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New story on our Online Certificate Program & Master's concentration is now up on the BSD news site. Read here: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/uchicago-…

Congratulations to our Faculty and students for a successful inaugural year of our Master's Concentration in Biomedical Ethics program! More information on the program: biomedicalsciences.bsd.uchicago.edu/concentrations/

Congratulations to all our 2025-26 graduating ethics Fellows! And thank you to all our Faculty for another outstanding year.

The Journal of Clinical Ethics | Vol 37, No 2, Summer 2026 is online. The issue features a Special Section: MEDICINE AND SOCIETY AFTER DOBBS @MacLeanEthics journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jce/current

The final lecture in the Dying, Death, and Beyond series is titled, "The End," from series program committee members Brian Callender & Rebecca Propper, this coming Wednesday 5/13. Register here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

A joy today to spend time talking palliative care, serious illness, and communication through comic art at U of Chicago for @MacLeanEthics !! Also an added bonus to get to crash IDT with @UChicagoGeriPal Palliative team!!

Visiting from Johns Hopkins University, Nathan Gray, MD, will deliver our penultimate noon lecture in the series: "Drawing Near: Communication about illness, suffering, and death through Graphic Medicine." Register here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

Announcing two globally accessible online programs designed to provide foundational training in clinical ethics consultation. Completion of both courses confers a certificate from the University of Chicago. Visit: programs.bsd.uchicago.edu/clinicalethics…

This coming Wednesday, 4/29, we will hear from our Full-Time Clinical Ethics Fellow Ursula Francis for her talk, "Broken Cisterns: Idolatry and the Ethics of Digital Afterlife." Register here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

Grateful to facilitate a FASPE panel at the MacLean Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics at U Chicago. The panel explored how professionals in Nazi Germany saw themselves as moral, yet caused great harm, and what that means for empathy, compassion, and care by physicians now.

Thank you to all our speakers and attendees for a successful & invigorating 37th Annual MacLean Conference! And congratulations again to Margaret "Gretchen" Schwarze on receiving the 2026 MacLean Prize. See you next year!

Sarah Lamb, PhD, will visit the MacLean Center from Brandeis University on 4/22 for her talk, "Death Matters: Orienting Toward and Away from Life's Ending in Older Age." Register here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

@GretchenSchwa10 giving a phenomenal @MacLeanEthics prize lecture and presenting striking data- surgeons don’t talk about 4 actual goals of surgery in practice or downsides, instead explaining technical objectives (cut out cancer) and generic risks (bleeding/stroke/infection/death) New paradigm for informed consent needed!

Invigorating 2026 @MacLeanEthics Prize Keynote Address by amazing surg alum @GretchenSchwa10 re "SDM & other Strategically Ambiguous Shape Shifters" @pangelos1 @WF_Parker @micah_prochaska @eric_facs @WiiliamDale_MD

It was great to be at the @MacLeanEthics conference this past weekend, where we learnt about the Schwarze Doctrine from the @GretchenSchwa10 winner of the Maclean Center Award; I shared a talk on #transhumanism and the mission of medicine, and got to be with so many former colleagues @UChicagoMed @UChicago; congrats to the convenors and presenters

Join us next Wednesday, 4/15, for Craig Klugman's talk, "The AI Next Door: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing End of Life Care," as part of our Dying, Death, and Beyond lecture series. Register here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

@MacLeanEthics annual conference kicks off now- looking forward to a great 2 days taking on the biggest challenges in medical ethics

There's still time to register for the 37th Annual MacLean Conference on April 10-11! Scan the QR code or visit macleanethics.uchicago.edu/dorothy-j-macl…

In lieu of the lecture series next Wednesday, 4/8, we are sponsoring the 6th Annual Dr. Bill Meadow Memorial Bioethics Debate: "Viral or Vital: Social Media's Role in Modern Medicine." 12-1:30PM in L168; we hope to see you there!

MacLean community members Josh Daniel & Krys Springer will join us on Wednesday, 4/1 to discuss "Grief-Informed Care and Medical Ethics." Register for lunch here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…