Joelle M. Robertson-Preidler, PhD, HEC-C (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston
Houston, Texas

Joelle Robertson-Preidler, MA, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at the McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX. She has a PhD in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Zurich and completed a Clinical Ethics Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Her research interests focus on equitable communication and decision-making for patients near the end of life, as well as addressing clinical ethics burnout. She also uses theatre methods to teach equitable communication practices to medical students and residents.

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Presentation(s):

• Theater and the Role of the “Good Patient”

  Thursday, October 23, 2025
  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time

• Radioactive Recommendations: Where Ethics Advice Lands Dangerously

  Thursday, October 23, 2025
  3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific Time