6 November 2013
Hollingsworth Lecture
in Practical Ethics
Freeing Patients' BRCA Data
Joanna Rudnick,
filmmaker, San Francisco CA
Margaret (Mimi)
Foster Riley JD, Professor of Law, UVA
Susan C. Modesitt MD,
Crockett Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director, Division of Gynecologic
Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Co-director, High-Risk
Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program; and Associate Director, Clinical Cancer
Research, UVA
Co-presented with the
Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, the Department of Public Health
Sciences, the Cancer Center, and the Breast Care Center, UVA
This program is offered
in conjunction with a public screening of “In the Family,” a documentary film
by Joanna Rudnick about the choices faced by women who test positive for the
BRCA genes. The screening and follow-up discussion will take place Thursday
evening, 7 November 2013, Newcomb Hall Theatre, as an event of the Virginia
Film Festival.
