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Past Events

Roslynn D. Haynes From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture
December 6, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
POSTPONED: Ethics at the Intersection of Academic Research and Human Rights Practice
December 3, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Meaning of Eugenics: Historical and Present-Day Discussions of Eugenics and Scientific Racism
December 2, 2021 (All day) to December 3, 2021 (All day)
Moral Distress, Nursing and Bioethics: Challenges and Solutions
November 18, 2021 -
6:15pm to 7:45pm
Racism, Inclusion and Justice: Interrogating Bioethics
November 18, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Telling the Stories Behind COVID: Narrative and Graphic Medicine
November 17, 2021 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Grief, Loss, and Resilience in a Pandemic World—Session Three
November 17, 2021 -
12:00pm to 3:00pm
The Extraordinary Romance of Big Tech, Patient Data and Artificial Intelligence
November 17, 2021 (All day) to November 19, 2021 (All day)
Impact of COVID-19 on the Academic Careers of Women in Medicine and Science
November 16, 2021 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Why Health Equity Matters for Health Care: COVID-19 Pandemic & Beyond
November 16, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
An Uneven Recovery? Health Outcomes and Economic Impacts Across Europe
November 16, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Healthcare Information Crisis: Medical Ontologies and the Challenge of Data Harmonization
November 12, 2021 -
2:30pm to 6:00pm
Benefit-sharing and Pharmaceutical Development in Africa: What Does Equity Mean?
November 12, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The MacLean Center Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics
November 12, 2021 (All day) to November 13, 2021 (All day)
When the Patient is Racist
November 11, 2021 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
The Science, Art, and Technology of Emotional Literacy and Well-being
November 10, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
The Unsung Heroes of the Match
November 9, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Dancing Wheels
November 6, 2021 - 7:00pm
Data Feminism
November 5, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
14th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference
November 5, 2021 -
8:00am to 12:00pm
Addressing Implicit Bias as Standard of Care: A Legal & Ethical Imperative
November 4, 2021 -
6:15pm to 8:15pm
The Impact of COVID-19 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
November 2, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
November 2, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Intersection of Racism, Religion and Mental Health in Clinical Care
November 2, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Confronting the Public Health and Ethical Challenges of COVID-19
November 1, 2021 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
November 1, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Understanding the Health and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Populations: Findings from a New National Academy of Sciences Report
October 29, 2021 -
1:15pm to 2:30pm
Debating COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: Public Health Strategy in a Shifting Landscape
October 29, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Professionalism and the Digital Transformation of Health Care and Education
October 28, 2021 -
11:00am to 6:00pm
A Usable Past for a Democratic Future: How Looking Backward Can Help Us Navigate the Digital Revolution
October 27, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Grief, Loss, and Resilience in a Pandemic World—Session Two
October 27, 2021 -
12:00pm to 3:00pm
Religious Pluralism, Vaccine Resistance, and Civic Discourse
October 21, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Engagement, Policy, and Practice
October 21, 2021 (All day) to October 23, 2021 (All day)
Theranos Whistleblower Tyler Shultz
October 20, 2021 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Racism and Its Implications for Clinical Trials: A Workshop to Promote Understanding and Action
October 20, 2021 -
9:30am to 2:00pm
Disability and Access to Healthcare
October 19, 2021 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
The Many Facets of Moral Distress Across Healthcare Settings
October 19, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Free Movement in the Time of COVID: The Economics and Ethics of Digital Vaccine Passports
October 19, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Languages of Trauma
October 15, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration
October 14, 2021 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Bioethics and Humanities at the Crossroads
October 13, 2021 (All day) to October 16, 2021 (All day)
Navigating Competing Interests in Healthcare
October 11, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Genomic Data Sharing: Putting Principles and Policy into Practice
October 8, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Abortion, American Jews, and the First Amendment
October 8, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
The Extension of Physician-Assisted Suicide Beyond the Criteria in the State Statute
October 6, 2021 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Working the Mind-Body Connection – Tools from Thai Buddhism for Pain Management and Palliative Care
October 5, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
The Disabled Body in Art: A Conversation with Sarah Seene
October 4, 2021 - 5:00pm
Pandemics & Plagues, Languages & Literatures
October 1, 2021 (All day) to October 3, 2021 (All day)
Grief, Loss, and Resilience in a Pandemic World—Session One
September 29, 2021 -
12:00pm to 3:00pm
The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and Stock Assumptions
September 28, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Conscientious Objection to Medical Aid in Dying
September 28, 2021 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Disrupted Morphology: Progress, Electricity, and Medicine in Toulouse-Lautrec
September 27, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization
September 24, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment
September 24, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Race and Bioethics
September 23, 2021 -
4:00pm to 5:15pm
11th Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference
September 23, 2021 (All day) to September 24, 2021 (All day)
Is Medical Aid in Dying Suicide?
September 22, 2021 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
The Ethics of Organoids
September 22, 2021 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Applying Racial Equity Awareness in Data Visualization
September 21, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Vaccine Mandates
September 17, 2021 -
11:30am to 12:30pm
On Personhood
September 17, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Medical Aid in Dying: New Mexico’s Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act
September 15, 2021 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Care of Severely Impaired African-American Newborns: Reflections from the Black Church Tradition
September 14, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Disability Policy: Beyond the Pandemic
September 13, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Treat Donors Like Philanthropists: Overcoming Barriers to Kidney Donation from Living Donors
September 13, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Moral Distress in the Public Health Workforce
September 13, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Remembering 9/11: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues with Using DNA for Disaster Victim Identification
September 10, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Conscience, Compromise, and Complicity
September 9, 2021 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Take this Job and Automate It?
September 8, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
ReelAbilities Pittsburgh Film Festival
September 8, 2021 (All day) to September 12, 2021 (All day)
Ethical Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic Care Challenges: Local and Global Perspectives
September 2, 2021 (All day) to September 3, 2021 (All day)
Potential Alternative Pathways in Caring for Unrepresented Patients Who Are Unable to Speak for Themselves
August 12, 2021 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Common Misconceptions about Catholic Healthcare: Vaccination and Vaccines
August 3, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Pushing the Limits: Children, Athletics and Ethics
July 23, 2021 (All day) to July 24, 2021 (All day)
A Match Made in Science: Integrating Bioethics and Biomedical Research
July 20, 2021 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Breakthrough or Breakdown: Should the FCA Have Approved the New Alzheimer’s Drug?
July 12, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:00am
The House of the Negro Insane
July 10, 2021 (All day) to August 27, 2021 (All day)
Current Legal Challenges to Abortion: Implications for Prenatal Genetics
July 9, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Brain Death: Are Neurological Criteria Sufficient for Declaring Death?
July 8, 2021 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Visions of a Post-pandemic World
July 8, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:00am
It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Messy Reality of Religious Practice and Belief
July 8, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Over?
June 27, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
The Group-Based Medical Mistrust Scale (GBMMS): A Look Back and a Look Forward
June 24, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Atlantic Health Equity Summit
June 22, 2021 -
11:00am to 1:00pm
Health Care Fraud Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
June 18, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Cutting the Cord: Curtailing Commercial Influence on Healthcare
June 16, 2021 (All day) to June 18, 2021 (All day)
Ethical Challenges in Novel Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease
June 11, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Public Forum with Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka
June 9, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Biotechnology and the Future of Medicine
June 9, 2021 (All day) to June 11, 2021 (All day)
Vaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical?
June 7, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Perspectives on Health: (In)Equity in Communities
June 2, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Referring to Chaplaincy in Serious Illness: Evidence and Practice
June 1, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Healthcare in/and Humanities
May 28, 2021 (All day) to May 29, 2021 (All day)
Justice in an Unjust World: COVID-19 and Global Justice
May 27, 2021 -
9:00am to 10:00am
Asia Pacific Bioethics Education Network Conference
May 27, 2021 (All day) to May 30, 2021 (All day)
Learning to Live with COVID-19
May 26, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
May 24, 2021 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
It Must be a Misunderstanding – A Reading in Spanish and English by Forrest Gander and Coral Bracho
May 21, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
The Ethics of Heart Transplantation
May 20, 2021 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Religion and Pediatric Medical Decision Making: Conflict, Understanding, and Accommodation
May 13, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Conference
May 12, 2021 (All day) to May 15, 2021 (All day)
Bioethics Mediation: The Path to Tranquility in Any Healthcare Setting
May 6, 2021 -
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Moral Integrity: Living Our Core Values
May 6, 2021 -
10:00am to 3:00pm
Pediatric Bioethics in the Shadow of COVID—a Symposium
May 5, 2021 -
10:00am to 5:45pm
Dying of Whiteness: The Politics of Racial Resentment in Post-Pandemic America
May 3, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Mandating Covid-19 Vaccination Certificates and Passports: Benefits, Risks, and Challenges
April 29, 2021 - 8:00am
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence—A Conversation between Kate Crawford and Malihe Alikhani
April 28, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM: A Virtual Practice-based Workshop
April 23, 2021 (All day) to April 24, 2021 (All day)
Homegoing: Transforming the Datafication of Black Death into the Recovery & Restoration of Black Humanity
April 21, 2021 -
11:00am to 12:30pm
Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity
April 20, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America
April 19, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Safety in Numbers? The Use (and Misuse) of Data in Society
April 15, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race by Myles W. Jackson
April 15, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Cultivating Ableism: The Institutional Lives of Gardens
April 15, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Hope in the Time of Pandemics: Have We Been Here Before?
April 13, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Machine Learning in Genomics: Tools, Resources, Clinical Applications, and Ethics Workshop
April 13, 2021 (All day) to April 14, 2021 (All day)
Intersections of Race, Class, and Health
April 12, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Medical Legitimacy: Childbirth, Authenticity, and Pluralism in Nigeria's Faith-Based Birthing Homes
April 9, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Widening the Lens: Using Arts in ELSI Research
April 9, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Engaging Humanities in Health Cross-disciplinary Conference
April 9, 2021 (All day) to April 10, 2021 (All day)
Reproductive Ethics Conference
April 8, 2021 (All day) to April 9, 2021 (All day)
ESTROFEM LAB:: ESTROGEN GEEKING
April 7, 2021 -
3:45pm to 4:45pm
Dreaming Workshop: Afro-Indigenous Futures—Reflections on (post-)colonial pasts, presents and futures.
April 6, 2021 -
6:00pm to 9:00pm
A Sordid Episode in the History of Medial Ethics: The Gosnell Abortion-Murder Trial
April 6, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Crossing Kingdoms: A Panel Discussion
April 2, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Race and Bioethics: Amplifying Diverse Voices (EVENT POSTPONED)
April 1, 2021 -
6:15pm to 6:45pm
America at a Tipping Point: Science and Technology Opportunities for the Biden Administration
March 31, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Structural Racism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Moving Forward
March 29, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Shaping an Ethics of Planetary Health
March 26, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Crisis and Community: The Role of Health Humanities
March 25, 2021 (All day) to March 28, 2021 (All day)
Racing with Vaccines: Data, Narratives, and Ethics
March 24, 2021 -
6:15pm to 6:45pm
Making Progress on Death: Towards an Updated Normative Framework
March 24, 2021 (All day) to March 25, 2021 (All day)
Ethics, COVID and Surgery
March 22, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Communicating with the Non-human: Meditations with Microbes and Listening with Plants
March 22, 2021 -
3:15pm to 4:45pm
True to Tradition? Religion, the Secular and the Future of Medicine
March 22, 2021 (All day) to March 24, 2021 (All day)
Ethical Considerations for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Suicide Prevention Research
March 19, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Plagues, Pandemics, and Lessons from Literature: ‘To see with differing Eyes, than those which we look’d on Things with before’
March 18, 2021 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
March 18, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Black Feminist Health Science Studies Symposium
March 18, 2021 -
1:00pm to 5:30pm
Responding to the Many Faces of Suffering
March 17, 2021 (All day) to March 18, 2021 (All day)
Policing Reproduction: From Slavery Through the Present
March 16, 2021 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
CODEX ENTROPIA
March 16, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethical Challenges for Deidentified Data in Learning Health Systems
March 16, 2021 -
7:15am to 8:15am
The Catastrophist
March 15, 2021 (All day) to April 9, 2021 (All day)
Incarceration and Bioethics: Health Challenges That Need Our Attention
March 10, 2021 -
6:15pm to 7:15pm
The Ethics of Designing Babies
March 3, 2021 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
FOOD PHREAKING: LIVE
March 3, 2021 -
3:15pm to 4:45pm
Caring for Our Patients, Our Students, Our Colleagues, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative
March 3, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Conducting Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethics in an Emergency
March 3, 2021 -
10:00am to 2:30pm
CRISPR: Ethics and Jewish Law
March 2, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology (ongoing)
March 1, 2021 (All day)
Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth: An Author Talk
February 26, 2021 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Discussion of Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
February 26, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
We Are All Somebody's Child: Disability, Speciesism, and the Problem of Dehumanization
February 25, 2021 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
February 25, 2021 (All day) to February 28, 2021 (All day)
Health Care and the Building of Modern Pittsburgh
February 23, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Linking the Past and the Future: Using Medical History to Understand Current Issues in Health Care
February 23, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate
February 19, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Professionalism and Trust in Health Care During a Crisis
February 19, 2021 -
11:30am to 6:00pm
Professional Ethics, Morality, and the Law
February 19, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Political Philosophy in Bioethics
February 19, 2021 (All day) to February 20, 2021 (All day)
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
February 18, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
COVID-19 Vaccines & Allocation
February 18, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Enhancing Medical Teaching with Illustrations
February 18, 2021 - 12:00pm
Standing in the Shadow of Slavery: Race and American Gynecology's Origins
February 16, 2021 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Discussion of Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
February 12, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Genomics and Infectious Disease: Scientific and ELSI Issues of COVID
February 12, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
COVID Conversations Part I - Oral Narratives from a Global Perspective
February 11, 2021 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Social Justice in the Curriculum: The Process of Becoming Anti-Racist
February 11, 2021 -
2:00pm to 6:30pm
Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community
February 9, 2021 - 12:00pm
Put Me Back Like They Found Me
February 8, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Meeting the Moment: Bioethics in the Time of Black Lives Matter
February 2, 2021 - 1:00pm
From Altar to Table: My Journey as Priest and Surgeon
February 2, 2021 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Safety & Efficacy in Emergency Authorization: Getting vaccine to those who want it, responding to those who don’t
January 29, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Discussion of Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
January 29, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
How Physicians Partnered with the Nazi Regime: Possible Lessons for Today
January 27, 2021 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
How Healers Became Killers: Nazi Doctors and Modern Medical Ethics
January 27, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
First Peoples Past & Present: Native Health and Voting Power
January 27, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
It’s Not All Black and White: A History of Race in Medicine
January 26, 2021 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
The Ethics of Human Brain Surrogates Research
January 25, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ancestry, Evidence, Inference, and Identity
January 22, 2021 (All day) to January 24, 2021 (All day)
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
January 21, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Center Debates: COVID-19
January 19, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
How Should Equity and Fairness Shape Emergency Standards of Care?
January 15, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Leveraging Psychology to EMPOWER Surrogate Decision Makers for Critically Ill Patients
January 13, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Challenges in COVID Vaccine Allocation & Distribution
January 8, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Biobanking in the Era of COVID
January 8, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
School Opening and COVID-19: Medical, Educational, and Policy Considerations
December 18, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Past, Present, and Future of Bioethics
December 15, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:15pm
Who Takes on the Risk? Trust and Race in American Medicine
December 15, 2020 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Ethics, COVID-19, and Caring for Children
December 11, 2020 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Addressing Racism in Research and Clinical Practice
December 11, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Settled" Ethical Issues Reevaluated in the Context of the COVID Pandemic: Lessons from Harlem Hospital
December 8, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Becoming A Physician: Ethical Challenges in Medical Education
December 4, 2020 - 9:45am to December 5, 2020 - 5:00pm
Solutions to COVID Pandemic Panic: Mediation and De-escalation
December 3, 2020 -
6:00pm to 8:15pm
Digital Ethics Pediatric Symposium
December 3, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:30am
LawSeq: Facing the Legal Barriers to Genomic Research & Precision Medicine
December 2, 2020 -
11:00am to 3:45pm
Feminist Ethics of Care and the Doctor-Woman Medical Encounter: What Love Has to Do With It
November 21, 2020 - 9:00am to November 30, 2020 - 2:00pm
Putting COVID-19 in Its Place: Locating the Scientific, Psychological, and Social Aspects of the Crisis
November 20, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Theater of War Frontline Mount Sinai
November 19, 2020 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm