Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

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[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

📣 Application deadline extended to October 1st! Learn more about our Online Fellowship Certificate in Bioethics: https://t.co/mCTOe8tCbv

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

AI scribes may ease the burden of documentation, but what happens when important meaning is lost in translation? In a new Bioethics Blog post, MBE alum Ursula Francis examines the ethical risks of AI-generated clinical notes: https://t.co/Grgsi4bFI1

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

💊 Shared decision but not costs: When should affordability inform prescribing? We will explore the growing challenges of the doctor-patient relationship and consider how best to promote patients' welfare.

🕧 Friday, September 25 at 12:30pm ET on Zoom: https://t.co/xlLQ1UgVx8

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

Get to know @BeccaBrendel in this interview with Massachusetts Medical Society for their recent issue of Vital Signs: https://t.co/TYtEWrgqgJ #HMSBioethics

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

This summer, @BeccaBrendel spent 2 weeks traveling abroad to deepen global partnerships in #bioethics. Her itinerary connected Hong Kong, Malaysia, and (virtually) Johannesburg through #teaching, #capacitybuilding, and #alumni #leadership. #HMSBioethics https://t.co/OgfHA0vZaX

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

Join us for an event with @ianmarcuscorbin about his new book, "To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World." #HMSBioethics
📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🏫 @HMSCountway @harvardmed
🕔 5-6:30 PM ET
🎟️ Register here: https://t.co/uwmMBGAuF1

[Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) @IHME_UW]

We are excited to announce this year’s Roux Prize recipient, Dr. Emmanuella Amoako! She has advanced childhood cancer care in Ghana as a pediatric oncologist, where she has built evidence-backed services that improve early diagnosis & access to treatment: https://t.co/h1atRzRtjs

[Akwi Asombang MD MPH @AkwiAsombangMD]

Honoured to moderate session at the ADVANCING MEDICAL EDUCATION IN AFRICA 2026 CONFERENCE🇪🇹
📌Transforming medical education & healthcare in Africa: Role of the diaspora- 6th region

💡@_AfricanUnion Member States: divided into 5 geographic regions
💡 African Diaspora-6th region

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

This week we're #Celebrating500MBE grads @harvardmed! Congrats to the MBE Class of 2026! 🎓 #HMSBioethics #HarvardMBE26 #HarvardMed26

[Petrie-Flom Center @PetrieFlom]

🔦 STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT🔦 Julia Etkin has written on ethics and equity, including AI chatbots dispensing medical advice, New York’s new Medical Aid in Dying law, regulating psychedelics as food, digital twins, and abortifacient ideology @HMSbioethics https://t.co/DIPHpm7kIV

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

For this month's Bioethics Blog, we feature a piece written by MBE alum and capstone mentor Marta Fadda! #HMSBioethics #AI #healthcare #patients #data https://t.co/ZggEZ0Lxlj

[HarvardGlobalHealthInstitute @HarvardGH]

How do we make fair decisions when resources are limited?

Panel 2 at the #HGHI2026Symposium is now live: “Priority Setting, Solidarity, and Global Justice When Resources Are Scarce”.

🎥 Join us via livestream: https://t.co/dmlhA55voz

[Akwi Asombang MD MPH @AkwiAsombangMD]

Join us @DDWMeeting

Complex Case discussion: explore ETHICAL DILEMMAS in GI clinical care that include upholding the principles of bioethics: respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice.

🗓️ Mon May 4th 2026

⏰ 08:00 - 09:30 am

📍room W185bc
#GITwitter

[NEJM AI @NEJM_AI]

Catch these experts at our next event:

Dr. Rebecca W. Brendel | @HMSbioethics

Jonathan Ketcham | Executive Office of the President

Dr. Isaac Kohane | @NEJM_AI

Nikhil R. Sahni | @McKinsey

Dr. Chethan Sarabu | @cornell_tech

Susan M. Wolf | @UMNews

🔗 https://t.co/k7tv3YR6eM

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

🆕 Applications for our new Pediatric Bioethics Certificate Program are open! Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/h0KtpEJhU0

#HMSBioethics #BostonChildrensHospital #HarvardMed #pediatrics #bioethics #onlinelearning #certificatecourse

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

There's still time to register (https://t.co/wU0fwA4cG8) for today's seminar, "The Ethical Implications of AI in Surgical Training & Practice." #HMSBioethics #AI #surgery #medicalschool

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

📑 We are now accepting applications from Harvard Medical School-affiliated residents, fellows, and other trainees for the 2026 Medicine Behind Barbed Wire program, happening October 4-8, 2026 in Kraków, Poland: https://t.co/8ld07PfcCT #HMSBioethics

[HarvardGlobalHealthInstitute @HarvardGH]

How can AI partnerships drive equitable, locally led innovation?

Join us online March 27th for Deploying AI in Global Health: Partnerships, Power, and Public Value featuring @ChinasaTOkolo & @estherkunda.

Co-organized by the @HMSbioethics

🔗 Register: https://t.co/YnSyFxYlgq

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

@BeccaBrendel and Mildred Solomon co-authored a new piece in @hastingscenter Report. Read here: https://t.co/eBU6dfhf8p

#HMSBioethics #bioethics #ethics #moralleadership #medicine #publichealth #patientautonomy #informedconsent

[Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics @HMSbioethics]

We're seeking 3 leaders to help shape the future of our Master of Science in Bioethics programs! Learn more: https://t.co/J8BgFqpn7r
#HMSBioethics #HarvardMed #bioethics #hiring #leadershipjobs #bioethicsjobs #medicaleducation #highereducation #mastersprograms #careers