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Certificates of attendance

Certificate of attendance - COVID Ethics - May 4th panel

Certificate of attendance - COVID Ethics - April 30th panel

Certificate of attendance - COVID Ethics - April 20th panel

Certificate of attendance - COVID Ethics - April 13th panel

Certificate of attendance - COVID Ethics - April 2nd panel

Certificate of attendance - Katie Watson, JD, March 3rd presentation

Certificate of attendance - Sarah DiGregorio, February 3rd presentation

Certificate of attendance - Steven Leuthner, MD, January 28th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Peter Ubel, MD, January 21st presentation

Certificate of attendance - Ben Wilfond, MD, September 10th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Mark Clarfield, MD, September 9th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Marsha Griffin, MD, March 28th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Joseph Millum, PhD, March 4th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Lucia Wocial, PhD, RN, February 26th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, February 12th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Kimberly Zieselman, JD Jan 16th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Janet Malek, MD Jan 8th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Kyle Brothers, MD, PhD Oct 29th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Trisha Prentice, MBBS, BMedSci, MBiotech, FRACP Oct 24th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Leena Nahata, MD Sept 27th presentation

Certificate of attendance - J.S. Blumenthal-Barby, PhD Feb. 22nd presentation

Certificate of attendance - Amy Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS: Is Being Treated at a Children's Hospital a Right or a Privilege?

Certificate of attendance - Kerith Conron, PhD: Ethical Issues in Caring for Transgender Youth

Certificate of attendance - James Mumford, PhD: Reproduction in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Certificate of attendance - Maura Priest, PhD: Transgender Children and the Right to Transition

Certificate of attendance - Abdulaziz Sachedina, PhD Feb. 15th presentation

Certificate of attendance - Carol Taylor Jan. 10th presentation

Archived webinars and audio

Session Five: Morale and Moral Psychology During the COVID Pandemic (May 4, 2020)

Session Four: Ethical Issues for Pediatric Nurses in the COVID Pandemic (April 30, 2020)

Session Three: Ethical Issues for Children in the COVID Pandemic: Racial Disparities and Their Impact on Disease Burden (April 20, 2020)

Session Two: Ethical Issues in the COVID Pandemic at Children's Hospitals - Panel Discussion (April 13, 2020)

Session One: Ethical Issues in the COVID Pandemic at Children's Hospitals - Panel Discussion (April 2, 2020)

Sarah DiGregorio: Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human

Steven Leuthner, MD, MA: Ethical Issues in Fetal Health

Ben Wilfond, MD: Ethical implications of clinical sequencing in children: Disclosing research results or secondary clinical results

Mark Clarfield, MD: Synergies and Conflicts Between the Health Interests of Children and the Elderly

Marsha Griffin, MD and Minnette Son, MD: Ethical Considerations in Caring for the Global Child

Joseph Millum, PhD: Moral Foundations of Parenthood

Lucia Wocial, PhD, RN: Creating Moral Spaces

Janet Malek, MD: Knowledge is Power? Parental Perspectives on Genomic Sequencing for Seriously Ill Children

Kyle Brothers, MD, PhD: Preventing Pediatric Genetic Conditions: The Ethics of Embryo Selection and Germline Genome Editing

Trisha Prentice, MBBS, BMedSci, MBioeth, FRACP: Moral Distress in the Era of Shared Decision-Making

Leena Nahata, MD: Fertility Counseling and Preservation in At-Risk Youth: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Headed?

Amy Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS: Is Being Treated at a Children's Hospital a Right or a Privilege?

J.S. Blumenthal-Barby, PhD: Biases and Heuristics in Clinical Decision Making and Their Impact on Autonomy

Abdulaziz Sachedina, PhD: Ethics of Child Care: Islamic Perspectives

Carol Taylor, RN, PhD: Who's Not Getting a Fair Share of Health Care - Are We Responsible?

Jennifer Linebarger, MD, MPH: Living or Surviving? Thoughts on Professional Resiliency

Dominic Wilkinson, MBBS, BMedSCi, MBioeth, PhD: Hard Lesson: Learning from the Charlie Gard Case

Kelley Benham French and panel: Limits of Periviability

Chris Feudtner, MD, PHD, MPH, Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, and Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE: Shared Decision Making

Harold Pollack, PhD: The Future of Medicaid

Somashekhar Nimbalkar, MBBS, MD: Code Krishna: An Innovative Practice Respecting Death and Dying

Larry Churchill, PhD: What Would You Do if This Were Your Child, Doc?

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD: Mitochondrial Transfer Technologies to Prevent Mitochondrial Diseases: The Science, the Ethics, and the Politics

Kelley Benham French: Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, PhD: Why I Changed My Mind About Euthanasia in the Netherlands

Ann Hamric, PhD, RN, FAAC: Moral Distress in Pediatric Intensive Care

Ray DeVries, PhD: More than Method: The Value of Sociology for Moral Work

Vicki Forman: This Lovely Life: A Discussion of Premature Motherhood

Peri Klass, MD: Saving Tiny Tim -- Pediatrics and Childhood Poverty in the U.S.

Steven Miles, MD: Should Pediatricians Oppose Kids' Participation in High School Football?

Pediatric Bioethics Symposium - 2016

Art Caplan, PhD: Ethical Issues in Mandatory Vaccination Programs

Lainie Ross, MD, PhD: Pediatric Transplantation: Children as Donors and Recipients

Robert Truog, MD: Thoughts on Medical Futility

Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH: A Tender-Hearted Guide to Courage

Deanna Fei: Author of the Memoir "Girl in Glass"

Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH: Is there Ever a Role for the Unilateral DNR Order in Pediatric Care? A Palliative Care Perspective

Benjamin Wilfond, MD: Tracheostomies in Children With Profound Disabilities - Navigating Family and Professional Values

Lydia Dugdale, MD: Ars Moriendi: Reclaiming an Art of Dying for Children

Brian Carter, MD: Communication in Palliative Care: Words Matter

Farr Curlin, MD: Living Well and Dying Faithfully: How Can Palliative Care Help?

Joel Frader, MD: When the clinicians have had enough but the family wants to go on

Doug Diekema, MD: Parental vaccine refusal – What can we do?

Donna McKlindon, MSN, PMHCNS-BC & Kathy DuBois, MSN, RN-BC: #WhyCantWeBeFriends: Social Media and Patients

Jonna Clark, MD: The Culture of Dysthanasia

Jodi Halpern: Do Emotions Derail Rationality?

Megan Moreno, MD, MPH: Sex, Drugs ‘n Facebook: A Parent’s Toolkit for Promoting Healthy Internet Use

Myra Bluebond-Langer, PhD: Changes in Care for Dying Children. Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

Mark Mercurio, MD: The role of a pediatric ethics committee in the newborn intensive care unit

Lisa Rasmussen, MD: Are Ethics Consultations Useful?

Alex Kon, MD: Choices Doctors Would Make if Their Infant had Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Emily Largent, RN, PhD: Which Orphan Diseases Will Find a Home?

Duane Alexander, MD & Lainie Freedman Ross, MD, PhD: Is Expanded Newborn Screening Good for Children?

Annie Janvier, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC & William Meadow, MD, PhD: Are Slow Codes Sometimes Preferable to Unilateral DNR Orders?

Eduard Verhagen, JD, MD & Brian Carter, MD: Is Neonatal Euthanasia Ever Morally Defensible?