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36th Annual MacLean Center Conference: Nov. 8-9, 2024

THE MACLEAN CENTER FOR CLINICAL MEDICAL ETHICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WILL BE HOSTING ITS 36TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 8-9th 2024 AT THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Enhance your ability to navigate complex ethical challenges in healthcare at this preeminent conference, designed for physicians and healthcare professionals committed to improving patient outcomes through ethical decision-making. Engage with thought leaders through expert lectures, dynamic panel discussions, and collaborative sessions. This year's program offers an in-depth exploration of key ethical issues in clinical medicine, including informed consent, healthcare disparities, and the evolving dynamics of the patient-physician relationship.

Equip yourself with actionable strategies to address ethical dilemmas in your practice and elevate the standard of care you provide. Register today!

Announcing 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 will deliver our keynote presentation on “Tackling the ‘Wicked Problem’ of End-of-Life Care.” Her insights are not to be missed!

For more information, please contact Haley Beck at haley.beck@bsd.uchicago.edu 

Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Series

In 1981, under the auspices of the MacLean Center, Mark Siegler and Richard Epstein organized a yearlong interdisciplinary seminar series on Bad Outcomes after Medical Intervention. The success of that initial seminar program demonstrated that there was great interest at the University of Chicago in creating a sustainable interdisciplinary forum to discuss health-related subjects with colleagues from across campus. Since 1981, the MacLean Center has sponsored an annual seminar series that has examined the ethical aspects of one key health related issue each year. Previous topics have included: Organ Transplantation, Pediatric Ethics, End-of-Life Care, Global Health, Health Care Disparities, Medical Professionalism, Confidentiality, Pharmaceutical Innovation and Regulation, and Neuroethics. The topic for 2024 - 2025 is "Advocacy in Healthcare and Medicine."

To register for the 43rd Annual Lecture Series, please visit our TicketLeap page: 43rd Annual MacLean Lecture Series (ticketleap.com)