Advance your career with healthcare ethics! 

Applications are open for the Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics certificate program offered by UW Medicine's Department of Bioethics & Humanities.

Join Seattle Children's for the 20th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference from July 17th-19th.

The presentation will be on Attending to Stories: Narrative Ethics and Pediatrics. They will also be hosting a single-day Pediatric Palliative Care on Thursday, July 17, 2025.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 9th with an expert-led panel discussion.

This presentation will discuss the legal framework that guides processes for ensuring that a patient’s interests are represented when determining whether to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

This interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the University of Ghana’s Department of Philosophy & Classics and the University of Washington’s Department of Bioethics & Humanities, will bring together scholars from Africa and the West to examine how personhood emerges and its implications for the moral status of humans and nonhumans, including AI, animals and nature.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 12th with Dr. Catherine Butler, MD MA.

This presentation will relate how patients with kidney failure are required to demonstrate adherence to clinical recommendations as a criterion for kidney transplant candidacy. During, she will examine implications of this requirement for person-centered and equitable care.

Please join us on February, 12th with Dr. Lisa Erlanger, MD. 

Her presentation will examine anti-fat bias as a structural determinant of health disparities, and offer an evidence-based framework for promoting the health and wellbeing of larger bodied patients. 

OBJECTIVES:

1. Recognize the impacts of anti-fat bias on health

Tuesday, Jan. 14, Drs. Amy Hinterberger, Tim Brown, & Susan Trinidad will speak at the UW’s Society + Technology Salon Series on Genetics and Bioethics.

The Department of Bioethics and Humanities' Dr. Malia Fullerton, along with four other presenters from across University of Washington, will kick off UW’s Society + Technology Salon Series on Monday, January 13, with a free online discussion exploring genetic technologies and technologies of genetics through anthropological, cultural, and philosophical lenses. This event will delve into topics like biostatistics, risk analysis, and more.

Don’t miss the next Indigenous Speaker Series (the Series) event!

Dr. Shawn Wilson will be presenting "An Indigenous Grad Student Pep Talk" on December 16th at 12 PM PST. The Series evolved from our Adjunct Professor, and UW Tacoma Professor, Dr. Michelle Montgomery's Indigenous Knowledge and Community Conversations.

UW School of Medicine Bioethics & Humanities Department