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ASBH Annual Conference 2019

October 24-27th, 2019 -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Six of our students presented at the Annual ASBH Conference this year!

Yoelit Lipinsky: "From Suffering to Gladness: Narrative Bioethics and Resilience in Encountering the Other"

Fahmida Hossain, Alexa Vercelli, and Adele Flaherty: "Meeting at the Crossroads of Stigma and Health Care: Achieving Ethical Palliative Care for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder".

Ercan Avci: "Does Palliative Sedation Produce an Ethical Resolution to Avoid the Demand for Euthanasia in a Muslim Country".

Hillary Villarreal and Elizabeth Balskus: "A Two-Fold Approach to Addressing Ethical Concerns in Designating Surrogate Decision-Makers for Incapacitated Prisoners in Hospitals".

9th Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference

September 19-20th, 2019 -- Kalamazoo, Michigan

Congratulations to Asmat Islam for her presentation entitled: "Moral Dilemmas of CRISPR Babies: Revisiting Arguments for Non-Medical Sex Selection in Global Commercial Surrogacy"

UPMC Mercy's Annual Conference: Mental Health in Our Community

A great conference coordinated by our alumni: Barbara Postol, Sarah Stockey, Carrie Stott, & Aimee Zellers

Pictured (left to right): Andrew Harrington, Hillary Villarreal, Carrie Stott, Barbara Postol, & Alexa Vercelli

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity's 26th Annual Conference: Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life

Congratulations to Adele Flaherty on her presentation titled, "Meeting at the Crossroads of Stigma and Health Care: Achieving Ethical Palliative Care for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder" in collaboration with Fahmida Hossain & Alexa Vercelli

2019 Graduate Research Symposium

Four of our students presented at the 2019 Graduate Research Symposium:

Hillary Villarreal presented an oral and poster presentation titled The Ethical Implications of Using Living Kidney Donation to Address the Kidney Shortage

Adele Flaherty presented oral presentation titled Unintended Consequences: The Treatment of Chronic Pain as a Global Bioethical Issue

Asmat Islam presented an oral presentation titled Moral Obligation of Buying the Best Baby: Revisiting Arguments for Non-Medical Sex Selection in Global Commercial Surrogacy

Reem Shinawi presented a poster presentation titled The Ethical Implications of Big Data in Healthcare