Seminar Series - Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

9/23/24
Assessing and Re-Imagining the Integration of Ethics into Research: Why Now?
By Jenny Reardon, PhD

10/14/24
How to Prevent, Diagnose, and Treat Ethical Sepsis: A Guide for the Perplexedopic
By Jonathan H. Marks, BCL

10/28/24
Ethical and Pratical Approaches to Drug Shortages
By Andrew G. Shuman, MD, FACS, HEC-C

11/11/24
Alzheimer’s Disease, Decisions, and Decision Makers
Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture
By Emily Largent, PhD, JD

12/9/24
Dying Prematurely: Discussing Death & Dying with African Americans
By Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH

2023-24

1/29/24
The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research
By Jake Earl, PhD

2/12/24 – POSTPONED
The Feb. 12 Seminar has been postponed. Information about a rescheduled date will be shared as soon as it is available.
Jenny Reardon, PhD

2/26/24
Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a post-Dobbs Landscape
By Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD

3/25/24
Reconfiguring the ethical imagination in clinical practice and medical education
By Michelle Munyikwa, MD, Ph.D

4/1/24
Catastrophe Ethics
by Travis Rieder, PhD

4/8/24
CANCELED: J. David Velleman, PhD

4/22/24
Higher Risk Organs Donated bv Pigs and People: Informed Consent and Equity Challenges in Kidney Transplantation
By Peter Reese, MD, PhD

4/29/24
Cost Containment: Protecting Vulnerable Elderly From Profiteering and Poor Quality Care
By Joan M. Teno, MD
Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture

5/13/24
From Carceral Healthcare to Abolition Ethics: A Moral Obligation to Move Towards Justice
By Jennifer James, PhD

2023

9/11/23

The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids and Human-Animal Neural Chimeras Among U.S. Bioethicists and Public

By John Evans, PhD

10/9/23
Downgrading Docs: Medical Authority in Roe, Dobbs—and Beyond
By Marc Spindelman, JD

10/23/23
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Towards a Robust Normative Framework
By Matthew Liao, PhD

11/13/23
The Development of Indigenous Bioethical Guidelines in Aotearoa New Zealand (Virtual Lecture)
By Maui Hudson, PhD

11/27/23
Health Misinformation Online: Can Social Media Influencers be Liable for Physical Harm?
By Leah Fowler, JD

12/11/23
One Health, One Ethic? Confronting the disunity of ethical oversight for human and nonhuman animal research
By Rebecca Walker, PhD

2022-23

9/12/22
Exploring the Black Box of Human Development: Scientific and Ethical Implications of Crossing the 14-Day Limit of Embryo Research
By Insoo Hyun, PhD

10/10/22
Constructive (data) Trusts
by Jasmine E. McNealy, PhD

10/24/22
“But Why Is That Better?”
By Vikki Entwistle, PhD

11/14/22
Anti-Racist Bioethics, Structural Racism, and the Struggle for Hearts and Minds
By Yolonda Wilson, PhD

12/12/22
Decolonizing Global Health: Do We Agree On What it Means?
By Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD

1/23/22
Becoming Good: Ethics of Early Intervention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
By Iliana Singh, PhD

2/13/23
Diversity as a Challenge to Designing Ethical Food Systems?
By Matthias Kaiser, D.Phil.

2/27/23
Exploring Challenges in Vaccine Research through Challenging Cases
By Christine Grady, MSN, PhD

3/6/23
Ethical decision-making and the deliberative process: the ‘ETHOX Approach’ revamped
By Mark Sheehan, PhD

3/13/23
When Pregnancy is Punishment: Foreclosure of Abortion and the Traumas of Motherhood in Incarcerated Settings
By Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD

3/27/23
Failure or Full Circle: 35 years of research in Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making……getting to the next level
By Laurie Badzek, LLM, JD, MS, RN, FNAP, FAAN

4/10/23
Justice-Based Rationale for Imposing Limits on Research Risks
By Liza Dawson, PhD, MA

4/17/23
A Metabolic Ethics for Metabolism Cage Research
By Anthony Ryan Hatch, PhD

4/24/23
Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture: Ethical and Practical Challenges with Surrogate Decision Making
By Douglas White, MD

5/8/23

Towards an Infrastructure of Nurture with Dr. Nicholas Nisbett
By Nicholas Nisbett, DPhil

5/22/23
Imagine This: Aging Happily in America
By Tia Powell, MD

2021-22

9/27/21
Think Again: Is Advance Care Planning Obsolete?
by James A. Tulsky, MD

10/11/2021
The Paradoxical Fragility of the Norms of Protection of Health Care in War by Len Rubenstein, JD

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10/25/2021
Rage Renegades by Myisha Cherry, MDiv, PhD

11/8/2021
F-AI-rest of Them All by Marzyeh Ghassemi

11/22/2021
Disability and Health: A Complicated Relationship by Elizabeth Barnes, PhD

1/24/2022
The 2021 Revised ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation by Robin Lovell-Badge

1/31/2022
Strengthening Ethical Practice at the Frontline of Global Health Research: Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges by Sassy Molyneux and Dorcas Kamuya

2/14/2022
Ethics and International Food Assistance by Michelle Jurkovich, PhD, MA

2/28/2022
Older People and Demands of (Global) Social Justice by Sridhar Venkatapuram, MSc, MPhil, PhD, FRSA, Hon, FFPH

3/14/2022
Kidney to Share: A living kidney donor’s experience and lessons learned about barriers and opportunities in kidney donation with Martha Gershun

3/28/2022
Diagnostic Ethics: Parameters for safe, ethical and socially just management of medically unexplained symptoms by Diane O’Leary, PhD

4/11/2022
Prognosis in Serious Neurological Disease: Opportunities and Challenges by Robert G. Holloway, MD, MPH
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4/25/2022
The Ethics of Surrogate Decision-Making by David S. Wendler, PhD, MA

5/9/2022
When Bad Things Happen to Good Deeds: Moral Problems with Beneficence with Karen Stohr, PhD

2020-21

9/21/20
COVID-19, Public Health and Equity: How to reduce the disproportionate impact on disadvantaged communities
Q&A with Dr. Leana Wen
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10/12/2020
Caesar Atuire, PhD
An African Philosophical Perspective on the Tension between Autonomy and Solidarity
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10/26/2020
Hugo Slim, PhD
Humanitarian Ethics, the COVID Crisis and Black Lives Matter
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10/30/2020
Ruha Benjamin, PhD
Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Public Bioethics

11/9/2020
Susan Block, MD –Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture
Clinicians, COVID, and the Culture of Medicine
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11/23/2020
Patricia Kingori, PhD
What Can a Focus on Fakes and Fakery Teach Us About Health?

12/14/2020
Anji Wall, MD

Decision-Making, Perceptions and Experiences in Uterus Transplantation

1/25/2021
Peter A. Ubel, MD
Sick to Debt: Fixing Our High Out-of-Pocket Health Care System

2/8/2021
Jim Lavery, MSc, PhD
Fair Partnership as a Determinant of Effectiveness of Global Health Campaigns and Implications for Research Ethics

2/22/2021
Jack Bobo
Can Agriculture Save the Planet Before it Destroys It?

3/8/2021
Roland Griffiths, PhD
Psychedelic Science: Therapeutic Implications and Ethical Challenges

3/22/2021
Barbara J. Evans, PhD, JD, LLM
Rules for Robots and Why AI/ML Medical Software Breaks Them

4/12/2021
Gloria Ramsey, JD, RN, FNAP, FAAN
Advance Care Planning in a Pandemic-Respecting Choices for Racially & Ethnically Diverse Communities