The MacLean Center

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…

Our public lecture series resumes this coming Wednesday, 3/25 for UChicago Professor Callum Ross's lecture, "The Ethics of Body Donation: Contractualism and the Human Scientific Specimen." Register for lunch here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

The program for the MacLean Conference is now available to view & download on our website. Register as soon as possible to claim your place at the conference! macleanethics.uchicago.edu/dorothy-j-macl…

Congratulations to Ursula Francis, Heather Whitney, & Baddr Shakhsheer!

See more of the MacLean Center Faculty's research at macleanethics.uchicago.edu/our-research/

Register today for discounted pricing! Scan the QR code or visit macleanethics.uchicago.edu/dorothy-j-macl…

David Magnus, PhD, will deliver a talk remotely to our lecture hall from Stanford University, titled "Brain Death is Really Death. It's Just Not REALLY Death." Register here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

Thanks @EWidera and @AlexSmithMD for this engaging conversation on the challenging topic on unilateral DNR orders. Read more in our @JAMA_current viewpoint where we make the distinction between “assent” and “conflict” UDNR orders and argue that both should be documented in the EHR. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, will visit the MacLean Center from Minnesota for "Brain Death Backlash: Unregenerately Variable and Illegal Standards for Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria." Register here for lunch: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

Congratulations, Professors Zoloth & Dine! Read their chapter here: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

The Journal of Clinical Ethics | Vol 37, No 1 The Spring 2026 issue of JCE is now online. ⁦@MacLeanEthics⁩ journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jce/current

Congratulations to Margaret "Gretchen" Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS, our 2026 MacLean Center Prize winner. Full press release: macleanethics.uchicago.edu/dorothy-j-macl…

Brendan Parent, JD, is visiting from NYU for his lecture, "Respecting and Learning from the Dead: Ethical Research Involving the Physiologically Maintained Deceased." Register here for lunch: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

Congratulations to Dr. Gretchen Schwarze, professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, for receiving the 2026 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes. @MacLeanEthics #ExceptionalPeople #ExtraordinaryResults go.wisc.edu/08r3f3

Congratulations again! Complex Ethics Consultations Volume 2 is now available for 20% off with code CEC20 at Cambridge University Press!

Lainie Ross is revisiting the MacLean Center for her talk "Defining Death: The Case for Choice" on Wednesday, 2/11! Register here for lunch: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/maclea…

Check out this recent pub by former MacLean Fellow Dr. Charlotte Harrington on ethical problems with informed consent: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper from MacLean fellows, alumni, and faculty is available here: americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-…

Next Wednesday, 2/4: "Potential Neural Signatures of Near-Death Consciousness" from University of Michigan's Jimo Borjigin, PhD. Register here: ticketleap.events/tickets/maclea…

Join us for "The Gray Zone: Stories from the Space Between Life and Death" from Cathy Humikowski of Lurie Children's on Wednesday, 1/28 at noon. Register here for lunch: ticketleap.events/tickets/maclea…