News Dr. Jarrel De Matas and Students Ginika Oguagha and Francis Amuzu Co-Author a New Publication January 2, 2025, 08:18 AM by Rachel McClere Dr. Jarrel De Matas and Students Ginika Oguagha and Francis Amuzu Publish "Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia" Dr. Campo-Engelstein discussed her forthcoming edited book collection December 30, 2024, 08:35 AM by Rachel McClere Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein, along with one of her coeditors, Dr. Rene Almeling, discussed their forthcoming edited volume Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics with the Broadly Conceived seminar series based in the UK Grad student Mikaela Kim published an article for AJOB Empirical Bioethics December 13, 2024, 08:58 AM by Rachel McClere This is an article for AJOB Empirical Bioethics titled “Whether to offer interventions at the end of life: What physicians consider and how clinical ethicists can help”. Mikaela co-wrote with Dr. Janet Malek from Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Joelle Robertson-Preidler from The University of Texas Health Science Center. Grad student Mikaela Kim published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics December 12, 2024, 08:56 AM by Rachel McClere This article is an OPC for the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) titled “Exceptional Stigma: Parallels Between Marginalized Groups and Psychedelic Medicine” co-written with fellow UTMB students Hannah Carpenter, Suzy Lee, Grayson Jackson, and Institute director Dr. Campo-Engelstein. Grad student Johnna Wellesley published an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics December 6, 2024, 10:27 AM by Rachel McClere This article raises important ethical questions about what happens when a patient doesn't believe the information a doctor tells them and whether this affects their capacity to make medical decisions. https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2024/11/13/jme-2024-110365 View the blog about the article in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/how-a-court-ruled-that-patients-have-a-right-to-disbelieve-doctors-242090 Grad student Hannah Carpenter received the John McPhee Law Student Essay Prize! December 5, 2024, 14:38 PM by Rachel McClere Hannah recently attended the Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law Conference in Sydney Australia where she received the John McPhee Law Student Essay Prize at the conference. Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein presents to the VA December 4, 2024, 09:37 AM by Rachel McClere She presented “Conscientious Objection and Discrimination Against LGBTQ Individuals” to the Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health Dr. Xiang Yu was a panelist at 36th Annual MacLean Center Conference in Chicago December 3, 2024, 08:12 AM by Rachel McClere "Does the Glove Fit? Finding the Right Ethical Framework to Justify Honoring Parental Requests in the context of Pediatric End-of-Life Care" Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein gives talk to Baylor College of Medicine December 2, 2024, 14:08 PM by Rachel McClere “Queer Eye for the Clinician and PI: Ethically Caring for LGBTQIA+ Individuals” Grad students Suzy Lee and Grayson Jackson presented at ASBH with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cintia Engel November 26, 2024, 12:09 PM by Amber Anthony Putting epistemic justice into practice: The case of knowledge encounters Dr. Stephen Molldrem gave 2 ASBH presentations November 25, 2024, 06:15 AM by Amber Anthony "Remaking Bioethics Together" and "Enacting "bounded justice" through HIV integrated planning in the United States" Clinical Ethics Fellow Callie Terris presented at ASBH November 22, 2024, 06:06 AM by Amber Anthony Off the record: Ensuing privacy protections in free and charitable health clinics Drs. Emma Tumilty and Elise Smith share their collaborative work at ASBH November 21, 2024, 08:06 AM by Amber Anthony Research Ethicists' Work Beyond the IRB to Integrate Justice-Based Considerations Graduate student Tiffany Bystra presented at ASBH November 20, 2024, 07:52 AM by Amber Anthony Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Ethical Concerns Regarding Standardized Cognitive Assessments in Healthcare Dr. Jacob Moses presented at ASBH November 19, 2024, 09:03 AM by Amber Anthony Safeguarding or Gatekeeping? Historical, legal, and clinical perspectives on mandatory ethics involvement in gender-affirming care Graduate student Peyton Swanson had 2 ASBH presentations November 18, 2024, 10:00 AM by Amber Anthony "Genetic Revolutions & Moral Crossroads: Navigating the Moral Landscape of CRISPR's Debut FDA Approval for Sickle Cell Disease and "Empowering Parkinson's Patients: Proactive Consent for Optogenetic Trials" Dr. Jeff Farroni presented at ASBH November 14, 2024, 08:11 AM by Amber Anthony "Bioethics poetry group: A sustainable program of express and self-care" Graduate students Lorenah Vasquez and Vishnu Subrahmanyam presented at ASBH November 13, 2024, 08:23 AM by Amber Anthony The title of their talk was "Reparative Beneficence." Grad student Hannah Carpenter presents at ElsiCon2024 November 5, 2024, 14:32 PM by Amber Anthony Presentation title “Analyzing Gamete Donation Screening Guidelines and Their Impact on Disability” Welcome new faculty Dr. Xiang Yu! October 31, 2024, 08:48 AM by Amber Anthony Dr. Yu earned a PhD in Philosophy from The Ohio State University and was a clinical ethics fellow at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College. Her research focuses on well-being (especially issues relating to desires), decision-making capacity, and psychiatric ethics. 123…20»
Dr. Jarrel De Matas and Students Ginika Oguagha and Francis Amuzu Co-Author a New Publication January 2, 2025, 08:18 AM by Rachel McClere Dr. Jarrel De Matas and Students Ginika Oguagha and Francis Amuzu Publish "Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia"
Dr. Campo-Engelstein discussed her forthcoming edited book collection December 30, 2024, 08:35 AM by Rachel McClere Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein, along with one of her coeditors, Dr. Rene Almeling, discussed their forthcoming edited volume Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics with the Broadly Conceived seminar series based in the UK
Grad student Mikaela Kim published an article for AJOB Empirical Bioethics December 13, 2024, 08:58 AM by Rachel McClere This is an article for AJOB Empirical Bioethics titled “Whether to offer interventions at the end of life: What physicians consider and how clinical ethicists can help”. Mikaela co-wrote with Dr. Janet Malek from Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Joelle Robertson-Preidler from The University of Texas Health Science Center.
Grad student Mikaela Kim published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics December 12, 2024, 08:56 AM by Rachel McClere This article is an OPC for the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) titled “Exceptional Stigma: Parallels Between Marginalized Groups and Psychedelic Medicine” co-written with fellow UTMB students Hannah Carpenter, Suzy Lee, Grayson Jackson, and Institute director Dr. Campo-Engelstein.
Grad student Johnna Wellesley published an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics December 6, 2024, 10:27 AM by Rachel McClere This article raises important ethical questions about what happens when a patient doesn't believe the information a doctor tells them and whether this affects their capacity to make medical decisions. https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2024/11/13/jme-2024-110365 View the blog about the article in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/how-a-court-ruled-that-patients-have-a-right-to-disbelieve-doctors-242090
Grad student Hannah Carpenter received the John McPhee Law Student Essay Prize! December 5, 2024, 14:38 PM by Rachel McClere Hannah recently attended the Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law Conference in Sydney Australia where she received the John McPhee Law Student Essay Prize at the conference.
Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein presents to the VA December 4, 2024, 09:37 AM by Rachel McClere She presented “Conscientious Objection and Discrimination Against LGBTQ Individuals” to the Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health
Dr. Xiang Yu was a panelist at 36th Annual MacLean Center Conference in Chicago December 3, 2024, 08:12 AM by Rachel McClere "Does the Glove Fit? Finding the Right Ethical Framework to Justify Honoring Parental Requests in the context of Pediatric End-of-Life Care"
Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein gives talk to Baylor College of Medicine December 2, 2024, 14:08 PM by Rachel McClere “Queer Eye for the Clinician and PI: Ethically Caring for LGBTQIA+ Individuals”
Grad students Suzy Lee and Grayson Jackson presented at ASBH with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cintia Engel November 26, 2024, 12:09 PM by Amber Anthony Putting epistemic justice into practice: The case of knowledge encounters
Dr. Stephen Molldrem gave 2 ASBH presentations November 25, 2024, 06:15 AM by Amber Anthony "Remaking Bioethics Together" and "Enacting "bounded justice" through HIV integrated planning in the United States"
Clinical Ethics Fellow Callie Terris presented at ASBH November 22, 2024, 06:06 AM by Amber Anthony Off the record: Ensuing privacy protections in free and charitable health clinics
Drs. Emma Tumilty and Elise Smith share their collaborative work at ASBH November 21, 2024, 08:06 AM by Amber Anthony Research Ethicists' Work Beyond the IRB to Integrate Justice-Based Considerations
Graduate student Tiffany Bystra presented at ASBH November 20, 2024, 07:52 AM by Amber Anthony Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Ethical Concerns Regarding Standardized Cognitive Assessments in Healthcare
Dr. Jacob Moses presented at ASBH November 19, 2024, 09:03 AM by Amber Anthony Safeguarding or Gatekeeping? Historical, legal, and clinical perspectives on mandatory ethics involvement in gender-affirming care
Graduate student Peyton Swanson had 2 ASBH presentations November 18, 2024, 10:00 AM by Amber Anthony "Genetic Revolutions & Moral Crossroads: Navigating the Moral Landscape of CRISPR's Debut FDA Approval for Sickle Cell Disease and "Empowering Parkinson's Patients: Proactive Consent for Optogenetic Trials"
Dr. Jeff Farroni presented at ASBH November 14, 2024, 08:11 AM by Amber Anthony "Bioethics poetry group: A sustainable program of express and self-care"
Graduate students Lorenah Vasquez and Vishnu Subrahmanyam presented at ASBH November 13, 2024, 08:23 AM by Amber Anthony The title of their talk was "Reparative Beneficence."
Grad student Hannah Carpenter presents at ElsiCon2024 November 5, 2024, 14:32 PM by Amber Anthony Presentation title “Analyzing Gamete Donation Screening Guidelines and Their Impact on Disability”
Welcome new faculty Dr. Xiang Yu! October 31, 2024, 08:48 AM by Amber Anthony Dr. Yu earned a PhD in Philosophy from The Ohio State University and was a clinical ethics fellow at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College. Her research focuses on well-being (especially issues relating to desires), decision-making capacity, and psychiatric ethics.