Encounters in Bioethics Program
The Encounters in Bioethics Program is an essential part of the Centre for Health Care Ethics’ mission to foster high-quality, ethical health care through research, education, and capacity building.
Eight times a year, Encounters in Bioethics presents discussions and dialogues on ethical issues in health care. The sessions are freely available and are accessible via the Zoom video conferencing platform. Each one-hour-long session usually consists of a guest speaker, who is a recognized scholar/researcher, a local/regional practitioner, and/or a person with lived experience or a caregiver. The speaker presents a particular topic that highlights current moral issues in bioethics. After the presentation, there is normally an opportunity to discuss the issues with questions and comments from audience members via the Zoom chat feature.
Previous Encounters in Bioethics discussions have focused on issues such as end-of-life decisions, ethics of research with human subjects, Indigenous health ethics, cross-cultural values, religious and cultural interpretations, allocation of scarce resources, and professional codes of ethics.
Everyone is welcome and no registration is required. Please join us!
Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.
Encounters in Bioethics 2024-2025
Supporting Older Adults with an Emancipatory Approach to Care
Thursday, November 28, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- Describe an emancipatory approach to care.
- Explore what this approach may offer to patients and families.
- Explore what this approach may offer to the ethics of practice for health care providers and teams.
Presenters
Idevania Costa RN, NSWOC PhD Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Associate Director, Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health (CERAH); Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio PhD, RN Director & Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Director, Centre for Health Care Ethics (CHCE); Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca
Also... Save the Date:
- February 27, 2025
- March 27, 2025
- April 24, 2025
- May 22, 2025
Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.
Encounters in Bioethics 2024-2025
International Ethics of Patient Safety
Thursday, October 24, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- To discuss patient safety in the context of low and middle-income countries.
- To explore various challenges which may compromise patient safety.
- To highlight possible ethical challenges and responses.
Presenter: Gladys Msiska, PhD, RNM, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, (formerly University of Malawi - Kamuzu College of Nursing), Lilongwe, Malawi
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca
Also... Save the Date:
- Thursday, November 28, 2024, 12-1 pm (ET) on Zoom
Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.
Encounters in Bioethics 2024-2025
Bioethics 101: Trust and Ethics in Healthcare Delivery
September 26, 2024
12 - 1 pm
- How principles of bioethics (e.g. respect for autonomy, beneficence) shape trust.
- The role of trust (worthiness) in the ethical delivery of healthcare.
- Understanding “trustworthiness” as a virtue in medicine. Reflections on trustworthiness as a “collective action” duty. Strategies for being trustworthy/gaining patient trust.
Presenter: Ryan Tonkens, PhD, Bioethicist, Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics; Associate Professor, NOSMU; Adjunct, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca
Also... Save the Dates for these Thursday sessions, 12-1 pm (ET) on Zoom:
- October 24, 2024
- November 28, 2024
January 23, 2025
February 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
April 24, 2025
May 22, 2025
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