[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 102 (Friday, May 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25751-25752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-12538]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public 
Health and Science, The President's Council on Bioethics.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, 
MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-seventh and final meeting. The full 
agenda will be posted on the Council's Web site at http://www.bioethics.gov prior to the meeting. Publications issued by the 
Council to date include: Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical 
Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of 
Happiness (October 2003); Being Human: Readings from the President's 
Council on Bioethics (December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell Research 
(January 2004); Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New 
Biotechnologies (March 2004); Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent 
Stem Cells: A White Paper (May 2005); Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving 
in Our Aging Society (September 2005); Human Dignity and Bioethics: 
Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics (March 
2008); The Changing Moral Focus of Newborn Screening: An Ethical 
Analysis by The President's Council on Bioethics (December 2008); and 
Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper by The 
President's Council on Bioethics (December 2008). Reports are 
forthcoming on organ transplantation, health care reform, and the 
future of national bioethics commissions.

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DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, June 25, 2009, from 9 a.m. 
to 3 p.m., ET; and Friday, June 26, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., 
ET.

ADDRESSES: The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC, 1150 22nd Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20037. Phone 202-835-0500.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, 1425 New York 
Avenue, NW., Suite C100, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 202/296-4669. 
E-mail: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d5bcbbb3ba95b7bcbab0a1bdbcb6a6fbb2baa3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="670e09010827050e0802130f0e041449000811">[email protected]</span></a>. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://www.bioethics.gov. The Council encourages public input, either in 
person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public 
may address the Council, beginning at 11:30 a.m., on Friday, June 26. 
Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, 
Director of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a 
public statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a 
written statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. Gianelli at one of her 
contact addresses given above.

    Dated: May 18, 2009.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E9-12538 Filed 5-28-09; 8:45 am]
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