Co-hosted by the NYU Langone Health Section of Medical Ethics and Transplant Institute. Join us in person or virtually this October! The 2026 NYU Transplant Ethics and Policy Conference convenes leading voices across clinical care, research, law, and patient advocacy … Read More
Revolutionary advances in cell engineering and synthetic biology offer enormous potential benefits, while raising vexing ethical and policy issues. A team at the University of Minnesota has developed SpudCell — the first synthetic cell that can grow and reproduce, built … Read More
Normative approaches have been central to the ELSI field since its beginning; however, many contemporary ELSI scholars are less familiar with this approach and find translating their empirical findings into normative arguments daunting. This panel of ELSI scholars will take … Read More
The 1986 Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, revised in 1992 and 2017, promulgated the tenet that organisms altered with recombinant DNA follow the same laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, with no unique risks from rDNA alone. The … Read More
UnityPoint Health - Meriter is excited to host our Fall Ethics Conference: "The Ethics of MAID: Should Wisconsin Have a Medical Aid in Dying Statute?" on November 6th, from 8 am to 12 pm. With Illinois recently legalizing medical aid … Read More
The AI for Health Equity Design Sprint is a two-day, interdisciplinary program bringing together participants from across healthcare, data science, engineering, policy, ethics, and other fields to develop AI-based approaches to real-world healthcare access and equity challenges presented by community … Read More
Join us November 8 through 10, 2026, 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 … Read More
What happens when changing laws reach into the clinician-patient relationship? Join us for a conversation with Katie Watson, JD, a leading scholar of medical ethics and health law, to explore ethics, law, and patient care in a post-Dobbs world.
Abstract: Although Medicare physician fees are established through federal regulation, the relative values assigned to medical services are heavily influenced by a committee of specialty societies convened by the American Medical Association (AMA), which also owns the Current Procedural Terminology … Read More
The James F. Drane Bioethics Institute at PennWest University, in collaboration with Duquesne University’s Center for Global Health Ethics, will host the Second Duquesne–PennWest Conference on Global Bioethics from November 12–14, 2026, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. In today’s deeply interconnected world, many of the … Read More
When a clinician and an AI system disagree, who should prevail? The literature treats it as a conflict to be resolved, but none tells clinicians how to proceed. This lecture argues for a different question: not who wins, but how … Read More
Save the date and register now for the 7th Annual Lunchtime Lecture Series, presented by the Working Group on Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics (PGTME) at NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Section of Medical Ethics. Join us from 12-1:15pm … Read More
