Friday, October 27
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast and Small Group Discussions:
Empirical ethics research
External grant funding in ethics
Publishing in ethics
Medical student ethics teaching

9:00 - 9:30AM: Weclome and Introduction: Peter Angelos MD, PhD, and Mark Siegler MD

9:30-11:30 Plenary Papers: Surgical Ethics
The Project on the Good Surgeon: A Pathway for Healing & Repair
Ryan M Antiel, MD, Duke University
Sensational Topics in Transplant Surgery: A Critical
Ethical Analysis
Catherine H Frenkel, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Levine Cancer Institute
Professionalism Themes in Surgical Clerkships: A Qualitative Analysis of Student Vignettes
Jacob Mago, MD, Alden March Bioethics Institute
The Use of Electronic Consent Facilitate Written Consent
Before the Day-of-Surgery
Victoria Yin, MD, Keck School of Medicine of the
University of Southern California
Assessing and Improving the Moral Injury of Intensive Care Unit Staff Moral Injury of Intensive Care Unit Staff Moral Injury Surrounding Patients Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Rachel Essig, MD, Georgetown University Hospital
Ethical and Clinical Actions for Maternal-Fetal Surgery
Patients and Providers in the Context of Diminishing Reproductive Rights
Chase Binion, MD-PhD student, University of North
Carolina and University of Virginia

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 PM: Concurrent Sessions
MAiD in Canada: Paper Session
Reflections by a Surgeon Assisting Death
Karen Devon, MD, Department of Surgery and Joint Center for Bioethics – University of Toronto
MAiD in Canada – Toward a Permissive Access Regime
Udo Schuklenk, PhD, Queens University in Canada
Medical Aid in Dying in Canada: Promises or Pitfalls
Eugene Bereza, MD, McGill University Health Centre

On the Scope of Clinician Autonomy: Panel Session, Little Theater
Bharat Ranganathan, PhD, University of Nebraska
Dan Brudney, PhD, University of Chicago
Caroline Anglim, PhD, HEC-C, Mercer School of Medicine

2:30 - 3:15 PM: Break

3:15 – 5:00 PM: Concurrent Sessions
Equity in AI Panel: Panel Session, Little Theater
Gina Piscitello, MD, MS, University of Pittsburgh
Juan Carlos Rojas, Medical Student, University of Pittsburgh
Robert M Arnold, MD, University of Pittsburgh

Healthcare Disparities and Health Policy: Paper Session
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Approaches to Conflict Handling (PATCH): Results of Unit Leadership Surveys
Aleksandra Olszewski, MD, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern
University
Healthcare Reparations for African Americans: Bioethical Rationale and Practical Framework
Douglas W. Hanto, MD PhD, Center for Bioethics – Harvard Medical School

3:15-5:00 PM: Concurrent Session
Healthcare Disparities and Health Policy: Paper Session
When the solutions to scarcity should be less about ethical allocation and more about expanding the supply: healthcare’s role in addressing homelessness in Cook County
Keiki Hinami, MD MS, Center for Health Equity & Innovation - Cook County Health
Honest Medical Communications Across Cultures
Emma Lavine, PhD, University of Chicago
The Ethical Case Against Prohibiting Hormonal and Surgical
Interventions for Minors with Gender Dysphoria
Timothy Murphy, PhD, University of Illinois College of Medicine

5:00 – 8:00 PM Optional Cocktails/Dinner

Saturday, October 28
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast Small Group Discussions
Surgical ethics
Pediatric ethics
Clinical ethics consultations
Psychiatric ethics

9:00 – 10:20 AM: Plenary Papers – Clinical Ethics
Decision-Making
Current Practices in Clinical Photography in Surgery are Detrimental to the Informed Consent Process
Chad M Teven, MDA MBA, Northwestern University
Moral Judgments in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Are Clinicians Subject to the Knobe Effect?
Franny Kwak, Medical Student, Albany Medical College

The Complexity of Moral Judgment: How Does an Ultrasound Image of the Fetus Contribute to the Autonomy of Pregnant Women’s Medical Decision-making?
Yali Cong, PhD, Peking University Health Science Center
ACMG Secondary Findings and Pediatric Right to an Open Future
Michelle Sergi, DO, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
and Bharat Ranganathan; PhD, University of Nebraska

10:20 – 11:00AM Break

11:00 – 12 PM: Awarding of the MacLean Prize
Introduction of MacLean Prize by Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs
Dean, Division of the Biological Sciences
Dean, Pritzker School of Medicine
MacLean Prize Address by Christine Grady, MSN, PhD
Title TBD

Noon - 1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 PM Concurrent Session
DCD-NRP: Panel Session
Denise M. Dudzinski, PhD, HEC-C, University of Washington
James Kirkpatrick, MD, University of Washington

Health Policy and Rationing: Paper Session
Death: From Philosophy to Medical Practice and the Law
John P. Lizza, PhD, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Pregnancy in a Pandemic: Including Pregnancy from Trial Design to the Clinic
Jessica Rizzuto, MD, Vanderbilt University

Reimagining Harm
Eli G Schantz, Medical Student, Indiana University School of Medicine – South Bend

2:30 - 3:15 PM: Break

3:15 – 4:55 PM Plenary Papers – Clinical Ethics Consultations
Outcome metrics for Clinical Ethics Programs: Aligning with organizational priorities without losing the soul of our profession
M Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC, HEC-C, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Invoking ‘Conscience’ rather than ‘Futility’: Why Appeals to Conscience Should Replace Most Appeals to Futility and Inappropriateness in Medicine.
Garson Leder, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin
Nudging in Clinical Consultations: The Balance of Framing and Trust
Ian Doherty, PhD Student, Duquesne University
Clinical Ethics Consultations When the Case Involves the Use of Clinical Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Collins, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Fair Allocation of Scarce CAR T-Cell Therapies for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Ben Derman, MD, University of Chicago

4:55 – 5:15 PM: Closing remarks and Adjournment

*The agenda is subject to change.