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  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Conflict Resolution Skills for Ethics Committees (Conflict Management, Part I)
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Moderator: Haavi Morreim, JD,PHD – University of Tennessee College of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 2
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    2:00 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    HEC-C Review Course
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: David A. Oxman, MD HEC-C – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Presenter: Anca Dinescu, MD HEC-C – Washington DC VA and George Washington University, Washington DC
    Presenter: Amanda Hine, MA, PHD, HEC-C (Amanda Hine,) – Regis Univeristy
    Presenter: Abram Brummett, PhD – Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 3
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CT
    Managing Challenging Conversations through Skilled Facilitation: Conflict Resolution Part II
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Moderator: Autumn Fiester, PhD ((she/her/hers)) – University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 2
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: AI
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Benjamin Collins, MD,MS,MA (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Presenter: Seth Zupanc, BA – University of California, San Fransisco
    Presenter: Stephanie Kukora, MD ((she/her/hers)) – Children's Mercy Kansas City
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Anti-Ableism in Clinical Ethics Consultation
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Moderator: Liz Bowen, PhD (she/her/hers) – SUNY Upstate Medical University
    Presenter: Devan Stahl, PhD – Baylor University
    Presenter: Debjani Mukherjee, PhD (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medical College
    Presenter: Laura K. Guidry-Grimes, PHD,HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Cleveland Clinic
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Arguing with a Ghost in the Machine - Bioethics of Health Decision Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Benjamin Collins, MD,MS,MA (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Menu-based Surgery: When are Surgeons Just Technicians?
    Location: New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor)
    Moderator: Megan Applewhite, MD,MA, FACS (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Presenter: Baddr Shakhsheer, MD (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Presenter: Sean Wightman, MD – University of Southern California
    Presenter: Jennifer Paruch, MD – Oshsner Medical Center
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Organ Procurement in The Era of Organ Recovery Centers
    Location: Midway 1-2 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Amanda M. Buster (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    The Chatting Cure?: Ethical Considerations of Unsupervised Psychotherapy Provided by AI-Powered Chatbots
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Seth Zupanc, BA – University of California, San Fransisco
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    The Role of AI in Shared Decision-Making: A Patient, Physician, and a Chatbot Walk into a Consultation Room
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Stephanie Kukora, MD ((she/her/hers)) – Children's Mercy Kansas City
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Appropriateness of Treatment
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Kyle Karches, MD,PHD,HEC-C – Saint Louis University
    Presenter: Arielle Fried, MD – New York University School of Medicine
    Presenter: Garson Leder, PHD – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Unrepresented Patients
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Timothy W. Kirk, PHD (he/him/his) – CUNY York College
    Presenter: Adira Hulkower, JD, MS, HEC-C – Montefiore Medical Center
    Presenter: Karel-Bart Celie, MD ((he/him/his)) – USC Keck School of Medicine, Division of Plastic Surgery
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Trust and Truth-Telling
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Casey Hall, MA, MPhil – The Graduate Center, CUNY and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Presenter: Lauren Bunch, PhD, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    Presenter: Ruaim A. Muaygil, MD, PHD, HEC-C ((she/her/hers)) – King Saud University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    An Ethic of CPR as Surgical Procedure
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Kyle Karches, MD,PHD,HEC-C – Saint Louis University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Are "Slow Codes" Ever Ethically Justified?
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Moderator: Abram Brummett, PhD – Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
    Presenter: Gina Piscitello, MD, MS, HEC-C – University of Pittsburgh
    Presenter: Jason A. Wasserman, PhD ((he/him/his)) – Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
    Presenter: Parker Crutchfield, PhD – Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Clinician Experience of LVAD Deactivation
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Arielle Fried, MD – New York University School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Council On Program Accreditation for Clinical Ethicist Training (COPACET): Developing Accreditation Standards for Clinical Ethics Fellowship Programs
    Location: Grand Ballroom D-F (First Floor)
    Presenter: Ellen Fox, MD, HEC-C – Fox Ethics Consulting
    Presenter: Cristie Horsburgh, JD (she/her/hers) – Cleveland Clinic
    Presenter: Ruchika Mishra, PhD. – Sutter Health
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    ECMO, Futility, Conscience, and ‘Inappropriate Treatment’: Grounding and Justifying a Policy on ‘Futile’ Treatment.
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Garson Leder, PHD – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Human biases in artificial intelligence:A call for higher ethical standards in the approval process of AI/ML enabled medical devices for use diagnostic radiology
    Location: Regency Ballroom C (First Floor)
    Presenter: Madeline Behee (she/her/hers) – Lewis Katz School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Restoring humanity, if but for a moment: Exploring how one bioethics service works to represent the unrepresented at end of life.
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Adira Hulkower, JD, MS, HEC-C – Montefiore Medical Center
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    The Relevance of Ill-Being to Critically Ill Patients-Without-Proxies
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Karel-Bart Celie, MD ((he/him/his)) – USC Keck School of Medicine, Division of Plastic Surgery
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Trust in Clinical Ethics Consultants and Clinical Ethics Consultation
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Lauren Bunch, PhD, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Trust in Medical AI: Challenging the "Black Box" Problem
    Location: Regency Ballroom C (First Floor)
    Presenter: Arturo F. Balaguer Townsend, Master's in Bioethics (he/him/his) – Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Truth-telling and Devastating Disclosures: Navigating the Tension between Ethical and Cultural Obligations in Saudi Arabia.
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Ruaim A. Muaygil, MD, PHD, HEC-C ((she/her/hers)) – King Saud University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    What can I do to help? In search of best practices for being involved with capacity assessments
    Location: New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor)
    Presenter: Adam Omelianchuk, PHD, MA, HEC-C – Baylor College of Medicine
    Presenter: Ryan J. Dougherty, PhD, MSW, HEC-C – Baylor College of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Who Should be Responsible for Finding a Surrogate for Incarcerated Patients?
    Location: Midway 11 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Xiang Yu, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Bearing the Burden
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: M Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC, HEC-C ((she/her/hers)) – Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    Presenter: Anna D. Goff, PhD, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Presenter: Nathan Stout, PHD,HEC-C (he/him/his) – University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    An Ethical Framework for the Implementation of Elderly-Care AI Assistants
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: William J. Choi, MBE ((he/him/his)) – Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Are the cases we think to be futile actually so?
    Location: Midway 1-2 (First Floor)
    Moderator: Stowe L. Teti, MA, HEC-C – Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
    Presenter: Candyce Greene, MD, MPH – Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    “Are you just a human being like the rest of us?” Leveraging the concept of human finitude to mitigate clinician moral distress and promote moral resilience.
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: M Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC, HEC-C ((she/her/hers)) – Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Bearing the Burden of Clinical Ethics Consultation: Requests, Roles, and Responses
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Anna D. Goff, PhD, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Regretting Doing the Right Thing: A Defense of Regret in Clinical Ethics Consultation
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Nathan Stout, PHD,HEC-C (he/him/his) – University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Decision Making Capacity
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Holland Kaplan, MD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
    Presenter: Julia Kolak, PhD – Harvard University
    Presenter: Pierce Randall, PHD,HEC-C (he/him/his) – Albany Medical College
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Disability and Serious Illness
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jennifer C. Tillman, PHD ((she/her/hers)) – University of San Diego
    Presenter: Emily Pellegrini Olson, BS, MEng – Harvard University
    Presenter: Joel M. Reynolds, PhD (they/them/theirs) – Georgetown University & School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Beyond Consent: An Ethical Framework for Medical Intervention Over Objection in Incapacitated Patients
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Holland Kaplan, MD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Complex Ethical Issues with Organ Procurement and Donation Following Recent Regulatory Changes
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Moderator: Robert Fulbright, JD,MA – Sutter Health
    Presenter: Ruchika Mishra, PhD. – Sutter Health
    Presenter: Christopher Wolff, M.D. – Akron General Akron Health Center
    Presenter: Andy Kondrat, PhD. (he/him/his) – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Core Competencies, 3rd Edition Listening Session (Option 1)
    Location: Grand Ballroom D-F (First Floor)
    Presenter: Alex Kon, MD, HEC-C, FAAP, FCCM – Community Children's & University of Washington School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Decisional Capacity Assessments and Autonomy in Psychiatrically Vulnerable Populations
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Julia Kolak, PhD – Harvard University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Examining the Consent Process for Gender Affirming Care
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Christina L. Halstead, BS – University of Virginia School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Maternal-Provider Capacity: What to Do When a Patient Who Lacks Capacity Refuses Induction of Labor Following Intrauterine Fetal Demise?
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Pierce Randall, PHD,HEC-C (he/him/his) – Albany Medical College
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    The stars inside of us: a case study on the lack of neurological disability research in adult populations and its impact on clinical outcomes
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Emily Pellegrini Olson, BS, MEng – Harvard University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Why the Concept of "Critical Abilities" is Misguided: Lessons Learned from the Updated Serious Illness Conversation Guide
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Joel M. Reynolds, PhD (they/them/theirs) – Georgetown University & School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics Consultations
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Margaret Menzel, MS,CGC, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Chilton Medical Center and Columbia University
    Presenter: Elijah Wiseman – University of Michigan
    Presenter: Miranda Blodgett, MA Bioethics, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Lawrence General Hospital
    Presenter: Ryan Sanchez, MD (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego + Rady Children's Hospital
    Presenter: Chase Binion, BS – University of Virginia
    Presenter: Ben Sarbey, JD, MA – Duke University
    Presenter: John C. Stys, DBE, MS, MA, RN, CPHQ – Loyola University Chicago
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Infectious Disease
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Benjamin Krohmal, JD HEC-C (he/him/his) – MedStar Washington Hospital Center / Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Presenter: Mark C. Navin, PHD, HEC-C – Oakland University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Do Parents’ Reasons Matter? The Ethical Significance and Implications of Reason-Giving in Pediatric Ethics
    Location: Regency Ballroom C (First Floor)
    Moderator: Bryanna Moore, PHD,HEC-C ((she/her/hers)) – University of Rochester
    Presenter: Jeremy Garrett, PhD (he/him/his) – Children's Mercy Bioethics Center
    Presenter: Erica K. Salter, HEC-C,PHD – Saint Louis University
    Presenter: Tyler Tate, MD, MA – Oregon Health Sciences University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    From Ebola to Disease X: A Survey of Clinical Leaders on the Ethics of Treating Patients Infected with Special Pathogens
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Benjamin Krohmal, JD HEC-C (he/him/his) – MedStar Washington Hospital Center / Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    No vaccine, No organs? The ethics of vaccine mandates for pediatric transplant candidates
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Mark C. Navin, PHD, HEC-C – Oakland University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Parental choice in the changing landscape of trisomy 18 medical interventions: How to navigate misconceptions about survival outcomes in the prenatal consult
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Ryan Sanchez, MD (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego + Rady Children's Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    The Intersection of Normative Language, Moral Status, and Personhood When Discussing the Ethical Complexities of Artificial Womb Technology
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Chase Binion, BS – University of Virginia
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Using Natural Language Processing as a Tool to Identify Outcome Disparities in Clinical Ethics Consultations
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: John C. Stys, DBE, MS, MA, RN, CPHQ – Loyola University Chicago
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    You Can’t Stop Me From Caring: Ethical obligations, considerations, and recommendations in responding to refusals of basic care.
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jessica Rong, MSN, RN, CCRN, HEC-C – Parkland Health
    Moderator: Jennifer Markusic Wimberly, MD, MA, HEC-C – Parkland Health
    Presenter: Sarah Vittone, DBe, MA, MSN, RN, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University
    Presenter: Elizabeth Sivertsen, MBE, CCRN, HEC-C – Grady Memorial Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Justice and Disparity
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Nishita Pondugula, MS (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Medicine; Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
    Presenter: Kelly Turner, MA (she/her/hers) – Saint Louis University
    Presenter: Zachary Nylund, B.S. – Albany Medical College
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    A Justice-Driven Approach to Painful Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Nishita Pondugula, MS (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Medicine; Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    An Ethical Framework for Addressing Complex Hospital Discharges: Articulating Organizational Commitments in Care Setting Transitions
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Kelly Turner, MA (she/her/hers) – Saint Louis University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Core Competencies, 3rd Edition Listening Session (Option 2)
    Location: Grand Ballroom D-F (First Floor)
    Presenter: Alex Kon, MD, HEC-C, FAAP, FCCM – Community Children's & University of Washington School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 0
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Ethical Analysis of For-Profit Market Competition and Its Impact on Live Discharge From Hospice
    Location: Midway 7-8 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Zachary Nylund, B.S. – Albany Medical College
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Exploring Ethical Dimensions of Amnioinfusions for Early Anhydramnios
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Moderator: David Soffer, MD (he/him/his) – Children's Nebraska Hospital
    Presenter: Christy Cummings, MD, HEC-C (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
    Presenter: Jena L. Miller, MD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Organ Donation/Procurement
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Gyan C. Moorthy, MS (Bioethics) – University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Presenter: Rebecca Yarrison, PHD,HEC-C – OhioHealth
    Presenter: Janetta Brundage, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM CT
    Compassion and Self-Care
    Location: Midway 11 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jeffrey Farroni, PhD, JD – University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
    Presenter: Lisa Moses, VMD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM CT
    Children as Living Solid Organ Donors: Ethical Analysis & Model Hospital Policy Statement
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Gyan C. Moorthy, MS (Bioethics) – University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM CT
    High Clinical Ethics Consultation Volume: A Blessing or a Bane?
    Location: Grand Ballroom C (First Floor)
    Moderator: Trevor M. Bibler, PhD, MTS, HEC-C – Baylor College of Medicine
    Presenter: Anca Dinescu, MD HEC-C – Washington DC VA and George Washington University, Washington DC
    Presenter: Jordan G. Potter, PhD – Community Health Network
    Presenter: Kevin Dirksen, MDiv, MSc, HEC-C (he/him/his) – Providence Center for Health Care Ethics
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM CT
    The Role of Compassion and Moral Residue in the Veterinary Professional Identity
    Location: Midway 11 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Lisa Moses, VMD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
    Clinical Ethics
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM CT
    Transplant Providers’ Perceptions of the 6-Month Alcohol Abstinence “Rule” for Liver Transplantation
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Janetta Brundage, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Parenthood
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Olivia Schuman, PHD, HEC-C – University of Louisville
    Presenter: Phillip Wozniak, MD – Children's Mercy Hospital
    Presenter: Amanda Roth, PhD (she/her/hers) – SUNY Geneseo
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Psychiatric Ethics
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Soham S. Shah, MA (he/him/his) – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    Presenter: Nicholas R. Mercado, DRPH, MS, HEC-C (he/him/his) – University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    Presenter: Katherine Cheung, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Presenter: Ryan H. Nelson, PhD, HEC-C – Abbott Northwestern Hospital
    Presenter: Virginia A. Brown, PhD, MA – The Hastings Center
    Presenter: Grayson Holt, MSW, MA – Harvard Medical School
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Antidepressant Discontinuation During Pregnancy: Navigating an Ethical Dilemma and Understanding Patient Narratives
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Soham S. Shah, MA (he/him/his) – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Compassionate Transfer and In Vitro Fertilization: Difficulties Discarding Potential Children
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Olivia Schuman, PHD, HEC-C – University of Louisville
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Creative Communication - Assessing Decision-Making Capacity in an Adult with Selective Mutism
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Nicholas R. Mercado, DRPH, MS, HEC-C (he/him/his) – University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Defining the Threshold of Human Birth: Ethical Introduction of Artificial Placenta (AP) and Artificial Womb (AW) Technology in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Phillip Wozniak, MD – Children's Mercy Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Group-Based Psychedelic Integration Communities
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Katherine Cheung, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Hospital or Prison: Navigating Ethical Care in Incarcerated Settings
    Location: Midway 9 (First Floor)
    Moderator: Grace Oei, MD – Loma Linda University
    Presenter: David Chooljian, MD, JD, HEC-C – VA/Loma Linda University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Including Incapacitated Patients in Decision Making
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Ryan H. Nelson, PhD, HEC-C – Abbott Northwestern Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Most Autonomous Care Versus Least Restrictive Setting and the Role of Psychiatric Advanced Directives
    Location: Regency Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Grayson Holt, MSW, MA – Harvard Medical School
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Weighing the Ethics of Losing Pounds: Weight Loss and the GLP-1 Agonist Medications
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Moderator: Amy Hohmann, PHARMD, MBE – Loma Linda University
    Presenter: Michael DiStefano, PhD, MBE – University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    What's in your voice? Examining patients' perceptions and concerns about the collection, sharing and storage of voice data
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Marie-Françoise A. Malo, MA – Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Science
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Patient Preference and Bias
    Location: Midway 6 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Joan M. Walker, MS,RN,HEC-C – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Presenter: Claudia Barned, PhD (she/her/hers) – University Health Network (UHN)
    Presenter: Benjamin Schwan, HEC-C (he/him/his) – Case Western Reserve University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Only Human After All: Reflecting on the Risky Business of Sharing Stories with Strangers
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Virginia L. Bartlett, PHD – Cedars Sinai Medical Center
    Presenter: Gretchen Case, PhD – University of Utah School of Medicine
    Moderator: Stuart Finder, PhD – Cedars-Sinai - Center for Healthcare Ethics
    Presenter: Andrea Frolic, PhD ((she/her/hers)) – Hamilton Health Sciences
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Weighing Patient Preferences: Lessons for a Patient Preference Predictor
    Location: Midway 6 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Benjamin Schwan, HEC-C (he/him/his) – Case Western Reserve University
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Pediatric Ethics
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jill A. Fisher, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Presenter: Benjamin R. Hauser, BS, Medical Student – University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Surrogate Decision Making
    Location: New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor)
    Presenter: Patrick D. Herron, DBe, HEC-C (he/him/his) – Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics
    Presenter: Megan Kitts, PhD ((she/her/hers)) – Baylor College of Medicine
    Presenter: Pierce Randall, PHD,HEC-C (he/him/his) – Albany Medical College
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Professionalization of Ethics Consultations
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jamie C. Watson, PHD,MA,HEC-C – Cleveland Clinic
    Presenter: Eleanor Gilmore-Szott, PHD HEC-C – University of Utah
    Presenter: John Frye, PhD – Sutter Health
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    A Methodology for Consensus in Clinical Ethics Consultation
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jamie C. Watson, PHD,MA,HEC-C – Cleveland Clinic
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Characterizing Complexity in Clinical Ethics Consultations
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: Eleanor Gilmore-Szott, PHD HEC-C – University of Utah
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Ethics (At Your) Service: Pros and Cons of a Broad Understanding of Clinical Ethics Consultation
    Location: Grand Ballroom B (First Floor)
    Presenter: John Frye, PhD – Sutter Health
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    “I work with you, but I work for your child”: Clinicians’ Management of Ethical Dilemmas in Caring for Children with Food Allergies
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Jill A. Fisher, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Pediatric Clinician Viewpoints on Treatment Options for Infants with Single-Ventricle Physiology with and without Chromosomal Abnormalities
    Location: Midway 5 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Benjamin R. Hauser, BS, Medical Student – University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Surrogate Decision Making in the Aftermath of Intra-Family Violence
    Location: New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor)
    Presenter: Patrick D. Herron, DBe, HEC-C (he/him/his) – Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    The (In)Capacity to Exclude: The Normative Value of Preferences in Surrogate Exclusion
    Location: New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor)
    Presenter: Megan Kitts, PhD ((she/her/hers)) – Baylor College of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    The “Ethics” of Clinical Ethics: The Elephant in the Room
    Location: Regency Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Matthew Shea, PhD – Franciscan University of Steubenville
    Moderator: Joseph A. Raho, PhD – UCLA Health
    Presenter: James A. Hynds, LLB, PhD – UCLA Health
    Presenter: Rashad Rehman, PhD – Franciscan University of Steubenville
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    The Volitional Approach to Surrogate Decision-Making
    Location: New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor)
    Presenter: Pierce Randall, PHD,HEC-C (he/him/his) – Albany Medical College
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Core Competencies, 3rd Edition Listening Session (Option 3)
    Location: Grand Ballroom D-F (First Floor)
    Presenter: Alex Kon, MD, HEC-C, FAAP, FCCM – Community Children's & University of Washington School of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 0
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Clinical Ethics: Trauma Informed Care
    Location: Midway 6 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Devora Shapiro, PHD (she/her/hers) – Ohio Univ - College of Medicine
    Presenter: Stephanie Tillman, PhD(c) CNM MSN (she/her/hers) – Saint Louis University
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Ethically Engaging “Complex” Patients in the Clinic: Functional Neurological Disorders, Factitious Disorders, and the (Ethical) Importance of Knowing the Difference
    Location: Midway 6 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Devora Shapiro, PHD (she/her/hers) – Ohio Univ - College of Medicine
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Reconsidering Harm in Pediatric Ethics - Dignity, The Right To Play, and The Limits of Parental Authority
    Location: Midway 3-4 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Christian Cintron, PhD, HEC-C – Children's National Hospital
    Clinical Ethics
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    The Clinical Ethics Consultation Benchmarking Collaborative: Year 2 and Beyond
    Location: Grand Ballroom A (First Floor)
    Presenter: Stowe L. Teti, MA, HEC-C – Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
    Clinical Ethics
     CE Hours: 1
  • Saturday, Sep 21st
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Trauma-Informed Care: A Unique Framework for Consent
    Location: Midway 6 (First Floor)
    Presenter: Stephanie Tillman, PhD(c) CNM MSN (she/her/hers) – Saint Louis University
    Clinical Ethics