Program WMA Symposium at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics

Program WMA Symposium at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics

WMA Symposium at the World Congress of Bioethics 2024
“What are the limits of plurality for the global health care professions?”
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Al Mayassa Theatre, Qatar National Convention Center
10:30 –
10:35
Welcome address Dr. Lujain Alqodmani
President, World Medical Association
Session 1 Chair: Dr. Lujain Alqodmani, President, World Medical Association
Chair: Dr. Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Germany
10:35 –
10:45
Keynote: WMA Core Ethical Documents, history
and revision processes.
Dr. Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Germany
10:45 –
10:55
Keynote: Plurality, globalization in the health
care professions
Dr. Urban Wiesing, Germany
10:55 –
11:05
Keynote: Analyzing the WMA’s core ethical
documents: The Islamic bioethics perspective
Dr. Mohammed al Ghaly, Qatar
11:05 –
11:15
Keynote: Vulnerability and the conditions for
socially stable and effective care
Prof. Alex John London, USA
11:15 –
11:50
Panel discussion
Additional panelists to give a 3-minute
statement and then discuss and ask questions.
The chairs will include questions from the
audience as well.
Panel
Dr. Nancy S Jecker, USA
Healthcare provision in emergencies
or times of conflict

Dr. Hassan Chamsi-Pasha, KSA
History of informed consent

Dr. Urban Wiesing, Germany
Dr. Mohammed al Ghaly, Qatar
Prof. Alex John London, USA

Set change break

23.05.2024
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WMA Symposium at the World Congress of Bioethics 2024
“What are the limits of plurality for the global health care professions?”
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Al Mayassa Theatre, Qatar National Convention Center
Session 2 Chair: Dr. Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General, World Medical Association
Chair: Dr. Urban Wiesing, Germany
11:55 –
12:05
Keynote: Physician conscientious objection Prof. Angela Ballantyne, New Zealand
12:05 –
12:15
Keynote: Patient autonomy from the Islamic
perspective

Dr. Faryal Khamis, Oman
12:15 –
12:25
Keynote: Physicians’ conscientious objection in
current Iran biopolitical context
Dr. Ehsan Shamsi, Australia
12:25 –
12:55
Panel discussion
Additional panelists to give a 3-minute
statement and then discuss and ask questions.
The chairs will include questions from the
audience as well.
Panel
Dr. Voo Teck Chuan, Singapore
Informed consent

Prof. Gamal Serour, Egypt
Conscientious objection

Prof. Ahmed Khitamy, Oman
Justice and beneficence in relation to
autonomy and nonmaleficence

Prof. Angela Ballantyne, New Zealand
Dr. Faryal Khamis, Oman
Dr. Ehsan Shamsi, Australia

12:55 – 1:00 Conclusions Dr. Otmar Kloiber
Secretary General, WMA