Bioethics Conferences

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.

This conference began in 1994 as a modest workshop and has evolved into what has been described as one of the largest community bioethics conference in the country, regularly attracting as many as 400 attendees. As its name makes clear, the program aims both to provide a forum for the discussion and debate of issues in bioethics and to contribute to ethically optimized solutions for problems and challenges in clinical practice, research and public policy.

The conference is simultaneously the Spring Conference of the statewide Florida Bioethics Network. The program is regularly approved for CMEs/CEUs/CLEs for professionals in guardianship, law, medicine, nursing, pastoral care, psychology, social work and others.

Over the years, the conference has featured many of the leading scholars, administrators and clinicians in bioethics and related fields, including Tom Beauchamp, Baruch Brody, Dan Clouser, Chuck Culver, Kathleen Foley, Bernard Gert, Al Jonsen, Alan Meisel, Steve Miles, Haavi Morreim, Bill Nelson, Hilde Nelson, Jim Nelson, Ed Pellegrino, Donna Shalala, and Michael Slote.

The annual conference depends on the financial support of some of Florida’s leading health care organizations, which underwrite blocks of subscriptions for their health professionals. In addition to special academic partners — Florida Atlantic University, Nova Southeastern University and Miami-Dade College — these institutions include or have included:

•Jackson Memorial Hospital and Jackson Children’s Hospital, Miami-Dade County Public Health Trust

•Baptist Health South Florida (Baptist Hospital of Miami, South Miami Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital)

•South Florida Veterans Affairs Foundation for Research and Education and the Research Service of the Miami VA Medical Center

•Miami Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged at Douglas Gardens

•Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center / UM Hospital and Clinics

•VITAS Healthcare Corp.

•Miami Children’s Hospital

•Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood

•Hospice of Southeast Florida

•Foundation for End of Life Care

•Boca Community Hospital

•Mount Sinai Medical Center

•Mercy Hospital

We also enjoy the privilege of collaborating with the Health Council of South Florida, the Florida Nurses Association and the Elder Law Section of the Florida Bar.

For more information, contact Ken Goodman.