FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

8:00 am BREAKFAST AND SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS

Empirical Ethics Research
Moderator: Micah Prochaska, MD

External Grant Funding in Ethics
Moderator: William Parker, MD, PhD

Publishing in Ethics
Moderator: Norman Quist

Pediatric Ethics
Moderator: Rebecca Propper, MD

9:00 am WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
LOCATION: Auditorium
Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, HEC-C

9:15 am PLENARY PAPER PRESENTATIONS: HEALTH POLICY
LOCATION: Auditorium
Moderator: Megan Applewhite, MD, MA

To Consent, or Not to Consent? Genomic Sequencing of Deceased Individuals
Karen Devon, MD

Covering the Costs of Medical Assistance in Dying
Timothy Murphy, PhD

A New Metalinguistic Framework for Determining Circulatory Death in NRP: A Lesson from Brain Death
William Choi, MBE

Identifying Priorities for Pediatric Pandemic Preparedness in Research Ethics and Policy
Ava Jurden, MA

10:35 am BREAK

11:20AM CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
LOCATION: Auditorium Foyer

TABLE 1:
Moderator: Daniel Brudney, PhD

The Agapean Framework
Kimberly Vargas Barreto, PhD

Is There a Human Right to Health(care)?
Bharat Ranganathan, PhD

TABLE 2:
Moderator: Julie Chor, MD, MPH

Incarceration and Illness: The Role of Clinical Ethics in Questioning Justice
Manu Sundaresan, BA, BS

Institutional and Individual Conscience in Gender Affirming Care
Debra Stulberg, MD
Hannah Wenger, MD

TABLE 3:
Moderator: Brian C. Callender, MD

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas and Upholding Institutional Values: A Survey-Based Case Study at UnityPoint Health
Heidi Storl, MA, PhD, HEC-C
Dakotah Kinsella, MA

The Relevance for Clinical Ethics of the Tension Between Professionalism and Organizationalism
Jonathan Bolton, MD, MPhil, MA

TABLE 4:
Moderator: Rebecca Propper, MD

Patients as a Limited Resource? Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
Michaela Asher, MPhil

Can People with Severe Disorders of Consciousness be Wronged?
Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc, PhD
Nada Gligorov, PhD

12:10 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PAPER PRESENTATIONS: GENERAL CLINICAL ETHICS
LOCATION: Auditorium
Moderator: A. Justine Landi, MD

Resisting the Robot Surrogate
Kyle Karches, MD, PhD

Decline and Fall of Informed Consent: Long Live Shared Decision-Making with Certified Patient Decision Aids
Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C

A Wish to Die Trying to Live: Unwise or Incapacitous? The Case of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust v. ‘ST’
Bryanna Moore, PhD

Managing an Inverted Knowledge Paradigm: Ethical Consideration in the Care of Patients and Families with Rare Diseases
Vanshika Narala, BS

Conceptually Mapping the Ethical Components of a Clinical Encounter: Distinguishing Shared Decision-Making from Related Ethical Constructs
Olivia Orr, MSc

PANEL DISCUSSION
LOCATION: Little Theater

What Makes a Clinical Decision Support Tool Fair?
William Parker, MD
Valerie Gutmann Koch, JD
Monica Peek, MD, MPH

3:10 pm BREAK

3:20 pm POSTER WALK ROUNDS
Moderator: Baddr Shakhsheer, MD

The Necessity of an Educated Public Prior to Shared Decision-Making in Future Human Germline Gene Editing Guidelines (Poster #3)
Rikki Gaber Caffrey, DBe, MA, MS, LCGC, HEC-C

Current Status of Advanced-Care Planning in Korean Pediatric Patients (Poster #4)
Hyunseung Noh, MD

4:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PAPER PRESENTATIONS: ADDRESSING DISCRIMINATION AND BIAS
LOCATION: Auditorium
Moderator: Monica Peek, MD, MPH

The Intersection of Structural Discrimination, Non-Compliance, and Implicit Attitudes in Health Care
Jacob Dahlke, MSBe, HEC-C

What Will It Take for Health Professionals and Ethicists to Take Disability Discrimination and Bias Seriously?
Kristi Kirschner, MD

Medical Decision-Making for Unrepresented Hospitalized Patients in the Transitions of Care
Kate Luenprakansit, MD

Navigating Surrogate Choices After Family Violence
Patrick Herron, DBe, HEC-C

PANEL DISCUSSION
LOCATION: Little Theater

Does the Glove Fit? Finding the Right Ethical Framework to Justify Honoring Parental Requests in the Context of Pediatric End-of-Life Care
Jennifer Kingsley, MD, MA
Pierce Randall, PhD
Daniel Kim, PhD, MPH
Xiang Yu, PhD

5:30 pm ADJOURN

6:00 pm OPTIONAL COCKTAILS & DINNER

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9
8:00 am BREAKFAST AND SMALL
GROUP DISCUSSIONS

Surgical Ethics
Moderator: Sean Wightman, MD

Medical Student Ethics Teaching
Moderator: Daniel Kim, PhD, MPH

Clinical Ethics Consultations
Moderator: A. Justine Landi, MD

Psychiatric Ethics
Moderator: Lauren K. Robinson, MD

9:00 am PLENARY PAPER PRESENTATIONS: SURGICAL ETHICS
LOCATION: Auditorium
Moderator: Baddr Shakhsheer, MD

Self-Reported Race in Transplant Medicine Decision-Making
Julia Skibniewska, BS

Military-Medical Ethical Dilemmas in Large Scale Combat Operations
Zachary Newman, BS

Surgeon Perspectives on Palliative Care: Are We the Barrier to Better Care?
Sean Donohue, MD

How Should Surgeons Incorporate Justice into Discussions Around Informed Consent?
Antoinette Esce, MD

10:20 am BREAK

10:20 am POSTER WALK ROUNDS
Moderator: Kinga Skowron Olortegui, MD

Ethical Consideration of IVG – A Future Face of Reproduction (Poster #5)
Shruti Govindarajan

Against Wait Times for Posthumous Sperm Retrieval and Insemination, and a Path to More Ethical Policies (Poster #6)
Ryan Marshall Felder, PhD, HEC-C

11:00 am AWARDING OF 2024 MACLEAN PRIZE
LOCATION: Auditorium
Introduction of the MacLean Prize by Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, HEC-C

11:15 am MACLEAN PRIZE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Tackling the ‘Wicked Problem’ of End-of-Life Care
Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD
Professor of Global Health and Social
Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Director of the Fellowship in Bioethics
at the HMS Center for Bioethics
President Emerita of The Hastings Center

Noon LUNCH

1:30 pm CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
LOCATION: Auditorium Foyer

TABLE 1:
Moderator: Peter Smith, MD, MA

Clinical, Macro-, and Micro-Ethics: Should There Still be a Relationship?
Bharat Ranganathan, PhD

Shared Decision-Making and Epistemic Virtue
John Han, MA

TABLE 2:
Moderator: William Parker, MD, PhD

Off-Label Use of Artificial Intelligence of Medical Imaging: Developing an Ethical Framework for Stakeholders
Heather Whitney, PhD

Artificial Intelligence and the Surgeon - Who is the Master and Who is the Emissary?
Ryan M. Antiel, MD, MSME

TABLE 3:
Moderator: A. Justine Landi, MD

Ethical Duty to Redress the Impact on Health Equity and Stigma Associated with HIV Criminalization
Patrick Herron, DBe, HEC-C

Better Understanding Care for Victims of Sexual Assault: A National Evaluation of Hospital Emergency Department Policies
Ava Ferguson Bryan, MD, MPH

2:30 pm BREAK

2:35 pm POSTER WALK ROUNDS
Moderator: Megan Applewhite, MD, MA

Dental Implants and the Affordability of the Standard of Care in Dentistry: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas and Considerations (Poster #2)
Jack Bansbach, DMD
[This poster will not be presented on the Poster Walk]

Moral Testimony and Transformative Experiences: The Case of Peer-Mentors in Spinal Cord Injuries (Poster #7)
Jay Carlson, PhD

3:15 pm PLENARY PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
CLINICAL ETHICS DECISION-MAKING
LOCATION: Auditorium
Moderator: Micah Prochaska, MD

Patient and Family Perspectives for Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation: A Pilot Study
Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, MS

The Ethics Case for Promoting Best Practices in Decisional Capacity Evaluations: A Disability Ethics Focus
Preya S. Tarsney, JD, HEC-C

Illuminating and Easing the Human Dimensions of Caregiving Through Facilitated Writing Workshops: Finds From Year One of the Caregiver Project
Mary Simmerling, PhD

Clinician-Reported Approaches to Withholding/Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Interventions Near the End of Life: A Descriptive Framework Derived from a Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study
Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, MA, MSc

4:55 pm CLOSING REMARKS

5:15 pm ADJOURN

*The agenda is subject to change.