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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

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.

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.

“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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

2024 Pediatric Bioethics Conference: Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics
2024-07-19 08:00 - 2024-07-20 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Bell Harbor International Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle, 98121, United States
On July 19 and 20, the 19th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference hosted by the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care will be about Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics.

"Evaluating Prisoners for Transplantation: Ethical and Psychosocial Considerations"
2024-07-18 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The PSECOP is hosting a webinar: Evaulating Prisoners for Transplantation: Ethical and Psychosocial Considerations. Speakers include Dr. Martha Pavlakis, Dr. John Entwistle, and Ms. Jackie Roman. It will be moderated by Dr. Alexandra Shingina. The webinar is supported by LDCOP, KPCOP, LICOP, and the Society for Transplant Social Workers. The webinar will take place on Monday, July 22 from 11am-12pm, eastern standard time.

Facilitator: Psychosocial and Ethics Community of Practice

2024 Pediatric Nursing Bioethics Conference: Nursing Ethics: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges
2024-07-18 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Bell Harbor International Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle, 98121, United States
On July 18, Seattle Children’s Center for Pediatric Nursing Research will host a nursing ethics conference: Nursing Ethics: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges. This year, the conference will explore issues at the heart of the nursing experience.
Both conferences will be held at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle.
Online registration is now open through July 8, 2024. There will be no on-site registration. Check out this year’s conference speakers, agenda, and registration information.

Why They Blow the Whistle: Exposing Abuses to Human Research Subjects
2024-07-11 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This talk will examine how in popular culture, whistleblowers are conscience-driven heroes who triumph against the odds. Yet when research abuses occur, medical institutions deny wrongdoing even when it is glaringly obvious, and rarely do mistreated research subjects or their families get any real justice. Whistleblowing is the exception, not the rule. In many scandals, doctors and other staff members remain silent for years while unwitting research subjects are abused. If abuses do come to light, the researchers are usually protected by the medical establishment while the whistleblowers are punished.

The Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference
2024-07-09 08:00 - 2024-07-10 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
The Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference brings together the global health bioethics community, and provides a platform for sharing research, exchanging ideas and building collaborations.
The 2024 conference will take place across two days at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, with selected sessions available online.
The conference is organised by the Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE), in association with the Global Health Bioethics Network, Epidemic Ethics and the University of Oxford Pandemic Sciences Institute. It is sponsored in part by Wellcome.
If you have any questions relating to the conference, please email us at: conference@ethox.ox.ac.uk
