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2025 Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar
2025-09-28 09:00 - 2025-09-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
Join us September 28 through September 30, 2025, in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia for our 13th 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. kk
This intensive program is ideal for those looking to:

Deepen their practical knowledge of ethics consultation in clinical settings
Strengthen their ability to navigate complex moral challenges
Prepare with confidence for the Healthcare Ethics Consultation Certification exam
Develop/enhance skill in moral distress consultation

This training focuses on the key content domains outlined by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Through interactive sessions, real-world case discussions, and expert-led instruction, participants will gain the tools and insights needed to lead with clarity and compassion in ethically complex situations.
You can view the 2024 syllabus here
Hotel discount available through September 6th, 2025.

REGISTRATION: The cost is $1,800/person for the complete course (Sunday through Tuesday) or $500/person for the Moral Distress Consultation sessions only (Tuesday, September 30). Pre-registration is required. Questions: PLEASE CONTACT: Charlene Kaufman @ cmk2b@uvahealth.org

2025 Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar
2025-09-28 09:00 - 2025-09-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
Join us September 28 through September 30, 2025, in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia for our 13th 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.
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 18 years of experience at UVA Health. Participants will receive a certificate upon course completion. Registration details coming soon! You can view the 2024 syllabus here
FORMAT: This interactive and multidisciplinary seminar combines didactic sessions with case discussions and hands-on exercises. The course culminates with attendance at UVA’s weekly Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services meeting.
SCHEDULE: The program begins at 9 am Sunday, September 28 and ends at 2 pm on Tuesday, September 30. Sunday and Monday are dedicated to healthcare ethics consultation. Tuesday focuses solely on moral distress consultation and can be attended independent of the rest of the program.
PREREQUISITES: Participants will be expected to obtain and read Core Competencies for Ethics Consultation prior to the training (available at www.asbh.org).
REGISTRATION: The cost is $1,800/person for the complete course (Sunday through Tuesday) or $500/person for the Moral Distress Consultation sessions only (Tuesday, September 30). Pre-registration is required. Questions: PLEASE CONTACT: Charlene Kaufman @ cmk2b@uvahealth.org
MEALS: Breakfast: Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday
Lunch: Sunday and Tuesday
LODGING: A block has been reserved at the Courtyard by Marriott (434-977-1700) next to the Medical Center.

Courtyard Charlottesville – University Medical Center for 127.00 per night – Last Day to Book : Saturday, September 06, 2025
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THINGS TO DO IN AND AROUND CHARLOTTESVILLE: Charlottesville is vibrant small town with lots to do. It’s a foodie haven with museums, theaters, and an active music scene. Outdoor opportunities include exploring the Historic Downtown Mall (pedestrian-only with 120 shops and 30 restaurants), hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains, enjoying the fall foliage on the Skyline Drive, touring the University grounds and gardens (including Edgar Allan Poe’s room on the Range), visiting Monticello (and dining at nearby historic Michie Tavern), picnicking at Carter Mountain Orchard (apple cider donuts!), and sampling the goods at a plethora of local wineries, cideries, and distilleries.

COURSE FACULTY:
The training will be co-led by:
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C: Course Co-Director; Kornfeld Professor of Bioethics
and Director, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, School of Medicine and Professor, School of Nursing; member Ethics Consult and Moral Distress Consult Services; member Medical Center Ethics Committee
Dawn Bourne, DNP, FNP-C, HEC-C: Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; Director, Moral Distress Consult Service; member Ethics Consult Service
Julia Taylor, MD, MA, HEC-C: Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Core Faculty, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics; Director Ethics Consult Service; member Moral Distress Consult Service

Faculty:
Susan Aronhalt, MSW, LCSW: member, Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services
Dawn Bourne, DNP, FNP-C, HEC-C: Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; Director, Moral Distress Consult Service; member Ethics Distress Consult Service
James F. Childress, PhD: Hollingsworth Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies; Core Faculty, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics; member, Medical Center Ethics Committee
Katerine Egressy, MD, MPH, FCCP: Assistant Professor of Medicine; member Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services
Andrew Legan, MD: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; member, Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services
Dea Mahanes, DNP, RN, CCNS, CNRN, CCRN, FNCS, HEC-C: Clinical Nurse Specialist, Neurancy Neuroscience Intensive and Intermediate Care Units; member Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services; member, Medical Center Ethics Committee; Chair, Medical Center Organ Transplant Committee
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C: Director, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics; member Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services; member, Medical Center Ethics Committee
Peter Murray, MD, MSM, HEC-C: Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Chairperson, Medical Center Ethics Committee; member Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services
Jeffery Spike, PhD, HEC-C: Ethics Scholar-in-Residence at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. and a Clinical Professor at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health
Julia Taylor, MD, MA (Bioethics), HEC-C: Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Core Faculty, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics; Director, Ethics Consult Service, member Medical Center Ethics Committee
Nicholas Yates, MD, MA (Bioethics), Pediatrician, community member Ethics and Moral Distress Consult Services; member, Patient Care Consulting Subcommittee

Learn More About Columbia's New Dual Degree Master of Science in Bioethics/Master of Science in Social Work Program
2025-09-25 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Columbia University’s new Master of Science in Bioethics / Master of Social Work dual degree program brings together top-tier professional education in bioethics and social work, to provide extraordinary synergies and unique professional opportunities. This new dual degree prepares social workers to address pressing bioethical challenges in healthcare and serve as leaders in bioethics.
Join us for this session featuring both Bioethics and Social Work faculty to answer questions about the new program. In addition, social workers who work in bioethics will discuss how their dual training has proved essential for their careers, opening up novel avenues.

Hygienic Modernity Imperialism and Sanitary Projects in 19th century Middle East: The Case of Damascus
2025-09-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
In the nineteenth century as hygiene became a measure of a nation’s level of civilization, the efforts of weaker nations, like the Ottomans Empire, to modernize public health were undermined by the Western powers that criticized their inadequate public health measures and questioned their sovereignty.
Dr. Benan Grams
Historian of the modern Middle East, specializing in the social history of diseases, medicine, and public health. Obtained doctoral degree from Georgetown University and teaches at Loyola New Orleans.
Room 300, 3rd floor, Malkin Sacks Commons Building, Newcomb Institute and also via Zoom
Click here to register

PGTME Early Career Scholars Meeting 2025
2025-09-24 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
We are pleased to invite all junior scholars working in pediatric research ethics, gene therapy ethics, or clinical trial ethics to register for this year’s Early Career Scholars Meeting, presented by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics Working Group on Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics (PGTME). The meeting will be held virtually on September 24th, 2025, 11am-1pm ET.
The purpose of this meeting is to showcase the work of early career scholars and facilitate connections between junior scholars working in similar fields. The meeting will feature an introduction from PGTME co-chair Dr. Alison Bateman-House, flash presentations from your fellow junior scholars, keynote presentations from senior experts in the space, and an open forum to connect with other attendees. If you consider yourself a junior scholar in these fields and this is of interest to you, please register using this form!
Want to share your work in a 10-minute virtual flash presentation at the meeting? Submit a 250-word abstract to go along with your registration! Abstracts can come from in-progress work, completed projects, and/or early ideas for future work, so long as they are your own original work in the fields of pediatric research ethics, gene therapy ethics, or clinical trial ethics broadly construed. NOTE: Abstract submission is not required for registration, although it is encouraged.
Abstract deadline: The abstract submission deadline has passed, but registration is still open!
Registration deadline: September 24th, 2025, 11am ET
If you have any questions about the Early Career Scholars Meeting, please email ayden.eilmus@nyulangone.org

CARE Panel: The Role of Advocacy in Health and Research Policy Setting
2025-09-22 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
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 matters of public concern. While these organizations can drive innovation and elevate underrepresented concerns, they also raise important ethical questions about funding, conflicts of interest, and equity in decision-making.
Panelists:
Susannah Rose, MSSW, MS, PhD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), examines critically patient advocacy organizations, their financial ties to industry, and their influence on health policy.
Macarius Donneyong, PhD, MPH (The Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy and College of Public Health), studies patient-clinician relationships and has contributed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on priority setting in therapeutic research to maximize public health benefits.
Rebecca Wolitz, JD, PhD (The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law), explores shareholder advocacy and its role in shaping corporate governance, offering a striking parallel to patient-led advocacy in health research.
Register here!

Third Annual Faith Sommerfield Memorial Lecture
2025-09-18 17:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
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 internationally renowned author on bioethics and the founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
The Completed Life Initiative hosts this annual lecture in partnership with Columbia University’s M.S. in Bioethics program in commemoration of Faith Sommerfield, the late founder of the Completed Life Initiative. The lecture serves as both a tribute and a platform to advance critical conversations around end-of-life care, personal autonomy, and the right to die with dignity.
Registration closes on Tuesday, September 16th.
Speaker Bios:
Jennifer Senior
Jennifer Senior is a staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for “Twenty Years Gone,” an unflinching portrait of a family’s reckoning with loss in the 20 years since 9/11. It was published as a stand-alone book in April of 2023 under the title “On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory.”
Prior to joining The Atlantic, Jennifer spent five years at The New York Times—first as one of its three daily book critics, then as a columnist for the Opinion page. Before that, she spent eighteen years as a staff writer for New York Magazine, writing profiles and cover stories about politics, social science, and mental health. In addition to the Pulitzer, Jennifer has won a variety of journalism prizes, including two National Magazine Awards, two Front Page Awards, a GLAAD award, and the Erikson Prize in Mental Health Media.
Jennifer is also the author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, which spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, was translated into twelve languages, and was named one of Slate’s Top 10 Books of 2014. Her work has been anthologized four times in The Best American Political Writing, and her feature about the suicide of the psychologist Philip Brickman was selected for The Best American Science Writing of 2021.
Jennifer has been a frequent guest on NPR and numerous television programs, including The Chris Matthews Show, Morning Joe, Washington Journal with Brian Lamb, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and Today. She has also been a speaker at TED’s annual conference and the Sydney Opera House.
Arthur Leonard Caplan
Dr. Arthur Caplan, PhD, is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and the founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health. Prior to coming to NYU Langone, Dr. Caplan created the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and he founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Caplan is the author or editor of 35 books and more than 880 papers in peer reviewed journals. He has served as the chair of a number of committees and advisory groups, including for the United Nations, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Health and Human Services. He is a regular commentator on bioethics and health care issues for WebMD/Medscape, WOR radio in New York City, Sirius Doctor Radio, and various other national and international media outlets.
Dr. Caplan was a USA Today 2001 “Person of the Year” and was described as one of the ten most influential people in science by Discover magazine in 2008. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association, the Franklin Award from the City of Philadelphia, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Dr. Caplan holds eight honorary degrees from colleges, universities, and medical schools.

University of Louisville's Virtual Health Care Ethics Speaker Series - Child Participation in Decision-Making: From Adult-Centered to Child-Centered Models
2025-09-17 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
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 the following mistakes: (1) HCPs may think of child participation as an option only when dissent is determinative; (2) HCPs may believe their role to largely be uni-directional information disclosure; and (3) HCPs may sideline the parent, believing parental influence to be counter to good child engagement. The presentation will then review the psychological, sociological and ethics literature on child participation and recommend strategies that re-center the child-patient in medical decision-making.

If There’s Vapor, There’s Fire: Regulation and Use of E-Cigarettes
2025-09-12 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Online
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 should take in limiting e-cigarette use among youth. In this seminar, we will consider opportunities and barriers to policies that reduce tobacco use and mitigate disparities among socioeconomic groups. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.
Presenters:
Abigail Friedman, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Faculty Director of Online and Non-Degree Programs, Yale School of Public Health
Daniel Aaron, JD, MD
Associate Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Moderator:
C. Joseph Daval, JD
Research Scientist, Program On Regulation Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Brigham and Women’s Hospital

The Epidemiology of Health Equity for Those Impacted by Mass Incarceration
2025-09-11 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Online
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 views expressed are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of the Center or UCHealth. We encourage open dialogue and critical thinking as we explore these topics together.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Distinguish the many levers of the criminal legal system (e.g., jail, probation) and how criminal legal sentencing impacts individual, community, and population health. Discuss how bioethics is central to the intersection of the criminal legal system and health equity. Understand how community-engaged approaches can be used to assess how criminal legal policies and laws contribute to health (in)equity.

CME Credit will be offered for live participation.*
Certificates of Participation from the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities are available upon request.

Science Under Siege: A Conversation With Dr. Peter Hotez & Dr. Michael Mann
2025-09-09 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
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 trust in scientific expertise not only threatens effective policymaking but also undermines democratic discourse and public health.
Michael E. Mann, a leading climate scientist, and Peter J. Hotez, a renowned vaccine researcher and physician-scientist, have spent decades working at the intersection of science, policy, and public communication. Both have worked to advance evidence-based responses amid a rise in disinformation and denialism, navigating an environment where scientific consensus is increasingly politicized.
This event is a collaboration between the Baker Institute Director’s Lecture Series and the Science and Tech Policy Program‘s Civic Scientist Lecture Series, sponsored by Dr. Virginia Clark, with additional support from Benjamin and Winifer Cheng, Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, and Weiss School of Natural Sciences. It is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
Moderator
Neal Lane, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy; Professor, Physics and Astronomy Emeritus, Rice University; Former Presidential Science Advisor, OSTP (1998-2001)
Featured Speakers
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., is the Baker Institute fellow in disease and poverty. He is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology and co-director of Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine where he also holds the Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics. Dr. Hotez is an internationally recognized physician-scientist with expertise in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development, and the author of four books with Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2015-16 he served as U.S. Science Envoy in the State Department and for the White House. He holds several honorary doctorates and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Medical Writers Association (AMWA).
Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He also serves as vice provost for climate science, policy, and action and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. He has received numerous honors, including NOAA’s Outstanding Publication Award and recognition by Scientific American as one of 50 leading visionaries in science and technology. He was a contributing author to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mann has received major accolades for science communication and leadership, including the 2018 AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science, the 2019 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. In 2024, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and seven books, including “The New Climate War” (PublicAffairs, 2021) and “Our Fragile Moment” (PublicAffairs, 2023).

Science at Risk: Funding the Future of Medical Innovation
2025-09-05 07:30 - 09:30 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
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, and approving clinical trials and therapies, posing significant challenges to advancing patient care.
This installment of the Baker Institute’s annual policy lecture series brings together physician-scientist Dr. Emerson Perin and patient advocate Micaela Alpert, who will discuss the future of regenerative medicine. The conversation will explore how to streamline regulatory processes, accelerate the review and approval of clinical protocols, and secure funding for research. Co-sponsored by the Baker Institute Center for Health Policy and The Texas Heart Institute, this event is supported by a grant from the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation.
It is free and open to the public.
Follow @BakerInstitute on X to join the conversation online with #BakerLive.

To Suffer What We Can't Evade: What is Medicine’s Role in Responding to Suffering?
2025-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
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 and/or euthanasia, moral distress/burnout, and policies addressing “futility,” or medically-ineffective treatment. Yet for all its gravity and salience, the concept of suffering is underdetermined. In this webinar, I will briefly survey the history of “suffering” in American biomedicine. Then, I will discuss my own research on suffering and offer recommendations on how clinicians and bioethicists can [1] think more clearly about suffering, [2] respond to suffering ethically, and [3] accompany patients well along the road of suffering and illness.
Learning Objectives: After this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Review theories of suffering in medicine and bioethics.
Discuss the two kinds of suffering: suffering undergone, and suffering experienced.
Analyze the ethics of suffering: what can suffering justify?
Consider humanistic ways of engaging suffering: can suffering be healed?

Speaker(s)

Tyler Tate, MD, MA, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University, where he works as a pediatrician, palliative care physician, writer, and ethicist. Dr. Tate’s scholarly interests include suffering and flourishing, love and emotions, religion and bioethics, narrative medicine, and pediatric ethics. He practices pediatric palliative care and serves as a clinical ethicist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He is also core faculty in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE). Prior to going to Stanford he was an assistant professor at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon where he practiced both adult and pediatric palliative care. In 2024, he received a Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Early-Career Physician Award and was named a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar. He completed his pediatric residency, clinical ethics fellowship, and master’s degree in bioethics at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and his palliative care fellowship at Duke University in Durham, NC.

A Bioethics Conversation: Autism Care and Research
2025-08-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
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 Michael Reynolds, PhD, as they share their insights on these important topics. For more information about the webinar and panelists, visit our blog.
After the panelists present opening remarks, the webinar will shift to a moderated panel discussion, with audience questions welcomed.
The webinar will be broadcast via Zoom and is free and open to the public. You can register here.

Conflict management workshops at Penn
2025-08-14 09:00 - 2025-08-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
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 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 150 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 breakfast, lunch 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

Individuals Who are Incarcerated as Transplant Living Donor Candidates: Ethical and Psychosocial Considerations
2025-07-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
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. Lainie Ross is one of the speakers. The registration link is below. You do not need to be an AST or STSW member to register.
Speakers:

Ms. Farrah Desrosiers
Dr. Michael Moritz
Dr. Lainie Ross

Moderator: Dr. Vineeta Kumar
This webinar is hosted by PSECOP, with support from LDCOP, KPCOP, LICOP, and the Society for Transplant Social Workers (STSW).

The 20th annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference: "Narratives and Communication: Bridging Science, Stories, and Ethics in Pediatrics"
2025-07-17 08:00 - 2025-07-19 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
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 of pediatrics.
Join us for this year’s pediatric bioethics conference in exploring the intersection of narrative, communication and pediatric bioethics. On July 17, we will explore the words we use in pediatric clinical care and research. Words can be used to convey empathy, demonstrate competence and encourage trust. This year, we will explore the science, theory and practice of how we communicate with our patients and families as we seek ways to improve patient experience through quality communication.
Speakers will explore questions such as:

How can clinicians share decisions with parents?
How can language choices encourage or prevent shared decision-making?
Do family members other than parents have a role in pediatric decision-making?
How can clinicians deliver bad news while ensuring patients don’t lose hope?
Which method for studying communication is most accurate?
How can the words we use both perpetuate and mitigate bias and stigma?
How does the language we speak affect the way we think?

On July 18 to 19, we will explore questions related to the ethical implications of story-telling in pediatrics and the signiﬁcance of narrative in clinical care and pediatric bioethics. Stories allow us to make sense of and share perspectives, beliefs and experiences.
Join us as we critically examine the relationship between narrative, pediatrics and bioethics, touching on topics such as:

How do narratives shape the practice of pediatrics?
What insights do narrative ethics provide?
What are the limits of considering narrative?
How can we support moral imagination?
Who controls narratives?
What is the role of truth in narrative?
How do stories promote learning?

Early bird registration through June 8, 2025.
See registration for full pricing details.
Seattle Children’s nurses are able to register and attend the conference free of charge thanks to the generosity of our donors.
Do you have general questions about registration? Contact Emily Rice.
Questions about the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care? Contact Us.

PGTME Presents: The First Custom CRISPR Gene Therapy
2025-07-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Please join us for a free public webinar explaining the landmark case of baby KJ Muldoon, the first patient ever treated with a custom CRISPR gene editing therapy. Two researchers from the team who developed the treatment, Dr. Kiran Musunuru and Dr. Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, will present the case, discuss its future implications, and answer audience questions.

ELSI Friday Forum: Biosecurity in the Age of AI and Genomics
2025-07-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us on Friday, July 11 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT for the next ELSI Friday Forum: Biosecurity in the Age of AI and Genomics with speakers Jassi Pannu, MD, Gigi Gronvall, PhD, and moderator Stephanie Guerra, PhD.
The convergence of AI and biotechnology is reshaping both the promise and the peril of biological research, potentially increasing beneficial capabilities to achieve new therapeutics faster while also introducing new risks that nefarious actors could misuse of biology. Scientists have long considered and taken action to mitigate the dual use risks of biological materials. Recombinant DNA technologies increased the urgency of action. Now, the advent of artificial intelligence, in combination with more sophisticated genetic read and write capabilities necessitates rethinking of the moral obligations of scientists and policy makers. This session will describe the new types of risks enabled by combined data and biological technologies and discuss proposals for effective governance.

CBHD 2025 Summer Conference
2025-06-26 - 2025-06-28 | Trinity International University, 2065 Half Day Rd, Deerfield, IL, 60015, United States
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity’s annual conference is the leading venue for Christian bioethical engagement, providing opportunities for equipping and education, professional development and academic engagement, as well as networking for professionals, researchers, policymakers, educators, and students across a variety of disciplines and professional contexts.

Ethics for Lunch: From Coma to Consciousness: Are We Worried? A Conversation with Joseph Fins, M.D., One of the Nation’s Leading Neuroethicists
2025-06-17 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Hybrid, PA
Recent neuroimaging research reveals that many patients formerly thought to be unresponsive in coma and vegetative states are in fact conscious, raising many ethical and clinical questions. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Fins about these fascinating and important challenges.
Speaker:
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Ethics in Neurology, Professor of Medical Ethics in Rehabilitation Medicine, and Professor of Health Care Policy and Research. He is the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. A member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital, he co-directs the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) at Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in addition to his appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr. Fins is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and by Royal Appointment an Academico de Honor (Honored Academic) of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España (the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain). In 2022, he was elected to the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Fins graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A. with Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is author of over 500 papers, chapters, essays, and books, his most recent volume is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and The Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Moderated by: Robert Klitzman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics at Columbia University.
This is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in person at at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and via Zoom. Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Lunch will be provided for those choosing to attend in person.
For further information, please contact Marie Gugnishev, mg4441@columbia.edu.
To obtain additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at inquire@sps.columbia.edu.
If you require closed captioning, sign-language interpretation or any other disability accommodations, please contact Disability Services, disability@columbia.edu, at least 10 days in advance.
Please visit Columbia University’s Hub for Emergency Preparedness to stay up to date on the latest campus health and safety policies.
This event is open to individuals irrespective of identity and sex.

Ethics for Lunch: From Coma to Consciousness: Are We Worried? A Conversation with Joseph Fins, M.D., One of the Nation’s Leading Neuroethicists
2025-06-17 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Recent neuroimaging research reveals that many patients formerly thought to be unresponsive in coma and vegetative states are in fact conscious, raising many ethical and clinical questions. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Fins about these fascinating and important challenges.
Speaker:
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Ethics in Neurology, Professor of Medical Ethics in Rehabilitation Medicine, and Professor of Health Care Policy and Research. He is the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. A member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital, he co-directs the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) at Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in addition to his appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr. Fins is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and by Royal Appointment an Academico de Honor (Honored Academic) of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España (the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain). In 2022, he was elected to the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Fins graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A. with Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is author of over 500 papers, chapters, essays, and books, his most recent volume is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and The Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Moderated by: Robert Klitzman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics at Columbia University.
In Person Location:
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Room: Amphitheater 1
630 W 168 Street, New York, NY 10032
(Between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
This is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in person at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and via Zoom. Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Lunch will be provided for those choosing to attend in person.
For further information, please contact Marie Gugnishev, mg4441@columbia.edu.
To obtain additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at inquire@sps.columbia.edu.
If you require closed captioning, sign-language interpretation or any other disability accommodations, please contact Disability Services, disability@columbia.edu, at least 10 days in advance.
Please visit Columbia University’s Hub for Emergency Preparedness to stay up to date on the latest campus health and safety policies.
This event is open to individuals irrespective of identity and sex.

Everybody is a Summer Body: Weight Stigma & Injustice
2025-06-12 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Online
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 virtual event will feature a compelling discussion led by Dr. Daniel Goldberg, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the CU School of Medicine and Director of Education at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
Learning Objectives:

Identify two reasons for the high prevalence of weight stigma in the U.S.;
Describe two ethical implications of weight stigma in U.S. clinical settings; and
Identify two interventions for ameliorating weight stigma in the U.S.

CME Credit will be offered for live participation.
All of the planners, faculty, or individuals in control of content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
The University of Colorado School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Colorado School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CME certificates are distributed once a year to learners. Certificates of Participation available upon request.
Click here to register as registration is required: https://ucdenver.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9RWBu3XlPC8F338
For additional information or questions, please contact gianna.morales@cuanschutz.edu

HIV Center Rounds: Using AI for Research, Treatment and Prevention of HIV and Other Conditions: Ethical and Policy Challenges
2025-06-05 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
AI is revolutionising epidemiological tracking, prevention, treatment, and research of HIV and many other diseases, but also raises profound ethical, legal and policy questions. Join us for a panel of experts examining these emerging challenges, and how we might best address them.
Panel Experts:
Laura Balzer, PhD, MPhil Associate Professor, Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
Charles E. Binkley, MD Director of AI Ethics and Quality, Hackensack Meridian Health, Associate Professor of Surgery, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH Associate Professor, Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Vardit Ravitsky, PhD President & CEO, The Hastings Center
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

2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Empowering Choices: Ethical Dimensions of Patient Autonomy, Advance Directives, and Surrogate Decision-Making
2025-06-05 08:00 - 2025-06-06 17:00 (America/Denver) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
The 2025 CHEF annual conference, Empowering Choices: Ethical Dimensions of Patient Autonomy, Advance Directives, and Surrogate Decision-Making will offer healthcare professionals and ethics consultants tools for navigating complex ethical issues in supporting patient decision-making. The conference will include both traditional presentations and interactive workshops focused on ethical issues in advance care planning, patient-centered decision aids, capacity assessments, and surrogate decision-making. Experts in the field will provide tools for promoting equitable and inclusive decision-making in a wide variety of contexts from hospitals to clinics, from care from pediatric care to adult care.
14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM are approved for this program.
The 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum annual conference will explore the following:
Objectives:
a. Participants will develop effective, ethical communication strategies for supporting patients in their treatment decisions.
b. Participants will deepen their understanding of ethical issues that arise in the process of advance care planning.
c. Participants will enhance their understanding of ethical issues in surrogate decision-making.
d. Participants will expand their knowledge of ethical and legal issues in existing and proposed Colorado legislation on advance care planning and surrogate decision-making
e. Participants will improve their understanding of ethical issues surrounding patient decision-making about mental and behavioral health treatment in Colorado
f. Participants will acquire skills for conducting ethics consultations regarding patient and surrogate decision-making.
g. Participants will identify gaps in their knowledge about how to support equitable and inclusive healthcare decision-making.
Join us for our two-day conference, filled with outstanding education and networking you’ve come to expect from CHEF conferences. Breakfast and lunch each day, is included in your registration. Information on educational content will be available soon. Mark your calendars!
CHEF is committed to promoting ethical practice and collaboration by providing education and resources for clinicians, ethicists, educators, administrators, community members, and all who have an interest in the ethical dimensions of healthcare.
Be sure to check out our Sponsorship and Exhibit Prospectus for exclusive opportunities to connect with conference attendees!
Registration Process:

You may register as an INDIVIDUAL, STUDENT, RETIREE, OR AS A GROUP. You have the option of selecting the “Full Conference” or a “One Day” registration.

For registrations by invoice, requests should be directed to the CONFERENCE OFFICE. You will be sent a link to the form to register by invoice. Once registered you will receive an invoice for the registrations. All invoices must be paid in full by May 25, 2025.

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2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) Annual Conference: "Empowering Choices: Ethical Dimensions of Patient Autonomy, Advance Directives, and Surrogate Decision-Making"
2025-06-05 08:00 - 2025-06-06 17:00 (America/Denver) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
This dynamic two-day event is designed for healthcare professionals, ethics consultants, educators, administrators, and community members who navigate the complexities of ethical decision-making in patient care. Through a mix of traditional presentations and interactive workshops, experts will provide practical tools for:
· Advance Care Planning
· Patient-Centered Decision Aids
· Capacity Assessments
· Surrogate Decision-Making
Location: Lowry Conference Center, 1061 Akron Way, Denver, CO 80230
Our speakers will share strategies to support equitable and inclusive decision-making across diverse care settings, from hospitals and clinics to pediatric and adult care.
Expect engaging discussions, expert insights, and valuable networking—plus, breakfast and lunch are included each day with your registration!
Join us for an enriching educational experience and connect with like-minded professionals committed to ethical healthcare practice. We are also offering three scholarships to students wishing to attend.

Parents’ perceptions of the utility of genetic testing in the NICU
2025-05-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for the next ELSI Journal Club session on May 30 2025, at 12-1 p.m. ET for a discussion of Parents’ perceptions of the utility of genetic testing in the NICU, Genetics in Medicine, with speakers:

Featured Author: Katharine Press Callahan, MD, MSME, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Discussant: Jessica Ezzell Hunter, PhD, RTI International

ELSI Journal Club is a forum for engaging with groundbreaking research that addresses the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of clinical genetics, featured in our journal partner, Genetics in Medicine.
This series aims to engage professionals from genetics, genomics, and adjacent fields in discussions about the relevance of ELSI considerations to their work, and is equally suited for those already deeply involved in ELSI research.

Mediation Intensive Workshop
2025-05-29 09:00 - 2025-06-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
The Penn Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy is pleased to announce the next in-person conflict management workshops: Thursday-Sunday, May 29-June 1, 2025.
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.
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 150 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

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 breakfast, lunch and materials. Tuition benefits can be applied for students taking it for credit.
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

My well-being is tied to the well-being of the people who care for me’: Interdependence, Care, and Advocacy
2025-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Online
Part of the intellectual life of the Health Care Ethics program is our ongoing online lecture series. This themed series consists of free and open virtual lectures/discussions occurring monthly during the academic year. Presentations are attended by students, staff, faculty, health professionals, and the general public. All events are free and open to the public.
Presenter: Liv Mendelsohn, Executive DirectorCanadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence
Liv Mendelsohn, MA, MEd, is the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence where she leads innovation, research, policy and program initiatives to support Canada’s caregivers and care providers. A visionary leader with more than 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector, Liv has a been a lifelong caregiver and has lived experience of disability. Her experiences as a member of the ‘sandwich generation’ fuel her passion to build a caregiver movement in Canada to change the way that caregiving is seen, valued, and supported. Over the course of her career, Liv has founded and helmed several organizations in the disability and caregiving space, including the Wagner Green Centre for Accessibility and Inclusion and the ReelAbilities Toronto Film Festival. Liv serves as the chair of the City of Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee. She has received the City of Toronto Equity Award, and has been recognized by University College, University of Toronto, Empowered Kids Ontario, and the Jewish Community Centres of North America for her leadership. Liv is a senior fellow at Massey College and a graduate of the Mandel Institute for Non-Profit Leadership and the Civic Action Leadership Foundation Diversity Fellowship program.

"(How) Do Reasons Matter? Weighing the Influence of Parental Reasons in Pediatric Treatment"
2025-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Online
You are invited to join us for the next Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds hosted by Children’s Hospital Colorado. This month’s session, titled “(How) Do Reasons Matter? Weighing the Influence of Parental Reasons in Pediatric Treatment,” promises to be an engaging and insightful discussion.
Featured Speaker:
Amy Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS, HEC-C
Interim Chair, Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities and of Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Learning Objectives:

Describe what is known and not known about the uses of reasons and reason-giving in pediatric decision-making practices.
Explore arguments for and against giving moral weight to families’ reasons for refusing medically recommended treatment or requesting potentially inappropriate treatment.
Analyze hypothetical cases in which the reasons given by a family in support of a particular decision are ethically concerning.

Continuing Education Credits will be offered. For more information, please contact Stacy Matson.
