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The 36th Annual Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics
2024-07-29 08:00 - 2024-07-31 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
The Department of Bioethics and Humanities invites you to the 36th annual Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics. We will host the conference online this year with synchronous and asynchronous material.
The annual Summer Seminar is an intensive, interactive introduction to the ‘four-box method’ of analysis of ethical problems in clinical ethics, developed by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade in their book Clinical Ethics. The Seminar also addresses elements of the Core Competencies in Health Care Ethics Consultation and can help attendees prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam.

Penn Program in Clinical Conflict Management Workshops
2024-08-22 09:00 - 2024-08-25 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 423 Guardian Drive, Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, 19104-4884, United States
The Penn Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy is pleased to announce the next in-person conflict management workshops: Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 22-25, 2024. We have only a few spots left!
The 4-day workshop will be held at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and will run from 9:00-5:00 each day. The Penn Program in Clinical Conflict Management has offered over 100 workshops and conflict resolution seminars since the program’s launch in May 2010.
In this Intensive, students will:

Learn how to navigate and improve challenging clinical relationships (patient-provider, family-provider, inter-staff conflicts)
Learn the techniques of facilitation among a diverse set of stakeholders
Learn to effectively manage clinical disputes among and between caregivers, patients and surrogates through mediation
Discover to how to define problems and assess underlying interests to generate mutually acceptable options
Role-play in variety of clinical situations as both disputants and mediators
Practice mediation with professional actors
Use video-tapes of simulations to improve mediation techniques and strengthen interpersonal skills
Receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment

This workshop is intended for nurses, physicians, clergy, social workers, clinical ethics consultants and members of ethics committees who face clinical ethics conflicts in their role in the healthcare system.
DESCRIPTION:
Professional mediators possess a unique skill set applicable to the facilitation of difficult conversations between individuals in emotionally laden situations. An effective mediation process can generate solutions that address the underlying interests of all disputants and resolve conflicts that appear intractable. This skill set has increasingly been recognized as invaluable to the work of clinical ethics consultants as they navigate conflicts between and among patients, families, surrogates and providers. Moreover, given wide-spread agreement that communication failures lie at the root of many clinical conflicts, mediation values and catalyzes the effective communication of individual concerns, values, perspectives and feelings — all of which are essential to the clinical ethics consultation process. This hands-on Workshop introduces the principal techniques of mediation through the use of simulated role plays with a focus on conflicts caused by communication breakdowns, highly charged value-conflicts, and cultural differences.
Instructor-Student ratio of 1:3. Space is limited. Students can earn Penn course credit or take the intensive as a workshop. Cost of the workshop is $2,500, which includes meals and materials. Tuition benefits can be applied for students taking it for credit. To apply for the workshop:
https://hosting.med.upenn.edu/forms/mdprogram/view.php?id=35058
Workshop Instructors:
Autumn Fiester, PhD | Director, Penn Program in Clinical Conflict Management; Associate Chair for Education
Aliza Narva, JD, MSN, HEC-c | Director, Clinical Ethics Consult Service, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Stacey Smith, MSN, MA, MSL, HEC-c | Lead Healthcare Ethicist, National Center for Ethics in Healthcare
Mary Walton, MBE, MSN, HEC-c | Emeritus Director, Clinical Ethics Consult Service, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
For more information, contact: fiester@upenn.edu

A Patient's Last Chapter: Ethical Considerations for VSED, Euthanasia, and MAID
2024-08-27 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Currently, there is significant controversy regarding whether and how patients may work with clinicians to influence the time and manner of their death at the end of life. This session will describe treatment options that might allow patients to hasten death at the end of life, including patient refusals of life sustaining treatment, voluntary stopping of eating and drinking, medical aid in dying, and euthanasia.
Learning Objectives: After this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Define and distinguish between treatment options for potentially hastening death at the end of life.
Describe the interests of patients in being able to make choices about the time and manner of their deaths at the end of life.
Describe ethical principles and commitments that justify or limit clinician involvement in interventions that might hasten death.

Speaker(s)

Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C, is a Center for Bioethics’ Clinical Ethics Assistant Professor and a senior lecturer in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. He is a co-chair of the University of Minnesota Medical Center’s Ethics Committee, co-lead for the clinical ethics consultation service for MHealth Fairview system hospitals, and member of the MHealth Fairview Ethics Council. Professor Wu also teaches courses at the intersection of clinical ethics, public health ethics, and public health law.

Ninth Annual Medical School Ethics Conference: "Drawing the Boundaries of Medicine": Call for Abstracts
2024-09-05 08:00 - 2024-11-01 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Featuring Balint Lecturer and Presentation: Keisha Ray, PhD
Submission due date by November 1, 2024 to bioethics@amc.edu
The annual medical student ethics conference (AMSEC) is a two-day national medical student conference to address ethical issues that arise in medical education. The conference will be held virtually on April 10-April 11, 2025. The keynote speaker will be Keisha Ray, PhD, Associate Professor at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics and McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston.
Call for Abstracts
The conference solicits abstracts from students from any accredited medical school in the United States. Over the past nine years, AMSEC has become a national venue for students to discuss ethical issues in medicine. We instituted a mentorship system, which pairs the authors of accepted abstracts with faculty mentors to help them develop their conference presentation. These collaborations have resulted in a number of student-led publications in bioethics journals such as The Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, and Journal of Medical Ethics.
The organizing committee invites abstracts for oral presentations on the ethical issues that arise in medical education because of one’s role as a medical student. The theme for AMSEC 2025 is ” Drawing the Boundaries of Medicine.” We invite submissions related to the conference theme and on any other topic tackling ethical issues in medical education. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: justice and equity in medicine, disparity in allocation of educational resources in medical school; learning on/with patients; humor in medicine; moral distress; hierarchy in medicine.

Celebrating Rurality: Embracing Rural Health Ethics
2024-09-10 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
“Celebrating Rurality: Embracing Rural Health Ethics” is presented by the ASBH Rural Bioethics Affinity Group with guest speakers Professor Christy Simpson, PhD and Fiona McDonald, PhD
This talk will provide an overview of the motivations, approach, and key insights developed by the presenters with respect to their work in rural health ethics. The values of place and community, as well as a need to re-value relationships, will be highlighted.
About the speakers: Professor Christy Simpson is Faculty Lead and an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the coordinator for the Ethics Collaborations with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the IWK Health Centre, and the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology. Her primary responsibilities include ethics education and capacity-building, policy development and review, and support for clinical and organisational ethics consultations.
Professor Fiona McDonald is an Associate Professor at the QUT Law School at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Canada, a Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-author, with Professor Simpson of Rethinking Rural Health Ethics (Springer 2017).
The talk is free and all are welcome! You can register to receive the Zoom link by clicking here.

Virtual Bioethics Grand Rounds: “Caring for Transgender Patients Seeking Gender-Affirming Healthcare Services”
2024-09-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Presented virtually by Dr. Stephani Ricondo

Microaggressions in Medicine: Achieving More Just and Equitable Healthcare
2024-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
This talk will discuss what microaggressions in medicine are and how diminishing them in clinical medicine can result in more just and equitable healthcare
Dr. Lauren Freeman, Ph.D & Dr. Heather Stewart, Ph.D
Lauren Freeman is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Louisville; Director of the M.A. in Applied Philosophy; and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Heather Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University.

Enhancing Access for Historically Marginalized Populations using the Translational Genomics Pipeline
2024-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Join us for the next ELSI Friday Forum | Enhancing Access for Historically Marginalized Populations using the Translational Genomics Pipeline. Join speakers Shawneequa Callier, MA, JD, Melissa Davis, PhD, and moderator Markia Smith, PhD.
To continue the conversation please join fellow audience members for an informal discussion in a Zoom meeting immediately following the forum. The link will be placed in the Zoom Chat during the forum. For those who cannot attend the live event, the forum will be recorded and archived on the ELSIhub Video page.
Live captioning services will be provided by a certified Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioner and available via closed captioning. Closed captions will also be available for the recording.
https://elsihub.org/event/enhancing-access-historically-marginalized-populations-using-translational-genomics-pipeline

Saint André International Center for Ethics and Integrity: 2024-25 Bioethics Seminars Program
2024-09-16 08:00 - 2024-10-26 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
Fall 2024 Seminars

Ethics Educators Workshop (September 16-20)
Bioethics colloquium (September 23-26)
Health care ethics – Catholic perspectives (October 22-26)

Winter 2025 Seminar

Ethics of End-of-Life Care – Contributions from the Arts and Humanities (Rome, Italy; February 26-March 2)
Additional 2025 seminars will be added when themes and dates become known

Location
Unless otherwise specified above, the 2023 seminars will take place at the conference center Notre Dame de Grace in Rochefort-du-Gard in the south of France.
Located 15 minutes from the city of Avignon, the Avignon TGV train station has direct high speed train connections to Paris downtown (2h30) and the Paris CDG airport (2h45 min), Lyon downtown and the Lyon Saint Exupery Airport, as well as Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Geneva and Madrid. Other nearby airports include Marseille and Montpellier.
All seminars contain a mixture of presentations by invited speakers, contributions by participants, discussion sessions, time for individual meetings, and organized excursions to cultural sites with direct relevance to the seminar theme. In addition to stimulating the intellect, we also wish to nurture well-being more holistically. The historic and natural beauty of the conference site, French cuisine and patrimony, as well as time for reflection, spiritual enrichment and developing new friendships are key ingredients of the program. Seminars are held in English.
Detailed information about each of the seminars can be found by clicking on the links below. If you are interested in participating, please hold the dates: attendance is limited to 20 persons per seminar. For additional information or to hold a spot already, please email info[at]saintandre.org
For more information on upcoming seminars, please click on the links below:

Ethics educators workshop
Bioethics colloquium
Health care ethics: Catholic perspectives
End-of-life care ethics

ASBH 26th Annual Conference
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-21 | St. Louis Union Station Hotel, 1820 Market Street, St. Louis, MO, 63103, United States
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities will hold their 26th annual conference in St. Louis, MO, September 18–21, 2024.
What Does It Mean to be Human?
As we watch the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence technology, we are confronted with increasingly complex moral dilemmas happening at home and abroad. Reflecting on these moral and technological revolutions forces us to reconsider what it means to be human on an individual and societal level. How can technology supplement human instinct or offer a new perspective? How do we compassionately acknowledge the humanity of healthcare staff and patients? What role should the human condition play within the greater environment? The 2024 ASBH Annual Conference invites the community to reconsider long-held notions and think critically about the nature of humanity within our shifting landscape as it addresses the central question: What does it mean to be human?
https://asbh.org/annual-meeting/bioethics-humanities-meeting

Faith Sommerfield Memorial Lecture: Living Well, Dying Well
2024-09-26 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Italian Academy Teatro, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Lecture Description:
On behalf of the Columbia University School of Professional Studies Program in Bioethics and the Completed Life Initiative, we would like to cordially invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Faith Sommerfield Memorial Lecture on Thursday, September 26th, 2024 at 6:15pm.
This Memorial Lecture series commemorates the late Ms. Faith Sommerfield’s lifelong interest in autonomy and end-of-life care, specifically regarding the notion of how all individuals might live a completed life. In 2019, Ms. Sommerfield founded the Completed Life Initiative, a New York City non-profit dedicated to pondering these important questions. Professor Peter Singer established the theme of “Living Well, Dying Well” for the inaugural 2023 lecture.
Our lecture this year honors Professor Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek from ?ódz?, Poland. Professor de Lazari-Radek’s professional expertise is on utilitarianism and notions of what it means to live well. She has also developed a personal perspective towards dying well and the completed life, specifically writing and speaking about her fight against breast cancer last year.
Speaker Bio:
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (1975- ) is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of ?ódz?, Poland. For the last 20 years she has studied the subject of well-being, happiness and pleasure. Philosophically, she argues for the maximization of pleasure and diminishing of pain among as many beings as possible. She believes she is on a mission to help others to live a good and enjoyable life based on philosophical, psychological and neurobiological research.
Her main research interest focuses on the thought of a late Victorian philosopher, Henry Sidgwick. Together with Peter Singer she wrote two books: The Point of View of the Universe (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Utilitarianism – A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2017) and edited J.S. Mill’s Utilitarianism (Norton, 2021). In May 2024 Routledge published her The Philosophy of Pleasure, the first introductory text of this kind on the subject of pleasure.
In addition to her academic work, she is keen to convey philosophical ideas to a popular audience, and has written for popular magazines on how to live a good life. Since May 2024 together with Peter Singer, she runs a podcast called Lives Well Lived, in which remarkable guests talk about what it is to have a good life. So far, they have interviewed, among others: Daniel Kahneman, Yuval Harari, Jane Goodall, Judy Collins, Neil de Grasse Tyson and Ingrid Newkirk.
For more information about the Completed Life Initiative, please visit their website www.completedlife.org
For more information about the Columbia School of Professional Studies Program in Bioethics, please visit www.sps.columbia.edu/academics/masters/bioethics
For event-related questions, please contact spsalumni@columbia.edu.

“Ethical Challenges in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatric Healthcare”
2024-09-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
BIO: Anson Koshy is a board certified Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. He also serves as the artist-in-residence and adjunct Associate Professor with the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, part of the John P. McGovern Medical School. Anson is the director of the McGovern Center’s GME Certificate Program in the Humanities and Ethics and supports various professionalism and ethics initiatives within the undergraduate medical education arena. Anson’s scholarly work incorporates the health humanities, arts and health, and aims to support the destigmatization of mental illness.
To attend virtually, please register here

Learn More About Columbia's M.S. in Bioethics Program from Distinguished Faculty
2024-09-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Columbia University’s Master of Science in Bioethics program grounds students in interdisciplinary approaches and models to address the most pressing bioethical challenges. The Bioethics program prepares students to act as responsible and responsive leaders in this new and ever-growing field.

Ethics Grand Rounds: "The Ethics of Medication Adherence Monitoring in the Age of AI: Patient-Centered, Not Device Centered"
2024-10-03 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Herald Schmidt, PhD, MA, is an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, a Research Associate at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute, all at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are centered around improving opportunity and reducing disadvantage for marginalized populations in health promotion and healthcare priority setting. Before coming to Penn, he was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, and for seven years served as Assistant Director of the U.K.’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics in London.
Talk Description: For a number of reasons, patients do not take medications as prescribed. Currently, understanding of medication adherence is largely based on patient’s report, biochemical testing, or indirect measures such as prescription filling records. However, a new set of likely disruptive digital and AI-based technologies looks set to profoundly challenge the existing paradigm, by enabling remote monitoring of adherence in real-time. This talk outlines the main rationales underlying adherence monitoring, and describes a central range of novel technological approaches. Key ethical issues are discussed, focusing on the concepts of preference sensitivity, proportionality, and the least restrictive alternative, especially as they apply to monitoring adherence in Tuberculosis treatment.

Doctor, Will You Pray For Me?
2024-10-09 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | The home of Chip and Susan Fisher, 1060 5th Avenue (on the northeast corner at 87th Street), New York
Please join us for a fascinating presentation of Dr. Robert Klitzman’s new book, Doctor Will You Pray For Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person.
The modern world faces religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, as new technologies redefine the beginnings and ends of life. Excruciating choices arise about when to turn off the machines – whether and when we should “play God.” The COVID-19 pandemic made these dilemmas ever more acute. Increasingly, however, public discourse on religion and spirituality is polarized, with evangelicals on one side and vehement atheists on the other.
Drawing on in-depth interviews and the author’s personal experiences, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? provides vital information that can assist in medical care decisions. Dr. Klitzman argues that a better understanding of the relationship between these realms will enable more holistic and humane treatment of patients.
For more information about this event, please contact Athina Fontenot at af3018@columbia.edu

Advancing Trust in Science: Institutional Obligations to Promote Research Integrity
2024-10-10 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
A symposium hosted by the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy and the Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.
Several high-profile examples of research misconduct have recently come to light, amidst waning public trust in science. The issues are not new, although there are now novel tools for identifying misconduct, proliferating platforms for discussing allegations and publicizing concerns, and growing unease about politically motivated misconduct allegations. In addition, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity recently proposed new regulations to revise the Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct, with a final rule expected this year. Against this churning backdrop, how should institutional stakeholders – including universities and publishers – address concerns about research misconduct, from prevention to response? This symposium, which will be published in an open access special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics in Spring 2025, will present commentaries on these issues from leading experts in ethics and law, those with experience identifying research misconduct, and those sharing relevant stakeholder perspectives, including researchers, academic leadership, and journal editors and publishers.
The event is hybrid and free registration is required. Visit the event webpage and RSVP here.
Please contact Katie Gleason with questions.

Exploring Careers in Health Ethics
2024-10-10 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Whether you’re a student, recent graduate, or a professional aiming to leverage your expertise, this hybrid panel is designed to inspire and guide you on your career journey. Join us for an engaging event where you’ll gain valuable insights from accomplished alumni professionals. Discover a wide array of career opportunities that your bioethics degree can open up across different industries and job functions. Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and elevate your career! RSVP TODAY!

ELSI Friday Forum: The Summer Internship for INdigenous Peoples in Genomics
2024-10-11 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us on Friday, October 11 at 12pm ET for ELSI Friday Forum: The Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) – Beyond Settler Science, with speakers:

Elizabeth Nelson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University

Joseph Yracheta, MS, DrPHc, Executive Director and Vice President, Native BioData Consortium

Moderated by Kim TallBear, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, University of Alberta

Scientists from dominant genomic institutions are beginning to recognize the ways in which they have been and continue to be non-inclusive and harmful to marginalized communities, especially to Indigenous groups. In response, these groups have established programs worldwide that are based on Indigenous knowledge, expertise, and governance to move toward decolonization of genomics. These programs are designed to disrupt dominant approaches, build Indigenous capacity and scientific literacy, including laboratory, classroom, and field training in genomic sciences, ethical and social implications, and Indigenous knowledge. As such data has become the targets of commercialization and Native peoples are seen as bioproperty, international and intersectional concepts of law have increasingly been one of SING’s points of discussion. This approach in SING goes beyond simply integrating Indigenous perspectives; it actively develops and supports Indigenous science. By doing so, it aims to provide effective and sociopolitically appropriate solutions to today’s most pressing scientific and ethical questions. This session will describe the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING), the distinctive features of their educational programs and related research, and community collaborations that aim to decolonize and make useful genomics for Indigenous Peoples.

Call for Papers for 2025 Catholic Social Tradition Conference: "Signs of the Times: Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism"
2024-10-14 08:00 - 2024-11-01 00:00 (America/Chicago)
This 2025 CST conference will remember the 60th anniversary of two significant Vatican II texts, Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) and Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom). Released on the final day of Vatican II, these texts together invited serious consideration of the role of the church and other religious communities in relation to the state.
This year’s CST conference takes up Vatican II’s invitation to discern “the signs of the times” and to attend to the roles of church and state within civil society with a view toward the common good. These central CST themes warrant further exploration as Christian and other forms of religious nationalism represent a significant sign of the current time in particular national and international contexts.
This interdisciplinary conference invites historical, constructive, and comparative approaches as we consider the ecumenical, interfaith, and transdisciplinary challenges of religious nationalism.
For example, what is the history of Christian nationalism in the United States and how is it related to similar movements in other parts of the world? What are the scriptural and theological resources available to analyze these expressions of Christian and national identity? To what degree and under what forms are the academy and the Christian churches complicit with the history and recent expressions of white Christian nationalism? What are the possible connections between the reemergence of various forms of religious nationalism with economic changes, poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation? How has the rise of these political ideologies been facilitated by changes in laws and institutional structures? What are the implications of Christian and other forms of religious nationalism for the relationship of religious bodies and the state in civil society? What are the pedagogical challenges across the disciplines in addressing the significance of Christian and religious nationalism? Normatively, what options for constructive engagement and responses emerge from our shared consideration of these questions?
Call for Papers
Deadline: November 1, 2024
Proposals for concurrent sessions that address the foregoing questions and related issues from a particular disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective are welcome. Especially encouraged are those proposals exploring the practical issues arising in educational contexts and in various social and political contexts. For example, proposals might address responses to religious nationalism in religiously affiliated educational institutions, the influence of technological changes on the dissemination of religious nationalist ideas, or the present-day nationalist discourses in inter-religious spaces nationally and/or internationally.
Both individual paper and panel proposals are welcome.
Acceptance of proposals will be communicated by December 1, 2024.

MBE Alumni Colloquium: Yash Joshi: “Psychoses, Psychotropics, and the Paradoxes of Psychiatric Decision Making”
2024-10-14 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Online
BIO: Yash Joshi is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. He is an Associate Residency Training Director of Psychiatry and Medical Director of Intensive Community Mental Health Recovery Services in the VA San Diego Healthcare System, caring for patients living with treatment refractory serious mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc.). His research focuses on anticholinergic medication burden and outcomes in psychotic disorders, and pharmacological augmentation of cognitive training.

3rd Annual Patricia A. Marshall Lecture: "From Data to Measurable Actions: Advancing Equity in Genomics Research"
2024-10-15 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Hybrid, PA
This lecture series, hosted by the Bioethics Center forCommunity Health ANd Genomic Equity (CHANGE) and the CWRU Department of Bioethics, showcases scholarship on advancing health equity in genomics.
This year, our esteemed guest speaker is Shawneequa Callier, who will speak “From Data to Measurable Actions: Advancing Equity in Genomics Research.”
About the Speaker: Shawneequa Callier, J.D., MA Bioethics, is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She has also served as a Special Volunteer at the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health at the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH for thirteen years. She has nearly two decades of experience analyzing the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of emerging technologies, which includes her time as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine. She works on various projects funded by the US National Institutes of Health that focus on the ELSI of genomics research and data science.
Livestream: http://www.case.edu/livestream/s1 (no registration required)
A reception will follow the lecture. Location: CWRU School of Medicine, Wolstein 1413
For more information, please visit: https://case.edu/medicine/bioethics/about/change/events

Virtual Bioethics Grand Rounds: “Lost in Translation? Opportunities and Challenges in Providing Interpretation for Patients”
2024-10-16 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Presented virtually by Amanda Gutierrez

Transplant Ethics and Policy Conference
2024-10-17 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Murphy Auditorium, 550 1st Avenue, New York, 10016, United States
Join us on Thursday, October 17, 2024 to hear clinicians, investigators, regulators, and other leaders in the field discuss pressing issues in transplant ethics and policy! Marking the 40th anniversary of the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), this conference will focus on the evolution of organ donation and transplant regulation and practice in the United States.
Discussions will proactively address emerging and critical ethical challenges with panelists including Dr. Robert Montgomery, Dr. Robert Truog, Alexandra Glazier, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, and many more pioneers and experts in transplant research, medicine, and policy. The conference’s keynote address will be delivered by Martine Rothblatt, PhD, JD, MBA, founder & CEO of United Therapeutics.
Marking the 40th anniversary of the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), this conference will focus on the evolution of organ donation and transplant regulation and practice in the United States. Panel discussions will proactively address emerging and critical ethical challenges in transplant research, medicine, and policy.
The first portion of the day will focus on existing policy and the current restructuring of transplant oversight. The second portion of the day will focus on ethical issues in donation after circulatory death, xenotransplantation, vascular composite allografts, and more. Find speaker bios here and view full conference agenda above!

Transplant Ethics and Policy Conference
2024-10-17 08:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Murphy Auditorium, 550 1st Ave., NY., NY. 10016
Join us in person or online on Thursday, October 17, 2024 to hear clinicians, investigators, regulators, and other leaders in the field discuss pressing issues in transplant ethics and policy!

Marking the 40th anniversary of the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), this conference will focus on the evolution of organ donation and transplant regulation and practice in the United States. Panel discussions will proactively address emerging and critical ethical challenges in transplant research, medicine, and policy.
The first portion of the day will focus on existing policy and the current restructuring of transplant oversight. The second portion of the day will focus on ethical issues in donation after circulatory death, xenotransplantation, vascular composite allografts, and more. Find speaker bios here and view full conference agenda above!

HIV Center Rounds: Implications of the Dobbs decision for women affected by HIV: Clinical, Research, and ethical challenges
2024-10-17 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Join us for a panel discussion:
Lisa Rahangdale, MD, MPH, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Associate Dean for Admissions, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Mauda Monger, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, John D Bower School of Population Health Population Health Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center Director, Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education, and Policy Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute of the Elimination of Health Disparities
Sarita Sonalkar, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Complex Family Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Robert Klitzman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, Associate Director, Development Core HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies

Doctor, Will You Pray For Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person
2024-10-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
The modern world faces religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, as new technologies redefine the beginnings and ends of life. Excruciating choices arise about when to turn off the machines – whether and when we should “play God.” The COVID-19 pandemic made these dilemmas ever more acute. Increasingly, however, public discourse on religion and spirituality is polarized, with evangelicals on one side and vehement atheists on the other.
The book explores how patients and families struggle to make sense of serious disease and threats of death and other medical crises, seeking hope, purpose and larger connections beyond themselves. Physicians and other clinical staff are frequently uncomfortable with these issues, and chaplains have been filling the void, developing valuable approaches and insights. Most Americans will die in hospitals or nursing homes, and face existential and spiritual quandaries. Many of their prior religious and spiritual beliefs will fall short, and chaplains will often be the ones to assist, partly by reframing narratives and understandings of illness and spirituality. Yet people often know little, if anything, about these professionals. Klitzman presents stories about the spiritual lives of patients and explores the role of chaplains – who they are, what they do and the challenges they face.
Drawing on in-depth interviews and the author’s personal experiences, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? provides vital information that can assist in medical care decisions. Dr. Klitzman argues that a better understanding of the relationship between these realms will enable more holistic and humane treatment of patients.
For more information about this event, please contact Athina Fontenot at af3018@columbia.edu.
For additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at 212-854-9666 or inquire@sps.columbia.edu

2024 Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar
2024-10-20 08:00 - 2024-10-22 17:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Virginia, 200 Jeanette Lancaster Way, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, United States
Join us October 20 through October 22, 2024, in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia for our 12th annual Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the grounds and gardens of the University of Virginia are the perfect setting for an immersive weekend spent developing or deepening your consultation knowledge and skills.
The number of participants is limited to ensure a personalized learning environment, so register now. This live activity offers a maximum of 20 PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
This in-person, intensive 3-day training program is designed for multidisciplinary practicing healthcare professionals who wish to develop or deepen their healthcare ethics and moral distress consultation knowledge and skills and prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam. The training is grounded in the ASBH core competencies for healthcare ethics consultation and will emphasize the four content domains for certification determined by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. It is the only program in the United States to offer training in Moral Distress consultation, building on 17 years of experience at UVA Health. Participants will receive a certificate upon course completion. You can view the syllabus here

Bioethics Network of Ohio: "Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Weight of the Work"
2024-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Presented by Anna D. Goff, PhD, HEC-C, Clinical Ethics Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY
This talk will report on research conducted about the experiences of those doing work as Healthcare Ethics Consultants, including the most emotionally difficult aspects of their work, the institutional and systemic factors that spread their emotional experiences, and the ways in which they coped with the emotional challenges of their work, and will encourage attendees to reflect on their own experiences in relation to their findings.

14th Annual Midwest Medical Humanities Conference
2024-10-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The 2024 Medical Humanities Conference will be on Friday, October 25th. It will be virtual, through Microsoft Teams. There will be a track on AI and healthcare; submissions on other topics will be accepted as well.
Conference registration will open in Summer 2024. Registration is required for all participants, both presenters and non-presenters. Undergraduate students are welcome to attend without registering (e.g., if you would like your class to attend sessions); please reach out to Dr. Allhoff to make arrangements (medical-humanities@wmich.edu).

Call for Abstracts for the 19th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC)
2024-10-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Lausanne – Switzerland
The 19th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC) will be held in Lausanne – Switzerland, on June 5-7, 2025, with a day of pre-conference events on June 4. The congress will be placed under the following theme:
“Plurality, Power, and Patient Care: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Clinical Ethics”
Clinical ethics consultation (HEC), or healthcare ethics consultation, responds to moral uncertainty, plurality, and value conflicts in healthcare. In doing so, it transcends the borders of healthcare and touches on contentious issues of societal and political importance, such as violence, migration, gender identity, artificial intelligence, or climate change. Good clinical ethics must consider these broader socio-political issues, and clinical ethics professionals may, in turn, contribute an interesting view on these socio-political debates.
The International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC) is a congress series focusing on the exchange of professional experience and scientific insights on clinical ethics across the globe. It is not linked to an association or society but driven by the enthusiasm of individuals and institutions in the field of clinical ethics. Founded by George Agich (USA) and Stella Reiter-Theil (Switzerland), its first conference took place in 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Since then, the ICCEC has been organized almost annually by institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. The ICCEC series is currently co-led by Katherine Wasson (Chicago) and Ralf J. Jox (Lausanne).
Abstracts can be submitted until Friday, 25 October 2024, 11.59 pm CEST.

More information and submission at www.iccec2025.org .
