The Institute of Ethics presents a monthly Ethics Grand Rounds on topics related to ethics and humanities in healthcare.
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9/10/24, Coffee Brown MD, AI in Healthcare and Clinical Ethics
10/8/24, Martin Gonzales MD, Exploration of the Ethics Surrounding the use of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
11/12/24, Ann Murphy PhD, Caregiving, Hallucination, and Dementia
12/10/24, Akshay Sood MD, TBA
1/14/25, Mariam Rawwas MA, Gender, Sex, and the Anatomical: Theorizing Transness Outside the Clinic
2/11/25, Bridget Fahy MD, TBA
3/11/25, Erica Holland MD, Towards a new standard of care: Medical, legal, and ethical considerations of urine drug testing in pregnancy
4/8/25, Mitch Irvin RN, TBA
David Scrase MD MHSA (Former Secretary of Human Services and (interim) Secretary of Health, State of New Mexico; Professor, Internal Medicine, UNM). “What I learned from COVID and how New Mexico’s response addressed equity issues in the midst of crisis.” September 12, 2023. Click Here
Stephanie Larson, PhD, HEC-C (Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University). “The Bioethics of Horror: Exploring the role of popular film and fiction in Bioethics education.” October 10, 2023. Click Here
Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH (President, Phoenix Zones Initiative; Professor, Internal Medicine, UNM). “Starting from principles: Human and animal research ethics.” November 11, 2023. Click Here
Peter Cubra, JD (Human Rights Attorney; Co-Founder, Coalition for a Safer Albuquerque). “The ethical quandaries faced when providing healthcare to our homeless, our poor and our huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” December 12, 2023. Click Here
David Sklar MD (Professor and Senior Advisor to the Provost, Arizona State University; former Editor, Academic Medicine) and Frederick Hafferty PhD (Senior Fellow, Center for Professionalism and the Future of Medicine, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; Professor Emeritus, Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota). “Climate Ethics: A health education problem.” January 9, 2024 Click Here
Christine Jacoby DNP, RN (Nurse Scientist, University of New Mexico Hospital). “Criminal prosecution of healthcare workers: The ethical implications.” February 13, 2024. Click Here
Charles McClelland PhD (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UNM). “German medical schools, professionals and ethics: The road to the Nuremberg Trials.” March 12, 2024. Click Here
Eve Espey MD (Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UNM) and Adriann Barboa (Commissioner, Bernalillo County; New Mexico Policy Director, Forward Together). “The ethical imperative of abortion care.” April 9, 2024. Click Here
Ann Murphy PhD (Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, UNM). “Caregiving, Parkinsonism, and dementia.” May 14, 2024
Alexis Padilla MA MTS PhD (Sociology) PhD (Education) (Visiting Professor, University of Missouri at St. Louis). “Interrogating dialogical possibilities between Bioethics and Critical Disability Studies: An intersectional agency perspective.” June 11, 2024
Jonathan Bolton MD (Director of Institute of Ethics, Professor, Department of Psychiatry). “Introduction to the series, and a kick-off discussion of Miracles and Medicine”. October 11, 2022
Paul Roth MD (HSC Chancellor Emeritus, SOM Dean Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Emergency Medicine) “A perspective on leadership”. November 8, 2022.
Kent Kiehl PhD (Professor, Department of Psychology and Mind Institute): “Moral decision-making in forensic populations: behavior, brain Imaging, and ethical implications”. December 13, 2022.
Elizabeth Lawrence MD (SOM Chief Wellness Officer, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine). "Self-care and wellness as an ethical imperative". January 10, 2023
Laura Roberts MD MA (Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical School; Editor-in-Chief, Academic Medicine). “A conversation with the founder of the Institute of Ethics” February 14, 2023
Rob Schwartz JD (UNM Regent, Professor Emeritus UNM Law School). "Why do the political fringes -- both left and right -- reject science and medicine?" March 14, 2023. POSTPONED.
Brant Hager MD (Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior). “Interbeing in medical professionalism”. April 11, 2023,
Shannon Withycombe PhD (Associate Professor, Department of History). “The racial politics of prenatal health care in early-Twentieth-Century America”. May 9, 2023.Medical Aid in Dying
Rob Schwartz JD and Jonathan Bolton MD. “Introduction to the End of Life Options Act and the legal right to end one’s life”. September 15, 2021.
Margaret Battin PhD (University of Utah). “The concept of rational suicide.” September 22, 2021.
Mark Wicclair PhD (University of Pittsburgh). “What is Conscientious Objection?” September 28, 2021.
Brent Kious MD PhD (University of Utah) “The Extension of PAS Beyond the Criteria in the State Statute” October 6, 2021.
The Institute of Ethics invites members of the UNM Health System to join a nine-month educational program. The course introduces the participants to the basic knowledge related to clinical ethics. It is taught by faculty members with a wide range of experience in healthcare and ethics.
Topics that are covered in the class include normative ethics, worldview, rights, bioethical principles, decision-making, substituted judgment and guardianship, futility, end of life care, pediatric issues, reproductive issues, illness experience and disability, suicide, genetic ethics, neuroethics, and everyday ethics.
Fellows who participate in the seminars and complete a capstone project receive a certificate in clinical ethics.
If you are interested in learning more about the Clinical Ethics Certificate Program click here.
The David and Judith Bennahum Medical Humanities Fellowship is an initiative sponsored by a generous gift from Doctors David and Judith Bennahum, and Dr. Ernest and Mrs. Eve R. Simon. Their gift provides opportunities for medical students, residents, and junior faculty to expand their interests in the arts and humanities and to broaden their perspective about the human condition.
The fellowship provides full or partial funding for a project that explores the intersection between medicine and the humanities. This might include attendance at a humanities conference, developing a workshop, or a creative project. One to several individuals will be selected each year dependent on available funding.
Past Awardees
If you are interested in applying for a Bennahum Fellowship or would like more information, contact us here.
The members of the Institute of Ethics give lectures and organized discussions on ethics-related topics to learners, practitioners, and staff of the UNM Health Sciences Center and the wider community. If you would like to learn more please click here.
Resources
Values History Form (English, Spanish) [link]
New Mexico Uniform Healthcare Decisions Act [link]
