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Registration Now Open for the 21st Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference!

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How do we navigate the most complex ethical questions in pediatric care—together?

Join Seattle Children’s on July 17–18 for the 21st Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, bringing healthcare leaders into conversation on ethics, palliative care, and caring for children with serious illness.

Registration is now open: https://gqr.sh/C4wu

HMC Ethics Forum | Pulse Check: Trust, Power, and the Architecture of Care

Join us in-person on Wednesday, April 8th at 12pm with Sarayah Brenda Obonyo for a discussion on "Trust, Power, and the Architecture of Care," a personal experience in our very own healthcare system. 

Using real patient experiences, this presentation examines how communication, documentation, and system processes shape trust and diagnostic pathways in complex care. It highlights how small moments across the healthcare system can influence patient safety and long-term engagement in care.

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

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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.

Leaving the bedside to mend the bedside: Revising HHS Consent Guidelines | HMC Ethics May Forum

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Please join us on Wednesday, May 14th with Lori Bruce, MA, MBE, DBe, HEC-C!

This talk will discuss a bio-ethicist's paradigm of integrating community voices within policy. We will discuss case examples which reduced clinicians' moral distress and amplified patient values and preferences.

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Two More Weeks of Early Bird Pricing for Our Summer Seminar

Poster for the UW Medicine Department of Bioethics & Humanities Summer Seminar, offering an early bird price until May 15th with $100 off registration. The event covers 3.5 days of healthcare ethics, held virtually from August 4–7, 2025. Includes a purple and gold design with a skyline image of Seattle and a QR code for more information.

Just two more weeks until registration costs go up for our Summer Seminar!

Get the early bird pricing while its still available, $100 off registration costs until May 15th.

Scholarships and group discounts are available. Details and registration information can be found on the here: 2025 Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics webpage.