The Hastings Center for Bioethics

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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. Microsoft TeamsJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 283 856 955 454 44Passcode: Qa6rq62o

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...

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...