The MacLean Center

The oldest & largest center for clinical medical #ethics in the United States. Directed by Dr. Peter Angelos at the @UChicago. 639 ethics fellows and counting!

[The MacLean Center @MacLeanEthics]

We are hosting two virtual information sessions on our new Online Ethics Certificate Program: 7/9 and 8/13 at 12-1PM CST. Scan the QR codes to register; or visit https://t.co/VLH8yvLMN4

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New story on our Online Certificate Program & Master's concentration is now up on the BSD news site. Read here: https://t.co/eDM97ypXiq

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Congratulations to our Faculty and students for a successful inaugural year of our Master's Concentration in Biomedical Ethics program! More information on the program: https://t.co/OpRzHYG8Lm

[The MacLean Center @MacLeanEthics]

Congratulations to all our 2025-26 graduating ethics Fellows! And thank you to all our Faculty for another outstanding year.

[Norman Quist @NormanQuist]

The Journal of Clinical Ethics | Vol 37, No 2, Summer 2026 is online.

The issue features a Special Section:

MEDICINE AND SOCIETY AFTER DOBBS

@MacLeanEthics https://t.co/qGpMLMXCUb

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The final lecture in the Dying, Death, and Beyond series is titled, "The End," from series program committee members Brian Callender & Rebecca Propper, this coming Wednesday 5/13. Register here: https://t.co/IWs43GGdHO

[Nathan Gray MD, FACP @NathanAGray]

A joy today to spend time talking palliative care, serious illness, and communication through comic art at U of Chicago for @MacLeanEthics !! Also an added bonus to get to crash IDT with @UChicagoGeriPal Palliative team!!

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Visiting from Johns Hopkins University, Nathan Gray, MD, will deliver our penultimate noon lecture in the series: "Drawing Near: Communication about illness, suffering, and death through Graphic Medicine." Register here: https://t.co/IWs43GGdHO

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Announcing two globally accessible online programs designed to provide foundational training in clinical ethics consultation. Completion of both courses confers a certificate from the University of Chicago. Visit: https://t.co/TqjHdbxSz9

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This coming Wednesday, 4/29, we will hear from our Full-Time Clinical Ethics Fellow Ursula Francis for her talk, "Broken Cisterns: Idolatry and the Ethics of Digital Afterlife." Register here: https://t.co/IWs43GGdHO

[FASPE @FASPEnews]

Grateful to facilitate a FASPE panel at the MacLean Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics at U Chicago. The panel explored how professionals in Nazi Germany saw themselves as moral, yet caused great harm, and what that means for empathy, compassion, and care by physicians now.

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Thank you to all our speakers and attendees for a successful & invigorating 37th Annual MacLean Conference! And congratulations again to Margaret "Gretchen" Schwarze on receiving the 2026 MacLean Prize. See you next year!

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Sarah Lamb, PhD, will visit the MacLean Center from Brandeis University on 4/22 for her talk, "Death Matters: Orienting Toward and Away from Life's Ending in Older Age." Register here: https://t.co/IWs43GGdHO

[William F Parker, MD, PhD @WF_Parker]

@GretchenSchwa10 giving a phenomenal @MacLeanEthics prize lecture and presenting striking data- surgeons don’t talk about 4 actual goals of surgery in practice or downsides, instead explaining technical objectives (cut out cancer) and generic risks (bleeding/stroke/infection/death)

New paradigm for informed consent needed!

[Fay Hlubocky PhD MA FASCO @FayUCCancerCr]

Invigorating 2026 @MacLeanEthics Prize Keynote Address by amazing surg alum @GretchenSchwa10 re "SDM & other Strategically Ambiguous Shape Shifters" @pangelos1 @WF_Parker @micah_prochaska @eric_facs @WiiliamDale_MD

[Aasim I. Padela @aasim_padela]

It was great to be at the @MacLeanEthics conference this past weekend, where we learnt about the Schwarze Doctrine from the @GretchenSchwa10 winner of the Maclean Center Award; I shared a talk on #transhumanism and the mission of medicine, and got to be with so many former colleagues @UChicagoMed @UChicago; congrats to the convenors and presenters

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Join us next Wednesday, 4/15, for Craig Klugman's talk, "The AI Next Door: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing End of Life Care," as part of our Dying, Death, and Beyond lecture series. Register here: https://t.co/IWs43GGdHO

[William F Parker, MD, PhD @WF_Parker]

@MacLeanEthics annual conference kicks off now- looking forward to a great 2 days taking on the biggest challenges in medical ethics

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There's still time to register for the 37th Annual MacLean Conference on April 10-11! Scan the QR code or visit https://t.co/Liyd2jV0T2

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In lieu of the lecture series next Wednesday, 4/8, we are sponsoring the 6th Annual Dr. Bill Meadow Memorial Bioethics Debate: "Viral or Vital: Social Media's Role in Modern Medicine." 12-1:30PM in L168; we hope to see you there!