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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. Several sessions are offered each year.

Upcoming Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

 

Past Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Headshot Hugh M. Lee, East Carolina University

Sorting Out Capacity, Competency, and Surrogate Decision-Making: The Fine Line Between Law and Ethics

2025 September 24, 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET, 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium
Hugh M. Lee, J.D

  Teaching Professor Co-Director of Accreditation & Continuous Quality Improvement Dept. of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies Brody School of Medicine … Read more

Communication and Decision Making – What Happens When AI Gets Involved?

Annual Pediatric Visiting Ethics Scholar

2025 September 18, 8:00 - 9:00 AM ET, 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium
Kelly Michelson, MD, MPH, FCCM, FAAP, HEC-C

Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) – Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Julia and David Uihlein Professor … Read more

headshot Christine Grady

Ethical Conundrums in Neuroscience Research

Neuroethics Grand Rounds

2025 September 4, 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET, Hybrid - Cancer Hospital Conference Room 1-Sanofi Aventis & Zoom
Christine Grady, MSN, PhD

Former Chair Dept of Bioethics, Clinical Center, NIH Former co-chair BRAIN Neuroethics Working Group, NIH Zoom link for the talk. … Read more

Eric M. Meslin in black and white

How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think)

2024 October 24, 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST, Hybrid: 5302 Roper Hall & Zoom webinar
Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D. FRSC FCAHS ICD.D

By now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since … Read more

Annual Pediatric Visiting Ethics Scholar

2024 May 30, 8:00 am - 9:00 am EST, Hybrid: Old Clinic Auditorium (Rm. 4008) or Zoom
Savithri Nageswaran, MBBS, MPH

Professor, Pediatrics Wake Forest University Collaborative Decision Making: A Useful Model to Guide Families About Life-Sustaining Treatments for Children with … Read more

Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D.

Communicating Across Cultures: Why Our Traditional Approaches May Fail to Inform and Empower Patients

2024 April 10, 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST, 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium
Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D.

Professor and Chair, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Co-hosted with Internal Medicine, Pediatric, and Med-Peds Residency Programs Western biomedicine and … Read more

2023 Annual Pediatric Visiting Scholar

2023 March 16, 8:00 - 9:00 am EST, Hybrid - 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium & Zoom
Holly Gooding, MD, MSc

Dr. Gooding is an adolescent medicine specialist in the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at Emory University School … Read more

2023 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecturer

2023 March 3, 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST, Hybrid G-100 Bondurant Zoom
Elizabeth Barnes, PhD

Elizabeth Barnes is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Her research interests are divided between metaphysics, … Read more

Conceptualizing Culture in Healthcare Contexts: A Theoretical Framework

2022 October 13, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Webinar
Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D.

Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of … Read more

Providing Optimal Care When Providers and Patients Do Not Share the Same Language

2022 October 12, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Webinar
Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D.

Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of … Read more

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