Health Ethics Workshops

Introducing Health Ethics

patient in hospital bed
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022
Time: 9 a.m. - noon p.m.
Where: Virtual Platform via Zoom
Cost: Free

Speakers + Facilitators

Wendy Austin, Tracey Bailey, Heidi Janz, Doris Kieser, Gillian Lemermeyer, Brendan Leier, Michael van Manen

An interactive case-based interdisciplinary half-day virtual workshop exploring selected topics in health ethics encountered in clinical practice:

  • Respecting autonomy and surrogate decision-making
  • Responding to medical errors: Obligations to colleagues and patients
  • Disability, ableism, and quality of life
  • Withdrawing parenteral nutrition: Is it active killing?
  • Agreement and disagreement: Moral distress in clinical teams
  • Ethics at the end of life

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Introducing Health Ethics

Patient in hospital bed
Date: Saturday, April 10, 2021
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Virtual Platform via Zoom
Cost: $100 + 5% GST (regular); $50 + 5% GST (student)

Speakers + Facilitators

Wendy Austin, Tracey Bailey, Heidi Janz, Doris Kieser, Brendan Leier, Michael van Manen

An interdisciplinary 1-day virtual workshop exploring selected topics in health ethics encountered in clinical practice.

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From Code of Ethics to Developing Ethical Code: a practical approach to applied AI ethics in health care

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Date: Saturday, March 20, 2021
Time: 9:30 a.m. - noon p.m.
Where: Virtual Platform via Zoom
Cost: Free

Speakers + Facilitators

Katrina Ingram, Fahim Hassan, Michael van Manen

An interdisciplinary virtual workshop exploring intersections of health ethics and artificial intelligence.

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