PTK sponsors talk on biomed ethics
by Amanda Leduc, Reporter

   Phi Theta Kappa chapters on each TCC campus will sponsor the second seminar in their honors satellite series, The Ethical Frontiers of Biomedicine. The 60-minute interactive seminar features nationally recognized consultant, Dr. Vicki Lachman.
Lachman is founder and director of V.L. Associates, which provides training, coaching and consultation services to nursing officers and health care organizations.
   Lachman will address ethical dilemmas that are on the horizon of the rapidly increasing industry of biomedicine. After hearing the presentation, seminar attendees will be better equipped to make informed decisions about stem-cell research, cloning and physician-assisted suicide.
   She is an advanced certified nurse administrator and trainer for the Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care and the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium curricula.
   Lachman received a master’s in psychiatric nursing and in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and her doctorate in organizational development.
   The presentation is open to students, faculty and community members with the intent of raising awareness on these issues.
   The seminar will be broadcast live at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, on each campus.
   The NE Phi Tau Chapter will show the seminar in NSTU Center Corner. On Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 12:30 p.m., a rebroadcast of the seminar will be shown in the Center Corner for students who could not attend the Tuesday night viewing.
   The South Rho Chi Chapter will present its seminar in the NSTU Forum Room. Alpha Delta Delta on NW will broadcast in the Optimum Room B2.
   The SE Beta Delta Omicron Chapter will hold its satellite seminar in the North Ballroom. Following the satellite presentation, the chapter will provide a local guest speaker to continue the discussion. An announcement of this guest speaker’s identity will be posted on campus after confirmation.
   Both SE and NW chapters will have tapes of the seminars available for faculty to show in their classrooms after the live showings.
   The program, produced by Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the Two-Year College and the National Collegiate Honors Council, is the second installment of a five-part series, Dimensions and Directions of Health: Choices in the Maze.