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.

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The 36th Annual Dorothy J. MacLean Conference will be held in Chicago on November 8-9, 2024. We solicit abstracts addressing the broad range of clinical ethics topics including the doctor-patient relationship, informed consent, clinical ethics consultation, reducing disparities in health care, managing scarcity of resources, and the role of clinical ethics in society. We are interested in high quality presentations from the US and throughout the world. We seek to highlight not only empirical studies but also analytical examinations of controversies in how health care is delivered in contemporary society. 

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Conference Highlights

Engaging Topics: Explore crucial discussions on Healthy Policy, General Clinical Ethics, Addressing Discrimination Bias, Surgical Ethics, and Clinical Ethics Decision-Making.

Dynamic Sessions: Participate in plenary presentations, panel discussions, and poster presentations, all designed to foster rich dialogue and collaboration.

Intimate Breakout Groups: Take part in informal breakfast discussions covering topics such as empirical ethics research, grant funding in ethics, pediatric ethics, and more. 

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