Healthcare Ethics in 2025 and Beyond: Innovation, Integrity and Integration

September 19, 2025 to September 21, 2025

As healthcare continues to evolve at a rapid pace, ethical practices must keep stride with emerging innovations, shifting cultural expectations, and increasingly complex care environments. This conference is designed for healthcare professionals, ethicists, administrators, and educators seeking to navigate the ethical dimensions of 21st-century healthcare.

This dynamic program will explore how cutting-edge technologies are reshaping ethical landscapes in ways that both reflect and challenge traditional bioethical principles. Participants will critically examine how advancements influence the patient-provider relationship and will learn practical strategies for maintaining professional integrity and ethical communication in the face of growing systemic and interpersonal pressures. Additionally, the essential role of interdisciplinary collaboration will be highlighted. Attendees will engage in sessions that promote the development of integrated ethical frameworks, encouraging the application of shared values and culturally responsive approaches across diverse healthcare settings. Through expert presentations, case-based discussions, and skills-building workshops, participants will gain tools to lead ethically grounded, innovative, and inclusive care in their organizations and communities.
 

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize how innovative technologies in healthcare have introduced new ethical challenges that both mirror and diverge from traditional healthcare ethics.
2. Identify practical methods and communication skills that support integrity in the patient-provider relationship amid modern healthcare challenges.
3. Develop plans for interdisciplinary collaboration that integrates ethical decision-making across healthcare settings, reflecting current cultural and technological dynamics.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 13.50 AAPA Category I CME
  • 13.50 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.
  • 13.50 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 13.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
07/10/2025
Course expires: 
10/20/2025
Event starts: 
09/19/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
09/21/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Oglebay Resort & Conference Center
Wheeling, WV
United States

Disclosure Statement:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 
 

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 13.50 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 is13.50 contact hours.

Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 13.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.  

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

  • 13.50 AAPA Category I CME
  • 13.50 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.
  • 13.50 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 13.50 Attendance
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