UNC Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds
Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds seminars offer an innovative and interactive forum for engaging with ethical, legal, and policy issues of particular salience to patient care within the hospital. Six seminars are presented each year.
Upcoming Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds
Past Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

2023 Annual Pediatric Visiting Scholar
Dr. Gooding is an adolescent medicine specialist in the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at Emory University School … Continued

2023 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecturer
Elizabeth Barnes is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Her research interests are divided between metaphysics, … Continued

Conceptualizing Culture in Healthcare Contexts: A Theoretical Framework
Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of … Continued

Providing Optimal Care When Providers and Patients Do Not Share the Same Language
Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of … Continued

Responsibility without Blame: Working with “Unwise Choices” in Healthcare Contexts
Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture Series
Hanna Pickard (BA Hons, BPhil, DPhil) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of … Continued

2022 Annual EBT Conference: Recovery and Resilience
Is that Ethical? Practical Approaches to Issues in Clinical Practice
Recovery and Resilience The North Carolina Child Treatment Program seeks to address the gap between researched best practice and community-based … Continued

Video/Audio Recording in the Operating Room and the Coming Age of Surgical Transparency.
Alexander Langerman, MD, SM, FACS, is a practicing head and neck surgeon whose research focuses on the intersection of ethics, management, … Continued

Shared Decision-Making and Informed Nondissent
Annual Pediatric Visiting Scholar
Click here to view Grand Rounds recordings from the current academic year; an ONYEN is required for access. Alexander A. … Continued

Ethical Care of the Prisoner-Patient
Intersections of Law and Ethics
Michelle Curl, RN, BSN. Liver Transplant Coordinator. Sarah Fotheringham, JD. Associate General Counsel, UNC Health Care System. Arlene Davis, JD. … Continued

From Karen Ann Quinlan to Jahi McMath and Beyond: A Half-Century of End-of-Life Care Debates.

Kidney to Share: A Patient and Ethicist Offer Their Views on the Living Donor Process
Speakers: Martha Gershun, Writer, Consultant, Living Organ Donor Dr. John Lantos, Director, Bioethics Center Children’s Mercy Hospital In Kidney to … Continued
Ethics in end of life care
Margaret P. Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the … Continued

Rationing is not a four letter word
Death panels, policy and ethics
Philip Rosoff, MD, Director Clinical Ethics Program, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Duke University.

What does religion have to do with medical ethics?
Clinicians’ religious characteristics may strongly shape practice, particularly with respect to morally controversial interventions. Religion-associated differences may then expose the … Continued

Ways to Watch
Issues of Recording in Patient Care
Video and audio recording of moments in our lives has become commonplace with the widespread use of smartphones and other … Continued

Moral distress consultation
The UVA model
Moral distress has negative implications for healthcare providers and organizations in terms of burnout, intent to leave, and poorer perceived … Continued

A ROMP in the PARC
Research On Medical Practices - Public Attitudes for Research Consent
Please join us for this presentation examining the intersections of clinical care and research. Dr. Wilfond will address ethical issues … Continued

Clinical Pathways
When There's No One Right Answer
Our health care system’s shift from a fee-for-service to a value based repayment models has placed considerable emphasis on the … Continued

Moral Distress Workshops
In March 2018, bioethicist Dr. Beth Epstein PhD RN, FAAN, will be visiting the Center for Bioethics to offer workshops … Continued

Grappling with guardianship
Ethical dilemmas
Clinical Professor Kate Mewhinney is the managing attorney of The Elder Law Clinic, where she supervises upper level law students … Continued

End of life conflicts in South Africa
Recurrent challenges and emerging controversies
Our visiting scholars, Sharon Kling and Keymanthri Moodley, discuss approaches to withholding and withdrawing treatments, and to physician assisted suicide, as they … Continued