Dorothy J. MacLean Conference
36TH ANNUAL MACLEAN CENTER CONFERENCE: NOV. 8-9, 2024, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
Each year the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics has hosted a conference devoted to furthering scholarship in the broad field of clinical ethics to benefit patient care. This year, we solicited abstracts addressing the 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 scare resources, and the role of clinical ethics in society. The program highlighted not only empirical studies but also analytical examinations of controversies in how health care is delivered in contemporary society.
Featuring the 2024 MacLean Prize Winner, Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD!
Since 2011, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago has given the MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes to senior scholars from throughout the world who have made transformative contributions to the field of clinical medical ethics and health outcomes through scholarship, practice, leadership, and policy development. This year, we’re thrilled to honor Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, director of the Fellowship in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and professor of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She delivered our keynote presentation on “Tackling the ‘Wicked Problem’ of End-of-Life Care.”