Archived Health Ethics Seminars

 

September 2023 - June 2024
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Sept 21 Intersections of Health Ethics and Health Law Health Data & Harm; an Ethics Based Approach to Digital Health

Ewan Affleck

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Oct 5 Health Ethics Seminar/Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Ethics, Autopsy & the Community

Khaldoon Aljerian

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Oct 19 Health Ethics Seminar Living and Dying Larger than Life Catherine Mardon Feedback Form N/A
Nov 2 Health Ethics Seminar/Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Pandemic Necropolitics: Vulnerability, Resilience, and the Crisis of Marginalization in the Liberal Democratic State Ubaka Ogbogu Feedback Form Video Ogbogu paper
Nov 16 Health Ethics Seminar Irremediability and Responsibility: Why Should Canadian Doctors and Nurses Care About the Upcoming Liberalization of MAID Criteria? Brendan Leier Feedback Form Video
Nov 30 Health Ethics Seminar/Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Transgender Bioethics and CRISPR Gene Editing   Florence Ashley Feedback Form Video
Dec 14 Health Ethics Seminar The Intelligent Patient's Guide for Cooperating with Condescending Physicians: A Partnership Rather than Competition Austin Mardon Feedback Form N/A
Jan 18 Health Ethics Seminar/Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are Fundamental Research Skills Shannon Ruzycki Feedback Form Video
Feb 8 Health Ethics Seminar Moral Distress in Healthcare Victoria Seavilleklein and Katherine Duthie Feedback Form Video Slides Handout
Feb 29 Health Ethics Seminar Health Ethics Education: Is it possible? Gary Frank Feedback Form Video
Mar 14 Health Ethics Seminar Worth Revisiting: Reimaging perennial ethical challenges in nephrology Jamie Robertson Feedback Form Video
Apr 11 Health Ethics Seminar Exploring Ethical Challenges with Providing MAID in Correctional Healthcare Settings Stewart MacLennan Feedback Form Video
Apr 25 Health Ethics Seminar/Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Ableism and the Tyranny of Autonomy Heidi Janz Feedback Form Video
May 9 Health Ethics Seminar Are We Allowed to Cry? Is it Morally OK? Does My Professional Body Allow It? Daniel Garros Feedback Form Video
May 23 Health Ethics Seminar Magical Thinking: How Emotions Impact Decision-Making, Capacity, and Patient Autonomy Sarah Andersen Feedback Form Video
June 6 Health Ethics Seminar/Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Towards Equity in Cancer Genomics Yvonne Bombard Feedback Form Video

September 2022 - June 2023
Date Theme Title/Poster 

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Sept 15 HES Bioethics and Interdisciplinarity at the University of Alberta

Gary Goldsand

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Sept 29 EDI Ethical Frameworks in a Plains Cree Community

Patsy Steinhauer and Noella Steinhauer

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Oct 13 HES MAID and Mental Illness

 Rose Carter

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Oct 27 EDI I’m not sick, I’m Transgender

Marni Panas

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Nov 10 HES Thinking about AI Ethics in Healthcare

 Gillian Lemermeyer

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Dec 8 HES When Does Coercion Invalidate Consent to Treatment?

Eric Mathison

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Jan 19 HES Worthy Versus Unworthy Mentally Ill in the COVID Age

Catherine Mardon and Austin Mardon

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Feb 9 HES The Health Professions and Society: is there a social contract?

Gary Frank

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Mar 9 HES Why is it Difficult to Talk About Death?

 Brendan Leier

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Mar 16 EDI The Meaning of Indigenizing to Health Ethics

Andrea Menard

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Mar 23 HES The Nurse-Patient Relationship at the End-of-Life: What can we learn from patients' experiences?

Begoña Errasti-Ibarrondo

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Apr 6 EDI Race-based Data Collection: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Health Disparities

Jaspreet Khangura

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Apr 13 HES “Someone will commit suicide” Qualitative Exploration of Strategies to Mitigate Moral Distress Among Pediatric Critical Care Nurses Sadie Deschenes Feedback Form Video
Apr 20 EDI Challenges to Providing Evidence-informed, Ethical and Equitable Care in Hospital Settings for People Who Use Substances Kathyrn Dong Feedback Form N/A
Apr 27 HES Dignity as a Guiding Principle and its Application in Disorders of Consciousness  Cheryl Mack and Cameron Cattell Feedback Form N/A
May 18 EDI Medical Ableism, Medical Education, and Medical Assistance in Dying Heidi Janz Feedback Form Video
Jun 15 HES

The Ethics of Harm Reduction:
In Conversation with Angie Staines of the 4B Harm Reduction Society

 Angie Staines

Moderator: Cheryl Mack		 Feedback Form

 

September 2021 - June 2022
Date   Theme Title/Poster                Presenter(s) Feedback Video Slides/Resources
Sept 16  HES Sexuality in Care Facilities

Victoria Seavilleklein

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Sept 23 EDI Scientific Fragility and its Remedies: Emboldening Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society Research and Training

Jessica Kolopenuk

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Oct 7 HES

Binocularity: A Tool for Comprehending Persons in Depth   

 Erik Parens Feedback Form Video N/A
Oct 14 EDI

Be Polite: Why Bystander Interventions Matter   

 

 Samina Ali and  

Debrah Wirtzfeld

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Slides

Resources
Oct 28 HES Using a Disability Ethics Lens to Reflect on What and Who is Considered “Essential” in Healthcare Heidi Janz Feedback Form Video
Nov 4 EDI Reflecting on COVID-19 Effects on Marginalized Groups Michelle Maroto Feedback Form Video
Nov 4 Intersections of Health Ethics and Health Law COVID-19 AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THE MEDIA
What is the Role of the Colleges?		 Roger J.F. Lepage and Lonny J. Rosen

With Hosts:
Tracey Bailey and Michael van Manen		 Feedback Form Video
Nov 18 HES TELEMEDICINE: Benefits and Pitfalls
 Rose Carter Feedback Form Video
Nov 25 EDI How Our Brain Sees Races Kunimasa Suzuki Feedback Form N/A N/A
Dec 2 HES Rethinking Ethical Challenges in Pediatric Healthcare: A Childhood Ethics Framework for Clinical Practice  Franco Carnevale Feedback Form Video
Dec 8 Intersections of Health Ethics and Health Law Triaging and Allocating Health Resources in COVID-19 Gerald Chipeur and Eric Wasylenko

With Hosts:
Tracey Bailey and Michael van Manen		 Feedback Form Video
Dec 9 EDI

The Ties that Bind: Law, Inequality and COVID-19 in the Caring Professions

 Irehobhude Iyioha Feedback Form N/A
Dec 16 HES

Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: A Brief History and Examination of Current Research

 Brendan Leier and Michelle Gagnon Feedback Form Video
Jan 20 EDI  Moving Towards Anti-Racism Practice in Medicine Kassia Johnson and Natasha Johnson Feedback Form Video Antiracist Medicine Video
Jan 21 Intersections of Health Ethics and Health Law The Role of the Chief Medical Officer of Health

Sir Frank Atherton and Patrick Fafard

With Hosts:
Tracey Bailey and Michael van Manen

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Jan 27 HES Being an Ethical Healthcare Practitioner in a Global Community Wendy Austin Feedback Form N/A
Feb 10 HES

The Troubled Dream of Death: Changing Attitudes and Ethics in Death and Dying

 Gary Frank Feedback Form Video
Feb 17 EDI

Advancing Positive Medical Student Academic Learning Environment to Enhance Student Well-Being

 Jackie Gruber Feedback Form Video
Mar 3 HES

 Lottery or First-come, First-served? Allocation of COVID-19 Therapeutics in an Acute Care Context

 Katherine Duthie Feedback Form Video
Mar 24 HES

 Ethics and Pain in Correctional Settings

 Stewart MacLennan Feedback Form Video
Apr 7 HES

 Conscience in Healthcare: Necessary Foundation or Unwelcome Barrier?

 Eric Wasylenko Feedback Form Video
Apr 14 HES

Navigating Slippery Slopes in Realms of Ethical Uncertainty

 Gary Goldsand Feedback Form N/A
Apr 21 EDI

 EVERYDAY ETHICS: Issues Inherent in Relationally Engaging Practice/Research in Indigenous
Communities

 Patsy Steinhauer and Janine Chesworth Feedback Form N/A
May 5 HES

How to Deal with Clients that You Find Personally Objectionable

 Catherine Mardon Feedback Form Video
May 12 HES

 Bodies, Souls, and Ars Moriendi

 Doris Kieser Feedback Form Video
May 26 EDI

 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine: Setting the Stage for Diverse Human Flourishing

 Saleem Razack Feedback Form Video
June 2 HES

 Submit or Resist to Treatment for Schizophrenia. My Voyage from the Ward to Rideau Hall and Beyond

 Austin Mardon Feedback Form Video

 

September 2020 - June 2021

Date Title/Poster Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Sept 10 COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink Ari Joffe N/A N/A Video
Sept 24 Alberta's Bill 30 and the Public-Private Mix of Health Care Delivery Tracey Bailey N/A N/A N/A
Oct 8 Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization in Science Kim Tallbear N/A N/A N/A
Oct 22 Duty to Accommodate: The Ethical Imperative for a Human-Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19 Heidi Janz Slides N/A Video
Nov 5 Telemedicine: Ethical and Practice Issues for Confidentiality of Patient Information Rose Carter Slides N/A Video
Nov 12 Social Determinants of Health and Racism: Health Disparities of Immigrant Children Bukola (Oladunni) Salami and Bonnie Islam Slides N/A Video
Nov 19 Restricted Visiting in Care Settings During CoVID-19 Eric Wasylenko Slides N/A Video
Dec 10 Thoughts and Lessons on Anti-Racist Praxis in Diverse Professions and Organizations Yasmeen Abu-Laban N/A N/A Video
Jan 7 Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Samir Shaheen-Hussain with Teyohá:te Brant N/A N/A Video
Jan 14 Special Issues for the Seriously Mentally Ill During Pandemic Recovery Austin Mardon and Catherine Mardon N/A N/A Video
Jan 28 Self-care for Caregivers Doris Kieser N/A Document Video
Feb 11 Health Ethics and Dialogue: Can We Agree? Gary Frank N/A Handout Video
Feb 18 Listening to Communities – A Grassroots Approach to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Migrant Communities Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika N/A N/A Video
Feb 25 Should Clinicians be Allowed to Refuse Having Their Image or Voice Recorded by Patients or Families? Brendan Leier N/A N/A Video
Mar 11 The Opioid Crisis: What is the Role of Ethics? Charl Els N/A N/A N/A
Mar 25 Never Again? Revisiting Racial Discrimination through a Post-Holocaust Lens Gary Goldsand N/A N/A N/A
Apr 8 Caring in a Time of Contagion: The Silent Danger of Compassion Fatigue Wendy Austin N/A N/A N/A
Apr 15 (in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats & Microaggressions Onyenyechukwu Nnorom N/A Reference List N/A
Apr 22 Recommendations for Navigating Moral Distress: The results of a scoping review  Sadie Deschenes Slides N/A Video
May 6 The Ethics of Safe Supply: Opioids and Harm Reduction Katherine Duthie N/A N/A Video
May 27 Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Systems Wayne Clark N/A N/A Video
June 3 Surviving and Thriving Now That We Are All "Coronials": A 12 step program for medical culture change Peter Brindley N/A N/A Video
June 17 2020 International Recommendations on Brain Death - What is new? Demetrios Kutsogiannis N/A N/A Video
June 24 Trauma-Informed Care in Medical Education and Clinical Practice: 
Creating Space for Courageous Conversations		 Sophia Parks Video
September 2019 - May 2020
Date Title/Poster Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Sept 20 On Reducing Moral Distress in Clinical Practice Gary Goldsand N/A N/A N/A
Nov 22 Primum non nocere: Tea bags, bees and healthcare ethics Derek Sellman & Maya Kalogirou N/A N/A N/A
Dec 13 Ethics and Expressing Objection in Clinical Care JDHEC Panel Discussion N/A N/A N/A
Jan 31 Caring For Patients Who Don't Care For You Andrew D. Ross Slideshow Handout Video
Feb 4 Extreme Follow-up: Knocking on a Patient's Front Door Visiting Speaker: Dr. Matthew Morgan Video
Feb 14 Determining Brain Death: The Epistemic Problems Ari Joffe Slideshow Handout N/A
Feb 28 The Difficulties Faced by the Mentally Ill When Incarcerated. Austin Mardon & Catherine Mardon
Apr 7 POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Why Healthcare Professionals Have a Human Right to Freedom of Conscience Christina Lamb
May 8 POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Stewart MacLennan
april 2019 - september 2018
Date Title/Poster Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Apr 5, 2019 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - The Use of Deception in Dementia Care Jon Gilchrist Slideshow Handout N/A
Apr 2, 2019 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - Every Breath You Take: Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Care Metrics Derek Truscott Slideshow Handout Video
Mar 15, 2019 Ableism: The Undiagnosed Malady Afflicting Health Care and Health Ethics Heidi Janz Slideshow Handout Video
Feb 15, 2019 Locked Up or Locked In: Mental Health and Criminal Justice Austin Mardon, Catherine Mardon, Larry G. Anderson N/A N/A N/A
Jan 18, 2019 Parental Refusal of Life-Saving Intervention: A Framework for Management Patrick J. McDonald N/A N/A Video
Sept 21, 2018 Ethics, Intoxication, and Autonomy on 21st Century Life Gary Goldsand N/A N/A N/A
april 2018 - september 2017
Date Presentations Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Apr 6, 2018 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - MAID, Conscience, and Catholic Thought Doris Kieser N/A N/A Video
Apr 4, 2018 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - Navigating the Zone of Parental Discretion when parents and health care professionals disagree Eleanor Stewart Slideshow Handout Video
Mar 16, 2018 On Being Open-minded: Health care practice and the art of being wrong Derek Sellman Slideshow Handout N/A
Feb 16, 2018 Lost in the Shuffle Dick Sobsey Slideshow Handout Video
Feb 1, 2018 The Ethics of Clinical Research: especially when it goes wrong! Visiting Speaker: Ganesh Suntharalingam N/A N/A N/A
Jan 19, 2018 Physicians as Friends? Exploring Boundary Challenges in Clinician-Patient Relationships Gary Goldsand N/A
Dec 15, 2017 Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: Ethical Challenges Austin Mardon
& Catherine Mardon		 N/A N/A Video
Oct 20, 2017 A Case for Treating Clinical Trial Participation as Labour Andrew Ross Slideshow Handout Video
Sept 15, 2017 On Teaching and Evaluating Ethics Competencies in Clinical Education Gary Goldsand Slideshow Handout N/A
April 2017 - September 2016
Date Presentations Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Apr 7, 2017 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - Are We Due for an Overhaul of Ethics Reviews Performed by REBs? Karine Morin N/A N/A N/A
Apr 4, 2017 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - Patient Identity, Social Disparities and Harm Reduction: Towards an Intersectional Approach to Ethical Health Service Delivery Ireh Iyioha Slideshow Handout
Mar 17, 2017 Legal Interventions to Reduce Opiod-Related Mortality: Access to Naloxone Tracey Bailey Slideshow Handout N/A
Feb 17, 2017 Ethical Care for Transgender Patients Katherine Duthie Slideshow Handout Video
Jan 20, 2017 The Ethics of Legalizing Marijuana Charl Els & Sebastian Straube N/A N/A N/A
Dec 16, 2016 Constraints on Harming and Health Care II: The Doctrine of Double Effect Howard Nye Slideshow Handout Video
Dec 9, 2016 Health, Menstruation, and Sexuality: The Christian Tradition and Contemporary Realities Doris Kieser N/A N/A Video
Oct 21, 2016 Constraints on Harming and Health Care I: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing Howard Nye Slideshow Handout Video
Sept 16, 2016 Missing Links in Mental Health: Lack of effective connection and communication Dennis Anderson N/A N/A Video
May 2016 - September 2015
Date Presentations Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
May 11, 2016 Physician Assisted Death James Downar Slideshow Handout Video
Apr 8, 2016 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - Ethical Tensions in Rehabilitation: Who wants to talk about the elephant in the room? Shanon Phelan N/A N/A N/A
Apr 5, 2016 HEALTH ETHICS WEEK - Ethics and Challenges of Collecting and Using Healthcare Data in Rehabilitation Linda Woodhouse
(in collaboration with Alberta Innovates Health Solutions)		 N/A N/A Video
Mar 11, 2016 Authenticity in the Clinician-Patient Relationship Gary Goldsand
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Jan 15, 2016 Ethical Issues in Inner City Health Kathyrn Dong


Video
Dec 11, 2015 Caring: What is it and why does it matter? Gary Frank
Slideshow		 Handout Video
Nov 20, 2015 Ethics Theoretical, Ethics Personal Derek Truscott Slideshow Handout Video
Sept 18, 2015 The True Cost of Madness: The cost benefit of a mentally ill life from a person with schizophrenia Austin Mardon & Catherine Mardon

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April 2015 - October 2014
Date Presentations Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Apr 24, 2015 Ethical Theory and the Myth of the Average Patient: A Sorry Tale of Inattentional Blindness Derek Sellman Slideshow Handout N/A
Apr 17, 2015 HUMANIZING MEDICINE: Going Off Script David Diamond N/A N/A Video
Mar 20, 2015 The Ethics and Morality of Clinical Decisions in Neonatal Intensive Care Michael van Manen N/A N/A Video
Mar 6, 2015 First Do No Harm: Still relevant after all these years? Eric Wasylenko & Naushin Walji Slideshow Handout Video
Feb 6, 2015 Influenza Immunization Resistance by Healthcare Professionals Diane Kunyk Slideshow N/A N/A
Dec 12, 2014 Ethical Trends in Health Care Complaints Deborah Prowse Slideshow Handout N/A
Nov 21, 2014 Making Decisions for Seriously Ill Children: Growing Up in Hospital Dawn Davies N/A N/A N/A
Oct 31, 2014 Queue-jumping, Fairness, and Advocacy: Ethical Dimensions of Preferential Access Lynette Reid Slideshow Handout Video
April 2014 - September 2013
Date Presentations Presenter(s) Slideshow Handout Video
Apr 30, 2014 How do We Justify Biomedical Animal Research for Human Benefits Ari Joffe N/A N/A N/A
Mar 21, 2014 Repeat presentation - End of Life Decision-Making and Physician-Assisted Death: Recent Developments Tracey Bailey N/A N/A N/A
Mar
7, 2014		 Ethical Practice Through Health Professions Governance: The Role of Accountability Measures Ireh Iyioha Slideshow Handout Video
Feb 14, 2014 Organizational Influences on Health Professionals' Experiences of Moral Distress in PICUs Sarah Wall Slideshow Handout
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Feb 10, 2014 Advance Mis-Directives: Still in Denial About End-of-Life Planning Laura Shanner N/A
Handout		 Video
Jan 31, 2014 End of Life Decision-Making and Physician-Assisted Death: Recent Developments Tracey Bailey N/A N/A N/A
Jan 17, 2014 The Curious Case of AHS Homecare versus People with Disabilities: A (Re)Quest for Ethics Heidi Janz Slideshow Handout Video
Nov 15, 2013 Beyond Personal Directives and Goals of Care: Next Steps in the Ethics of Advance Care Planning Gary Goldsand Slideshow Handout N/A
Oct 18, 2013 Are our Medical and Social Systems Skewed Against the Mentally Ill and Disabled Being Married? Austin Mardon N/A N/A N/A
Sep 27, 2013 The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Cognitive Biases Brendan Leier Slideshow Handout Video
March 2013 - March 2010
Date Presentations Presenter(s) Slideshow
 Handout
 Video
Mar 8, 2013 Vulnerable but Reluctant Recipients of Care: Ought There be Limits to our Efforts? E. Wasylenko Video
Feb 15, 2013 Collusion, Resistance, Bearing Witness: Moral Distress and the PICU Team D. Garros & W. Austin Video
Dec 14, 2012 Toward the Goals of Harm Avoidance and Waste Reduction D. Davies Handout
Oct 19, 2012 Integration of Ethical Systems D. Truscott Handout
Dec 9, 2011 Practical Wisdom E. Stewart Handout
Mar 18, 2011 Moral Residue, Moral Distress L. Shanner Handout
Mar 7, 2011 Advance in Genetic Testing D. Sobsey Handout
Feb 18, 2011 Whose Ethics Are They Anyway? H. Janz Handout
Jan 21, 2011 Alberta Health Act M. Marshall Handout
Jan 22, 2010 Disability Parenting and Rights D. McConnell Slideshow
Oct 15, 2010 Disability Ethics D. Sobsey & H. Janz Slideshow
Oct 15, 2010 They Don't Look Disabled To Me L. Shanner Handout
Mar 5, 2010 Relational Ethics & Hope D. Larsen Handout
Mar 2, 2010 Addressing Moral Distress in Caregiving E. Wasylenko Handout
Domestic Violence & Disabilities D. Sobsey Handout
Health Care Reform: Hope, Hype and Having Enough L. Shanner Handout
Conceptual and Ethical Issues D. Sobsey & B. Leier Handout
Adult Guardianship Trusteeship Act Handout
Guardianship and the Law T. Bailey Handout