Ethics in Healthcare 2025: A One-Day Conference for Learning, Dialogue, and Inter-Professional Exchange
May 30, 2025 | Iowa City, Iowa
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
SESSION ONE- Speaker: Scott Kim, MD, PhD
Title: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (EAS) Policies Around the World: Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Considerations
Objectives: Objectives:
- Describe the range and variety of EAS policies and practices around the world.
- Distinguish between moral and policy reasons for and against various EAS policies.
- Explain the place of moral considerations in policy-making in the realm of EAS laws.
SESSION TWO- Speaker: Erica Carlisle, MD
Title: Workplace Culture and the Ethics of Interpersonal Interactions
Objectives:
- Identify ethical issues that arise during interpersonal interactions in the workplace.
- Apply different ethical frameworks to analyze interpersonal interactions in the workplace.
- Explore tools and systems designed to facilitate ethical interactions in the workplace.
SESSION THREE- Speaker: Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
Title: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Our Choices and Our Selves
Objectives:
- Analyze the circumstances under which AI-based tools might promote or hinder choice in health care.
- Compare and contrast different “fairness metrics” used to assess bias in AI-based algorithms.
- Argue that AI-based technologies shape who we are and how we think (and therefore are not mere ‘tools’).
SESSION FOUR- Speaker: Lauris Kaldjian, MD, PhD
Title: Should We Sometimes Try to Change a Patient’s Mind? Examining the Ethics of Persuasion in Shared Decision Making in Healthcare
Objectives:
- Discuss the virtue of practical wisdom within the moral dynamic of shared decision making.
- Differentiate between ‘making a recommendation’ and ‘attempting to persuade’.
- Illustrate the need for practical wisdom when persuasion is deliberately attempted.