CEP Events

Upcoming Events:

The CEP provides education in healthcare ethics—clinical and organizational—health policy issues, and policy development through a variety of formats.  Below you will find additional information on both upcoming and past programming provided by the CEP.

 

Bioethics Bootcamp - June 6 and June 13, 2025

Bioethics Bootcamp - A Multi-Day Virtual Conference
8:45 am - 12:15 pm
Friday, June 6, 2025 and Friday June 13, 2026

OVERVIEW: This multi-day boot camp offers a comprehensive introduction to the ethical, patient-centered, and practical challenges encountered in modern healthcare settings. Designed for healthcare professionals, the program provides a substantive foundation in the ethical and social frameworks necessary to recognize, analyze, and address complex ethical issues within clinical practice and institutional environments. Through a combination of lectures and case-based discussions, participants will explore key topics in healthcare ethics, including ethical and legal dimensions of decision-making, advance care planning, Catholic perspectives on end-of-life care, and the structure, roles, and responsibilities of ethics committees.

Past Events

FY 2024-2025

• Workshop, May 19, 2025:  Exploring Ethics Across the Healthcare Continuum
• Workshop, March 14, 2025:  Stories of Loss and Care:  Bridging Compassion and Documentation in Healthcare
• Workshop, December 9, 2024:  Integrated Healing: Exploring the Intersection of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality in Healthcare.
• Workshop, October 11, 2024:  Exploring the Human Side of Healthcare 
• Fall Conference, September 2024:  Exploring Healthcare Ethics and the Humanities in Medicine in Clinical Practice

FY 2023-2024

• Workshop, June 11, 2024: Managing Conflict and Optimizing Communication in the Healthcare Setting
• Spring Conference, April 2024: Bioethics Bootcamp: An Intensive Introduction to Ethics in Health Care
• Workshop, March 11, 2024: Care for the Dying Patient: Exploring Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Perspectives in End-of-Life Decisionmaking
• Workshop, December 2023:  Healthcare Ethics and Policy in the Clinic, Research and Community
• Workshop, November 2023:  Navigating Organizational and Professional Tensions in Healthcare Contexts: Moral Distress, Adverse Events, and Intermediation
• Fall Conference, September 2023:  Organizational Ethics, Institutional Policy, and Health Law

FY 2022-2023

• Workshop, June 2023:  Ethics in End-of-Life Care: Patient Preferences, Palliatiave Care, and the Moral Weight of the Advance Directive and POLST
• Bioethics Boot Camp, April 2023:  An Intensive Introduction to Healthcare Ethics
• Workshop, March 2023: Social Justice and Resource Allocation in Health Care
• Workshop, November 2022: Ethics in Action - Committees, Consultation and Professional Integrity
• Fall Conference, September 2022: Ethical Issues and Professionalism in Clinical Practice - Foundations, Communication & Conflict Resolution

FY 2021-2022

COVID-19 continued to have a significant impact on CEP programming in 2021 and the early Spring of 2022, but May 2022 finally permitted our first in-person event since December 2019.

• Workshop, May 23, 2022: Hospital Ethics Committees and Clinical Ethics Consultation--Structure, Process and Insitutional Roles
• Virtual Workshop, March 11, 2022: Ethical Issues in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, and Treatment of Blood Disorders, Part II
• Virtual Workshop, February 11, 2022: Ethical Issues in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, and Treatment of Blood Disorders, Part I
• Virtual Workshop, January 13, 2022:  Ethical Issues in Oncology
• Virtual Workshop, December 13, 2021: Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing for Primary Care, Breast Cancer and Cancer Prevention

FY 2020-2021

COVID-19 continued to impact CEP programming.  As such all programming moved to on-line/virtual.

• Virtual Workshop, December, 8, 2020 - Negotiating Cognitive Difference and Intellectual Disability--Medical Humanities Contributions to Ethical Healthcare
• Virtual Workshop, November 17, 2020 - Ethical Decision Making with Those Who Have Cognitive Differences--What Role Does Empathy Play?
• Virtual Workshop, October 27, 2020 - Tree of Life Tragedy--Reflections on Jewish Rituals, Ethics, and Traditions of Burying the Dead
• Virtual Workshop, October 6, 2020 - The Intersection of Cultural Humility and Medical Ethics--A Case of Femal Circumcision
• Virtual Workshop, September 15, 2020 - The Impact of Healthcare Ethics and Law on the Incarcerated Individual
• Virtual Workshop, August 25, 2020 - Empathy, Sympathy, Compassion and Ethics

FY 2019-2020

October 2019 the City of Pittsburgh was host to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Annual Conference and in lieu of our normal annual weekend conference, the CEP arranged for it's membership to attend. 

• Spring 2020 brought the COVID-19 pandemic and with it the cancellation all Spring workshops.
• Workshop, December 6, 2019 - Ethical Issues in Caring for the Young and Old: Similarities, Differences, and Challenges
• Fall Conference, October 24-27, 2019 - American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference -- Remembrance and Resilience: How Bioethics and Humanities Can Move Us Forward
• Workshop, September 13, 2019 - Bioethics at the Bedside: Foundations in Clinical Practice, Palliative Care and Decision Making