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HMC Ethics Forum | Justice and Equity: Attending to Silenced Voices in Ethics
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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.

Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics 2025 - Register Now!
Save the Date graphic for the UW Medicine Department of Bioethics & Humanities Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics, scheduled for August 4–7, with 3.5 days of virtual learning. Features a purple-toned image of the Seattle skyline with Mount Rainier in the background.
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.  

It's less than one month away from our Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics live conference!
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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.

20th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference
Poster for the 20th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference hosted by Seattle Children’s, scheduled for July 17–19, 2025 at Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle, Washington. Includes details on conference dates, keynote topic “Attending to Stories: Narrative Ethics and Pediatrics,” and a single-day Pediatric Palliative Care session on July 17, 2025, with registration information.
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.

Rebecca Barone is this year’s recipient of the Wylie Burke Endowed Scholarship!
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July 11, 2025, 12:00am

The Department of Bioethics and Humanities is pleased to announce Rebecca Barone, double majoring in Political Science Honors and Law, Society, and Justice, and minoring in Bioethics as this year’s recipient of the Wylie Burke Endowed Scholarship! The purpose of this endowed scholarship is to support University of Washington undergraduate and graduate students studying the social, ethical, and policy implications of health research and/or healthcare.

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