Surgical Ethics

Friday, October 24, 2025

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pacific Time

Location: A103-104

Sundeep Grandhe, MD PhD HEC-C

Chief Executive Officer | Senior Medical Director
Central Valley Hospice Palliative Medicine
Sabha Ganai, MD PhD MPH FACS FSSO (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor | Surgical Oncologist
Los Angeles General Medical Center
Pasadena, California
Hector C. Ramos, MD MSc HEC-C

Clinical Professor of Surgery Keck School of Medicine; Los Angeles General Medical Center
Los Angeles General Medical Center, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Discussion of topics relevant to surgical ethics, including focused Presentation on Transplantation ethics and Normothermic Regional Perfusion.

Learning Objectives:

After participating in this conference, attendees should be able to:

Understand the process of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD).
Distinguish two variations of normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) and associated controversies in transplantation ethics.
Review and reconcile ethical issues with the ‘dead donor rule’ and the legal definition of death.