32nd Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship in Medical Ethics: Ethics and Public Health

The annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship: “Ethics and Public Health” will take place on April 24, 2026. This year’s topic is Public Health and Ethics. We are bringing together a diverse group of scholars from multiple disciplines to address some of the most important ethical issues related to public health.

Thomas Antley Pitts, II, M.D. (1893-1991) served as a member of the Board of the Medical University of South Carolina for thirty-six years and served as its chairman for twenty-five of those years. He left a substantial bequest to the Medical University of South Carolina to endow “a series of lectures on medical ethics.” The series has become known as the Pitts Memorial Lectureship, and has been held annually since 1993.

Presented by the: Medical University of South Carolina Institute of Human Values in Health Care, Office of Humanities, Office of Continuing Education, College of Medicine.

The Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship is supported by the MUSC Foundation.