Events

November 3, 2026 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm Institute for Bioethics Seminar Renee Boss, MD, MHSRembrandt Foundation Professor of Pediatric Palliative CareProfessor, Division of NeonatologyBerman Institute of BioethicsJohns Hopkins School of Medicine A growing population of…

October 15, 2026 – 11:00am to 12:00pm Healing by Design: Virtual Spaces for Black Collective Healing and Wellbeing is a digital research wall exhibit showcasing immersive virtual reality environments created by graduate student researchers in a course taught by…

October 14 – 17, 2026 The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) will host its 2026 Annual Conference, “Where Do We Go From Here?”, October 14-17 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The conference will explore how bioethics and the health humanities continue to…

October 14 – 16, 2026 The 17th Annual Neonatal and Pediatric ECLS Educational Conference is dedicated to providing educational opportunities to clinicians committed to caring for children requiring extracorporeal life support (ECLS) therapies, including extracorporeal…

October 15, 2026 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm Institute for Bioethics Seminar Bridget Keown, PhDTeaching Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & SciencesProgramming Director, Research, Ethics and Society…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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?…

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,…

October 13, 2026 – 8:00am to 9:00am Healthcare and Religion Lecture Series Hannah Zaves-Greene, PhDAuthor, Able to Be American: Disability in US Immigration Policy and the American Jewish Response Respondent: Hilla Nehushtan, PhD (Teaching Assistant Professor,…

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,…

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,…

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…