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Applications are open for the Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics certificate program offered by UW Medicine's Department of Bioethics & Humanities.
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September 15, 2025, 12:00am
September 10, 2025, 12:00pm
Join us on Wednesday, September 10th @ 12PM with Arika Moore Patneaude, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C for a discussion of "Justice & Equity: Attending to Silenced Voices in Ethics."
Through analyzing the practice of land acknowledgments, this presentation seeks to inspire ethicists to acknowledge the harm of impartiality as a core concept of justice. Through engaging in self-reflection, examination of, and interrogation of the justice principle that ethics as a field can elevate silenced, marginalized, and excluded voices.
August 4, 2025, 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.
August 4, 2025, 12:00am
We are less than one month away from our Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics live conference!
This year we are welcoming a new program director, Dr. Noa T Brazg, PhD, MSW, MPH, a clinical bioethics consultant and director of the Health Sciences Interprofessional Education program here at UW. We have incorporated more interactive analysis components into our live sessions and will continue to offer open discussions with experts in the field. Registration is still open! We hope to see you there.
July 17, 2025, 12:00am
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.