Hastings Center Reception
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesThe Hastings Center will host a reception for first-time attendees, new members, and students at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse. Grand BR Foyer
The Injustice and Moral Wrongs of Affective and Psychotic Disorders as Exclusion Criteria for Organ Transplant Candidates – Flash Session
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings Center Project Manager-Research Assistant Sana Baban will present The Injustice and Moral Wrongs of Affective and Psychotic Disorders as Exclusion Criteria for Organ Transplant Candidates – Flash Session, at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, Baltimore, MD
Mapping Cultural Narratives across Disciplines: Aging, Disability, Dementia
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings Center Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will present Mapping Cultural Narratives across Disciplines: Aging, Disability, Dementia with Liz Bowen, Laura Haupt, and Erin Gentry Lamb at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, Baltimore, MD.
Can AI Promote Our Health & Well-Being?
Medicine has been at the forefront of recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), from image recognition to generative AI. Watch leaders in AI, ethics, and health as they discuss the hype, the hope, and what it might take for AI to improve patient outcomes. This event explored challenges to the effective use of AI in...
Plenary 3: Integrating AI and ML into Research and Clinical Care: Scientific and Ethical Challenges
Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will chair a session on AI in Regenerative Medicine at the Till & McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada
Rebuilding Trust in Science
Since before the pandemic we have been experiencing a breakdown in trust in science and health care. Explore the reasons for this crisis, with authors of a just-released Hastings Center special report on trust, who show a path forward to heal our fractured society. Transcript Trust Event With panelists Arthur Caplan, PhD, NYU Grossman School of...
What Is a ‘Serious Genetic Condition’?
Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Hastings Center, will deliver the keynote address, "What Is a 'Serious Genetic Condition'?," at the eighth annual reproductive ethics conference at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. The controversies and challenges of reproductive ethics arise from new technologies, political...
Constructing an Ethics Framework for AI in Biomedical Research
Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will discuss "Constructing an Ethics Framework for AI in Biomedical Research,” or ethics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and health care, at the 2024 Rothenberg Speaker Series. The virtual event is sponsored by The Law & Health Care Program at the University of Maryland.
Hastings Center Fellows Council Regional Colloquium Series
Keynote Featuring Professor Arthur L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine "Weighty Matters: The Ethics of Using Injectables To Fight Obesity And Overweight." Keynote (12pm)Workshop (1.15pm – 3.55 pm)Reception Celebrating Vardit Ravitsky (4pm) New York University Grossman School of Medicine, NYC...
Reflections on the Idea of Social and Behavioral Genetics
Basic research is ongoing into the genomics of complex human behaviors and social outcomes, from eating and sexual behaviors to “subjective sense of well-being” and “educational attainment.” Although the people doing this research may work hard to articulate their benevolent intentions as well as seeking to conduct rigorous, reproducible, ethical research, they do so against...