The Stories We Tell: Putting Ethics into Practice in Caring for Our Patients, Our Colleagues and Ourselves External Inbox

Please join us in Atlanta for our 31st annual Healthcare Ethics Consortium conference, hosted by the Emory University Center for Ethics.

The conference will address The Stories We Tell:  Putting Ethics into Practice in Caring for Our Patients, Our Colleagues, Ourselves.

We welcome in-person and virtual participation for 2 days of excellent speakers, participant engagement working sessions, discussion, and sharing of frameworks and models relevant to practice.

Session topics include:  engaging patient narratives; storytelling as pedagogy in healthcare education; effecting change through narrative; myths, misconceptions and stigma; narrative methods in practice.

Opening speakers include:

• Martha Montello, PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  She has trained medical students, graduate students, fellows and clinicians in narrative approaches to clinical ethics since 1990.
• Riva Lehrer, Instructor in Medical Humanities at Northwestern University, is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body.  Ms Lehrer’s work has been featured in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the United Nations and museums throughout the U.S..  Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published in 2020.

Our onsite location is the Emory Conference Center on the Emory University campus in Atlanta.

Virtual attendees will be involved in breakout sessions for all workshops, in addition to sessions with speakers and panelists.

Registration for in-person participants is Friday, March 6, 2026 by 11:59 pm EST.

Registration for virtual participants is Friday, March 20, 2026 by 5:00 pm EST.

We do not want funding to be an obstacle for those wishing to participate.

We have limited scholarships funds available for partial or full registration fees.

For further information about funding, please email your request to hec@emory.edu with subject line “Conference Scholarships”.

Applications for CME, CNE and Social Work hours are currently under review and CEU certificates will be provided to all attendees.

Please let us know if you have other questions. (hec@emory.edu)

We look forward to your joining these 2 days of interdisciplinary discussion and skill-building,