2023 Harvard Surgical Ethics Conference
Abstract: This conference will examine timely issues in surgical ethics that are relevant to practicing surgeons, surgery residents, medical students, nurses, nursing students, advanced practice providers, bioethicists, graduate students, and other health care professionals. Participants will learn how to distinguish and discuss the ethical challenges associated with these surgical issues. This conference will occur across four Tuesday evenings in September with the following topics:
September 5: Ethical Considerations in Pig-to-Human Xenotransplants
September 12: Challenges to the Patient-Surgeon Relationship
September 19: Ethical Implications of New Biomedical Technologies in Neuroscience
September 26: How Non-medical Factors Affect Surgical Decision-making and Patient Care
Presented by the Surgical Ethics Working Group at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Location and Address
Online