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Past Events

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
The Body in the Library: Archive Work as Caring Labor / Caring Labor as Archive Work
February 24, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
How Hearing Loss Impairs Communication in Lively Social Settings
February 24, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Assessing Capacity: What Every Lawyer and Clinician Needs to Know
February 23, 2023 -
6:15pm to 8:00pm
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: The Ethics of Benefit-Cost Analysis
February 23, 2023 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Negotiating Normalcy: Deafness Cures in American History
February 21, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
The Edge of Silence: A History of Fanciful Deafness Fads
February 21, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Meaningful Work and Building an Ethical Future Forum
February 16, 2023 -
9:00am to 6:00pm
Dignity’s Complicated Role within Bioethics – A Conceptual History
February 15, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Informed Consent: Beyond "Consenting" the Patient
February 14, 2023 -
1:15pm to 2:15pm
Indigenizing Genomics and Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty
February 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Quantum Nanowires: A case study on reproducibility in natural sciences
February 10, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
In the Critical Pursuit of Justice: Why Intensivists (and Every Doctor) Should Care About Social Justice
February 8, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Bioethics with Bigger Impact: Unpacking Neglected Social Factors to Ensure Impact
February 7, 2023 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Settling into Poetry’s Sacred Space
February 7, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Getting Out While the Getting’s Good: Ending One’s Life as a Rational Response to a Diagnosis of Impending Dementia
January 31, 2023 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Words Matter: The Ethics of Word Choice in Healthcare
January 30, 2023 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Physicians’ Experiences with and Perceptions of Caring for Patients with Disability
January 27, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Welcomed by Design podcast launch event
January 27, 2023 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
January 27, 2023 -
9:15am to 4:30pm
Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health
January 26, 2023 - 6:00pm
Data Privacy and Security Concerns after Roe v. Wade
January 26, 2023 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The Promise and Perils of Social and Behavioral Genomics
January 25, 2023 -
1:00pm to 4:15pm
The Events Surrounding the Death of Mozart
January 24, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
History of Race, Disease, and Diabetes
January 23, 2023 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Klenicki Meets Monk
January 22, 2023 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Increasing Health Equity and Equality for Persons at Risk for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: A community and patient engaged research (CPER) framework
January 20, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Studying Real-World Behavior in a Hospital Environment
January 19, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics
January 13, 2023 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
7th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference
January 12, 2023 (All day) to January 13, 2023 (All day)
On Eastern Orthodox Conceptions of a Good Death and End-of-life Care
January 10, 2023 -
8:00am to 9:00am
COVID Consequences: The Future of Emergency Powers in Public Health
December 15, 2022 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
An Eco-Structural Approach to Health Ethics
December 9, 2022 -
1:15pm to 2:30pm
Genetic Advantages in Sports: When Do They Count as “Doping?”
December 9, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions
December 6, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Healthcare Spending: How Should We Factor in People’s Quality of Life?
December 5, 2022 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Ethics, Uncertainty, and Structural Obstacles to Using Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
December 5, 2022 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Klenicki Meets Mingus
December 4, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Doctors Gave the Orders: 75 Years After The Nuremberg Medical Trial—A Symposium
December 2, 2022 -
8:30am to 4:15pm
Doctors Gave the Orders: 75 Years After The Nuremberg Medical Trial—A Symposium
December 1, 2022 - 6:00pm
A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
December 1, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation
December 1, 2022 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe
November 18, 2022 -
1:15pm to 2:30pm
How Scientists Produce Institutions: The Practice and Politics of Genome Editing
November 16, 2022 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
On Writing the Self in Bereavement: Taboos, Courage, and Identity Development in Loss
November 16, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Are Robots Racist? Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare
November 15, 2022 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Genetics and AI: Group Privacy and Fairness
November 11, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?
November 10, 2022 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Writing the Self in Grief: The Inner Art of Self-Care and Identity Development
November 9, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Autism, Culture, and the Influence of the West
November 7, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Embracing Privacy and Equity for Digital Mental Health
November 4, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sport, (Dis)Embodiment and Mental Health
November 2, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
November 1, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Public Bioethics
November 1, 2022 -
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Weight Discrimination and Weight Stigma: Impact on Patient Health and Healthcare
November 1, 2022 -
4:00pm to 5:15pm
The Influence of Early Muslim Physicians and Classical Islamic Scholars on the Development of Modern Psychiatry
November 1, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Miranda Warnings for Abortion Patients? Disclosure and Confidentiality in the Era of Dobbs
October 28, 2022 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Foreign Links of Students, Faculty, and Universities: Collaboration, Theft, or Both?
October 28, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Reimagining and Claiming the Role of Public Bioethics and Health Humanities
October 26, 2022 (All day) to October 29, 2022 (All day)
The History and Ethics of Organ Donation: Questions Then, Questions Now
October 25, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Case for Health Care Reparations
October 21, 2022 -
12:15pm to 1:30pm
Ethics at the Intersection of Academic Research and Human Rights Practice
October 21, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Precision Genetic Care, Genital Morphology, and Gonadal Atypia: Variations of Sex Development as a Cancer Predisposition Syndrome
October 21, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Borders, Boundaries, Pandemics
October 21, 2022 (All day) to October 22, 2022 (All day)
The Flint Water Crisis and Public Health: A Conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
October 20, 2022 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Advocacy and Allyship in ELSI: Opportunities and Challenges
October 14, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
2022 Texas Vaccine Policy Symposium
October 14, 2022 -
10:00am to 2:00pm
Contingent Matter: Bodies, Medicine, and Care in the Early Modern Francophone World
October 12, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Anatomy of Injustice: Interventions to Treat What Ails Us
October 11, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Personhood, Reproductive Choice, and Family Formation: Tax Traps and Opportunities in the Post-Dobbs Era
October 11, 2022 -
1:30pm to 2:30pm
The Anatomy of Injustice: Interventions to Treat What Ails Us
October 11, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Open Health Natural Language Processing (OHNLP) Initiative: A Collaborative Effort towards Health NLP under the AI Ethics Framework
October 7, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Wonder Drug: Needle Exchange as a Site of Care, Connection, and Renewal
October 6, 2022 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Social Media and Youth Suicide Prevention: Ethical Concerns for Research
October 6, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
From Monasteries to Hospitals: An Institutional History of Care for the Insane in East Asia
October 4, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
On Animals, Persons, and the Pregnancy Problem: Implications for Discussion of Abortion
September 23, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Understanding and Building Technology with and for Transgender People
September 22, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Rachel Carson: A Pioneer for Science-Based Policy Connecting Environment and Health
September 20, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Caring for Ophelia: Literature, Mad Studies, and Narrative Psychiatry
September 19, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Finding the “Greater Good” in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us
September 14, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Narrative in Jewish Medical Ethics
September 13, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Medical Science Abused: The Holocaust Legacy and Post-War Medical Ethics
September 12, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Decoloniality and Genetic Ancestry: Situating the “African Genome”
September 9, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Vaccination and Its Historical Discontents: The Long-Term View on Skepticism and “Personal Belief Exemptions”
September 9, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Risk, Freedom, and Health: Data Justice and Cybersecurity
August 31, 2022 -
9:00am to 7:00pm
Addressing Racial and Phenotypic Bias in Human Neuroscience Methods
August 15, 2022 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Post-Roe Implications for Health Professionals
August 12, 2022 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Surgical Ethics Conference
August 4, 2022 (All day) to August 5, 2022 (All day)
Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics
August 2, 2022 (All day) to August 3, 2022 (All day)
World Congress of Bioethics (WCB)
July 20, 2022 (All day) to July 22, 2022 (All day)
Neural Data Privacy
July 18, 2022 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Reimagining Feminist Bioethics
July 18, 2022 (All day) to July 19, 2022 (All day)
Breakthroughs in Pediatrics: Past Lessons, Present Controversies, Future Challenges
July 15, 2022 (All day) to July 16, 2022 (All day)
A Discussion with Pitt Faculty on the Ramifications of Overturning Roe
July 14, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Legal Challenges to Newborn Screening Research
July 8, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Disparities in Surgery and Obligations to Correct
June 27, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Ethical Considerations in Surgical Innovation
June 20, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Impact of the Dobbs Decision on ELSI Research and Practice
June 17, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Physician Burnout as De-Moralization
June 15, 2022 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Ethical Issues in Gender Surgery
June 13, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Common Misconceptions about Catholic Healthcare
June 7, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Ethical Challenges in Global Surgery
June 6, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Neurotechnology on the Fringes
June 6, 2022 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Religious, Spiritual and Existential Aspects in Mental Health Care
June 2, 2022 (All day) to June 4, 2022 (All day)
ELSIcon2022: Innovating for a Just and Equitable Future
May 31, 2022 (All day) to June 3, 2022 (All day)
Roundtable discussion: “Does genetic and genomic screening keep open the door to eugenics?”
May 25, 2022 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
What the US Can Learn from the Canadian Health Care System - Or Not
May 24, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pharmacoequity Conference
May 20, 2022 -
9:00am to 1:00pm
Addressing Algorithmic Harms: Practices and Provocations for Health AI
May 13, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Environmental Justice: How Physical, Social, and Structural Surroundings Impact Health
May 4, 2022 -
10:00am to 4:00pm
The Unavoidable Priority of Values in Medical Decision-Making: Why Ethics Always Precedes Religion and Science
May 3, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Confidentiality of the Treatment Records of Rape Victims
April 28, 2022 -
6:15pm to 7:45pm
Propelling Clinical Ethics Forward: A Working Unconference
April 28, 2022 (All day) to April 29, 2022 (All day)
Building DEI into Bioethics and Health Humanities Scholarship and Practice: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future
April 27, 2022 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Ethics and Art of Chart Noting
April 21, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Lessons from COVID-19: Social Disparities and Health Care
April 20, 2022 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
April 18, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Processing the Pandemic I: Loss
April 14, 2022 - 3:30pm to April 15, 2022 - 5:00pm
Love and Loss with Amy Bloom
April 14, 2022 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
End-of-Life Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit
April 13, 2022 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Genomic Data Sharing: Words Matter
April 13, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Science, Religion, and Vaccine Hesitancy
April 12, 2022 - 4:30pm
The Pain of Medical Inequity: An examination of pain perception and treatment disparities in medicine
April 12, 2022 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Governance of Antibiotics
April 12, 2022 - 12:15pm
Where's Our Operation Warp Speed? Ethical and Practical Considerations when Adjusting Pandemic Approaches to Non-Pandemic Diseases
April 12, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Balancing Data Privacy and Data Sharing: Normative and Technical Approaches
April 8, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Equity Design Thinking: An Approach for Promoting Design-Justice
April 8, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Future Directions in Genomics and Health Equity Research
April 6, 2022 - 11:00am to April 7, 2022 - 3:00pm
I’m Still Surviving—Jennifer Brier will discuss her online exhibit
April 5, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Journey to Medicine
April 5, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Opening of A Century of Mobilizing for Reproductive Care
April 5, 2022 -
5:00pm to 5:45pm
Referring to Chaplaincy in Serious Illness: How Data Support the Practice
April 5, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Deconstructing PTSD / Destigmatizing Trauma
April 4, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Ethics as Usual? Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 1, 2022 -
8:30am to 9:30am
COVID: States of Exception and the Common Good
March 31, 2022 -
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Solidarity in Healthcare
March 31, 2022 (All day) to April 1, 2022 (All day)
Spaces of/for Health Humanities
March 25, 2022 (All day) to March 27, 2022 (All day)
Discussion of The Turnaway Study by Diane Green Foster
March 24, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
It Bears an Impression of You: A conversation about art, home, grief, empathy, and being human
March 23, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
March 21, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Bodies of Evidence: Local Memory and the Prosecution of War Crimes
March 18, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Rethinking War: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference
March 18, 2022 (All day) to March 19, 2022 (All day)
Is Humanitarianism Fit for Purpose? Ethical considerations on humanitarian practices from a practitioner and historical perspective
March 17, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Consequences of Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States
March 16, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Space for the Sacred in Care of the Sick
March 13, 2022 (All day) to March 15, 2022 (All day)
Ethical Issues in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, and Treatment of Blood Disorders, Part 2
March 11, 2022 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Health Needs of Vulnerable Populations
March 9, 2022 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Healthcare Ethics in an Age of Mistrust and Uncertainty
March 9, 2022 (All day) to March 10, 2022 (All day)
Deepening Engagement and Equity in Research: Next Steps in Research Ethics
March 2, 2022 -
10:00am to 2:30pm
Shaken to the Core: Addressing Spiritual Struggles in the Context of Healthcare
March 1, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Cost of Living: Personal Reflections
February 28, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Abortion Rights at a Crossroads
February 25, 2022 -
8:30am to 5:00pm
Spirituality Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions
February 24, 2022 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Discussion of Cost of Living by Emily Maloney, MFA (Pitt, 2015)
February 24, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics 31st Annual Conference
February 24, 2022 (All day) to February 26, 2022 (All day)
The Cholesterol Odyssey: Russian Rabitts to mRNA Technology
February 22, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
The Personal Criterion of Disability
February 18, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Towards Health Equity: Dismantling Racist Barriers for Black Healthcare Students
February 16, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
From Institutional to Collective Ethics: Practicing Accountability in LGBTQ+ Health Care and Research
February 16, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Genomic Imaginaries: Sparking Dialogue between ELSI and Literary Studies
February 11, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethical Issues in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, and Treatment of Blood Disorders, Part 1
February 11, 2022 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community: A Panel Discussion
February 10, 2022 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1925
February 9, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Complex Discharges [of patients from healthcare institutions]: Ethical and Legal Concerns
February 9, 2022 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
The End of Roe v. Wade?
February 9, 2022 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Digitizing the Female Body: FemTech’s Biases and Ethical Implications
February 3, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Beyond Racism: Seizing Your Moment in Time and Building Forward
February 2, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Fair Allocation in an Unfair World: The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
February 1, 2022 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Our Brains, Mind and God: Do you know where they are?
February 1, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots: The Future of Human Robot Collaboration
January 31, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
We Emerge: A Virtual Clinical Ethics Summit—Cultivating Respect for Persons, Navigating Clinical Care with Patients, Families & Communities
January 28, 2022 (All day)
The Legacy of the Holocaust in Health Profession Education
January 27, 2022 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
How Healers Became Killers: Nazi Doctors & Modern Medical Ethics
January 27, 2022 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
What Can Bioethics Learn From the COVID-19 Pandemic? Making Progress Under Pressure
January 25, 2022 -
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Roentgen and Hounsfield: Two Non-Physicians Who Revolutionized Medicine
January 25, 2022 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
The Afterlives of Trauma: Art and Memory
January 24, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
AI for Healthcare Disparities: A Double-edged Sword
January 21, 2022 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Institutional Racism: Remembering Struggle, Survival, and Resistance at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, 1902-2015
January 19, 2022 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Navigating Health Care Systems While Queer
January 19, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ensuring Equitable Use of New Genetic Technologies: Lessons from Eugenics
January 14, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethical Issues in Oncology—Part II
January 13, 2022 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Sixth Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference
January 13, 2022 (All day) to January 14, 2022 (All day)
Access to Health Care for the Poor: Social Responsibility in Health
January 12, 2022 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Aren’t we all in this together? When Collaboration Succeeds and Slips on the Arizona Surge Line
January 12, 2022 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Digitizing the Female Body: FemTech’s Biases and Ethical Implications
January 11, 2022 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Gene-Environment Interaction Research
January 11, 2022 (All day) to January 12, 2022 (All day)
Remembering Rabbi Twerski—A Man of Wisdom and Humor: Healing vs. Curing in Addiction Medicine
January 4, 2022 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Poliomyelitis Vaccination: A Pittsburgh Success Story?
December 16, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethical Issues in Oncology—Part I
December 13, 2021 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
New ACMG Guidance on Carrier Screening: More or Less Equitable?
December 10, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Aging and Ageism: Are Older Healthcare Professionals Unsafe?
December 10, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:30am
When a Child Dies: Ethics and End of Life Decision-Making in Pediatrics
December 9, 2021 -
1:00pm to 1:45pm
The Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation: Research Ethics after Covid-19
December 8, 2021 -
9:00am to 10:00am
Physician Aid in Dying: An Examination from Spiritual and Ethical Perspectives
December 7, 2021 -
8:00am to 10:00am
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