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Past Events

Expressing Wonder, Making Meaning: Neuroethics Engages the Arts
April 17, 2024 (All day) to April 19, 2024 (All day)
“Made in Canada”: Lessons Learned from Medically Assisted Dying in Canada
April 16, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
In Pursuit of the Great Coherence: Healing in the Spaces Between
April 14, 2024 (All day) to April 16, 2024 (All day)
Why Film and TV? ELSI Research and the Public Imagination
April 12, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethics, Disabilities, and Healthcare
April 12, 2024 (All day)
Selecting Our Children's Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening
April 11, 2024 -
5:15pm to 6:45pm
Rights, Liberty, and the Nature of Medicine
April 9, 2024 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Ethical Considerations for AI in Healthcare
April 5, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Human Death Ushering in the Dawn of New Life
April 5, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Exploring Ethical, Equity, and Regulatory Implications for Pharmacogenomics Implementation in Psychiatric Care Settings
April 5, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
How Racism and Discrimination Impact Black Girls’ Sexual Health
April 5, 2024 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Can Comics Improve our Health(care)? An Introduction to Graphic Medicine
April 4, 2024 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Beyond the Model: Structural Challenges to Safe and Effective AI in Medicine
April 4, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Claiming Meaning and Purpose in Nursing: Why It Matters
April 4, 2024 (All day) to April 5, 2024 (All day)
Forming the Modern Physician: Gender, Race, and Science in Early Twentieth-Century Medical School Design
April 2, 2024 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
April 2, 2024 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Body Size and Religion: Views from Judaism and Christianity
April 2, 2024 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Visual Art and Digital Artistry
March 29, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Pharmacogenomic Testing (PGx) in Psychiatric Care: Exploring Ethical and Regulatory Frontiers
March 29, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Belmont Principles and Human Research Ethics
March 29, 2024 - 10:15am
33rd Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference
March 29, 2024 (All day)
Punch Drunk Slugnuts: Violence and the Vernacular History of Disease
March 26, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Clinical Ethics Consultation: Note Writing, Tracking, Trending, and Follow-up
March 26, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Humanities & Social Sciences Research Workshop
March 25, 2024 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
The Black Prisoners of Stateville: Race, Research, and Reckoning at the Origin of Precision Medicine
March 22, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethical Challenges of Conducting Human Subjects Research
March 22, 2024 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Assessing Emerging Bioethical Issues in the Application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Clinical and Translational Research Involving Underrepresented Populations
March 22, 2024 -
9:00am to 1:45pm
Liability Aspects of Using Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
March 21, 2024 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The Holocaust and Bioethics in Israel: Is there a connection?
March 21, 2024 -
9:30am to 10:30am
Improving Quality and Equity of Care for Disabled Patients
March 13, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Beyond Prix Fixe or A La Carte: Inpatient Code Status Order Options
March 11, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Do You Mind? Developing the Ethics of New Neurotechnologies
March 8, 2024 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
The Impact of Dobbs on Emerging Reproductive Technologies
March 8, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Down Syndrome and Widening the Boundaries of “Normal”
March 7, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Dance, Pandemics, and Domestic Disobedience: From St. Vitus to TikTok
March 6, 2024 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Second Texts and Second Opinions: Religion, Medicine, and Jewish Thought
March 5, 2024 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Climate Change and Jewish Thought
March 4, 2024 -
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Ethical Issues Related to Fertility Preservation in Oncology Care
March 4, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Manipulating the History of Abortion in Ancient Rome and Post-Roe America
March 1, 2024 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Inequality & the Environment: Moving from Science to Action that Advances Environmental Justice and Health Equity
March 1, 2024 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Navigating the Frontiers of Healthcare Innovation: A Venture Capitalist's Perspective on Ethics, Misalignments, and Overcoming Challenges in Drug and Device Development
February 28, 2024 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Building Partnerships to Advance Ethical Research: Collaborators, Communities & Companies
February 28, 2024 -
10:00am to 4:00pm
Ethics in Spiritual Care: Case Studies from a Chaplain
February 27, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Journeys End, Journeys Begin: Clinicians & Families Grieving Together
February 26, 2024 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Myth-Busting or Meaning-Making? Public Science Communications and the Infodemic
February 23, 2024 -
3:30pm to 6:00pm
Tooth Shame & its Various Choreographies — An Ethnographic Study of Dental Health-Related Shame within Elderly Care Systems
February 23, 2024 -
8:00am to 9:00am
33rd Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference
February 22, 2024 (All day) to February 25, 2024 (All day)
'To Make More Inhabitants': Disability, Sexuality and Race in Early Modern France
February 21, 2024 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Black Women's Historical Wellness: Yoga, Tea, and Traditions of Collective Self-Care
February 21, 2024 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Accompanying History: The Journey to Undocumented Physicians
February 20, 2024 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
The Angst in Adolescent Decision-Making
February 20, 2024 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Navigating Authorship: Who’s on First?
February 16, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
In Our Time/Pandemic Stories from the Frontlines by Anya Martin
February 12, 2024 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
To Report or Not - The Ethics of Clinician Disclosure of Patient Medical Conditions
February 12, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities
February 12, 2024 (All day) to March 22, 2024 (All day)
Generative AI: Academic Freedom, Academic Values, and Productivity
February 9, 2024 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Twisted Helix: Can Public-Private Partnerships in Large-Scale Genomic Projects Be Fair and Equitable?
February 9, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Cripping Girlhood
February 6, 2024 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Health, Equity and Climate Change
February 6, 2024 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Ethical and Legal Approach of Islam to Gene Editing
February 6, 2024 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Race-Disability Intersectionality as a Health Equity Imperative
January 30, 2024 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Madmen” in Victorian Britain and The Boundaries of Victorian Masculinity
January 29, 2024 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
What Can Geneticists Do to Prevent the Misuse of Genomic Data? Part 2
January 26, 2024 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Resilience in the Digital Age
January 25, 2024 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
"Could a situation be more ghastly?": Doctors, Disinfectants, and the Dead After the Johnstown Flood of 1889
January 23, 2024 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Care Outside the Comfort Zone: Assessing the Needs of Patients with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder and Life-Limiting Illness
January 23, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
What Can Geneticists Do to Prevent the Misuse of Genomic Data? Part 1
January 19, 2024 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Black in White Space
January 18, 2024 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Muhammad Zaman, author of We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced, in conversation with Theresa Brown
January 16, 2024 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Wounded Writings: Disability in France
January 12, 2024 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Polygenic Risk Prediction in Diverse Populations and Contexts: Scientific and Ethical Considerations
January 12, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Use of Stigmatizing and Biased Language in Electronic Medical Record Notes
January 8, 2024 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
An Interview with Pitt Faculty on Medicine and Poetry
December 18, 2023 -
8:00pm to 9:30pm
Current Ethical Controversies in Organ Donation
December 14, 2023 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Systemic Racism and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
December 11, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Affirming Sex and Gender Diversity in Genetics Practices, Policies, and Laws
December 8, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Humans Outside the Loop
December 7, 2023 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Emerging Portable Technology for Neuroimaging Research in New Field Settings: Legal & Ethical Challenges
December 7, 2023 -
9:30am to 5:30pm
Attending to Disability: Honoring the Religious Lives and Practices of People with Intellectual Disabilities
December 5, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
We Still Aren’t Speaking Their Language: Ethics Consults for End-of-Life Discussions and Surrogate Decision Making
November 28, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Ethics of Tele-Mental Health: Challenges, Dilemmas, & Opportunities
November 27, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Black Bioethics and the Narrative of Health Equity
November 21, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Disability History and Policy
November 21, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:30pm
Decolonize Self-Care: with Authors Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoë Meleo-Erwin
November 17, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Trust Takes Two: Barriers to Trust in the Healthcare System Among Ethnically Diverse Parents
November 17, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Putting Science to Work: Women Healers and the Pursuit of Medical Knowledge in Early Pennsylvania
November 14, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Connecticut Bill on Medical Aid-in-dying for Terminally Ill Patients
November 14, 2023 -
5:15pm to 7:00pm
Conscientious Objection: The Pharmacist’s Right to Refuse to Fill Contraceptive Prescriptions
November 14, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Humans, Animals, and Health in History
November 14, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:15pm
Toward a New Standard of Care: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations of Urine Drug Testing in Pregnancy
November 14, 2023 -
7:15am to 8:00am
Decision to Withdraw ECMO from a Patient with Capacity
November 13, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Genomics of PTSD Risk: Scientific and Ethical Perspectives
November 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pursuit-Worthy Research in Health: Three Examples and a Proposal
November 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Archives, Data Storage, and Surveillance
November 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Generative AI and Research: Policies, Practices, and Ethics in Publishing
November 10, 2023 -
10:00am to 11:15am
Corsicana
November 10, 2023 (All day) to November 17, 2023 (All day)
Data and the Digital Future
November 9, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
November 9, 2023 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Greg Marshall, author of Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It, in conversation with Theresa Brown
November 7, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
The Role of the Chaplain in a Healthcare Setting
November 7, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
A Neurobehavioral Approach to Understanding Implicit Bias in Research and Medicine
November 3, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Buddhist, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives on Abortion
November 2, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pathways to Palliative Care
November 2, 2023 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Trauma Informed Ethics Consultation
November 2, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Immigration & Health Equity: From Demagoguery to Community
October 27, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Generative AI in/as Theater and Performance
October 27, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Islam and Bioethics: What We All Need to Know
October 26, 2023 -
6:15pm to 7:45pm
Ethical Decision Making & Our Biased Brains
October 24, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Disability and Technologized Embodiment
October 23, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Remote Body in Medicine: Touch and Telepresence on a Hospital Ward
October 23, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Artful Medicine: Bridging Medicine and the Humanities
October 19, 2023 (All day) to October 21, 2023 (All day)
Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse
October 11, 2023 (All day) to October 14, 2023 (All day)
Honoring Patient Wishes: Legal Differences among US States in Honoring Written Preferences of Patients
October 9, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Replication Crisis: A Whodunit
October 6, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
A Preliminary Model of Moral Disengagement and Re-engagement of AI Developers
October 3, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Empirical Research on Prayer for Healing
October 3, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Generative AI and Digital Humanities
September 29, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Risky Bodies: Vilification of Illness in Drug Policy
September 28, 2023 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Health Humanities Research Slam
September 27, 2023 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves, in conversation with Theresa Brown
September 26, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
How Non-medical Factors Affect Surgical Decision-making and Patient Care
September 26, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
The Child Amputee in Post-World War II America
September 26, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Healthcare Ethics ECHO
September 26, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seen Yet Invisible: Lessons from Muslim Experiences at the Margins of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Healthcare
September 22, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing
September 21, 2023 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The Challenges of Regulating the Medical Use of ChatGPT
September 21, 2023 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Ethical Implications of New Biomedical Technologies in Neuroscience
September 19, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
The Indian Health Service: Improving Health Equity or Failing to Meet Obligations?
September 15, 2023 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Old Trips, New Destinations: Exploring the Ethical and Practical Considerations of Psychedelics Research
September 14, 2023 -
9:45am to 4:15pm
The Intersections of Religion, Spirituality, and Medicine
September 14, 2023 -
8:00am to 1:00pm
The History and Challenges of Diagnosing and Treating Mood Disorders: Creativity, Humanity, and Science
September 13, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Challenges to the Patient-Surgeon Relationship
September 12, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Introducing Tooth Shame & its Life-Limiting Practices
September 12, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:30am
Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Admission to Medical and Health Science Schools
September 11, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Fair Access and Equity of Individualized Interventions for Ultrarare Genetic Conditions
September 8, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Publishing ELSI in Scientific Journals
September 7, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
ReelAbilities Pittsburgh Film Festival
September 7, 2023 (All day) to September 13, 2023 (All day)
Beyond Best Intentions: Ethical Volunteering in Global Health
September 6, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Ethical Considerations in Pig-to-Human Xenotransplants
September 5, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Concurrent Hospice Care: Opportunities for Clinical and Policy Innovation
August 30, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
When Can Clinicians Refuse an AMA Discharge Request? The Ethical Challenge of AMA Discharges and Involuntary Hospitalization
August 29, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Three Approaches to Death and Dying: Japanese, Sub-Saharan African and American
August 21, 2023 -
10:00am to 11:00am
The Urgent Need for “Nutrition Facts Labels” for AI
August 21, 2023 -
9:00am to 10:00am
Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics
August 2, 2023 (All day) to August 4, 2023 (All day)
Dysphagic Patients who Request to Eat by Mouth
July 25, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Give and Take: Ethical Issues in Pediatric Transplant
July 21, 2023 (All day) to July 22, 2023 (All day)
Pediatric Bioethics at the Point of Care: A Critical Examination of Ethics Issues in Pediatric Nursing
July 20, 2023 (All day)
Grantsmanship Series - The Writing and Uses of Specific Aims
July 19, 2023 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Next of Kin Authorization for Research After Consent for Organ Donation
July 17, 2023 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Population Descriptors in Genomic Research: Applying the NASEM Recommendations
July 14, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pediatric Donation to Save the Life of a Sibling
July 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Publishing in Bioethics Journals – What You Need to Know
June 29, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
What Should ChatGPT Mean for Bioethics and Education?
June 28, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
June 27, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:30pm
ChatGPT, Knowledge, and Misinformation: Technology and Its Many Impacts on Health, Wellness, and Society
June 21, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Metabolism is Not a Metaphor
June 20, 2023 -
12:15pm to 1:45pm
12:52 The Mike Webster Story
June 16, 2023 (All day) to June 25, 2023 (All day)
Bridging the Gap in Pediatric Medical Ethics—Bringing Research to Practice Using Novel Frameworks and Analyses
June 12, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Legal and Policy Challenges to Privacy in the Post-Genomic and Post-Dobbs Era
June 9, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
2nd Annual Pharmacoequity Conference
June 9, 2023 -
9:00am to 3:00pm
Ethics of Gene Editing and Genetic Selection
June 8, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Bridging the Gap: A Church-based Initiative for Training Black Lay Ministers as Hospice Ambassadors
June 6, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Every Brilliant Thing
May 25, 2023 (All day) to June 11, 2023 (All day)
ELSI Research and the New NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy
May 23, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Ethics and the Forensic Patient
May 23, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Value and Values in Payment for Gene Therapies
May 12, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Staging Care & Well-Being
May 12, 2023 -
8:00am to 7:00pm
Stories and Statistics: Balancing Trust and Proper Health Care for Black Patients
May 11, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Case Conference on Unilateral Do-Not-Resuscitate Order Use Over a Surrogate’s Objection
May 8, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Medicalizing and Criminalizing Mental Health
May 2, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Transference of Grace and the Unassuming Swallow
May 2, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Seizing Hope: Ethical Issues in Neurotechnologies—Film Screening and Discussion
May 1, 2023 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Equitable Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Research
April 28, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
ECMO as Destination Therapy
April 25, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Toward the Just Use of Genomic Sequencing for Listing Decisions in Pediatric Transplantation
April 21, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Ethics of Consent for Studies Involving Temporary Treatment of Chronic Pain
April 14, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Freedom House Ambulance Service: A Conversation
April 4, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Empirical Research on the Intersection of Religion and Health
April 4, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Ethics, Healthcare, and Emotional Well-being
March 31, 2023 -
8:45am to 1:00pm
Embodied Justice—A Book Celebration
March 30, 2023 - 4:00pm
Writing for Well-being in Loss, Grief, and Transition
March 30, 2023 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Humanities @ Work in the Community, Health & Tech Industries
March 29, 2023 -
8:00am to 5:30pm
Postponed to Fall 2023 - The Boundaries of Victorian Masculinity: “Madmen” in Victorian Britain
March 27, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Impact of Healthcare Law and Ethics on the Incarcerated Individual
March 23, 2023 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Discussion of the Consequences of Overturning Roe
March 22, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe
March 21, 2023 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Meeting Gender's End: Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness—Investigating Biases in the Modern Wellness Movement
March 20, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Teaching for the Intellectual Virtues
March 16, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Health Justice Over Time
March 16, 2023 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Ethical Issues in the Care of Young Adults in Pediatric Settings
March 16, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Mobilizing Selves, Transforming Structures
March 16, 2023 (All day) to March 19, 2023 (All day)
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Trends and Cases to Start 2023
March 15, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
March 14, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Reading the Bible as a Religious History of Medicine
March 14, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
2023 Conference on Religion and Medicine
March 12, 2023 (All day) to March 14, 2023 (All day)
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle for Polygenic Screening of Embryos: Where To From Here?
March 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Trust, Distrust, and "Medical Gaslighting"
March 3, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
What Makes Your Research Trustworthy? Threats and Opportunities
March 1, 2023 -
10:00am to 4:00pm
Advancing Ethical Practice: Exploring the Gray Areas
March 1, 2023 (All day) to March 3, 2023 (All day)
Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Patient Autonomy and Provider Integrity
February 25, 2023 -
9:00am to 2:00pm