Dialogue in Research Ethics: Clinical Trial Outsourcing

May 16, 2013 – Jorge José Ferrer, Th.D., of the University of Puerto Rico, discussed the ethical challenges of globalization in clinical research.

UM Students Celebrate The Medical Humanities

May 01, 2013 – Miller School of Medicine students have created a resource for faculty, students and others to share music, visual arts and writing. (Image: Dr. R.G. Tiberius)

UM, Florida Bioethics Newtork Host 21st-Annual Conference

January 24, 2013 – The joint Florida Bioethics Network / UM Ethics Programs 21st-annual conference featured a variety of speakers and topics.

Ethics, Science Funding, and the Fiscal Cliff

January 10, 2013 –

http://scienceprogress.org/2013/01/ethics-science-funding-and-the-fiscal-cliff/…

Presidential Commission on Bioethics Meets in Miami

January 08, 2013 – The President’s Bioethics Commission held its 12th public meeting, on medical countermeasures in pediatrics, at University of MIami Hospital.

Dialogue in Research Ethics: Communicating About Risk

January 08, 2013 – Disclosure of research risks to potential participants remains a challenge. Prof. Ana Iltis from Wake Forest University led the dialogue.

AMIA Code of Conduct

December 17, 2012 – Ethics Programs faculty have contributed to a major revision of the code of ethics for AMIA (formerly the American Medical Informatics Association).

Health Database Mining

November 14, 2012 – UM’s Bioethics Program Director has contributed to a new article on a Supreme Court ruling on datamining and drug marketing. [Wolfie Fox photo]

Medical, Nursing Students Collaborate on Ethics

November 14, 2012 – In a new intercampus initiative, UM medical and nursing students have begun meeting to discuss hospital cases that raise challenging ethical issues.

Hospital Ethics Committees

November 14, 2012 – Ethics faculty Drs. Reid Cushman and Robin Fiore have published an article challenging the standard view of ethics committees’ role in policy review. [Benton Library Media Center photo]

Arsht Research Grants Awarded to Six Teams

June 18, 2012 – The UM Ethics Programs have awarded six “Arsht Research on Ethics and Community” grants to six faculty-student teams from across the university.

Miller School Students Unveil Medical Humanities Site

April 16, 2012 – Miller School of Medicine students have created a Website to feature art, music and literature by students and faculty. Submissions welcome.

International Programs Home Page

September 28, 2011 –

Body is always a required field.

International Research Unit Issues Major Ethics Report

September 02, 2011 – The Ethics Programs’ Sergio Litewka has contributed to a key Presidential Bioethics Commission report.

Dialogues in Research Ethics

July 25, 2011 – Boris Yudin, Ph.D., of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke on "Human Subjects Ethics in Russia and Guatemala."

Dialogues in Research Ethics July

July 07, 2011 – Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, spoke on "Demographics and Ethics" at Noon on Friday, July 15, 2011, RMSB 3rd-Floor Auditorium.

Anita Allen on Privacy

March 28, 2011 – University of Pennsylvania Professor Anita Allen was the 4th Arsht Distinguished Speaker on Ethics.

Make a donation to UM’s Ethics Programs

March 11, 2011 – The University of Miami Ethics Programs are marking their 20th anniversary – two decades of education, research and community service in bioethics, business ethics, research ethics, government ethics and ethics in the professions. Consider support..

Annual Bioethics Conference

March 04, 2011 – The 19th Annual "Florida Bioethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions" conference, a joint UM-Florida Bioethics Network effort, was held April 1 in Miami.

Dialogues in Research Ethics, February

February 25, 2011 – Miriam Solomon, Ph.D., Temple University, speaks on "Beyond the 'Art and Science' of Medicine," Noon, Friday, February 25, 2011, RMSB 4rd-Floor Auditorium

UM Students Debate Hot Sports Issues

February 06, 2011 – University of Miami students debated some of the hottest ethical issues facing the sporting world during the Arsht Ethics Debates at SportsFest on February 6

Dialogues in Research Ethics, January

January 28, 2011 – Matthew S. Goodwin, Massachusetts Institue of Techonology Media lab, speaks on "The Challange of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Research, Practice & Technology" RMSB 4th floor auditorium, noon-1pm, Friday 28 January.

Personal Health Records

January 27, 2011 – Ethics Programs faculty recently published an article on ethical, legal and social issues associated with personal health records.

Perspectives on Plagiarism

January 25, 2011 –

The Ethics Programs’ Director of International Operations, Sergio G. Litewka, has co-authored a paper on scientific writing and plagiarism.Click…

Pan American             Bioethics Initiative

January 21, 2011 – Created in 1993 to coordinate UM Ethics efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean, “PABI” is also the name of our NIH-Fogarty grant.

World Health Organization Collaborating Center

January 21, 2011 – The UM Ethics Programs have been designated a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy.

Ethics and Medical Humanities Pathway

January 17, 2011 – The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2010 established the Ethics and Medical Humanities (EMH) Pathway to offer medical students educational opportunities in ethics and the humanities.

Public Health Informatics

December 03, 2010 – AMIA has published a new report on public health informatics with content on ethics contributed by Ethics Programs co-director Ken Goodman.

Dialogues in Research Ethics, November

November 05, 2010 – Sergio Litewka, International Programs Director for UM Ethics Programs, speaks on "Tuskegee Revisited -- but Worse? US Wrongdoing in Guatemala" RMSB 3rd floor auditorium, noon-1pm, Friday 5 November.

Dialogues in Research Ethics, October

October 08, 2010 – Don Mayer, Arsht Visiting Ethics Scholar from the University of Denver, speaks on "Getting to 'The Good Society' -- U.S. Research Priorities 2010-2020." RMSB 5th floor auditorium, noon-1pm, Friday 8 October.

UM Ethics Bowl 2010 Competition

September 29, 2010 – As the Miami Hurricanes prepare to take on the Florida State Seminoles on the football field on Saturday, October 9, another UM team will make its first step toward a repeat National Championship.

Arsht Research on Ethics and Community

September 02, 2010 – The Arsht Research on Ethics and Community (AREC) Grants for 2010 have been awarded to eight projects. AREC grants support faculty-student collaborative research on contemporary moral issues.

2010 Annual Florida Bioethics Conference

May 01, 2010 – The annual “Florida Bioethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions” conference took place on April 9, 2010 at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa. Speakers included the deans of UM's and FIU's schools of medicine.

Arsht Ethics Debates at Sportsfest 2010

March 01, 2010 – This year's Arsht Ethics Debate, Sports Fest 2010, was held Saturday, February 13, 2010, at the Mahoney Residential College.

MBA Consultants to Local Nonprofits

February 01, 2010 – Ethics Programs and UM School of Business sponsor a summer internship program that helps UM MBA students help local nonprofit organizations.

Florida Public Health Emergency Ethics Project

January 01, 2010 – The Miami-Dade County Health Department has established an Ethics Advisory Group to work with other emergency planners to ensure that ethical issues are adequately addressed in planning.

Project HealthDesign and Personal Health Records

December 01, 2009 – Project HealthDesign, an initiative to explore aspects of personal health records (PHR), has come to represent the first-ever project in health information technology to include an ethics component at the outset.

The Timeline Project

November 01, 2009 – UM Ethics Programs have initiated "The TimeLine Project" to develop and feature timelines on a variety of ethics topics.

Arsht Distinguished Speaker Ezekiel Emanuel

October 01, 2009 – The Series continues on October 30 with a presentation by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of the NIH Department of Bioethics and now detailed to the Office of Management and Budget.

Summer Ethics Internships

September 01, 2009 – For a decade, the University of Miami Ethics Programs has offered a variety of summer internships in ethics and the professions.

Ethics and Guardianship

August 01, 2009 – Florida's Statewide Public Guardianship Office has issued an important new report on guardianship trends: How to minimize the coming Guardianship wave in Florida.

Tools for International Researchers

June 01, 2009 – The Ethics Programs' Health Research Ethics in the Americas project offers links to regional and local information, regulations and references about issues and controversies regarding research ethics in the Americas.