Past Events

Biomedical Ethics
Pediatric Ethics
Bioethics Interest Group
Student Series

Program For Biomedical Ethics

The Program for Biomedical Ethics was established at Yale School of Medicine to provide multidisciplinary leadership regarding the ethical and social aspects of medicine and health care. The interdisciplinary team draws upon philosophy, law and social and behavioral sciences to provide expert biomedical ethics consultations for families, researchers, physicians and other health care providers. Additionally, the Program for Biomedical Ethics develops and presents various ethics-related educational programs throughout the academic year for medical, nursing and physician assistant students, the community, Yale faculty as well as local, regional and national health care professionals.

May 13, 2013

Bioethics Journal Club

May 1, 2013

Community Bioethics Forum

April 30, 2013

"A Medical Ethics Symposium: Transplant Surgery & Medical Marijuana Use"

Speakers: David C. Cronin II, MD, PhD, Professor, Transplant Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsinn; Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Chair; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Medical Center;Mark Mercurio, MD, MA, Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Pediatrics,Yale School of Medicine; and Michael Schilsky, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Surgery (Transplant); Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplant at Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center

April 29, 2013

Bioethics Journal Club

April 9, 2013

"Alzheimer's and Advance Directives"

Speakers: Bonnie Steinbock, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Albany; Paul Menzel, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University and Jane Givens, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and assistant Scientist II, Palliative Care Research, Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife

April 3, 2013

Community Bioethics Forum

April 1, 2013

Bioethics Journal Club

March 6, 2013

Community Bioethics Forum

February 25, 2013

Bioethics Journal Club

February 6, 2013

Community Bioethics Forum

January 31, 2013

Bioethics Journal Club

January 9, 2013

Community Bioethics Forum

December 5, 2012

Community Bioethics Forum

December 3, 2013

Bioethics Journal Club

November 8, 2012

Community Bioethics Forum

November 5, 2012
Ethics Symposium: "What is a Good Death"| flyer
Speakers:

Mark Mercurio, MD, MA, Yale School of Medicine
Thomas Lynch, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Susan Block, MD, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Kapo, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Roger Worthington, MA, PhD, FAcadEDd, Keele University School of Medicine
Robert Burt, JD, Yale Law School

May 24, 2012
Ethics Symposium: "Ethical Issues in Mechanical Circulatory Support for Advanced Heart Failure"| flyer
Speakers:

James Kirkpatrick, MD, University of Pennsylvania | view lecture »
Paul Mueller, MD, Mayo Clinic | view lecture »
Abeel Mangi, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Hochang Ben Lee, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Mark Mercurio, MA, MD, Yale School of Medicine

October 26, 2011
Ethics Symposium: “The Ethics of Patient Selection for Transplant”
Speakers:

Robert Troug, MD, Harvard University
Norman Fost, MD, University of Wisconsin

September 22, 2011
Ethics Symposium: "Access to Hospital Care for Foreign Patients in the U.S." | flyer
Speaker: Lauris Kaldjian, MD, PhD, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine

June 20, 2011
"Comparative Approaches to Personal and Professional Development and the Role of Personal and Professional Development in Medical Education"
Speaker: Roger Worthington, PhD, Keele University School of Medicine, UK

June 6, 2011
"Ethical Questions Regarding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life"
Speaker: Marie-Jo Thiell, PhD, Strasbourg University, France

May 16 – 17, 2011
Conference on Medical Ethics Education | view agenda »
This conference was sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics in partnership with the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy.
Speakers:

James L. Bernat, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Clarence Braddock III, MD, MPH, Stanford School of Medicine
Joseph J. Fins, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College
Gail Geller, ScD, MHS, Professor, Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine
Edward M. Hundert, MD, Harvard Medical School, Director
Sheila Otto, BSN, MA, Albany Medical College
Tia Powell, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
David H. Smith, PhD, Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Yale Pediatric Ethics Program

The Yale Pediatric Ethics Program is led by Mark Mercurio, MA, MD and offers academic and clinical services to faculty and staff at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The program educates clinicians, staff, residents and medical students on issues related to pediatric ethics, and provide consultation services to patients, families and staff. The goal is to help individuals involved in a child’s medical care gain an understanding of the varied views and opinions and offer an acceptable approach to all.

April 17, 2013

"Patient Care and Medical Professionalism"flyer

Speaker: Catherine DeAngelis, MD, MPH, Professor Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine and School of Public; Editor-in-Chief Emerita of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association

February 6, 2013

"Ethical Issues in the Care of Infants and Children with Disabilities"flyer

Speaker: Kathryn Weise, MD MA, Pediatric Intensivist; Program Director, Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics; Cleveland Clinic

January 9, 2013
"Newborns with Trisomy 13/18: To Treat or Not to Treat?" | flyer | view lecture
Speaker: George Hardart, MD, MPH, Chair, Ethics Committee, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital; Columbia University Medical Center / NewYork-Presbyterian

October 31, 2012
"Adolescent Patients’ Refusal of Recommended Medical Therapy" | flyer
Speaker: Douglas Scott Diekema, MD, MPH, Director of Education, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington

March 26, 2012
"Technological Interventions in Children with Profound Disabilities: Balancing Children's Interests, Parental Preferences, and Resource Constraints" | flyer
Speaker: Benjamin Wilfond, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine

February 27, 2012
"Empiric Studies of Ethics Consultation: How do the Data Inform our Practice?" | flyer| view lecture
Speaker: Jennifer Kesselheim, MD, Harvard Medical School

January 10, 2012
"Fear and Loathing in Medical Research" | flyer
Speaker: Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota

November 15, 2011
"Professional Lessons from the Bedside of My Dying Father"
Speaker: Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, Indiana University-Purdue University.

Bioethics Interest Group

The Bioethics Interest Group offers a monthly forum for medical, nursing and physician assistant students at Yale University School of Medicine to explore issues related to ethics in the training, practice, governance, history and philosophy of medicine. The group offers educational seminars, advocates for the medical ethics in the greater Yale community and facilitates medical students’ participation in the ethical life of the medical center and university at large.

February 26, 2013

"Reflections on Ethics Cases with the YNHH Ethics Committee"

Speaker: Mark Siegel, MD, Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary), Yale School of Medicine

January 29, 2013

"Ethics Topics from Emergency and Disaster Medicine"

Speakers: Mary Sandra Bogucki, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine and Edward Monico, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

November 27, 2012

"Patents, DNA and Human Rights: Reflections on Breast-Cancer Genes Case"

Speaker: Daniel Kevles, Professor of History, History of Medicine, American Studies and Law, Yale University

October 12, 2012
"Ethical Issues of Doctors in Training"
Speaker: Edward Hundert, MD, Senior Lecturer, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School

September 18, 2012
"Conflicts Between Medicine and Religous Traditon"
Speaker: Mark Mercurio, MD, MA, Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine

April 16, 2012
“Ethical Issues in Neurocritical Care”
Speakers:

David M. Greer, MD, MA, Yale School of Medicine with Evie Marcolini, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Jennifer Robinson, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Nicholas Blondin, MD, Yale-New Haven Hospital.

March 19, 2012
“Ethical Dilemmas in the Office”
Speaker: Julie Rosenbaum, MD, Yale School of Medicine

February 23, 2012
Book Discussion - How We Die
Speaker: Sherwin Nuland, MD, Yale School of Medicine

February 16, 2012
Book Discussion - How We Die
Speaker: Sherwin Nuland, MD, Yale School of Medicine

January 23, 2012
Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Ethical issues that Arose in Dr. Pou's Management of Terminally Ill Patients during Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker: Thomas Patrick Duffy, MD, Yale School of Medicine

November 28, 2011
“Ethics when you don’t have Time for It”
Speaker: Thomas Robey, MD, Yale-New Haven Hospital

October 4, 2011
Global Health Clinic Ethics Workshop

September 19, 2011
Students Medical Ethics Seminar Series

Student Medical Series

The Student Ethics Series offers medical, nursing and physician assistant students at Yale University School of Medicine the opportunity to participate in an ethics series presented by leading Yale faculty.

April 1, 2013

"Case Studies in Research Ethics"