The Second Annual Oncofertility Summit will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, from July 22-24, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is reflections on Oncofertility from the humanities and social sciences. The goal of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary pool of experts to examine the complex ethical issues raised by recent developments in the field of Oncofertility. The conference will consist of eight panels: Clinical Science and Research; International and Legal Perspectives; Bioethics; Clinical Ethics and Practice; Religion; Economics, Feminist Theory; and Reproduction, Parenthood, and Sexuality.

My name is Lisa Campo-Engelstein and I am a new postdoctoral fellow in bioethics. I received a B.A. from Middlebury College, with a double major in philosophy and pre-med, as well as a minor in sociology. I did my graduate work at Michigan State University in philosophy with a focus on bioethics, feminist theory, and social/political philosophy. The title of my Masters thesis was “A Feminist Critique of Rational Democratic Deliberation for Health Care Rationing” and the title of my dissertation was “Contraceptive Responsibility: Trust, Gender, and Ideology.” I am now examining ethical issues surrounding Oncofertility, especially as they relate to gender and sexuality, justice and allocation, and philosophical understandings of disease.