Department of Bioethics

Faculty of Medicine

Current and Upcoming

 

Bioethics Works in Progress Sessions (WIPS)

Note: Starting in the winter of 2025, our regularly scheduled WIPS has moved to the first Friday of the month.

The sessions start at noon and run for about an hour. They are hosted virtually via MS Teams. Please contact Tamatha if you wish to be added to the mailing list to receive notifications and the Teams links.

  • 24 October 2024  -  Dr. OmiSoore Dryden
  • 5 December 2024  -  Drs. Tiffany O'Donnell and Sara Davidson
  • 7 March 2025 - Kayla Míguez, M.Sc., BCL, JD
  • 4 April 2025 - Hillary Ferguson
  • 2 May 2025 -
  • 6 June 2025 -
  • 4 July 2025 -

 

 

 

Related Event Elsewhere

Mark Your Calendars!

A new season of our Dalhousie Health Justice Institute Seminar Series begins soon!

This year we are happy to announce that the series will be IN PERSON ONLY.

Kicking off the series on September 13th is “Reclaiming Scientific Expertise to Protect Public Health and Health Justice” with Reshma Ramachandran, Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University

Full series details can be found here. (PDF file opens in a new window)

All are Welcome!

 

 

 

Recent Events

 

Dr. Fred Barton Visiting Scholar and Lecture in Medicine - Public Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Melissa McCradden
Title: So your doctor is using Artificial Intelligence, what now? Key Questions for Patients and Caregivers Navigating the New Era of AI-enabled Health Care
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024
Time: 2-4pm
For more information, please see the attached event poster. (PDF file opens in a new window.)
 

 

Dr. Fred Barton Visiting Scholar and Lecture in Ethics in Medicine (CPDME Session)

Registration is now open for the upcoming CPDME session hosted by Department of Bioethics

Dr. Fred Barton Visiting Scholar and Lecture in Ethics in Medicine
Speaker: Melissa McCradden
Title: Clinicians, computers, and ChatGPT? Satisfying ethical and professional standards when using Artificial Intelligence tools for clinical care and healthcare administration
The lecture is followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
Venue: Westin Hotel, Halifax
Date: Friday, November 1, 2024 at 1:00-5:30pm

Please see attached poster for registration details, full program and more information about credits.
Please share this poster with anyone who may be interested in attending this event.

 

 

Bioethics Works in Progress Sessions (WIPS)

Please note that the day has changed to the second Thursday of the month. The time remains noon through to 1pm.

As always, everyone is welcome. Please let Tamatha know, if you'd like to be added to the Bioethics WIPS mailing list.

Sept 14 -- Journal Club
Oct 12 -- cancelled 
Nov 16 -- Journal Club
Jan 11 -- Journal Club
Feb 8 -- Mark Downing     
Feb 15 at 1pm -- student presentation by Abbey MacLellan 
Mar 14 -- Journal Club
Apr 11 -- Lynette Penney
May 9 -- Journal Club
Jun 13 -- cancelled
Jul 11 -- Jeff Kirby

 

 

NSHEN Annual Conference 2024

NSHEN's Annual Conference 2024 is coming up on April 12, 2024, 12:30-4pm AST
This is an online conference via Zoom. Registration is now open!

This years conference is titled:

As Good As It Gets: Ethics and Harm Reduction in Healthcare

The ethical questions that often arise in relation to using harm reduction approaches include: worries about supporting or facilitating harmful behaviors, concerns about not meeting practice standards for the profession, and distress about contributing to sub-optimal outcomes. This conference offers an opportunity to discuss these questions with experts and colleagues from different care contexts.


For more information, please see attached poster (PDF) and/or visit our conference website for more information and the Zoom link to register:

https://www.nshen.ca/index.php/news-and-events/conferences/2024-nshen-annual-conference/

Please feel free to share this information with anyone who may be interested in participating.

 

 

Useful Information

 

Patient Information posted at the Nova Scotia Health Website

We're also posting it here, to make it easier to find. They will open in separate windows.