SEMINAR: Dr Michael Cusimano – Brain Death – April 11, 2018

The Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute extends a cordial invitation to this free seminar to hear Dr Michael Cusimano, Division of Neurosurgery, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, speak about brain death.

Summary: There are ethical disputes about the timing of the declaration of brain death, with implications for Catholic hospitals in particular, and also regarding organ donation.

Date: April 11, 2018; 7:00 pm

Location: 95 St Joseph Street, East Door, Room 103
On the campus of the University of St Michael’s College

Free – All Are Welcome.

CCBI
416 353 4224;
bioethics.usmc@utoronto.ca

Co-host: The Order of Malta

About Dr Cusimano:

Michael Cusimano, MD, MHPE, FRCSC, DABNS, PhD, FACS, Universities of Toronto, Illinois, Pittsburgh and McGill University
Affiliations: Adjunct Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital

Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael’s Hospital

Professor of Neurosurgery, Education and Public Health, University of Toronto

Research Interests: Clinical neuroscience/ Neurosurgery (e.g. cognition and memory, cerebellum, pituitary, and brain tumours, aneurysms, normal pressure hydrocephalus, quality of life, coma etc), Cognitive Neurosurgery, Injury Prevention, Traumatic Brain Injury, Medical Education

Neuroscience Research Program