, and engagement with such change. The program will have three areas of study centering around the definition of models of change, the examination, analysis and interpretation of principal moments of change within history; and the development of analysis and strategies to face contemporary and future changes.
