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Harnessing Narrative Power to Guide Pedagogical Innovation in Dental Schools
2025-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Please join us for a free lecture by Michelle Moncrieffe.
Michelle V. Moncrieffe, MA, CHES®, is a lecturer and interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Maryland College Park, where she holds a joint appointment with the College of Arts and Humanities, and the School of Public Health. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Narratives and Medical Education (NAME) project. Her research focuses on exploring how patient narratives influence clinical practice. As well as being a certified health education specialist (CHES®), Michelle was a health journalist for over two decades. Although Michelle has not lived in her hometown for many years, she still describes herself as a Londoner.

Trusting Each Other: Enhancing Trust in Health Care Relationships
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 (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 Hannah Scotch, Professional Research Assistant at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities! Please feel free to share information about this event widely.
Learning Objectives:

Define trust and mistrust.
Describe the importance of bidirectional trust in patient-clinician relationships.
Discuss patient and clinician level factors that impact mistrust.
Review organizational factors that can increase trust.

CME Credit will be offered for live participation. The University of Colorado School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Certificates of Participation are available upon request.
For additional information or questions, please contact Gianna Morales .

Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds: "Wearing Two White Coats: An Introduction to Pediatric Clinical Research Ethics"
2025-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Online
Featured Speaker:
Brian Jackson, MD, MA, HEC-C
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Medical Director of Clinical Ethics, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Learning Objectives:

Contrast key differences between clinical and research ethics.
Describe historical events that have led to research ethics protections.
Identify processes that protect children who participate in clinical research.

Target Audience and Learner Outcomes:
This program is designed for CHCO team members who provide clinical care to our pediatric patients. After attending this event, participants will report increased knowledge and intent to change practice when navigating ethical challenges that occur during the care of pediatric patients.
Continuing Education Credit:
Attendance, sign-in and submission of the evaluation, including a written response to questions related to any change in practice that you may make as a result of learning that took place at this activity, are required for successful completion and receipt of the certificate of attendance.
Nursing: Children’s Hospital Colorado is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This offering for 1 nursing contact hour is provided by Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Medical: Children’s Hospital Colorado is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing education for physicians. Children’s Hospital Colorado designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other: A general certificate of attendance will be provided for all other participants.
For further information, please contact Stacy Matson, BSN, RN, CPN stacy.matson@childrenscolorado.org

How Music Heals and Fosters Connection at the Bedside and Beyond
2025-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online
About the Talk
Dr. Sydelle Ross will share her story of using music to care for herself while battling burnout early in her career. Based on her experiences in community settings, she will discuss the ways in which music can be used to facilitate interpersonal connection, affirm personhood, and foster spiritual connection.
About the Speaker
Dr. Sydelle Ross is an anesthesiologist and pain specialist who practices hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Ross received her medical degree from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. She completed her residency in anesthesiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Campus, and later completed fellowship training in pain medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. As a classical vocalist, Dr. Ross incorporates music into her medical practice as a way of providing comfort to patients who are living with life-threatening illnesses. She also harnesses the power of music to mitigate the effects of burnout syndrome, thereby promoting resilience and improved self-efficacy among healthcare workers. Dr. Ross is a member of the Music and Medicine Committee of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), and is also a member of the International Association of Music and Medicine. She is a physician contributor to the book entitled Artists Remaking Medicine: The Practice of Imagination and the Power to Create a Better Healthcare Future.

Warming Planet, Cooling Confidence: Challenges of Responding to Emerging Infections in a Changing World
2025-04-11 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Online
You are invited to attend the upcoming Special Edition of 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 Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc (hon), Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Learning Objectives:

To report on the rise of pandemic threats and tropical infections due to climate change, urbanization, and deforestation.
To summarize efforts at our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development to develop new vaccines for neglected diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
To summarize the origins of rising antivaccine sentiments and its recent shifts.
To create awareness on approaches to countering antivaccine activities.

CME Credits will be offered for live participation. The University of Colorado School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Certificates of Participation are available upon request.
Prof. Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc (hon) FAAP FASTMH is Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine. He is also University Professor of Biology at Baylor University. Dr. Hotez is a vaccine scientist, biochemist, and pediatrician who has led or co-led the development of vaccines for parasitic infections-hookworm, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease-currently in clinical trials, and several coronavirus vaccines, including two low-cost COVID vaccines for global health so far administered to 100 million children and adults in India and Indonesia. He is also an ardent vaccine advocate and science explainer who combats antiscience and antisemitism in America, and globally.
Prof. Hotez has authored four single-authored books with Johns Hopkins University Press, including Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism, Preventing the Next Pandemic, and The Deadly Rise of Anti-science ,and in 2025 will co-author Science Under Siege(Public Affairs)with the climate scientist, Michael Mann. Dr. Hotez obtained his B.A. (phi beta kappa) from Yale University, M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College, and Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. He obtained his pediatric residency and fellowship training from Massachusetts General Hospital and Yale School of Medicine.
Prof. Hotez is the author of more than 700 scientific papers, and he is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous awards. They include the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from AAAS, the Scientific Achievement Award from the AMA, the David E Rogers Award from the AAMC, the Science and Society Award from Sigma Xi, the Porter Prize in public health from the University of Pittsburgh, Winslow Medal from Yale School of Public Health, Mendel Medal in science and religion from Villanova University, Milton Popkin Award from the ADL Southwest, and LBJ Moral Courage Award from the Holocaust Museum Houston. He was named TIME Magazine Health100 in 2024.
He has three honorary Doctor of Science degrees. Prof. Hotez served as US Science Envoy for the Middle East and North Africa in 2015-16,and he appears frequently on national media to explain biomedicine and pandemics.
For additional information or questions, please contact Gianna Morales .

ELSI Friday Forum: Biogenome Science at an International Scale: Navigating ELSI Challenges
2025-04-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Description:
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) aims to collect whole genome sequences from all eukaryotic species on Earth before 2028 and produce an open DNA database. The African BioGenome Project (ABP) is a pan-African effort to build capacity and infrastructure to generate, analyze and deploy genomics data for the improvement and sustainable use of biodiversity and agriculture across Africa. What are ELSI the issues associated with these projects? Can data and samples be collected, shared, and used in ways that appropriately recognize their provenance and potential? This session considers how the benefits of biodiversity genomics can be realized locally and internationally.
Speakers:
Melissa Goldstein, JD & Sally M. Katee Moderated by: Patrick Keolu Fox, PhD

Coercive Interventions in Pregnancy
2025-04-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Dr. Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C
Dr. Marshall is a bioethicist in reproductive ethics at the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics at the University of Virginia. She is the director of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics.
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Tulane University Health Sciences Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Vaccines & Immunizations in a Time of Global Boiling & Anti-Science
2025-04-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Online
You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming Special Edition of 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 Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc (hon), Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Learning Objectives:

To report on the rise of pandemic threats and tropical infections due to climate change, urbanization, and deforestation.
To summarize efforts at our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development to develop new vaccines for neglected diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
To summarize the origins of rising antivaccine sentiments and its recent shifts.
To create awareness on approaches to countering antivaccine activities.

CME Credits will be offered for live participation. The University of Colorado School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Certificates of Participation are available upon request.
Registration is required to attend. Click here to register!
Prof. Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc (hon) FAAP FASTMH is Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine. He is also University Professor of Biology at Baylor University. Dr. Hotez is a vaccine scientist, biochemist, and pediatrician who has led or co-led the development of vaccines for parasitic infections-hookworm, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease-currently in clinical trials, and several coronavirus vaccines, including two low-cost COVID vaccines for global health so far administered to 100 million children and adults in India and Indonesia. He is also an ardent vaccine advocate and science explainer who combats antiscience and antisemitism in America, and globally.
Prof. Hotez has authored four single-authored books with Johns Hopkins University Press, including Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism, Preventing the Next Pandemic, and The Deadly Rise of Anti-science ,and in 2025 will co-author Science Under Siege(Public Affairs)with the climate scientist, Michael Mann. Dr. Hotez obtained his B.A. (phi beta kappa) from Yale University, M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College, and Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. He obtained his pediatric residency and fellowship training from Massachusetts General Hospital and Yale School of Medicine.
Prof. Hotez is the author of more than 700scientific papers, and he is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous awards. They include the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from AAAS, the Scientific Achievement Award from the AMA, the David E Rogers Award from the AAMC, the Science and Society Award from Sigma Xi, the Porter Prize in public health from the University of Pittsburgh, Winslow Medal from Yale School of Public Health, Mendel Medal in science and religion from Villanova University, Milton Popkin Award from the ADL Southwest, and LBJ Moral Courage Award from the Holocaust Museum Houston. He was named TIME MagazineHealth100 in 2024.
He has three honorary Doctor of Science degrees. Prof. Hotez served as US Science Envoy for the Middle East and North Africa in 2015-16,and he appears frequently on national media to explain biomedicine and pandemics.
For additional information or questions, please contact Gianna Morales .

31st Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship: "Disability and Ethics"
2025-04-11 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hybrid, PA
The 31st Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship: “Disability and Ethics” will take place on April 11, 2025. The event will be held in person and online; in-person limited to 70 people. In-person session will take place at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital at 10 McClennan Banks Drive, Room 7010, Charleston SC 29425.
It’s free to attend unless you want CMEs, in which case it is $25.
Any question about this conference or the Institute of Human Values in Health Care should be directed to Grant Goodrich, Ph.D., at goodricg@musc.edu or 843-792-9652, or to Dana J. Zeelsdorf at zeelsdor@musc.edu.

SUNY Upstate Center for Bioethics and Humanities: Surveilled Bodies: Reproductive Care at the Intersection of Medical Authority and State Control
2025-04-11 09:00 - 22:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University is proud to present this year’s Reiss Lecturer in Ethics and Equity, Dr. Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP.

Jennifer James, a sociologist, bioethicist, and Black feminist scholar, will trace the history of reproductive care in the US, examining structural racism from the time of slavery to modern obstetric violence. Attendees will be asked to consider the role of healthcare workers in the criminalization of pregnancy and birth.

Are End-of-Life Forms Failing Us?
2025-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This panel discussion will explore the purpose(s) of Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST); how to utilize this tool to facilitate optimal end-of-life care; and considerations specific to end-of-life decision-making in emergency situations.
Speakers:
Patricia Bomba, M.D., MACP, MOLST Statewide Implementation Program Chair, MOLST/eMOLST Program Director
Virginia Brown, M.A., Ph.D., Research Scholar, Hastings Center
Maia Dorsett, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center
Bradford D. Winters, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Moderated By:
David Hoffman, J.D., Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Columbia University
Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
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.
This event is open to individuals irrespective of identity and sex.

Filling out forms for life-sustaining treatment: Aids and Aggravations
2025-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This panel discussion will explore the purpose(s) of Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST); how to utilize this tool to facilitate optimal end-of-life care; and how to avoid common pitfalls for patients and practitioners.
Speakers:
Patricia Bomba M.D., MACP, MOLST Statewide Implementation Program Chair, MOLST/eMOLST Program Director
Bradford D. Winters M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Maia Dorsett, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center
Moderator:
David Hoffman, J.D., Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Columbia University
Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
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.
This event is open to individuals irrespective of identity and sex.

Upcoming CLE Event: Filling out forms for life-sustaining treatment: Aids and Aggravations
2025-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This panel discussion will explore the purpose(s) of Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)/Portable Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST); how to utilize this tool to facilitate optimal end-of-life care; and how to avoid common pitfalls for patients and practitioners.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 6:00-8:00 PM ET Online
Registration will be available soon on our website:
https://sps.columbia.edu/academics/masters/bioethics/events

Ninth Annual Medical School Ethics Conference
2025-04-10 08:00 - 2025-04-11 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The ninth Annual Medical Student Ethics Conference (AMSEC) will be held virtually on April 10-11, 2025. AMSEC is the only national conference solely dedicated to the ethical challenges medical students encounter on the path to becoming physicians. It is intended to be a forum for medical students to present their reflections on these challenges.
Featuring Balint Lecturer and Presentation by Keisha Ray, PhD, discussing “The Ethics of Our Socially Determined Health for Clinicians and Beyond”
New to 2025: This year’s conference will feature an art show on the theme of Drawing the Boundaries of Medicine.
Conference Registration: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Amem03xPbKdqftwxvuWbqqk6-4FRUUBahK7ZbW73GqoMJom2xRet~AgT6CP5LNJJTHt8-BZ9OOoU8amfjCAi9d1Y2k9gaSRGYdvWwjzI3yWshvQ

SUNY Upstate Center for Bioethics and Humanities: Structural Racism & Carceral Medicine: Imagining an abolitionist alternative - Bioethics Grand Rounds
2025-04-10 07:00 - 08:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University is proud to present this year’s Reiss Lecturer in Ethics and Equity, Dr. Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP. Dr. James, a sociologist, bioethicist, and Black feminist scholar, explores structural racism in medicine. In this Bioethics Grand Rounds presentation, she will trace the history of medical racism, examining segregation and carcerality embedded in hospital care, and consider what abolition medicine could be.

Ethics Grand Rounds: The Geneticization of Education and Its Bioethical Implications
2025-04-08 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
For under $10, direct-to-consumer genetic tests provide reports on educational traits like intelligence and math ability, placing them on a genomic spectrum. This technology, while publicly accessible and cost-effective, has prompted growing concern about its societal impacts and the potential geneticization of education, where educational abilities are increasingly perceived as merely genetic. In this session, Division of Ethics Assistant Professor Lucas Matthews, PhD, and Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry Director Paul Appelbaum, MD, will explore the bioethical implications of this new technology, and discuss the future of equity in education.

Event Contact Information:
David Lamb
dl3580@cumc.columbia.edu

BENO April Education Session with Jacob D. Moses, PhD
2025-04-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
The Bioethics Network of Ohio (BENO) is pleased to invite you to our next quarterly education session on Monday April 7th from 4-5pm Eastern with Jacob Moses, PhD, Assistant Professor at UTMB.
Dr. Moses will be presenting an analysis of public comments submitted in response to regulations proposed in Ohio in 2024 requiring the inclusion of bioethicists in the provision of gender affirming care. See the attached flyer for further details and please consider sharing it among your colleagues or students. You can register for the session here to receive the Zoom link.
BENO education sessions are open to all to attend live, regardless of BENO membership status. Please note that this session will not be recorded so live attendance is required to access this content. For questions about BENO or this event please contact info@benoethics.org.

2025 Harvard Surgical Ethics Virtual Conference
2025-04-07 08:00 - 2025-04-28 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
The Surgical Ethics Working Group (SEWG) at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is offering the 2025 Harvard Surgical Ethics Virtual Conference Series that will explore where ethical decision-making intersects with surgical practice. Session topics will include teaching bioethics, transplant ethics, global surgery, and AI in surgery. The need for ethics education and expertise is driven by rapid advancements in technology, evolving surgical practices, teaching methods, and global disparities in surgical care, leading to more difficult ethical challenges for healthcare professionals.

Course Format
This virtual conference series will be held weekly on Mondays over four weeks in April 2025. Each session will run from 7:00-9:00pm Eastern Time and will feature a different topic exploring timely and, in some cases, controversial ethical topics in surgery. Session topics and dates are as follows:

“Teaching Bioethics” on April 7, 2025
“Controversies in Transplant Ethics” on April 14
“Ethical Challenges in Global Health and Surgery” on April 21
“Implementation of AI in Surgery: Ethical Considerations” on April 28

Each session will include three short talks (20-25 minutes each) by expert faculty from the Center for Bioethics and others. This will be followed by a moderated question and answer period with the speakers. The interactive format is designed to encourage participant engagement and address their specific questions. Presentations will be available on-demand for all paid attendees for six weeks after the conference.
At the end of each session, participants will be required to complete a short online series of self-assessment questions. The course aims to enable participants to critically assess and apply ethical principles in their own practice. The website will be updated over the next few weeks to include a detailed schedule featuring exciting topics and speakers.

Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. See site for details.

Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will:

Utilize case studies, ethical theories and frameworks, and artificial intelligence for the development and delivery of surgical ethics education, ensuring that the methods promote integrity, professionalism, and respect for persons.
Critically evaluate ethical dilemmas in transplantation including normothermic regional perfusion for organ donation, vascularized composite allotransplants including uterus transplants, and the use of brain-dead donors as experimental subjects for xenotransplantation using case-based discussions and current guidelines.
Analyze ethical challenges in global surgery with a focus on global health priorities and the complex effects of the loss of local expertise on efforts to improve surgical access in low-and-middle income countries to order to augment decision-making in resource-limited settings.
Understand and assess the impact of artificial intelligence on clinical decision making, identify potential risks and benefits, where it might most easily and appropriately be deployed, and propose strategies to ethically integrate AI into surgical practice.
Develop strategies for implementing ethical guidelines into daily surgical practice by compiling knowledge from case studies, panel discussions, and journals, aimed at improving patient care and professional accountability.

Registration
To register, please visit the site for details and complete the online form. If this is your first time registering for a course at Boston Children’s Hospital, you will need to create an account. Please use an email address that you check frequently, as it will be used to send important information about the course.
Pre-registration is required. Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email with a registration receipt. Course access instructions will be sent a few days prior to the course launch. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, please direct all inquiries to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu.

Where Do We Go From Here? Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Pediatric Health Disparities in 2025 and Beyond
2025-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
This is an event of the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs (OACA), hosted by the Center for Bioethics, and co-sponsored by the following U of MN Units: Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, School of Public Health; College of Pharmacy; Medical School; Program in Health Disparities Research, Medical School; School of Dentistry; School of Public Health; School of Nursing; Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility; Rural Health Research Center.
Speakers:
Monique Jindal, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Northwestern University and Lurie Children’s Hospital. Dr. Jindal is an internal medicine and pediatrics primary care provider and health equity researcher whose mission is to advance health equity for systemically oppressed communities by addressing racism directly. Her research specifically focuses on the perpetrators of racial oppression including clinicians and seeks to develop community-driven interventions that reduce and mitigate the impacts of such harm. She completed an academic research fellowship including a Master’s in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has over eight years of experience in racism curriculum development and implementation. She was also the PI for the first systematic review summarizing the relationship between police contact and the health and well-being of Black youth, which received national attention from outlets such as NPR. Given her innovation and experience in the intersection of racism and health, she was recently asked to lead the authorship teams for 2 commissioned manuscripts: one for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on access to healthcare and structural racism and another through The Lancet on policies driven by structural racism that impact child health. Given her expertise, she has been tapped by the American Academy of Pediatrics for several articles, book chapters, and national convenings to address racism and child health and well-being. She was recognized by the National Minority Quality Forum as one of the 40 under 40 Leaders in Health Equity. Dr. Jindal is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center combined Internal medicine-pediatrics residency and a former chief resident for the med-peds program. She now has a dual appointment at Lurie Children’s and Northwestern Memorial Hospitals where she continues her research in racial health equity, serves as director for the health equity scholars program and provides care for both children and adults.
Nathan T. Chomilo, MD, FAAP, FACP, is the Medical Director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid & MinnesotaCare programs and practices as a General Pediatrician with Park Nicollet Health Services/HealthPartners. He was previously tapped by Governor Tim Walz to serve as the State of Minnesota’s COVID-19 vaccine equity director and as a Senior Advisor on Equity to the Minnesota Commissioner of Health. He is the Chair-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has been recognized by the City of Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights as a 2019 History Maker at Home recipient, Minnesota Physician which named him a one of the 100 most influential health care leaders in 2020 and 2024, and the Aspen Institute which selected him to be an Aspen Ascend Fellow in 2022. He was a committee member and co-author of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s 2024 report Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children, Youth and Families and is a member of The Lancet’s Commission on Antiracism in Solidarity. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency, is a former University of Minnesota Pediatric Chief resident. Dr. Chomilo’s work centers on marginalized communities in health policy so that we can dismantle racism in health care & provide children & families an equitable opportunity for health & well-being. He also works to understand and demonstrate how physicians and health systems can be accountable for producing racial & health equity.
Registration link: https://umn-private.zoom.us/webinar/register/5017398404933/WN_bdzCXqTaQBWMySFlDlo17w#/registration

Author Series: The Occasional Human Sacrifice
2025-04-03 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Inperson, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway,, Dayton,, OH, 45435, United States
Join Countway Library and HMS Center for Bioethics for an author talk with Carl Elliott, MD, PhD about his book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice

Books will be sold (by Porter Square Books) and signed at event!
Registration required

About the Book
The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.
About the Author
Carl Elliott MD PhD is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and an affiliate faculty member of the University of Otago Bioethics Centre in New Zealand. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The American Scholar. Elliott is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress, a resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, and a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Learn More About Columbia's M.S. in Bioethics Program from Distinguished Faculty
2025-04-02 18:00 - 19:00 (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.
Join us for this session in which distinguished Bioethics faculty will provide you with insight into the program and answer any questions you may have about the courses they lead at Columbia University.
Speakers:
Robert Klitzman, M.D., David N. Hoffman, J.D., Arthur Kuflik, PhD, Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, M.D., and Anne Zimmerman, J.D., M.S., CIPP/US, CEET

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person
2025-03-31 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hybrid, PA
About the Talk
Based on in-depth research, this talk explores how patients today from varied backgrounds—from evangelical to atheist, agnostic, and “nothing in particular”—confront spiritual, existential, and religious challenges, and how hospital chaplains often help. These spiritual care providers play critical roles assisting patients, families, and staff, but knowledge about them and how they assist patients remains relatively low. This talk presents the profound insights they have to share.
About the Speaker
Robert Klitzman, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, and the Director of the Online and In-person Bioethics Masters and Certificate Programs at Columbia University. He has written over 190 scientific journal articles, ten books, and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics regarding doctor-patient relationships and communication, research, genetics, mental health, pandemics, and other areas. His books include Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person and When Doctors Become Patients.
Dr. Klitzman has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Aaron Diamond Foundation, the Hastings Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has been a gubernatorial appointee to the Empire State Stem Cell Commission, and the Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network, and served on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Research Ethics Advisory Panel. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, CNN, and Psychology Today.
The lecture may be attended virtually at this Zoom link: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/98286753954

CARE Panel: The Ethics of Researching Psychedelics
2025-03-24 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
The study of psychedelics as therapeutic tools raises profound ethical questions about medicine, society, and patient care. This virtual panel brings together experts to explore critical questions: How do historical stigma and cultural context shape the development of psychedelic therapies? What role should public perception play in evaluating medical applications? How can researchers best protect potentially vulnerable participants while advancing scientific understanding? Join us for this nuanced discussion on developing ethical frameworks for responsible psychedelic research.
Featuring Panelists:
Andrew Peterson, PhD (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, George Mason University & Affiliate Researcher, Penn Memory Center, UPenn)
Subhdeep Virk, MD (Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, OSUMC)
Stacey Armstrong, PhD (Senior Researcher & Associate Director of the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education, OSU)
This event will be presented with automated closed captions. If you wish to request traditional CART services or other accommodations, please contact Layne Garrelts at garrelts.6@osu.edu. Requests made by 10 days prior to this event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
Register here: https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8BeICGnSR0C14L76QBLDNw#/registration

30th annual Healthcare Ethics Consortium conference: Shaping the Future: Healthcare Ethics 2035
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-03-25 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
We will focus on 4 major topics through ½ day sessions on March 24 & 25, 2025:

Trust and Sources of Truth
What Will be Valued in 2035: Balancing Indicators of Effectiveness with the Human Experience
Centering Patient Experiences by Sharing Their Stories
Emerging Issues in Healthcare and Ethics (professional roles, long-term care, critical care, virtual nursing, AI…)

Our opening speakers are Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and Bonzo Reddick, MD, MPH, FAAFP, District Health Director, family physician, and Professor of Community Medicine and Family Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine, and multidisciplinary perspectives will be included throughout the 2 days.
Please see our full agenda and speaker list below, attached and at: https://hcethics.org/speakers
In addition to excellent speakers, our focus is on participant engagement, time for discussion, and identifying frameworks and models relevant to practice.
We welcome in-person and virtual participation during the 2-day conference.
Our onsite location is the Emory Conference Center on the Emory University campus in Atlanta.
Conference information, including the full agenda and registration information, is available at www.hcethics.org/annualconference.
CEUs:
CME:
The Emory University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Social Work Hours:
The Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW) has approved 13 Ethic Hours for this hybrid conference.
CNE: We are awaiting word on Nursing CNE hours.
The registration deadline for In-Person attendance is Monday, March 7 and the deadline for Virtual participation is Friday, March 21.

Healthcare Ethics Consortium 2025 Annual Conference: Shaping the Future: Healthcare Ethics 2035
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-03-25 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
We hope that you will join us for our 30th annual Healthcare Ethics Consortium conference, hosted by the Emory University Center for Ethics.
The conference will address Shaping the Future: Healthcare Ethics 2035.
We will focus on 4 major topics on March 24 & 25, 2025

Trust and sources of truth
What will be valued in 2035?
Centering patient experiences by sharing their stories
Emerging issues

Our opening speakers are Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and Bonzo Reddick, MD, MPH, FAAFP, District Health Director, family physician, and Professor of Community Medicine and Family Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine, and multidisciplinary perspectives will be included throughout the 2 days.
In addition to excellent speakers, our focus is on participant engagement, time for discussion, and identifying frameworks and models relevant to practice.
We welcome in-person and virtual participation during the 2-day conference.
Our onsite location is the Emory Conference Center on the Emory University campus in Atlanta.
Conference information, including registration information, is available at www.hcethics.org/annualconference.
The registration deadline for In-Person attendance is Monday, March 7 and the deadline for Virtual participation is Friday, March 21.
Email hec@emory.edu with questions.

MBE Alumni Colloquium: Takunda Matose: “Justice and The Monty Hall Problem of Public Health”
2025-03-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Hybrid, PA
The Master of Bioethics Program at the University of Pennsylvania Invites you to join us for our next MBE/MSME Alumni Colloquium speaker Takunda Matose, PhD, MBE
BIO: Takunda Matose is a philosopher and bioethicist who is a Research Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s Ethics Center. His research lies primarily at the intersection of political philosophy, bioethics, and the philosophy of race. He is interested in racial health justice and has written about the racial dimension of pandemics, maternal health disparities, health care in carceral contexts, and public health in Africa.
This event is hybrid. To attend virtually, please register here

Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy First Annual Symposium
2025-03-20 09:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Hybrid, PA
The first annual conference of Touro University’s Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy will focus on Reproductive Health Policy. This conference will be held on Thursday, March 20, 2025 at the Touro University Main Campus, at 3 Times Square in New York City with a virtual option to attend via Zoom.
This symposium seeks to address the current landscape of reproductive policy. Throughout the day, we will address three key topics in the field including in vitro fertilization, the effects of Dobbs on access to care and crisis pregnancy centers. The details of each panel’s discussion are as follows:
• Post-Dobbs Access to Care: Examining shifting OBGYN residency patterns and increased pregnancy risks resulting from policy barriers.
• IVF and Legal Definitions: Exploring how legal definitions of embryos shape the regulation of reproductive technologies.
• Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Analyzing the operations of unlicensed pregnancy centers and the legal landscape that enables their functioning.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Eli Y Adashi
Professor of Medical Science, Brown University
Former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, Dr. Adashi, an academic physician-executive, is a graduate of Tel Aviv University School of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health program in Health Care Management. A former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists (SRE), the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS), Dr. Adashi also served as Examiner and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG).

University of Louisville’s 2024-2025 Virtual Health Care Ethics Speaker Series: "Queer Crip Ecologies of Dementia"
2025-03-19 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. NEW! Events are accredited for Continuing Education credit for physicians (CMEs) and nurses (CNEs).
Speaker:
Kim Q. Hall, Professor, University of Alberta
I earned a B.A. in Philosophy at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where I was also the first student to graduate with a certificate in what was then called Women’s Studies. I earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. Prior to coming to the University of Alberta, I was Professor of Philosophy and a faculty affiliate in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and Appalachian Studies programs at Appalachian State University, where I also served as Humanities Council Coordinator (2012-2014) and Director of the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program (2014-2017). Throughout my career, I have been interested in efforts to enhance equity, diversity, and inclusiveness in the profession. For example, I have served as Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for Philosophy in an Inclusive (PIKSI) Key and as an inaugural member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Committee on Accessibility, Disability, and Inclusion. I am excited to join the University of Alberta’s Department of Philosophy as Professor of Philosophy and to serve as Interim Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Studies. If I had to choose one thing that I have enjoyed about my career so far, it’s the opportunity to continue to learn and think with others about matters of importance in our lives and world.
Event link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5d676b16-b49d-493a-808a-138fc0e1570e@dd246e4a-5434-4e15-8ae3-91ad9797b209

Continuous Deep Sedation in Palliative Care
2025-03-19 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Welcome to the Bios Centre Newsletter. We’re delighted to report that Professor Daniel Sulmasy will be speaking to us on Wednesday 19 March on the topic of ‘Continuous Deep Sedation in Palliative Care.
Professor Sulmasy is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University. He holds a joint appointment at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and is the inaugural André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, with co-appointments in the Departments of
Philosophy and Medicine at Georgetown.
We look forward to a very interesting discussion and hope that you can join us. See below for a Zoom link for the meeting. Please write to info@bioscentre.org or to Dr Ilaria Bertini at ibertini@bioscentre.org if you have any questions about the meeting.
Zoom info.: https://bioscentre.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e07238f83e6d8887ac27e1592&id=4304de0134&e=9fc77c0904
Meeting ID: 842 2765 7290
Passcode: [REDACTED]

ELSI Friday Forum: Enhancing Genetic Screening Access through Community Partnerships in the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project
2025-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us on 03/14/25 at 12pm ET for the next ELSI Friday Forum: Enhancing Genetic Screening Access through Community Partnerships in the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project, with our speakers:

Sydney N. Evans, MSW, C-CHW
Erika S. Trapl, PhD
Moderated by Marsha Michie, PhD

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/T926pH_NTLeL-DBkQ1kzAA
Abstract: Genetic screening is crucial for identifying genetic risk factors for disease, but marginalized groups often have low participation due to lack of access, awareness, and mistrust of healthcare systems. There is a need for intentional collaboration with community partners to address these concerns and allow community voices to actively participate in the design and implementation of programs. The Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project (CAAPP) is a partnership of academics, clinicians, and community partners working together to combine prostate cancer and genetic screening, leveraging local barbershops as trusted hubs. Barbers were trained as health advisors, connecting Black men over 40 with screening services. This session will explore how building relationships, leveraging existing clinical and community partners, and utilizing community health navigators can overcome barriers like trust, cost, and data ownership, increasing participation and improving preventive health measures in marginalized communities.
