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  • Wednesday, October 22, 2025
  • 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Pacific Time
    Leveraging Humanities and Arts in Clinical Ethics Education
  • 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Pacific Time
    Conflict Resolution Skills for Ethics Committees (Conflict Management, Part I)
  • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pacific Time
    Beyond case discussions: Training committee members to contribute to clinical ethics work
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Pacific Time
    Comparing Models for Clinical Ethics Consultation: Which Approach is Best for Pediatrics?
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Pacific Time
    Managing Challenging Conversations through Skilled Facilitation (Conflict Management, Part II)
  • Thursday, October 23, 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    A Dialogue on the Work of Nancy Neveloff Dubler (1941-2024)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Adaptive Care Planning for Patients with Developmental Disabilities: A Novel Approach
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Advance Directives
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Bioethics for whom? Abolition bioethics in times of crisis
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Brain Computer Interface Technology and Disabilities: The Perspectives of Patients, Caregivers, Clinicians and Researchers
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Carceral Ethics
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Confidentiality, Privacy, and Conflicts of Interest
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Decision-Making in Pediatric Vaccination: The Permissibility of Vaccinating Children Without Parental Consent
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Feast or Famine?: Parenteral Nutrition at End of Life for Patients with Cancer
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Genetic Screening
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Medical Decision Making
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Non-financial Conflicts of Interest: Dueling literature reviews debate key questions
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Pediatric Ethics Consults
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    Public Health Ethics
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
    The Code of Ethics in Action: Insights on the New 2025 ANA Code of Ethics from ReVision Panel Members
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    "The Malignancy of Metrics: How Hospital Rankings and Performance Metrics Undermine Cancer Care"
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    “Let’s Consider a Second Opinion”: Conceptual and Practical Challenges in Ethically Utilizing Second Opinions in Clinical Conflict
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    AI: Bias
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Artificial Intelligence and the Medicalization of Grief: Historical, Literary, and Ethical Perspectives
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Bioethics, Humanities, and Education
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Bioethics: The Next Generation and the Need for Inclusion
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Can Intimate Procedures Without Consent be Justified in Medical Research?
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Centering Patient Voices in Research and Practice
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Conscientious Objections
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Futility in Psychiatry: Ethical Opportunities and Challenges
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Moral Distress
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Narrative Medicine
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Persistent Preventable Maleficence in Health Care: Where’s the Outrage?
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    Substance Use Disorder
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
    The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics: Giving Moral Guidance in an Age of Pluralism, Postmodernism, and Polarization
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    "Catapulted into the land of the sick:" A Performance Autoethnography
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Addressing the Ethical Dilemmas of Heritable Human Genome Editing by Incorporating the Perspectives from the Disability Community in Public Policy
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Clinical Ethics: Alternative Medicine and Innovation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Clinical Ethics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Combating Structural Gaslighting through Disability Narratives
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Community Engagement in Gene Editing: Building Community Partnerships in Genetics Research
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Continuing Bioethics Education
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Justice and Health
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Law, Public Health Policy, Organizational Ethics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Legal Update 2025: Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics and Public Health
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Pediatric Research Ethics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Pragmatics of the Clinic: Framing Effects in Medical Communication
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Reproductive Ethics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Shiftwork in Surgery and Impact on Ethical Patient Care
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Theater and the Role of the “Good Patient”
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
    Trauma-Informed Care
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Advances of Inborn Errors of Metabolism: Ethical Considerations of Care Along Growing Lifespans
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    AI: Clinical Ethics Consults
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    AI: Design and Oversight
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    At the Interface of Sport and Bioethics
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Building a Community of Scholars Centered on Justice-Centered Bioethics Research
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Conditions Versus Traits: Is there a meaningful difference in screening embryos or fetuses for one versus the other?
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Cutting-Edge ELSI Issues Surrounding the Integration of Health AI in Academia, Government, and Industry
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Evidence, Equipoise, Expertise, and Trans Health
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Interdisciplinary Voices: Stories from Bioethics Consultations
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Overcoming Barriers to Advance Care Planning for Incarcerated Individuals
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time
    Radioactive Recommendations: Where Ethics Advice Lands Dangerously
  • Friday, October 24, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific Time
    A Refractory Gaze: The Power of Figurative Painting in Medical Advocacy
  • 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific Time
    Legacy: A Durational Performance of Medical/Health Professional Education
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    AI: Digital Technology
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Are We the Best Judges?: Responding When Ethics “Recommendations” Aren’t Followed
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Clinical Ethics: Life Sustaining Treatment
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Contemporary models for realistically achievable consent and capacity assessment in primary care
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Disability and (Dis)empowerment
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    ELSI Beyond the Genome
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Fertility
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    From Settled Consensus to Uncertainty: Polio’s Postmodern Travels
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Medicine, Law and Ethics
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Organizational Ethics
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Queer and Feminist Approaches
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Reimagining Law and Policy Affecting Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Post-Final Rule
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Religion, Spirituality, and Healthcare
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Sustaining the Self in Clinical Ethics: Building Institutional and Peer Support for Long-Term Engagement
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    The Legacy of Eugenics
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Trust and Transparency in Research
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    AI: End of Life Care
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Avoiding Life with Advanced Dementia – Medical, Legal, and Ethical Analysis of Feeding Options
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Cross-Cultural Ethics
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Disability Nondiscrimination in Medical Treatment Decisions
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Epistemological Issues in Research
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Ethical considerations for inclusive clinical care, health professional education, and research related to gender affirming care.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Ethics & Engineering: Working Together on Novel Medical Device Development
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Genetic Testing
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    GLP
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Health Humanities and the Public
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Moral Injury and Moral Agency
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Navigating Recent Changes in Immigration Laws and Policies: Practical Guidance from the Law, Bioethics, and Public Health
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Science, Technology, and Society
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Surrogate Decision Making
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Tolerance for Ambiguity: a practical tool kit for medical educators and healthcare spaces
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Vulnerability and Coercion
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    "I can't believe that's why you want that!" How are reasons ethically relevant in medical decision-making?
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    A Review of the First 14 Years of a Novel Pediatric Bioethics Certificate Program for Interdisciplinary Pediatric Healthcare Professionals
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    AI: Medicine
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Bias at the Bedside: Confronting Ableism is Clinical Ethics
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Clinical Ethics: Tools
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Disability Ethics
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Examining meso-level perspectives in bioethics: Institutional interventions for ethical and equitable biomedical research
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Expanding the Justice Discourse: A Call to Use a Health Justice Framework in Bioethics
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Global Research Ethics
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Liver Transplant Candidate Selection Ethics: Mixed-Methods Study of One Center
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Narrative Pedagogies
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    NRP
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Philosophy
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    The Perspective Puzzle: Utilizing Narrative for Conflict Navigation with Surrogate Decision-Makers
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
    Vulnerable Populations
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    AI: Health Policy and Education
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Changing Hats: Best Practices for the Dual-Role Ethicist
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Cross-Disiplinary Approaches to Death and Dying
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Disability, Identity, and Justice
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    EHR Documentation
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Gender, Ethics, and Justice
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Genomics and Research Ethics
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Hospital visitation policies in public health crises: Exploration of ethical tensions between infection control measures and the rights of disabled and other vulnerable patients for advocacy & support
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Medical Freedom and Violation
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Organ Procurement
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Promoting Health Equity
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Psychedelic Ethics: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Reconceptualizing Informed Consent
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Sensemaking: Promoting shared understanding in times of moral ambiguity
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    Staying One Step Ahead: Emerging AI, Eroding Ethical Principles, and the Impact on Clinical AI Deployment
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Time
    What determines eligibility for liver transplantation in patients with alcohol use disorder?
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    AI: Research Ethics
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Clinical Practice
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Clinician Advocacy at the Bedside: A Pro-Con Debate
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Crowdfunding for medical care: Creative financial solution or ethical quagmire?
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Dimensions of Trust in Polarizing Times: Perspectives of the Clinician, Philosopher, and Psychologist
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    End of Life Care
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Fostering New Solidarities to Remake Bioethics: Moving From Proposal to Action
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Grief
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Human Anatomy in History and the Arts
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Mental Health: Social and Ethical Issues
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Navigating Ethical Considerations for Undocumented Immigrants in Genetics Research
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Patient Autonomy
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Reexamining equipoise through the lens of potential research participants
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Storing, Interpreting, and Sharing Genetic Data
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Time Sensitive Clinical Decision Making
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    When Parents Decline the “Best” Treatment Option: When can state intervention, nudges, and non-disclosure of treatment options be justified
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    AI: Trust
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Bioethics After God: An Exploration of Weak Bioethics and Strong Bioethics
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Bioethics Beyond the Prose: Creating Music and Verse to Make a Point
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Critical Perspectives on Race
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Biomedicine
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Cutting in line? Ethical and clinical perspectives on the allocation out-of-sequence of deceased donor organs in the United States
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Decision Making Capacity Assessments
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Ethics, IRBs, and Research Design
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Polygenic Scores for Social and Behavioral Traits: From Perspectives to Policy
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time
    Reproductive Justice Under Siege: The Ethics of Contraception, Sterilization, and Pregnancy Healthcare in Post-Roe America
  • Saturday, October 25, 2025
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Autism: Social and Ethical Perspectives
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Capacity and Autonomy
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Clinical Ethics Consultations
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Clinical Ethics: NICU
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Communication and Consultation
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Developing Policy Recommendations for TA-NRP Amid Ethical Ambiguity
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Health Humanities and Professional Development
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Navigating Hospital Policies: The Clinical Ethicist's Role in Bridging Variability in Substance and Application
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Science Fiction as an Effective Pedagogical Tool for High School Bioethics Education
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    Survivor, Previvor, Preventer: How Narrative Shapes Experiences and Decisions Around Cancer and Mastectomy
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    The Ethical, Legal and Practical Implications of Providers’ Refusing Cardiothoracic Surgery to Patients with Opioid Use Disorders
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
    What do you see when you look at me?: Confronting bias, power, and oppression in pediatric ethics
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Bioethics Education in Novel Contexts
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Complex Patient Care
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    ETHICS CONSULTATION IN MEDICAL AID IN DYING
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Higher Education Health Insurance: How Student Underinsurance Fuels Health Inequities and Barriers to Education
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Improving Crisis Preparedness: Lessons from Acute Care Settings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Neuroethics in Research
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    New Challenges and Opportunities in Bioethics Education
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Reasonableness as the Key to Defining, Measuring, and Improving IRB Quality
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Reimagining Health Equity through Community Work
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Rethinking Capacity Building in the Era of Changing Global Health Practices
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    The Clinical Ethics Consultation Benchmarking Collaborative: Networking and Problem-Solving to Use Ethics Consultation Data Effectively
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    What’s so special about cancer? The need for responsible opioid prescribing for cancer pain.
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific Time
    Writing a winning bioethics manuscript: Tips from authors and editors for empirical, normative, and case-based papers
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Building Educational and Healthcare Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion for Autistic and Neurodivergent Individuals
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Building Public Trust in Healthcare AI Tools: Insights from Michigan Community Deliberations
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Conflicts, Dilemmas and Decisions
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Debate: Is Medical Aid in Dying/Physician-Assisted Suicide Ethically Supportable?
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Exploring the Concept of “Waste” in Clinical Decision-Making and Healthcare Policies
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Translational Justice and Trickle Down Equity: Centering Patient Priorities for Equitable Therapeutic Development
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time
    Visuals and stories: Privacy, consent and anonymity in medical publications