Video Recordings

January 7, 2026

Ethical Considerations of Commercial Gestational Surrogacy in the United States

Alice Baker, MD, MPH

Clinical Associate, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine; Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

Clinical Fellow in Ethics, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qm2qN_HHR4KU11Bw7rTAUw

December 3, 2025

Empathy As Infrastructure: A Moral Imperative for Rebuilding Global Health

Craig Spencer, MD MPH

Sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics

October 29, 2025

Annual Thomas P. Duffy Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics

Promoting Values Considerations in Biomedical AI Development

Mildred Cho, PhD

Professor (Research), Pediatrics - Center for Biomedical Ethics

Professor (Research), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

Associate Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

Program for Biomedical Ethics

September 30, 2025

Driving Restrictions for People with Epilepsy: Autonomy vs. Public Safety

Benjamin Tolchin, MD, MS, FAAN (Neurology), FAES

Interim Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics

Associate Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine

Director, Yale New Haven Health System Center for Clinical Ethics

Richard Marottoli, MD, MPH (Panelist)

Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), Yale School of Medicine

Medical Director of the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, Yale–New Haven Hospital

Staff physician, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Program for Biomedical Ethics

September 17, 2025

Achieving Momentum in Ethical Health Policy: Method & Opportunities

Lori Bruce, D.Bioethics, MA, HEC-C

Research Scientist, Institution for Social & Policy Studies, Yale University

Associate Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP

'Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of MedicineCo-Director, Integrity Project for Child and Adolescent Health, Yale Law School

May 7, 2025

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? - How Providers Respond and Could Do Better

Robert Klitzman, MD

Professor of Psychiatry

Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons

Joseph Mailman School of Public Health

Director, Online and In-person Masters of Bioethics Programs

Columbia University

April 16, 2025

Lindenthal Lecture on Holocaust and Genocide

How Healers Became Killers: An American view on the history of health professionals in the Nazi era

Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP

Professor, School of Medicine and School of Public Health

Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities

University of Colorado

Anschutz Medical Campus

Reception: 4:30 – 5:30, Medical Historical Library, Cushing Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven

Lindenthal Lecture: 5:30 – 7:00 PM, Harkness Memorial Auditorium, (Sterling Hall of Medicine), 333 Cedar Street, New Haven

March 4, 2025

Complex Fetal Diagnoses: Evolving Clinical and Ethical Considerations

DonnaMaria Cortezzo, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics;

Divisions of Neonatology and Pain & Palliative Care

Fetal Care Program Neonatal Lead

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Ethical Issues with Artificial Womb Technology (Yes, it’s coming)

Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA

Professor of Pediatrics

Co-Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics

Yale University School of Medicine

Director, Yale Pediatric Ethics Program

Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital

Program for Biomedical Ethics seminar

January 22, 2025

Weighty Matters: The Ethical Challenges of Using Injectables to Fight Obesity and Overweight

Arthur L. Caplan, PhD

Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health

NYU Langone Health

Founding head, Division of Medical Ethics

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, New York City

December 4, 2024

Perinatal Decision-Making in Trisomy 13 and 18 with Congenital Heart Disease

Katherine Anne Kosiv, MD

Assistant Professor - Pediatric Cardiology

Department of Pediatrics

Yale School of Medicine

November 20, 2024

Conscience, Religion, and the Way of Medicine

Farr Curlin, MD

Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities

Professor of Medicine

Co-Director, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative

Duke University

November 6, 2024

Will the Dobbs Decision Inevitably Impact on Neonatal Care?

Alan R. Fleischman, MD

Professor, Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Population Health

Senior Associate, Center for Bioethics

Montefiore Einstein

October 15, 2024

Annual Thomas P. Duffy Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics

Bioethics: A Path Forward

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD

President, The Hastings Center

Program for Biomedical Ethics | Yale Pediatric Ethics Program

October 1, 2024

Ultra-Long Pediatric Hospitalizations: The Ethics of Living in the Hospital

Naomi Laventhal, MD, MA, FAAP

Service Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Ethicist, Program in Clinical Ethics - Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine

University of Michigan

Sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics

September 4, 2024

The Long Good-bye: Navigating the Caregiver’s Journey

Robert B. Weide

Writer/Producer/Director

Emmy & Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee

May 15, 2024

Sponsored by the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program and the Program for Biomedical Ethics

Sickle Cell – Hope, Hype, and Cure: Four-letter words and novel therapies for sickle cell anemia

Yoram Unguru, MD, MS, MA, HEC-C

Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai

Chairman, Sinai Hospital Ethics Committee;

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine;

Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

April 3, 2024

Bioethics & Racism

Sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics

Carlo Botrugno, PhD

Researcher at Department of Legal Sciences, University of Florence

Coordinator of the Research Unit on Everyday Bioethics and Ethics of Science

L'Altro Diritto Inter-university Research Centre

3/20/24

From Medical Memoir to CPR: A Conversation with Physician-Writer Dr. Sunita Puri

Thomas P. Duffy Lecture

Cohen Auditorium

Cosponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics

Sunita Puri, MD, MS

February 21, 2024

Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Ethical Issues: Past, Present, & Future Tense

Yale Department of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)Yale Bioethics Center ScholarYale Information Society Project Faculty Affiliated Fellow, Yale Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy Faculty Affiliate, Affiliate, Center for Biomedical Data Science, and Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale University

Sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics

February 7, 2024

Program for Biomedical Ethics and Yale Pediatric Ethics Program:

Ethical Dimensions of Infant Abandonment Laws in a Post-Roe America

Lori Bruce, MA, MBE, HEC-C

Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University

Chair, Community Bioethics Forum, Yale School of Medicine

Affiliated Faculty, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School

January 17, 2024

Program for Biomedical Ethics Program

Ethical Considerations in the Management of Injection Drug Use Related Infective Endocarditis

Melissa B. Weimer, DO, MCR, DFASAMAssociate Professor of Medicine & Public Health, Yale School of Medicine & Public Health

Medical Director, Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service, Yale New Haven Hospital

Associate Program Director, Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, Yale Program in Addiction Medicine

Sarah C. Hull, MD, MBE

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)

Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine

December 13, 2023

Steven Schiff, MD, PhD, FACS

Vice Chair for Global Health in Neurosurgery

Yale University School of Medicine

December 6, 2023

The Ethics of Live-Brain Research

Stephen R. Latham, JD, PhD

Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Yale University

November 15, 2023

Bryanna Moore, PhD, HEC-C

Assistant Professor,

Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities,

School of Public and Population Health

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

November 1, 2023

Alfred Imre Tauber, MD

Professor of Philosophy (tenured, 1998), College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine;Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus, School of Medicine, Boston University

October 18, 2023

Ethics of Normothermic Regional Prefusion (NRP) Panel

Brendan Parent, JDDirector, Transplant Ethics and Policy Research

Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Surgery

Dept. Population Health, Division of Medical Ethics

Eric Thompson, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgeon;

XVIVO Procurement Services

Robert D. Truog, MD, MA

Frances Glessner Lee Distinguished Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics

Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital

Center for Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

October 4, 2023

Crisis Standards of Care: preparing for the next pandemic

William F. Parker, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences

Assistant Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago

May 17, 2023

Language, Access, and Ethics in Healthcare

May 24, 2023

Climate Change and Healthcare Pollution: Balancing Patient Safety and Public Health

Jodi Sherman, MD

Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability (Y-PHES)

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine

April 19, 2023

Equity in Biomedical Research

Jennifer E. Miller, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine), Yale School of Medicine

March 1, 2023

Chalmers Clark, PhD

Associate Professor of Philosophy & Bioethics, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Healthcare Leadership, Loyola University, Chicago

Lecturer, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Stritch School of Medicine

Instructor, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, Philadelphia

February 15, 2023

Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, MS

Ethics Center & Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics

Research Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy

Affiliated Faculty, University of Cincinnati Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Non-Resident Research Fellow, George Mason University Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

February 2, 2023

Supported by the Lindenthal Family

February 2, 2023

Supported by the Lindenthal Family

February 2, 2023

Supported by the Lindenthal Family

February 2, 2023

Supported by the Lindenthal Family

February 2, 2023

Supported by the Lindenthal Family

January 18, 2023

Douglas White, MD, MAS

Vice Chair and Professor of Critical Care Medicine

UPMC Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine

Director, Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

December 7, 2022

Douglas Shenson, MD, MPH, MS, MA

Tia Powell, MD

Beverly Sheares, MD, MS

November 30, 2022

Erica Salter, PhD

Associate Professor & PhD Program Director of Health Care Ethics

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Center for Health Care Ethics

Saint Louis University

November 16, 2022

The Future of Disability Bioethics

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD

November 2, 2022

Jay R. Malone, MD, PhD, HEC-C

Ubel PA, Jepson C, Silver-Isenstadt A. Don't ask, don't tell: a change in medical student attitudes after obstetrics/gynecology clerkships toward seeking consent for pelvic examinations on an anesthetized patient. Am J Obstetr Gynecol. 2003;188(2):575-9. doi:10.1067/mob.2003.85

October 6, 2022

Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP

September 28, 2022

Annie Janvier, MD, PhD

Thuy Mai Luu, MD, MSc

Rebecca Pearce, MS

September 6, 2022

I. Glenn Cohen, JD

Jennifer A. Herdt, MA, PhD

Sarah Hull, MD, MBE

Katherine Kratschel, JD

Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA

June 8, 2022

Sarah C. Hull, MD, MBE
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics
Yale School of Medicine

Ronit Stahl, PhD
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of History

Mark David Siegel, MD
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)
Program Director, Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program
Yale School of Medicine

May 25, 2022

David Berg, PhD

Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Lecturer, College Seminar Program

Yale College

May 11, 2022

Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD
President, The Hastings Center
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

April 27, 2022

Ethical Considerations in Caring for LGBTQ Youth

Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD

Director, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities
Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine
Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Population Health
University of Texas Medical Branch

March 23, 2022

D. Micah Hester, PhD

Chair, Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Clinical Ethicist (UAMS & Arkansas Children’s Hospital)

February 2, 2022

A Political History of Patient Safety and Human Subject Ethics in Randomized Controlled Trials

Laura Bothwell, PhD, MPhil, MA

January 26, 2022

Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA (Moderator)

Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine

Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics

The Intention to Destroy

Evelyne de Mevius, PhD

Research Associate, Centre for International Crisis and Conflict Studies (CECRI), Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)

Genocide: The Post-Conflict Reconstruction Process

Andrew Heinrich, JD, MPhil

Special Policy and Projects, Office of Senator Robert Menendez

Founder and President, Project Rousseau

From Norfolk to Nuremberg - The Lasting Influence of US Eugenics Laws

Katherine Kraschel, JD

Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy

Lecturer in Law, Clinical Lecturer in Law, and Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School

January 26, 2022

Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA (Moderator)

Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine

Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics

Nazi Physicians and Involvement in Genocide

John Hughes, MD

Professor of Medicine (General Medicine), Yale School of Medicine

Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics

Jewish Prisoner Physicians in Nazi Camps

Sari J. Siegel, PhD

Founding Director, Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCLA

West German Physicians after the War: Conflict and Complicity

Thorsten Wagner, MA

Executive Director of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics)

Associate Professor, Danish Institute for Study Abroad/University of Copenhagen, Denmark

January 5, 2022

Natalie M. Pageler MD, MEd

Chief Medical Information Officer, Stanford Children’s Health

Clinical Professor of Pediatric Critical Care, Stanford University

Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship, Stanford University

December 15, 2021

Michael J. Sandel, PhD

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Political Philosopher

Author

December 1, 2021

• Tracy Rabin, MD, SM
• Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, PharmD, MPH

November 17, 2021

• John D. Lantos MD
• Martha Gershun
• Ramesh Batra, MD

October 20, 2021

Amy E. Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS, HEC-C

September 22, 2021

Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA

Chief, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics

Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine

June 9, 2021

Emily Wang, MD, MAS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Director, SEICHE Center for Health and Justice
Director, Health Justice Lab

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

April 7, 2021

March 24, 2021

March 10, 2021

February 24, 2021

January 20, 2021

December 2, 2020

November 18, 2020

November 4, 2020

October 28, 2020

October 14, 2020

September 30, 2020

September 16, 2020

Joanna Radin, PhD

June 2, 2020