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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.
Past News and Events
September 15, 2025, 12:00am
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.
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.