Events & Programs

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.

Upcoming Events

We have an outstanding array of local and visiting speakers for the Evening Ethics Seminar Series each year. These sessions tend to be informative, often provocative, and always interesting, with plenty of time for audience discussion.

Programs

  • Adult Ethics Committee, Yale Pediatrics Ethics Program, Yale Pediatric Ethics Consultation Service, Bioethics Interest Group and Community Bioethics Forum

Past Events

Biomedical Ethics, Pediatric Ethics, Bioethics Interest Group, Student Series, Community Forum

Past Biomedical Ethics Events

The Center Can't Hold: Ethical Dimensions of My Journey Through Madness, October 25, 2017

THE PROGRAM FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS STAFF ON OCTOBER 27, 2017: “The center cannot hold: ethical dimensions pf my journey thorugh madness”

From left: Jack John S. Hughes, MD, Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine ; Associate Professor Term; Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics; Co-Director, Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion ; Elyn R. Saks, JD, PhD , Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicines; Director, Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics; and Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine; Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics; Director, Yale Pediatrics Ethics Program, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
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