Ethics Grand Rounds
The purpose of the Ethics Grand Rounds series is to:
- Promote awareness and recognition of moral and ethical values and conflict in bedside practice, public health, and in health policy
- Provide a high-level forum for lecture and discussion for both emerging issues in bioethics and perennial ethics issues in biomedical science and medical practice; and
- Provide a bioethics educational focus for the UT Southwestern academic and medical community.
Topics reflect the multidisciplinary approach of the Ethics Program as it encompasses religion, philosophy, health policy, ethics, and justice. Guest speakers often focus upon the real-world application of these important issues, particularly for the health care provider or biological researcher.
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to (1) recognize perennial and emerging bioethical problems in clinical practice, research, public health, and health policy arenas; (2) describe competing/contrasting viewpoints concerning these bioethical problems; and (3) demonstrate increased skills in analyzing and practically handling bioethical problems in the clinical, research, public health, and health policy arenas.
Schedule
UT Southwestern Ethics Grand Rounds lectures are held from noon to 1 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month during the academic year (September through May). The Ethics Program also sponsors the Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics.
Ethics Grand Rounds Schedule 2025-2026
Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual only)
Exploring the False Dichotomy of Secular and Religious Approaches to Bioethics
Michael P. McCarthy, Ph.D., HEC-C, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Healthcare Mission Leadership in the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
Ensuring Integrity of Research and Peer Review: Lessons Learned by Being an Editor
Mario Malički, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director of Stanford Program on Research Rigor and Reproducibility (SPORR) at Stanford University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Research Integrity and Peer Review
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
The Ethics of Access: Obstetric Emergency Care and Reproductive Counseling after Dobbs
Katie L. Watson, J.D., Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences, and Obstetrics and Gynecology; and Faculty for the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
The Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics
“The Historical Relationship of Medicine and Public Health: Friends? Enemies? Frenemies?”
Allan M. Brandt, Ph.D., The Amalie Moses Kass Professor or the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
Community-Engaged Research: Building Trustworthiness through Shared Ownership
Ryan B. Spellecy, Ph.D., Ursula von der Ruhr Professor of Bioethics and Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Institute for Health and Equity at Medical College of Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
(Virtual and In-person, North Campus, Simmons Biomedical Research Building, NB2.100A)
Not Just Drugs: Clinical Ethics and the Health-System Pharmacist
Linda B. Uchal, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCCCP, Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
Pediatric Gender Medicine: Evidence and Ethics
Moti Gorin, Ph.D., MBE, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jann Benson Ethics Center at Colorado State University
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
Continuous Sedation at the End of Life: When Is It Ethical?
Joseph A. Raho, Ph.D., Clinical Ethicist at the UCLA Health Ethics Center and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (Virtual Only)
Good Days, Bad Days, and Reflections on Reducing Workplace Violence in Healthcare
John “Jack” Rozel, M.D., MSL, Professor of Psychiatry and Law at the University of Pittsburgh and Medical Director of the resolve Crisis Network at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Western Psychiatric Hospital
These lectures are sponsored by the UT Southwestern Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine and the Office of Continuing Medical Education and supported, in part, by The Daniel W. Foster, M.D. Endowment Fund for Visiting Lecturers in Medical Ethics.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center designates each individual lecture of this live series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM (including medical ethics and/or professional responsibility).
All lectures will be presented virtually. There is no registration fee, but participants who wish to attend virtually must register. Upon registration, the Zoom details to join the webinar will be emailed.
Many of the Ethics Grand Rounds lectures are recorded, and those recordings are available to view later in the UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center’s digital collection.
Ethics Grand Rounds Recordings
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