The Hastings Center for Bioethics

Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Mercy: Navigating AI Ethics in Catholic Health
2026-03-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
The Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health is holding a conference, “Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Mercy: Navigating AI Ethics in Catholic Health,” at Boston College, March 20-21, 2026. The conference will bring together physicians, nurses, healthcare administrators, biomedical engineers, technologists, theologians and ethicists to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by AI in Catholic healthcare settings.

Join Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky at 5:15pm Eastern time for her Reflection on Keynote“Catholic and Secular AI Ethics in Dialogue”Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., President & CEO, Hastings CenterPhoebe L. Yang, J.D., Independent Board Member (GE Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health, Doximity); Stanford University Lecturer in Law; Former GM, AWS Healthcare

Solving the Aging Brain?
2026-03-13 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will participate in Brains in Society, the Scientia/De Lange Conference XIV at Rice University on March 13 at 9am EST.

The topic takes a dive deeper into understanding and treating the brain diseases associated with aging, particularly dementia. How can we develop equitable, scalable approaches to reducing the looming economic and societal consequences of these disorders?Panelists:Chloe Sarnowski, Epidemiology, UT HealthTatiana Barichello, Psychiatry, UT HealthAudrey Duarte, Psychology, UT AustinLauren Nicholas, Geriatrics, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical CampusNancy Berlinger, Hastings CenterAlice Luo Clayton, Executive Director, McKnight Brain Research Foundation

Moderator: Rosa Uribe, Co-Director Neuroscience Initiative, Rice Brain Institute

10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference
2026-03-12 09:00 - 2026-03-13 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Times are Central Daylight Time.

Now hosted in 2026 by The Hastings Center for Bioethics: The Reproductive Ethics Conference is an annual, interdisciplinary gathering focused on exploring the ethical, legal, social, and cultural dimensions of reproductive health. The field of reproductive ethics is shaped by ongoing advances in medical technology, shifting cultural norms, political and ideological divisions, and theological perspectives—factors that continue to raise complex and often controversial questions. This virtual conference provides a forum for rigorous and respectful dialogue on a wide range of issues in reproductive ethics. We welcome participants from all professional backgrounds to foster a rich and collaborative discussion.

March 12-13, 2026

Conference Organizers:

Claire Horner, JD, MACenter for Medical Ethics & Health PolicyBaylor College of Medicine

Paul Burcher, MD, PhDObstetrics & GynecologyWellSpan Health

Prenatal Testing: From Autonomy to Eugenics
2026-03-09 16:30 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hastings Center President and CEO Vardit Ravitsky will present a talk, Prenatal Testing: From Autonomy to Eugenics, at the Law and Biosciences Workshop at Stanford Law School. This is a public, in-person-only event. 4:30 PM – 6:15 PM PST

Room 285, Stanford Law School559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8610

AI and Aging Societies: The Ethics of Thinking about Problems and Solutions
2026-02-19 11:00 - 12:15 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will give a virtual presentation at the International Seminar, The Initiative for Responsible AI in Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Her talk will consider population aging and AI as concurrent social phenomena that influence narratives about problems and solutions. What are the ethical implications of framing AI as a “solution” to longer lifespans, aging-associated cognitive and physical decline, smaller families, and shrinking social networks? She will consider the limits of AI ethics in thinking about this question, and what other normative approaches may be useful in medicine and in aging societies.

NOTE: this is a virtual event that takes place 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST.

The Elephant from Heaven and the Chicken from Hell: Does De-extinction Make Sense?
2026-02-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center Senior Research Scholar, director of the research department and editor of the Hastings Center Report Gregory Kaebnick give a keynote entitled “The Elephant from Heaven and the Chicken from Hell: Does De-extinction Make Sense?” about ethical issues surrounding the resurrection of previously extinct species for Darwin Day at Arkansas State University. This event will be held from 5 – 6:30 p.m. CST, in the auditorium of A-State Museum. 320 University Loop, inside Dean B. Ellis Library. Those who cannot attend the event in person can still attend online: https://RedWolv.es/DeExtinct.

How Should Human-AI Dissonance Be Addressed Ethically?
2026-02-09 14:15 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center for Bioethics Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger and Hackensack Meridian Health Director of AI Ethics and Quality and Lecturer in Bioethics at the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University Charles E. Binkley will discuss how human-AI dissonance should be addressed ethically at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University’s event “When Clinical Judgment and AI Diverge: The Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations.” This event takes place on February 9 from 2:15-3pm EST.

Institute for Health Law, Bioethics & Policy 2nd Annual Symposium: "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Law" Keynote
2026-02-02 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center for Bioethics President & CEO Vardit Ravitsky will deliver insights on the ethical and policy perspectives of AI in healthcare. She will draw upon her world-renowned expertise in bioethics, healthcare, and the application of artificial intelligence.

The Unfiltered Truth: Everything You’re Afraid to Ask About Vaccines
2026-01-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
What if you could ask the world’s leading doctors anything? Join global public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha, social epidemiologist Dr. Cheryl Clark, and Pediatrics Physician Dr. Ofer Levy for an evening of in-depth conversation around vaccine science and public trust. Moderated by Hastings Center Senior Researcher Insoo Hyun.

This event is an open forum for you to voice the questions you might be afraid to ask, with the confidence that they will be thoughtfully answered. Live event at the Museum of Science Boston, Blue Wing. 1 Science Pk, Boston, MA 02114. Register below.

If you cannot make the in-person event, join the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/fVxNCWm3_cs

ELSI Friday Forum: Deextinction and Deliberate Extinction
2025-12-12 12:00 (America/New_York)
From the dire wolf to the screwworm, scientists are turning the tools of genetics to the elimination–and recreation–of entire nonhuman species. This webinar explores how and why genetic technologies might be used to eradicate some species and recreate others, with a focus on recent efforts and near future possibilities. The ethics of manipulating other species in these ways will then be considered: How should risks and benefits be understood and weighed? How might both deextinction and deliberate extinction challenge and alter understandings of the human relationship to nature? And how should such existential decisions be made?Panelists:

Greg Kaebnick, PhD Hastings Center

Beth Shapiro, PhD Colossal Biosciences

Moderated by:

Alta Charo, JD University of Wisconsin, Madison

Whose Child Is She/He? The Genetic Gestation Divide
2025-12-05 17:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center President and CEO Vardit Ravitsky will give a talk entitled “Whose Child Is She/He? The Genetic Gestation Divide,” at the the Foundation for Reproductive Medicine Conference 2025.

The FRM Conference is an annual 3 day CE & CME accredited event covering groundbreaking fertility & reproductive research.

This event will take place at the Metropolitan Club, 1 E. 60th St., NY.

Testing Embryos: How Far Should We Go?
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for “Testing Embryos: How Far Should We Go?”, the first webinar in our new series, “Frontiers in the Ethics of Human Reproduction.”

Embryo testing is advancing fast—but how far is too far? How and where do we draw the line between preventing disease and selecting for “desirable” traits? What are the ethical implications for parents, children, clinicians, and society at large?

Connect with our distinguished panelists for a thought-provoking discussion exploring the science, ethics, and future of reproductive genetic screening, unpacking the promise and the pitfalls of this powerful technology.

Our series kicks off with a panel discussion that includes a renowned bioethicist, a leading fertility expert, and an IVF user, moderated by Hastings’ President Vardit Ravitsky.

Panelists: • Nat De Luca, MA, MDiv – is an ICU chaplain, a student in the Masters of Bioethics program at Harvard, and the father of two darling ‘designer babies.’ He wants to make bioethics theory accessible to intended parents and bring family stories into academic discussions.

• Avner Hershlag, MD – is a fertility doctor with decades of clinical expertise in the field. He is dual board certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI).

• Louise Perkins King, MD, JD – is a national leader in reproductive bioethics. She is the director of reproductive bioethics at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She is also an assistant professor of obstetrics gynecology and reproductive medicine, and has a gynecology practice at Mass General Brigham. She is former chair of the ethics committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Moderator: • Vardit Ravitsky, PhD – is President and CEO of The Hastings Center for Bioethics and a researcher in the field of reproductive ethics.

Rethinking Our Cultural Narratives about Aging and Caregiving: Insights from Humanities Research
2025-12-02 13:00 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger will present “Rethinking Our Cultural Narratives about Aging and Caregiving: Insights from Humanities Research” at Northwestern Medicine Medical Ethics Grand Rounds

No registration required.

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Healthcare Leadership Symposium, Fireside Chat
2025-11-12 15:10 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
During the Healthcare Leadership Symposium, Hastings Center for Bioethics President and CEO Vardit Ravitsky will participate in a Fireside Chat with Dr. Wayne J. Riley, President of SUNY Downstate.

PRIM&R Annual Conference Keynote: Hastings President Vardit Ravitsky
2025-11-07 08:45 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
This year’s PRIM&R25 conference keynote will challenge and inspire the way you think about the future of research, ethics, and policy. Dr. Vardit Ravitsky, president and CEO of The Hastings Center for Bioethics, is one of the world’s leading voices in bioethics. Her work focuses on:

· The ethical and legal implications of artificial intelligence, genomics, and reproductive technologies

· Advocacy for women’s autonomy and disability rights

· A global perspective shaped by teaching roles at the University of Montreal and Harvard Medical School

· Advancing ethical dialogue worldwide, with more than 200 publications and over 300 presentations globally.

How Can Collaboration with People with Dementia Improve Communities?
2025-10-29 11:30 - 12:45 (America/New_York)
This webinar features European and North American contributors to Living with Dementia: Learning from Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies, a new open-access collection from the Bioethics for Aging Societies research program of The Hastings Center for Bioethics.Participants will explore connections between ideas and values about dementia that are conveyed via cultural narratives – the common knowledge of a society or group — and the experiences of living with dementia or providing dementia care. They will consider how attention to a society’s shared stories, and to the voices and perspectives of people living with dementia, can be part of efforts to strengthen communities.Participants will include Richard Ward and Andrew Clark of EnACT-DEM, a collaboration among researchers in the UK, Germany, and Canada to connect research and collaboration with people with dementia to community development, and Living with Dementia co-editors Kate de Medeiros and Nancy Berlinger, senior research scholar at The Hastings Center for Bioethics.

There is no registration for this event. Join via Zoom at the time of the event: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/62416594632?pwd=[REDACTED]

Breaking Down the Blind: Balanced Placebo Designs and Expectancy Effects in Psychedelic Research: ASBH Conference
2025-10-24 15:45 - 16:35 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center Research Associate Julia Kolak will give a paper presentation titled Breaking Down the Blind: Balanced Placebo Designs and Expectancy Effects in Psychedelic Research.

Reproduction Networking Session: ASBH Conference
2025-10-24 12:15 - 13:15 (America/New_York)
Hastings Center Research Associate Julia Kolak is the Co-Chair of the Reproductive Ethics Affinity Group hosting a panel presentation on the intersection of disability and reproductive justice in the post-Dobbs Era with Laura Guidry-Grimes.

Ethical Considerations for Using AI to Predict Suicide Risk: ASBH Conference
2025-10-24 09:15 - 10:15 (America/New_York)
This flash presentation by Hastings Center PMRA Faith Wershba at the annual ASBH Conference will consider using AI to predict a patient’s suicide risk.

Abstract for the presentation: Predicting a patient’s suicide risk is a complex and high-stakes task. While there are a number of known risk factors that correlate with suicide attempts at the population level, the presence or absence of a given risk factor may not reliably predict an individual’s risk of attempting suicide. In an attempt to improve suicide risk prediction at the individual level, a number of researchers have developed machine learning algorithms which can be applied to patient medical records to evaluate suicide risk. Currently, such algorithms are not used as part of clinical practice. However, if they prove successful, many experts think that these AI systems could—and should—be integrated into clinical care to aid suicide prevention efforts. Indeed, if these algorithms are found to increase predictive accuracy compared to clinician judgement, it seems ethically desirable to promote their use in clinical settings. However, this possibility raises ethical considerations regarding disclosure, consent, and data use. If it becomes standard practice to screen patients’ electronic health records using an automated suicide risk prediction algorithm, does a healthcare institution have a duty to disclose this fact to their patients? Moreover, should applying these algorithms to patient medical records require patient consent? If so, should such consent be opt-in or opt-out? Lastly, if suicide risk predictions generated in the clinical setting are used to further train or refine the algorithm, should patients be consulted about the use of their personal data in this way?

A Dialogue on the Work of Nancy Neveloff Dubler (1941-2024): ASBH Conference
2025-10-23 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Panel Presentation: A Dialogue on the Works of Nancy Dubler, with Hastings Center Research Associate Julia Kolak.

Panel:Autumn Fiester, PhDJoseph Fins, MDJulia Kolak, PhD, HEC-CJu Zhang, PhD

Abstract: Bioethicist scholar Nancy Neveloff Dubler was a force of nature. As a lawyer turned bioethicist, she was a highly impactful scholar of clinical ethics, who pursued justice as an advocate for the marginalized and vulnerable. In 2004, she co-authored the landmark work Bioethics Mediation, pioneering a novel approach for bedside conflicts. In this panel, three presenters explore her scholarly legacy to the field of bioethics. The first presenter explores Dubler’s transformative contributions to ethics consultation. The presenter argues that Dubler’s Distinctive methodology resists the epistemic harms of “speaking for” patients by fostering an inclusive process of dialogic engagement. Contrasting this approach with traditional consultation models, this talk examines how the tools of bioethics mediation create space for “speaking with” stakeholders, embodying a deliberative, participatory, and context-sensitive process of HCEC. The second presenter explores Dubler’s opposition to “benevolent deception,” arguing that it compromises the integrity of ethics consultants, erodes trust, and distorts ethical mediation. This talk reaffirms her vision by proposing a trust-oriented approach that fosters shared deliberation and cultural respect when caring for patients from cultures that endorse benevolent deception. In the third presentation, the speaker will argue that the best way to protect Dubler’s legacy of “bioethics mediation” is to relocate the function of mediation from ethics consultation services to the offices of patient & guest relations. Given the recent shift in ethics consultation practice away from interpersonal facilitation to physician-focused recommendation, the widespread need for clinical conflict management is unlikely to be met by a hospital’s ethics service.

Building Trust: AI Governance and Ethics in Medicine and Health, NAM Annual Meeting
2025-10-20 15:40 - 16:55 (America/New_York)
Join Hastings Center for Bioethics’ President and CEO Vardit Ravitsky and colleagues at the National Academy of Medicine’s Annual Meeting 2025.

Panel: Building Trust: AI Governance and Ethics in Medicine and HealthModerator: Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, FIAHSI, FAMIA,David L. Cohen, University Professor of Pediatrics, Informatics,Engineering and Communication, Perelman School of Medicine, School ofEngineering and Applied Science, Annenberg School of Communication,University of Pennsylvania; and Vice President, Applied Informatics,University of Pennsylvania Health SystemPanelists: Robert Califf, MD, MACC, former United States Commissioner of Food andDrugs, U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationJohn D. Halamka, MD, MS, Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo ClinicPlatform, and Michael D. Brennan, M.D., President’s Strategic InitiativeProfessorEric Horvitz, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, MicrosoftVardit Ravitsky, PhD, President and CEO, The Hastings Center for Bioethics

The Ethics of AI in Science and Healthcare
2025-10-14 16:45 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Join Hastings Center for Bioethics’ President and CEO Vardit Ravitsky at the Endpoints AI day, AI in Biopharma: Where Promise Meets Pressure.

Panel discussion: The Ethics of AI in Science and Healthcare

Silicon Valley is about moving fast, while the world of medicine starts with first, doing no harm. How does that tension play out with AI’s growing role in everything from lab research to clinical trials to medical care? We’ll talk through the biggest ethical questions for the field, strategies to build responsible AI, and whether the societal challenges will ultimately be bigger than the technological.

Panelists:

Inmaculada de Melo-MartínProfessor of Medical EthicsWeill Cornell Medicine

Elliott GreenCEODandelion Health

Chris FussellCo-founder & President, OperationsLila Sciences

Vardit RavitskyPresident & CEOThe Hastings Center for Bioethics

Andrew Dunn, ModeratorSenior Biopharma CorrespondentEndpoints News

Memory, Medicine, and Law: Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
2025-09-11 08:00 - 2025-09-13 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law in Washington, DC from September 11–13, 2025, for a powerful three-day symposium (co-sponsored by The Hastings Center for Bioethics) that brings together leading voices from law, public health, policy, and community advocacy. Hosted at Georgetown University’s Capitol Campus, this convening will explore the enduring legacy of Hurricane Katrina through the lenses of justice, healing, and collective memory.

2025 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina’s landfall and five years since the devastating outbreak of COVID in the United States. What lessons in public health, law, and society can be learned from critical moments in recent U.S. history? This convening situates Hurricane Katrina serving as a metaphor and moment to understand not only disaster, but also how societies and governments respond to tragedy.

We are honored to welcome an extraordinary group of speakers—scholars, legal practitioners, medical professionals, artists, and activists—who will lead bold conversations about systemic inequities, trauma, resilience, and the power of remembrance.

This program is eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. Attendees seeking credit will have the opportunity to sign in at applicable sessions and complete all required documentation.

Whether you’re working in health, law, social justice, or simply passionate about these intersections, this symposium offers a unique opportunity to engage, learn, and build meaningful connections.

We invite you to be part of this important gathering. Explore the full speaker lineup, discover the themes that will shape each day, and register now to secure your spot.

The symposium will be held September 11–13, 2025 at 125 E Street NW, Georgetown University’s Capitol Campus and adjoining Law Center in Washington, DC.

GSA Arts and Humanities Forum. Humanistic AI and Humanistic Gerontology: Issues for Researchers
2025-07-22 11:00 (America/New_York)
This interactive webinar is for two groups of gerontology researchers: those who study lived experiences and depictions of aging and want to learn more about humanistic AI models, such as chatbots, designed for older adults, and those who are involved in developing, piloting, and evaluating innovations in aging and care that may include humanistic AI models and partnership with data scientists. It is led by bioethics and health humanities scholar, Nancy Berlinger, PhD, Senior Research Scholar, The Hastings Center for Bioethics, whose research collaborations with gerontologists explore ethical challenges of aging societies. This event aims to initiate ongoing forums for GSA members to explore their questions about the overlapping social experiences of AI and population aging.

From Coma to Consciousness: Are We Worried?
2025-06-17 13:00 - 14:50 (America/New_York)
Recent neuroimaging research reveals that many patients formerly thought to be unresponsive in coma and vegetative states are in fact conscious, raising many ethical and clinical questions. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Fins about these fascinating and important challenges.

Join Hastings Center for Bioethics Board Chair Joseph J. Fins for this talk (register below). Dr. Fins is the E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Ethics in Neurology, Professor of Medical Ethics in Rehabilitation Medicine, and Professor of Health Care Policy and Research. He is the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. A member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital, he co-directs the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) at Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in addition to his appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Fins is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and by Royal Appointment an Academico de Honor (Honored Academic) of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España (the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain). In 2022, he was elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Fins graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A. with Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is author of over 500 papers, chapters, essays, and books, his most recent volume is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and The Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Moderated by: Robert Klitzman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics at Columbia University.

In Person Location:

Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsRoom: Amphitheater 1630 W 168 Street, New York, NY 10032(Between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)

This is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in person at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and via Zoom. Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Lunch will be provided for those choosing to attend in person.

For further information, please contact Marie Gugnishev, mg4441@columbia.edu.

Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine Publication Release Webinar
2025-06-12 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
This release webinar will discuss key findings from a new NAM special publication, An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action, drawing attention to the Code of Conduct Framework, translating and applying the Code, and an overview of key priorities.

An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action presents an AI Code of Conduct (AICC) framework developed to align the field and catalyze collective action to ensure that the transformative potential of AI in health, health care, and biomedical science is realized. Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky is on the steering committee that produced the publication and is a panelist.

Using AI for Research, Treatment and Prevention for HIV and Other Conditions: Ethical and Policy Challenges
2025-06-05 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
AI is revolutionizing epidemiological tracking, prevention, treatment, and research of HIV and many other diseases, but also raises profound ethical, legal and policy questions. Join the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University for a panel of experts, including Hastings Center for Bioethics president Vardit Ravitsky, examining these emerging challenges, and how we might best address them.

Panel speakers:

Laura Balzer, PhD, MPhil Associate Professor, BiostatisticsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Charles E. Binkley, MD, Director of AI Ethics and Quality, Hackensack Meridian Health Associate Professor of Surgery, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Juila Marcus, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Population Medicine Harvard Medical School

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, President & CEO The Hastings Center for Bioethics

Moderator: Robert Klitzman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Associate Director, Development CoreHIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies

Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit—Keynote Panel: Cosmopolitan Bioethics
2025-05-21 16:00 - 2025-05-23 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join the Global Observatory for Genome Editing’s International Summit, a 3-day live and virtual event. On Thursday, May 22 at 3:30pm, Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will present with colleagues on a keynote panel.

Keynote Panel: Cosmopolitan Bioethics

Modern biotechnologies are poised to alter what it means to be human. In deliberating on how to govern these technologies, how can we foster a “cosmopolitan ethics”: one that affirms diversity, aspires to mutual understanding, is committed to deep, sustained, inclusive engagement with matters of collective moral concern, and favors a posture of humility? What are the impediments and frictions?

Moderator: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School)

Confirmed Speakers: George Daley (Harvard Medical School), Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study), Vardit Ravitsky (Hastings Center)

AI in Healthcare: Trust and Accountability
2025-05-16 07:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Cedars-Sinai and The Hastings Center are proud to jointly present this timely conference on AI in healthcare. Through discussions with leading experts in the field, the event will address evolving ethical, societal, and legal issues raised by artificial intelligence in medicine and biomedical research.

For more information, see the Agenda page.

This is an in-person only event.

Venue Directions

Cedars- Sinai Medical Center

8700 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048

The conference will be held at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in the Harvey Morse Auditorium, located in the South Tower.

Valet Parking is available curbside at the South Tower.

Self Parking is available in the Pavilion (P4) lot located on Sherbourne Drive.

After checking in with security at the South Tower entrance, take the elevator to the Plaza Level, where you will find the Harvey Morse Auditorium.

Registration is required.

Restoring Trust in Science, Medicine, and Public Health
2025-05-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
A constructive, healing dialogue about building and enhancing public confidence in modern medicine and science. What role can such approaches play in restoring public trust and healing societal discord?This event features introductory remarks by Dr. Avinoam Patt (NYU), a fireside chat with Dr. Vivek Murthy (19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States) and Dr. Marc Siegel (NYU Langone), as well as a keynote presentation by Dr. Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) on “Anti-Science, Antisemitism, and Public Health.”A panel discussion with Dr. Art Caplan (NYU Langone), Dr. Judson Brewer (Brown University), Dr. Vardit Ravitsky (Hastings Center for Bioethics), and Dr. Rachel Yehuda (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), moderated by Dr. Marc Siegel, will conclude the program.

LOCATION: 19 University Place, New York, NY 10003
