Tag Archives: Tom Tomlinson

New commentary from Dr. Tomlinson in ‘American Journal of Bioethics’

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Center Professor Dr. Tom Tomlinson has a new commentary in the September 2018 American Journal of Bioethics. In “Getting Off the Leash,” Dr. Tomlinson discusses “digital medicines” and what such technologies mean for patient privacy. He asks questions such as: do … Continue reading →

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Worried about your privacy? Your genome isn’t the biggest threat.

Posted on June 28, 2018 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Tom Tomlinson, PhD It was good news to learn last month that the “Golden State Killer” had at last been identified and apprehended. A very evil man gets … Continue reading →

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Episode 9: Reflecting on Early Bioethics: Fleck and Tomlinson

Posted on May 10, 2018 by

Episode 9 of No Easy Answers in Bioethics is now available! This episode features two senior Center faculty members, Director Tom Tomlinson, PhD, and Professor Len Fleck, PhD. Together they discuss and reflect on the accidental ways in which they entered the field of … Continue reading →

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Dr. Tomlinson co-author of medical education article

Posted on May 7, 2018 by

Center Director and Professor Dr. Tom Tomlinson is co-author of an article in the open access e-journal MedEdPublish. The article, “Reframing Professionalism: The Virtuous Professional,” was written by College of Human Medicine faculty members William Wadland, Margaret Thompson, Donna Mulder, … Continue reading →

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Dr. Tomlinson and co-authors published in ‘European Journal of Human Genetics’

Posted on February 23, 2018 by

Center Director and Professor Dr. Tom Tomlinson is first author of the article “Effect of deliberation on the public’s attitudes toward consent policies for biobank research,” published in the February 2018 issue of the European Journal of Human Genetics. The … Continue reading →

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Can Big Data and AI Improve End-of-Life Care?

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Tom Tomlinson, PhD A recently reported study claims to more accurately predict how much longer patients will live. Researchers at Stanford University assigned a neural network computer the … Continue reading →

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Three Cheers for the DNR Tattoo

Posted on January 9, 2018 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Tom Tomlinson, PhD A Letter to the Editor published at the end of November in The New England Journal of Medicine excited a lot of comment and mass … Continue reading →

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