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Panel Discussion: Strong State, Weak Links: Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare

June 11, 2026
Teaching Professor UNC Department of Public Policy Add to Calendar Download flyer The Zoom access link will be shared 48 hours before the event. Dr. Anna L. Krome-Lukens earned her B.A. in Anthropology and History from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in U.S. History from UNC–Chapel Hill. Her...

Drowning for Love: Lessons on Care from Outdoor Survival

May 18, 2026
Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Albany, SUNY Download flyer In 2015, after a violent attack on her beloved partner, Virginia Eubanks suddenly became an unpaid kinship caregiver. In the weeks, then months and years that followed, the pair faced a cascade of setbacks: police disinterest, suspended health...

Child Participation in Decision-Making: From Adult-Centered to Child-Centered Approaches

March 30, 2026
Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics Associate Professor of Pediatrics Chair, Department of Health Care Ethics Saint Louis University Co-Chair, Ethics Committee SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Please visit Pediatric Grand Rounds for the Zoom link   In pediatric ethics, the practice of “assent” is the primary mechanism for involving...

‘Decisions,’ ‘Options,’ ‘Values,’ ‘Preferences’: Examining the Language of Bioethics

February 5, 2026
Assistant Professor Medical Ethics & Health Policy Perelman School of Medicine In bioethics and the adjacent fields of health services research and health policy, enhancing the involvement of patients in their care is commonly framed as better aligning medical ‘decisions’ with patients’ ‘values’ and/or ‘preferences.’ Synthesizing findings from several ethnographic...

What Should Heroes Think of the Rest of Us?

November 7, 2025
Director of Early-Career Research, Center for Human Values Professor, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values Princeton University Add to Calendar Zoom Webinar  Passcode:056864 Handout for talk Sometimes someone does something heroic that they don’t have to do:  a passerby runs into a burning...

Ethical Conundrums in Neuroscience Research

July 2, 2025
Former Chair Dept of Bioethics, Clinical Center, NIH Former co-chair BRAIN Neuroethics Working Group, NIH Zoom link for the talk. https://zoom.us/j/92324290043?pwd=KmMqubsEhRtjoHVW5PPTWPE9oIjSu2.1 Meeting ID: 923 2429 0043 Passcode: 953179 Dr. Grady is a nurse-bioethicist and a senior investigator who is the former Chief of the Department of Bioethics. Dr. Grady has...

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

July 1, 2025
  Teaching Professor Co-Director of Accreditation & Continuous Quality Improvement Dept. of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University In January 2015, Hugh M. Lee joined the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies. His research focuses on health policy and the ethics of substituted decision-making in...

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

June 6, 2025
Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) – Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Professor, Pediatrics (Critical Care) Dr. Michelson is Professor of Pediatrics, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Director of the Center for...

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

June 17, 2024
By now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since the early years of genetic engineering has a technology captured our imagination and fears so quickly.  But AI has done something else – it has dragged bioethics into unfamiliar territory:...

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

November 29, 2023
Professor and Chair, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Co-hosted with Internal Medicine, Pediatric, and Med-Peds Residency Programs Western biomedicine and bioethics assume that optimal healthcare delivery is achieved when patients are empowered to be rational thinkers, equipped with all the information needed for decision-making. In her presentation, Dr. Hsieh will...