Events
Promoting Just and Patient-Centered Care for People with Disabilities
September 29, 2026 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-CStaff BioethicistCleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics There is ample evidence that healthcare professionals — even while well-intentioned — tend to associate disability with low quality of life,…
Navigating Suicide through Harm Reduction
September 28-30, 2026 This free, three-day training will offer an in-depth exploration of suicide using SHARES on Suicide, a relationship-centered framework for understanding and responding to people who are struggling with suicidal thoughts. The framework reflects a…
Integrating Human Flourishing into the Health Professions and Applied Sciences
October 1, 2026 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm Institute for Bioethics Seminar Grant R. Martsolf, PhD, MPH, RN, FAANProfessor, Department of Acute & Tertiary Care, School of NursingSenior Fellow, Institute for Family StudiesCore Faculty, Institute for Bioethics David…
Recovery Is Not a Piece of Cake: A Simulation Supporting People with Opioid Use Disorder
September 18, 2026 – 2:30pm to 3:15pm Gold Humanism Summit 2026 Heather Mikes, DO FAAHPMAssistant Professor, Department of Family MedicineDirector of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Family Medicine Residency Program, UPMC McKeesportAssociate Faculty, Institute for…
The Neglected Soul: Ancient Monastic Teachings on Depression for the Modern World
January 12, 2027 – 8:00am to 9:00am Healthcare and Religion Lecture Daniel Ibraheem MD/MAR candidate Yale University Andreh Labib DO candidate Duquesne University Nasuti College of Medicine This presentation describes how the 4th century theologian Evagrius Ponticus’s…
HIV/AIDS, 1981-2026: A 45-year Retrospective
November 10, 2026 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm Sylvan E. Stool Memorial Lecture Victoria Harden, PhDFounding DirectorOffice of NIH History and the Stetten Museum, National Institutes of Health From June 1981 to mid-1996, just 15 years later, a new and deadly infectious disease,…
The Trip Treatment: The Ethics of Psychedelic Medicine
October 12, 2026 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm Ethics in Action: An Experiential Learning Seminar Series Laura Matthews, PhDTeaching Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History and Philosophy of ScienceCore Faculty, Institute for Bioethics…
Clinical Ethics Cases Across State Lines
September 14, 2026 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm Ethics in Action: An Experiential Learning Seminar Series Megan Kitts, PhD, HEC-CAssistant ProfessorCenter for Global Health EthicsDuquesne University School of Nursing This talk will examine the role of law in clinical ethics…
“What Makes a Good Physician” in a Medieval Arabic Text
December 8, 2026 – 8:00am to 9:00am Healthcare and Religion Lecture Sami AhmadMD/PhD candidateUniversity of Pittsburgh Continuing medical education credit will be available for those in attendance. Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies…
Workshop: The Philosophy of Diagnosis
September 14, 2026 – 9:00am to 5:00pm Diagnosis is central to the practice of medicine, yet it raises questions that medicine alone cannot answer. What is a diagnosis? What and who is it for? How do we deal with uncertainty about diagnosis and responsibility for it?…
Human Clinicians and Chaplains in the Age of AI
November 10, 2026 – 8:00am to 9:00am Healthcare and Religion Lecture Mary Moon, MTSMD candidateUniversity of Pittsburgh The Rev. Gaea Thompson, MDiv Manager, Pastoral Care, UPMC Presbyterian/Montefiore Hospital Diplomate Supervisor for Clinical Pastoral Education,…
Subjectively Defective: American Jews, Disability, and Belonging in the Early 20th Century
October 13, 2026 – 8:00am to 9:00am Healthcare and Religion Lecture Hannah Zaves-Greene, PhDAuthor, Able to Be American: Disability in US Immigration Policy and the American Jewish Response Epilepsy. Heart disease. Varicose veins. “Feeble-mindedness.” In 1891,…
The New Modern Medicine
September 22, 2026 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Departments of Medicine and of History and Philosophy of ScienceCore faculty, Institute for Bioethics Dr. Jonathan Fuller will discuss his new book, The New Modern Medicine: Disease,…
Book Symposium: The New Modern Medicine
September 18, 2026 – 1:30pm to 4:00pm Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Departments of Medicine and of History and Philosophy of ScienceCore faculty, Institute for Bioethics Dr. Jonathan Fuller will discuss his new book, The New Modern Medicine: Disease,…
2027 Annual Healthcare Ethics Conference
May 13, 2027 – 8:00am to 4:00pm Continuing medical education credit will be available for those in attendance. Catalog of Opportunities Event Location and Address Online and in-person at the Passavant Foundation Conference Center, 700 Cumberland Woods Drive, Allison…
13th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference
September 15 – 18, 2026 Tuesday, September 15 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT A1: Concepts of Disease 1 “A Normativist Conception of Disease as Dysfunction”William R. Smith “Reductionism, Biomedical Framework and the Biomedical Model”Republica Acharyya A2: Inquiry and…
Strings Attached? The Creation of Institutional Rights of Conscience in Health Care
September 8, 2026 – 8:00am to 9:00am Healthcare and Religion Lecture Ronit Y. Stahl, PhDGary and Donna Freedman Chair in Undergraduate EducationAssociate Professor of HistoryUniversity of California, Berkeley Across the United States, religious hospitals can invoke…
Reading the Book of the Body: The 19th-Century Flap Anatomy as Body/Text
September 3, 2026 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm Institute for Bioethics Seminar Jessica M. Dandona, PhDProfessor of Art HistoryMinneapolis College of Art and Design This talk explores the history of so-called flap anatomies, printed atlases of human anatomy that offer readers…
Moral Distress: Old Problems in Analysis and Ethics
September 17, 2026 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm Institute for Bioethics Seminar Daniel Wilkenfeld, PhDAssociate Professor, Department of Acute & Tertiary Care, School of NursingPermanent Fellow, Center for Philosophy of ScienceCore Faculty, Institute for Bioethics Daniel…
Douglas White to Lead Bioethics Institute
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, vice chair and professor of critical care medicine in the School of Medicine (SOM), as the inaugural director of the newly formed Institute for Bioethics. Read More