The 23rd Annual Notre Dame Medical Ethics Conference will take place on campus from March 14-16.
The conference, a collaborative initiative between the Alumni Association and ND’s Center for Ethics and Culture, is a continuing medical education program taught by representatives from Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. It focuses on Catholic tradition in medical ethics, providing ample resources for articulating the new direction in which medical ethics should go.
The aim of the conference is to carry this message into the heart of medical ethics while engaging other traditions and views. Although it focuses on what the broad Catholic tradition offers to contemporary medical ethics, it welcomes all opinions to the conference, and includes specialists in medical ethics from other religious traditions and viewpoints.
The format of the conference involves small-group discussion of case studies, which have been contributed by physicians in the field. These small sessions provide physicians with an opportunity to weigh in on issues in medical ethics with colleagues in the health care profession, as well as with theologians and philosophers.
Discussions of cases are complemented by sessions in which all the participants come together for more general discussions. The only formal lecture is the annual Clarke Lecture, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14.
This year, the Clarke Lecturer will be Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D., a Franciscan friar, the Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent’s Manhattan, and professor of medicine and director at the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College.
Dr. Sulmasy is the author of The Healer’s Calling, Methods in Medical Ethics, The Rebirth of the Clinic, and most recently, A Balm for Gilead: Medications on Spirituality and the Healing Arts. He will deliver his lecture on spirituality and health care.
For more details, or to register for the Medical Ethics Conference, click here. 
