This conference began in 1993 as a modest workshop and has evolved into what has been described as one of the largest community bioethics conferences in the country, regularly attracting as many as 400 attendees. As its name makes clear, the program aims both to provide a forum for the discussion and debate of issues in bioethics and to contribute to ethical solutions for problems and challenges in clinical practice, research and public policy.
Three giants of contemporary bioethics- Bernard Gert, Tom Beauchamp, and Al Jonsen- discuss similarities and differences among their approaches at the 1994 (2nd Annual) conference. It was apparently the only time all three were on such panel.
The conference is simultaneously the Spring Conference of the statewide Florida Bioethics Network. The program is regularly approved for CMEs/CEUs/CLEs for professionals in medicine, nursing, law, pastoral care, social work, and others.
SPEAKERS
Over the years, the conference has featured many of the leading scholars, administrators and clinicians in bioethics and related fields, including Tom Beauchamp, Baruch Brody, Dan Clouser, Chuck Culver, Kathleen Foley, Bernard Gert, Al Jonsen, Alan Meisel, Steve Miles, Haavi Morreim, Bill Nelson, Hilde Nelson, Jim Nelson, Ed Pellegrino, Donna Shalala, and Michael Slote.
SUPPORTERS
The annual conference depends on the financial support of some of Florida’s leading health care organizations, which underwrite blocks of subscriptions for their health professionals. In addition to special academic partners —Florida International University Hebert Wertheim College of Medicine, Ross University School of Medicine, Miami-Dade College and Nova Southeastern University — these institutions have included:
UHealth-University of Miami Health System: University of Miami Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine
Jackson Memorial Health System and Jackson Children’s Hospital, Miami-Dade County Public Health Trust
Baptist Health South Florida (Baptist Hospital of Miami, South Miami Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital, Doctors Hospital)
Miami VA Healthcare System
Arsht Ethics Initiatives
Florida Blue Foundation
Memorial Healthcare System
Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
Florida Department of Health
HCA Florida JFK Medical Center
VITAS Healthcare
Miami Children’s Health System/Jack Nicklaus Hospital
Ross University School of Medicine
St. Joseph’s Hospitals-BayCare Health System
Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association
Broward Health Medical Center
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami Dade College, Medical Campus
TrustBridge Health
Hospice of Palm Beach County and Broward County
Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Tidewell Hospice
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
BayCare Health System
Miami Area Geriatric Education Center (MAGEC)
Health Council of South Florida Inc.
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Miami Jewish Health
Baptist Health Care Pensacola
Jupiter Medical Center
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Health Services Administration
PROGRAM ARCHIVE
Click on any year below to view that year’s conference program.
