Issue: Summer 2015 | Posted: June 8, 2015

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Barnard lectures at Mayo Clinic

Justin Barnard served as guest lecturer at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in March, addressing the topic of technology assessment.

Barnard, associate professor of philosophy and associate dean of the Institute for Intellectual Discipleship at Union University, was part of an event that served as a continuing medical education credit opportunity for doctors and nurses associated with Mayo Clinic. The broader topic was “Healing and Re- Engineering Mind and Bodies: Ethical Challenges in Neurology, Disabilities and Technology Assessment.”

Barnard focused on how people think and make value judgments about technology and applied that topic specifically to various medical technologies.

He said he was honored and humbled by the invitation to participate.

“Part of that honor was attached to the deep sense of history there and the contributions that the Mayo Clinic has made to the history of medicine and to current medical practice,” Barnard said.

In addition to his lectures, Barnard served on a panel that discussed challenges in the field of neuroethics.