Organizers: Supporting Organization: Exclusive Chinese Media Partner: Exclusive English Media Partner: Central Policy Unit The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region CUHK Centre for Bioethics Launch Conference Building Bioethics Capacity in Hong Kong: Ethical Dimensions of Policy for Ageing and Genetics Conference Hall, 2/F, Central Government Offices 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong 9 and 10 January 2015 Themes and Topics The Challenges of Population Ageing for Health Systems in Global Cities • Health System Challenges in Global Cities • Changing Demographics and Health Status in Global Cities • Ethical Challenges of Managing Chronic Diseases • Ethics of Care Transitions • Who Pays for the Elderly? Does Population Ageing Raise Concerns About Intergenerational Equity? • What Does it Mean to Respect Our Elders – Perspectives from East and West Genes and Health Systems in Global Cities • The Ethics of Psychiatric, Neurologic, and Behavioral Genetics • What New Questions will the Wider Availability of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Raise for the Healthcare System? • Ethics of Biobanking and Bio Applications of Big Data • Ethics of Alzheimer’s Disease Testing • Caring for People with Alzheimer’s Disease Speakers Benjamin Berkman National Human Genome Research Institute, USA William Nelson Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA Alastair Campbell Wai Chong Ng Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Yin School of Medicine, Hua Mei Centre for Successful Ageing, Tsao Foundation, Singapore National University of Singapore, Singapore David Phillips Alfred Chan Lingnan University, HKSAR Elderly Commission, HKSAR Yuan Ren Michael Dunn Fudan University, China The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, UK Victor Rodwin Ruiping Fan New York University, USA City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR Paul Yip Elsie Hui, CK Li and James Luk The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR Hospital Authority, HKSAR Wai-Yee Chan, Helen Chiu, Timothy Kwok, Linda Lam, Alexandre Kalache Diana Lee, Kai-Yee Wong, Jean Woo, EK Yeoh, Huso Yi, International Longevity Centre – Brazil Nancy Berlinger, Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke and Erik Parens Robert Klitzman The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR and Columbia University, USA The Hastings Center, USA Christopher Lien Changi General Hospital, Singapore Programme and Registration Information Date : 9 and 10 January 2015 (Friday and Saturday) Time : 8:30am to 5:00pm Venue : Conference Hall, 2/F, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong (Traffic Directory : http://www.td.gov.hk/mini_site/tamar/) Language : English Registration Method : Advance registration is mandatory. (1) Online Registration : https://www.icc-hk.com/bioethics2015/reg.asp (2) Email enquiry : [email protected] Close of Registration : 5 January 2015 Academics, researchers, healthcare professionals, social workers, policy makers and interested parties are welcome! CME (specialists and non-specialists) and CNE accreditations are pending. Conference Secretariat Registration International Conference Consultants Limited Tel.: (852) 2559 9973 Email: [email protected] Programme Enquiry CUHK Centre for Bioethics Tel.: (852) 3943 9876 Email: [email protected] Website: http://bioethics.med.cuhk.edu.hk