Hagop Mekhjian Grand Rounds speakers
2000 Edmund Pellegrino “Human Dignity and Bioethics”
2010 Ellen Wright Clayton “Genetic Testing: Ethical Dilemmas”
2011- Mark Siegler “Should Elective Surgical Patients be invited to Serve as Living Kidnery Donors?”
2012 Robert Troug “Talking with Patients and Families About Medical Errors”
2013 Jeffrey Bishop “Popular (NEURO)Science and other Political Schemes”
2014 John Lantos “Family Requests for Futile Treatment”
2015 Lauris Kaldjian “Concepts of Health and Goals of Care in Shared Clinical Decision Making”
2016 Farr Curlin “What Does Religion Have to Do With Medicine?”
2017 David Casarett “Is medical marijuana really ‘medical’?”
2018 Abraham Nussbaum “An Attempt to Speak to a Broad Medical Crowd While Addressing a Current Issue (Physician Resiliency) and Using an Approach Appropriate for the Setting (Medical Humanities)”
2019 Joseph Fins “Disorders of Consciousness, Past, Present and Future: Clinical, Neuroethical and Legal Implications of Medial Progress”
2020 Darrell Gray “Bringing the ‘Moral Determinants of Health’ to the Bench, Bedside and Community”
2021 Paul A. Offit “Vaccine Safety Regulations Are Built on Four Historic”
2022 Ellen Fox "Ethics Consultation in U.S. Hospitals: State of the Art"
Chauncey D. Leake Lecture
2015 H. Tristram Engelhardt “Professional Moral Conscience in an Age after Morality”
2016 Rabbi Samuel E. Karff "The Re-emergence of the Healer in an Age of High-Tech Medicine"
2017 Kevin Sabet “Is Marijuana the next Big Tobacco?”
2018 Lydia Dugdale “Pros and Cons of Physician-Assisted Suicide (Aid in Dying)”
2019 Timothy Murphy “The Ethics of Body Modification for Gender Expression”
2020 Dónal O’Mathuna “Allocating Resources Ethically during COVID-19 - From Ventilators to Vaccines”
2021 R. Sean Morrison "Following the Science: The Lessons of Advance Care Planning”
Chauncey D. Leake Student Lecture
2015 Mark Wells “Orthopedists and Traditional Bonesetters: Managing Interprofessional Tensions in International Medicine”
2016 no award winner
2017 Ethan Schimmoeller “Cannabis and the Cult of the Body”
2018 Molly Larson “Implications of Personhood Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Use of an Integrated and Evolving Model”
2019 Phillip Wozniak “Of Artificial Wombs and Actual Births: A Defense of the Biobag”
2020 no student winner this year due to COVID-19
H. Tristram Engelhardt Award Lecture
2015 Ruiping Fan “Conscientious Objection to VSED: What can China Learn from American Bioethics?”
Dr. Fan was the first recipient of this award. Dr. H. Tristram Engelhardt was present and received an honorary award as well.
2016 Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes “‘Foundations’ of Bioethics? How they float on a moral choice
2017 John F. Peppin “The Death of Pain Medicine: The Case of Marijuana”
2018 Mark Cherry “Should Adolescents be Permitted to Consent to Medical Research on Their Own Behalf?”
2019 Ana Iltis “Health Inequities as a Research Ethics Problem”
2021 Jeffrey Bishop “Living in the Wounds of Secularity Christian Musings on Healing Medicine’s Secular/Religious Divide”
Robert M. Taylor Lecture
BJ Miller "Following the Science: The Lessons of Advance Care Planning”
Ira Byock “Making Whole Person Caring the New Normal Palliative Care’s Role in Authentic Healthcare Transformation”