Center for Bioethics & Health Law 32nd Annual Healthcare Ethics Conference

April 11, 2025

This conference will address ethical issues in medicine that necessitate difficult discussions—clinician-patient, intrafamilial, or society-wide discussions. In this conference, 'healthcare' will be considered from a broad perspective, encompassing both clinical discussions with patients and families and policy discussions on healthcare topics.

Learning Objectives

Participants should be able to:

  • Respond to patients’/families’ resistance to bad news and their request for inappropriate medical interventions
  •  Participate in both society-wide and clinical discussions (i.e., with patients/families) of medical aid in dying 
  • Return results of dementia risk assessment to patients in a manner in-keeping with the patient’s goals in testing 
  • Discuss the personal financial implications of established and emerging treatments for patients and their families
  • Avoid value-laden language (e.g., "lethal", "futile") that is not consonant with the patients/parents values when discussing options following serious diagnoses
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.25 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
02/27/2025
Course expires: 
05/11/2025
Event starts: 
04/11/2025 - 8:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/11/2025 - 3:30pm EDT
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Passavant Hospital Foundation Conference Center
700 Cumberland Woods Drive
United States

COURSE DIRECTORS

Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics Director
Center for Bioethics & Health Law
University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

Valerie Violi Satkoske, PhD, MSW
VP of Mission Effectiveness, Spiritual Care, & Ethics / UPMC Mercy
VP of Ethics UPMC

UPMC CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE
Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote
Professor of Bioethics Director, Center for Bioethics & Health Law
University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

Valerie Violi Satkoske, PhD, MSW
VP of Mission Effectiveness, Spiritual Care, & Ethics / UPMC Mercy
VP of Ethics UPMC

Jennifer Burgher Seaman, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Acute & Tertiary Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Andrea L Durst, DrPH, MS, CGC
Assistant Professor and Vice Chair for Practice
Associate Director, Genetic Counseling
Program Director, MPH in Public Health Genetics Program Faculty in Human Genetics
University of Pittsburgh

Victoria Grieve, PharmD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy

Tina Batra Hershey, JD, MPH
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Adjunct Professor, School of Law
University of Pittsburgh 

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In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 6.25 contact hours.

Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 6.25 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.  

Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity. 

 

Available Credit

  • 6.25 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.25 Attendance
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