Craig Spencer
Adult Ethics
Adult Ethics Committee
Conference on Medical Ethics Education
This conference was sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics in partnership with the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy.
The Ethics Committee at Yale-New Haven Hospital provides consultation on individual cases where ethical issues have been raised. This committee is co-chaired by Lori Bruce, MA, MBE, HEC-C, Associate Director at Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Adjunct Professor in the Bioethics Program at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Benjamin Tolchin, MD, MS, FAAN; Director, Yale New Haven Health System Center for Bioethics; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine. Patients and families are offered guidance regarding the right to receive or refuse treatment; patient rights and responsibilities; advance directives; families’ wishes; and privacy concerns. To request a consultation with the Adult Ethics Committee, contact us at 203.789-3299.
Past Events - Program For Biomedical Ethics
Dec 20253Wednesday
Everyone
Oct 202529Wednesday
Everyone Mildred Cho, PhDIN PERSON EVENT REGISTRATION REQUIRED by 10/17/25 REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.gle/jeEYDvWKzoeQ4Fce7 Reception: 4:00 – 5:00, Medical Historical Library Duffy Lecture: 5:30 – 7:00 PM, Harkness Auditorium LOCATION: Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1wuEIsrqSTe6h1rcWSAo1g
Sep 202530Tuesday
Everyone Benjamin Tolchin, MD, MS, FAAN (Neurology), FAES - Richard Marottoli, MD, MPH
Sep 202517Wednesday
Everyone Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP - Lori Bruce, DPhil, HEC-C
May 20257Wednesday
Everyone Robert Klitzman, MD
Apr 202516Wednesday
Everyone Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP
Mar 202519Wednesday
Everyone Sheria D. Wilson, MD, MA
Jan 202522Wednesday
Everyone Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Jan 20258Wednesday
Everyone Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR
Nov 202420Wednesday
Everyone Farr Curlin, MD
May 20241Wednesday
Everyone Joseph J. Fins, MD, D. Hum. Litt. (hc), MACP, FRCP (London)
Apr 202418Thursday
Everyone Mark Mercurio, MD, MA - I. Glenn Cohen, JD - Thorsten Wagner, MA
Apr 20234Tuesday
Everyone Lauris C. Kaldjian, MD, PhD
Feb 20232Thursday
Everyone Mark Mercurio, MD, MA - Andrew Heinrich, JD, MPhil - David G. Marwell, PhD - Ruth Mandel, PhD, MA - Thorsten Wagner, MA
Jan 202226Wednesday
Everyone Mark Mercurio, MD, MA - John Hughes, MD - Katherine Kraschel, JD - Thorsten Wagner - Evelyne de Mevius - Sari J. Siegel - Andrew Heinrich