Dialogues in Research Ethics (DRE)

Since 1992, the Dialogues in Research Ethics (DRE) series has provided an opportunity for UM faculty, staff, students, visitors and members of the community to exchange ideas about ethical issues in a format designed to emphasize discussion and debate.

For a list of past Dialogues, see the Dialogues Archive

2024-2025

• January 31, 2025
  Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents
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  Anthony Solomonides, PhD, MSc, FAMIA, FACMI
  North Shore University Health System

• November 19, 2024
  Pandemics, Privacy, and Public Preferences: How the Law Can Improve Public Health Policy
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  Cason Schmit, JD
  Texas A&M University

• September 27, 2024
  Why journal retractions are on the rise – and why we need still more
  Ivan Oransky, MD
  Retraction Watch

2023-2024

• April 19, 2024
  Disparities in Clinician Decisions to Withhold and Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment
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  Gina Piscitello, MD, MS
  University of Pittsburgh

• March 15, 2024
  Why Medicine in Nazi Germany is Still Relevant: The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust
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  Sabine Hildebrandt, MD, FAAA
  Harvard Medical School

• January 26, 2024
  AI, Prediction and Fairness in Clinical Action
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  William F. Parker, MD, PhD
  University of Chicago

• November 10, 2023
  The Ethics of Horror: Research Issues in Popular Film and Fiction
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  Stephanie Larson, PhD
  Case Western Reserve University 

2022-2023

• March 10, 2023
  The Impact of Misinformation on Health and Science
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  Eric Meslin, PhD
  Council of Canadian Academies
  

• February 3, 2023
  Medicine’s Culture Brokers: Miami and the Challenge of Diversity in Health Care
  Catherine Mas, PhD
  Florida International University
  

• January 27, 2023
  Text Recycling (AKA “Self-Plagiarism”) in Scientific Writing: Thorny Issues and Best Practices
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  Cary Moskovitz, PhD
  Duke University

• December 9, 2022
  From Principles to Practice: Building Trustworthy Health Systems in the Information Age
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  Jodyn Platt, PhD, MPH
  University of Michigan

• September 23, 2022
  Sewer Science: Wastewater Analysis for Public Health
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  Christopher Mason, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Helena Solo-Gabriele,PhD, University of Miami
  

Sponsors

Dialogues in Research Ethics (DRE) began in 1992 in partnership with the UM Department of Cell Biology and the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Here is a cumulative list of sponsors:

• UHealth
• UM Office of the Vice Provost for Research
• Miami Clinical & Translational Science Institute
• Research Service of the Miami VAMC
• UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Jackson Memorial Health System
• Mailman Center for Child Development
• South Florida VA Foundation for Research and Education

For more information, email  ethics@miami.edu or call 305-243-5723.