Bioethics Grand Rounds are held quarterly beginning January 2021, designed for outreach consistent with the Land-Grant Mission of WSU. Each hour-long session features two nationally prominent speakers on visible bioethics topics at the forefront of national discussion, and are made available to physicians, nurses, hospital ethics committees, and other healthcare providers throughout the state of Washington (and nationally) via zoom webinar technology. Recorded session available to all registrants, as well as the general public, via YouTube. For 2021, Grand Rounds sessions have averaged 250+ registrants, and more than 200 YouTube views.
In addition to an outreach function, these sessions provide exposure to ethical issues of visible currency to clinical practice for medical students and residents within the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, as well as providing educational opportunities for ESFCOM faculty and staff, and faculty, staff and students throughout all campuses and colleges of WSU.
Upcoming Guests and Lectures
For the 2024-2025 Academic Year, the Bioethics Lab will mark the launch of the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s new Pediatric Residency Program with quarterly Grand Rounds that focus on Pediatric issues in Bioethics. Below are the scheduled speakers:
November 13, 2024
Noon–1 p.m.
Consent and Surrogate Decision-making in Pediatrics
Kyle Brothers, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer for Norton Children’s Research Institute
January 29, 2025
Infant Periviability
Noelle Younge, MD, MHS
Duke University
Noelle Younge is a Neonatologist who first-authored the definitive work on Periviable Infants (published in the New England Journal of Medicine).
Jana Craig, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Jana Craig is Director of the Regional Ethics Program for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, overseeing clinical ethics implementation for more than 20 hospitals in the region.
May 14, 2025
What role should Whole Genome Sequencing play in New Born Screening?
Gail Knight, MD
Rady Children’s Hospital
Gail Knight is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. A Neonatologist specializing in genomics, she is the first African-American Chief of Staff at Rady.
Aaron Goldenberg, PhD, MPH
Case Western Reserve University
Aaron Goldenberg is a Bioethicist; Director of the National Newborn Screening Clearinghouse; and Member, Ethics and Legal Work Group of the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network
Past Grand Rounds Guests and Lectures
September 11, 2024
The Ethics of Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Refusals
Laine Ross MD, PhD
Dean’s Professor and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, and the Director of the Paul M Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
May 15, 2024
Nonbeneficial Treatment
Thaddeus Pope, JD
Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
January 31, 2024
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications in the Use of Whole Genome Sequencing to Diagnose Medical Problems Experienced by Newborns in the Neonatal ICU
Candice Finnila, PhD
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
February 8, 2023
Precedent, Reliance Interests, and the Dobbs Decision
Nina Varsava, JD, PHD
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin, Madison
May 31, 2023
Disability, Inclusion & Access in Clinical Medicine & Biomedical Research
Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-C
Associate Staff Bioethicist, Cleveland Clinic;
Clinical Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner
College of Medicine
Maya Sabatello, PhD, LLB
Associate Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) and (in Medical Humanities and Ethics), Columbia University
September 20, 2023
Gun Violence in America: The Disease of Modern US Society
Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin
November 15, 2023
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for Mental Health: Reconciling Indigenous and Western Ontologies
Amy McGuire, JD, PHD
Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
May 18, 2022
The Role of Clinical Ethics in Addressing Moral Distress and Professional Burnout
Michah Hester, PhD
Chair, Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Professor of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics
UAMS
Mark P. Aulisio, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
MetroHealth System
September 7, 2022
Do-it-Yourself Medicine: Direct-To-Consumer Genetics, Nutritional Supplements, and the Role of FDA Oversight
Cinnamon Bloss, PhD
Interim Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs
University of California, San Diego
Ryan Spellecy, PhD
Ursula Von der Ruhr Chair in Bioethics
Assistant Provost of Research Oversight
Medical College of Wisconsin
November 9, 2022
Ethics, Informatics, and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Practice
Yoav Schlesinger
Director, Office of Ethical and Humane Use
Principal, Ethical AI Practice
Salesforce Corporation
Elizabeth Worthey
Director of the Center for Computational Genomics and Data Science
University of Alabama, Birmingham
January 27, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Safety and Allocation
Dan Salmon, PhD
Former Associate Director
U.S. National Vaccine Program Office
Director, John Hopkins University
Institute for Vaccine Safety
Saad Omer, MPH, PhD
NASEM Commitee on Allocation of Vaccine for
Novel Coronavirus; WHO Vaccine Safety
Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine
April 28, 2021
Professional Obligations During Pandemic
Matt Wynia, MD
Former Director, Institute for Ethics
American Medical Association
Director, University of Colorado
Center for Boiethics and Humanities
Heidi Malm, PhD
Department of Philosophy
Loyola University Chicago
September 29, 2021
Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine
Darrell Ezell, PhD
Director for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Stephen Sodeke, PhD, MA
Professor of Bioethics, Tuskegee University, Center for Biomedical Research
November 10, 2021
Translating Genomic Research to Clinical Practice
Richard Myers, PhD
President and Science Director
M.A. Loya Chair in Genetics
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Bruce Korf, MD, PhD
Editor, American Journal of Human Genetics
Wayne and Sara Crews Endowed Professor
University of Alabama Birmingham