Asian Task Force: Battling Organ Trafficking Across Borders in Asia
First Meeting Agenda
21-22 July 2007, Taipei
Venue: Medical Humanity Building
National Taiwan University College of Medicine
No.1 Sect. 1 Jen-Ai Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan
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Center for Ethics, Law, and Society in Biomedicine & Technology, National Taiwan University Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, College of Law, National Taiwan University Center for Science, Technology and Human Values, National Chengchi University |
Saturday July 21
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9:00~9:30 |
Welcome & Coffee |
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9:30- 9:45
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Opening Remarks Prof. Chang-Fa Lo — Director, Center for Ethics, Law, and Society in Biomedicine & Technology, National Taiwan University — Director, Asian Center for WTO and Intentional Health Law and Policy, National Taiwan University College of Law |
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9:45- 10:00
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Asian Task Force on Battling Organ Trafficking: Objectives and Method Dr. Alireza Bagheri — Vice-president, Asian Bioethics Association — Clinical Ethics Fellow, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada, and Iran |
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10:00- 12:00 |
Global Situation of Organs Trafficking Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, — Professor of Medical Anthropology — Director of Organs Watch; University of California, Berkeley, USA Watching a documentary: “Transplant Tourism”, By Nancy Scheper-Hughes and CBC film-maker, David Papery |
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Organ Trafficking: Situation in Asia. Prof. Leonardo De Castro — Vice-president, UNESCO International Bioethics Committee — Professor of Philosophy at University of the Philippines, Philippines. |
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Traveling Overseas for Organs and the Professional Regulatory Endeavour in Taiwan. Associate Prof. Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai — Deputy Director, Center for Ethics, Law, and Society in Biomedicine & Technology, National Taiwan University. — Department of Social Medicine and Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine — Attending Physician, Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital |
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12:00- 2:00 |
Lunch A Walking Tour at National Taiwan University Hospital |
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2:00- 4:00
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Governmental Framework in Place to Prevent Organ Trafficking in Iran. Prof. Bagher Larijani — Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology — Chancellor, Teheran University of Medical Sciences, Iran |
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Kidney Trade in Pakistan: Current Status and Proposed Measures for Control. Prof. Farhat Moazam — Professor and founding Chairperson of the Center of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) in Karachi, Pakistan — Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State University, USA |
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Situation in China and the Appropriate Measures to Address the Issue of Organ Trafficking. Associate Prof. Rui-Peng Lei — Executive Director of Center for Bioethics — Deputy Chair of Department of Philosophy Huazhong (Central China) University of Science & Technology, China |
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The Current Situation and Measures to Tackle the Issue of Organ Trafficking in India. Dr. Sudhir Gupta Chief Medical Officer (NCD), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & FW, India. |
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4:30- 5:00 |
Break |
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5:00- 6:00 |
General Discussion on the Proposed Methodology of the Working Group |
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6:00- 8:00 |
Welcome Dinner |
Sunday, July 22, 2007
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8:40-9:00 |
Coffee |
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9:00- 11:00
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The Moral Responsibility to Ban Organ Trafficking Prof. Robert Veatch — Professor of Medical Ethics, Georgetown University, USA — Former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University |
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Organ Trafficking in a Global Struggle with Kidney Disease: Perspectives from Ethics and Population Health Prof. Daniel Wikler — Professor of Population Ethics and Ethics and Population Health of Department of Population and International Health at Harvard University, USA |
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How Professional and Organizational Regulations Can Help to Prevent Organ Trafficking Prof. Francis Delmonico — Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School — President of The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Board of Directors; — Director of Renal Transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Medical Director of the New England Organ Bank in Newton, Massachusetts; — Chair of Ethics Committee International Transplant Society at Harvard Medical School, USA |
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11:00-11:30 |
Break |
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11:30-12:30,
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Organ Trafficking in Europ. Prof. Michael A. Bos — Senior Scientific Advisor, Health Council of the Netherlands |
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The Feasibility of a Regional Agreement to Ban Organ Trafficking across Borders. Prof. Ryuichi Ida — Professor of Graduate School of Law at Kyoto University, Japan — Former Chairperson of International Bioethics Committee, UNESCO |
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12:30-2:00 |
Lunch |
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2:00-3:00
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Closing Session Working Towards Outlining the Draft Recommendations (group discussion) |
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3:00-4:00
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Wrap-up, Prof. Leonardo De Castro, Philippines Closing: Setting the Scene for the Next Meeting, Prof. Lo, Taiwan |
