The 20th annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference—Narratives and Communication: Bridging  Science, Stories, and Ethics in Pediatrics—is a three-day conference to explore how communication impacts pediatric clinical care and research as well as the influence of narrative in shaping the ethical practice … Read More

On behalf of the American Society of Transplantation and the Society for Transplant Social Workers, you are invited to attend a webinar on ethical and psychosocial considerations in the evaluation of individuals who are incarcerated as living organ donors. Dr. … Read More

The Penn Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy is pleased to announce our next 2 in-person conflict management workshops: Thursday-Sunday August 14-17, 2025 and Thursday-Sunday September 11-14, 2025.  The 4-day workshop will be held at the Perelman School of Medicine … Read More

The webinar will bring together panelists with three distinct perspectives to reflect on ethics issues in autism care and research and consider how bioethics can move the conversation forward. Register here to hear from panelists Zuzana Kazan; Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD; and Joel … Read More

In medicine, suffering matters: encountering suffering and helping patients cope with, and navigate through suffering, are key functions of healthcare. In addition, the concept of suffering plays an important role in many high-stake areas of medical ethics including medical aid-in-dying … Read More

Regenerative medicine using stem cells stands at the forefront of innovation in health care, offering the potential to treat various medical conditions. Yet, despite the promise of this science, recent federal policy changes have created new barriers to funding, conducting, … Read More

From pandemics to climate change, the world faces deeply interconnected and critical challenges. Yet efforts to confront these crises are increasingly obstructed by a powerful, organized force: rising opposition to science, often driven by political and ideological agendas. This erosion of … Read More

You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds, hosted by the Clinical Ethics Education Council at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. This live virtual event will feature a compelling discussion led by Dr. Kate LeMasters! As always, the … Read More

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates tobacco products, including e-cigarettes or vapes. In recent years, there have been debates about whether e-cigarettes should be promoted as safer than combustible tobacco and what role the FDA or other policymakers … Read More

This presentation examines current models of child participation in health care decision making, with a focus on the AAP’s recommendation of child assent, revealing the ways in which child assent may actually cause pediatric health care professionals (HCPs) to make … Read More

Join us for a discussion on grief and the challenges of accessing end-of-life care in the United States, featuring Jennifer Senior, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author known for her writing on grief, and Dr. Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., an … Read More

This session will focus on the ethics of advocacy in research and policy. Advocacy groups, from patients to shareholders, play an increasingly influential role in shaping which questions are asked, how resources are allocated, and whose voices are heard in addressing … Read More