News & Events

News and Events

November 22, 2024, 12:00pm

The Indigenous Speaker Series provides a platform for dialogues about Indigenous people’s cultural and traditional lived experiences, hosted in partnership by the University of Washington - Tacoma, C.U.R.E (Clean Up the River Environment), Climate Land Leaders, and the Salish Sea Research Center.

November 19, 2024, 12:00pm

Dr. Klitzman will draw on in-depth interview research to examine how, given the political and religious polarization in our nation today, patients and family members from a wide range of backgrounds -- from evangelical to agnostic, atheist and 'nothing in particular' -- seek and find sources of meaning, connection and hope when facing serious medical illness.

November 13, 2024, 12:00pm

Please join us on Wednesday, November 13th at 12pm with Sherronda Jamerson.

Sherronda Jamerson presents how racism, at its most basic level, is a lens though which people interpret, naturalize, and reproduce inequality. She explains that racism is not a “white” issue it is a systematic/structural issue designed to keep in place white cultural dominance. Learn why this system has caused harm to us all.

OBJECTIVES:

1) Maintaining openness and moving forward.

2) Learn how trauma and stress can invade the body and skew perception.  

September 25, 2024, 5:00pm

Apply to our flexible, online program to become certified for Advanced Training in Healthcare EthicsImprove patient care, be an ethics committee member, or become an ethics consultant. 

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September 11, 2024, 12:00pm

Please join us on Wednesday, Sept 11th with Dr. Patricia Kuszler.

Her presentation will be about Legal Updates regarding Beginning of Life Issues and a small discussion afterwards.

Patricia C. Kuszler joined the faculty of the School of Law at the University of Washington in 1994 and is a Charles I. Stone Professor of Law.

Bioethics Training

July 29, 2024, 8:00am

The annual Summer Seminar is an intensive, interactive introduction to the 'four-box method' of analysis of ethical problems in clinical ethics, developed by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade in their book Clinical Ethics. The Seminar also addresses elements of the Core Competencies in Health Care Ethics Consultation and can help attendees prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam.  

September 25, 2024, 5:00pm

Apply to our flexible, online program to become certified for Advanced Training in Healthcare EthicsImprove patient care, be an ethics committee member, or become an ethics consultant. 

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