Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series

SCBE Seminars (Biomedical Ethics Seminars) are generally Tuesdays, 10am - 11am from September to June in the SCBE conference room, unless otherwise noted. 

Due to COVID-19, all seminars have been moved to a virtual format until further notice.

Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Conference Room
1215 Welch Road, Modular A, Room 62
Stanford, CA 94305-5417
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Invited Speakers Seminars are free-of-charge, and open to the public.  

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Questions? Please email Megan Cvitanovic.  

Invited Speakers Academic Year 2020-2021

Sep September 29 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Keith Wailoo
  • Topic: The Ethical Predicament of Genetic Innovation: Lessons from the History of Race and Disease
  • Recording available here

Oct October 27 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Holly Fernandez Lynch
  • Topic: Protecting & paying participants in SARS-CoV-2 Challenge Studies
  • Recording available here

Nov November 10 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Daniel Mason
  • Topic: "Writing Patients: An ethics, in fiction"

Nov November 17 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Jason Delborne
  • Topic: Public Engagement when Biotechnology "Goes Wild"
  • Recording available here

Dec December 08 Tue 2020

  • Speaker: Jantina De Vries
  • Topic: Equity in International Collaborative Health Research: Reflections from H3Africa & the Human Cell Atlas Consortium
  • Recording available here

Jan January 12 Tue 2021

  • Speakers: E. "Ann" Jeschke
  • Topic: The Politics & Poetics of Justice: Lessons learned from the embodied experience of combat violence
  • Recording available here

Feb February 02 Tue 2021

Feb February 09 Tue 2021

Apr April 13 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Vardit Ravitsky
  • Topic: Global bioethics
  • Registration available soon!

May May 11 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Kimani Paul Emile
  • Topic: Implicit provider biases in medicine
  • Registration available soon!

Jun June 08 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Judy Illes
  • Topic: Emerging topics in neuroethics
  • Registration available soon!

Jun June 15 Tue 2021

  • Speaker: Jason Karlawish
  • Topic: The Problem of Alzheimer's Book Discussion
  • Registration available soon!
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