Dorothy J. MacLean Clinical Ethics Conference
Each year, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics hosts a conference devoted to furthering scholarship in the broad field of clinical ethics. We solicit abstracts addressing a wide range of clinical ethics topics including: the doctor-patient relationship, informed consent, clinical ethics consultation, reducing disparities in health care, surgical ethics, pediatric ethics, managing scarce resources, and the role of clinical ethics in society.
The conference highlights not only empirical studies, but also analytical examinations of controversies in how health care is delivered in contemporary society. We invite all practitioners and students interested in clinical ethics regardless of their affiliation to attend the Dorothy J. MacLean Clinical Ethics Center Conference.
The MacLean Center Prize
The MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes celebrates individuals who have made transformative contributions to the field of clinical medical ethics through scholarship, practice, leadership, and policy development.
The MacLean Center Prize celebrates a practical approach that helps patients, families, and health professionals reach good clinical decisions. Clinical Medical Ethics achieves this by taking into account both the medical facts of the situation as well as the patient’s personal preferences and values.
Current Winner
MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes Announcement 2024
Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Director of the Fellowship in Bioethics at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine
It is a pleasure to announce that the 2024 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes will be awarded to Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Director of the Fellowship in Bioethics at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine.
The MacLean Prize celebrates individuals who have made transformative contributions to the field of clinical medical ethics through scholarship, practice, leadership, and policy development. Dr. Solomon certainly exemplifies these characteristics.
Dr. Solomon is a bioethicist and social science researcher who conducts both normative and empirical ethics research. She was, until 2023, the President of the Hastings Center, the oldest independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute to focus on ethical issues in health, science, and technology. Dr. Solomon’s scholarship has addressed the ethics of end-of-life care for both adults and children, organ transplantation, research ethics, particularly related to oversight of comparative effectiveness and implementation science, as well as professionalism and responsible conduct of research.
Dr. Solomon is a member of the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health and Human Rights Programs. She has served on the US Health and Human Services secretary’s Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation and on committees of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Dr. Solomon received the MacLean Center Prize in person at the 36th Annual MacLean Center Conference on November 8 and 9, 2024 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago where she also presented a keynote address.
2025 MacLean Prize – Nominations!
Nomination Deadline: TBD
The MacLean Prize will be presented to the winner at the 37th Annual Dorothy J. MacLean Conference on Clinical Ethics in Chicago on TBD
Past Recipients of the MacLean Center Prize
- 2023 – Christine Grady, MSN, PhD
- 2022 – Wendy Levinson, MD
- 2021 – Bernard Lo, MD
- 2020 – Mark Siegler, MD
- 2019 – Steven Miles, MD
- 2018 – William Foege, MD, MPH
- 2017 – Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
- 2016 – Norman Fost, MD, MPH
- 2015 – Laura Roberts, MD, MA
- 2014 – Susan Tolle, MD
- 2012 – Peter Singer, MD, MPH
- 2011 – John Wennberg, MD, MPH