Bioethics Programs

ANNUAL ETHICS CONFERENCE SET FOR APRIL4

The 16th annual Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions conference is set for April 4 in Miami Beach. The conference constitutes the spring meeting of the Florida Bioethics Network. Program highlights include sessions on Joint Commission requirements, aging and geriatrics and pandemic preparedness. Online registration will be available shortly. Click here for a sponsors prospectus.

EDUCATION

Bioethics Program faculty conduct or help conduct courses, seminars, conferences and symposia at all three University of Miami campuses and throughout Florida. On the medical campus, Program faculty share responsibility for ethics education of medical and science graduate students. On the Coral Gables campus, Program faculty teach in or collaborate with colleagues from the Departments of Philosophy, Business Law, International Studies, Religious Studies and Psychology, and the Schools of Nursing, Journalism and Communications and Law. On the Marine campus, Bioethics Program faculty serve on the advisory board for the National Institutes of Health environmental health and science center, contribute to course development and are responsible for education in the responsible conduct of science.

Bioethics Program faculty conduct training sessions and provide ethics consulting services to hospitals and other health care organizations throughout the region.

RESEARCH

The Bioethics Program's research emphasizes ethics and health computing (including bioinformatics), ethics and public health and epidemiology, and ethics and occupational and environmental health. Additional highlights: Faculty have collaborated with with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on development of a training program in research ethics; the Institute of Medicine on a study of "Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces"; the New York-based Choice in Dying organization on a project to study medical student education; and other organizations.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

The Program collaborates with a variety of community, government, religious and other organizations. Faculty provide expertise to the state's Department of Corrections, Department of Children and Families, and Department of Health, and to a variety of community health organizations. Program faculty have been active in working, under a National Institutes of Health grant, with the Miami-Dade County Department of Health on a project in environmental ethics, as well as with a range of government and community organizations on a variety of projects and educational efforts.

PAN AMERICAN BIOETHICS INITIATIVE

PABI aims to share the Bioethics Programs' missions of education, research and community service with colleagues, institutions and governments around the Caribbean and Latin America. projects have included or are underway in (or with colleagues from) Argentina, the Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Haiti and Jamaica.

FLORIDA BIOETHICS NETWORK

UM’s Bioethics Program is a co-fiduciary (with the University of Florida's Program in Bioethics, Law & Medical Professionalism) of the statewide Florida Bioethics Network, an organization dedicated to the understanding and resolution of ethical and legal problems arising in health care and research. The Bioethics Program's annual Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions conference is a joint undertaking with the FBN.

For more information about the Bioethics Program, contact Ken Goodman.