Talks

Upcoming Talks

July 2026
“Surrogate Decision-Makers as Quasi-Patients: Resolving the Capacity Question”
World Congress of Bioethics 2026
Johannesburg, South Africa

Selected Past Talks*
*for all past talks, please see my CV

June 2025
“Involuntary Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: Medically Obligatory, or an Exercise in Futility?”
19th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC) – Plurality, Power, and Patient Care: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Clinical Ethics
Lausanne, Switzerland

May 2025
“Informed Consent”
Medical Education Conference
Emanate Health Intercommunity Hospital
Covina, CA (via Zoom)

January 2025
‘“Invincible Indecision”: Problematizing the Relationship Between Choice and Decisional Capacity”
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting
New York, NY

November 2024
“Going It Alone: Unilateral Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Interventions”
(with Subhasis Chatterjee, Mary Moubark, and
Savitri Fedson)
Bioethics Grand Rounds
Baylor College of Medicine

October 2024
“Capacity and Decision-Making”
Annual General Medical Staff Meeting
Northwest Texas Healthcare System
Amarillo, TX

June 2024
“We Are What We Repeatedly Do: An Aristotelian Perspective on Clinical Ethics Consultation”
17th World Congress of Bioethics
Doha, Qatar

January 2024
“Gene Drives, Non-Human Genome Modification, and the Question of Consent”
Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine’s Grand Rounds
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

September 2023
“Cryoablation: Ethical Issues Affecting Patient Treatment with Turf Conflicts Between Radiology and Surgery”
(with Luz A. Venta)
Cryoablation for Breast Cancer Program
Houston Methodist Hospital

May 2023
“How Should Clinicians Address Parental False Beliefs Generated by Denial or Grief?”
Pediatric Speech Rounds
UCLA Speech Clinic

March 2023
“Clinical Ethics Consultation in the US: Putting Theory into Practice”
Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY) Working Seminar
Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College
Krakow, Poland

June 2022
“The Abusive Patient”
Translational Endocrinology Conference
Division of Endocrinology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Virtual presentation, due to COVID-19

June 2020
“Epistemic Injustice and Informed Consent in Psychiatry”
International Association of Bioethics World Congress of Bioethics (WCB)
Virtual presentation, due to COVID-19

October 2019
“Problem Statement – Access/Equity/Affordability”
Gene Therapies – Bioethics Challenges and Solutions Closed Workshop
New York Academy of Sciences

April 2018
“Editing the Genome–How CRISPR/CAS9 is Changing the Game”
Philosophy in the Library: The Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn, NY

August 2017
“The Moralizing Effect: Self-Directed Emotions and Responsibility Attributions”
(with Elisabetta Sirgiovanni, Ben Abelson, and Taylor Webb)
25th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP)
Hertfordshire, UK

August 2017
“Gene Drives and Genome Modification in Non-Human Animals: A Concern for Informed Consent?”
**For a video recording of this talk, please click here.
Genome Editing: Biomedical and Ethical Perspectives International Conference
The Center for the Study of Bioethics, The Division of Medical Ethics in NYU
School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health, The Hastings Center
Belgrade, Serbia

April 2017
“CRISPR/Cas9 – Novel Ethical Issues in Germline Modification”
Molecular Coevolution: Lessons from Pathogen-Immune System Interactions Workshop
Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences
Princeton University

November 2015
“Panel V: Editing the Human Germline – The Promise and the Peril”
Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Annual Conference
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and Boston
University School of Medicine

First photo credit: Cristian Timmermann
Third photo credit: Ian Olasov