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Pediatric Bioethics Conference

2024 Pediatric Bioethics Conference

Nursing Ethics: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges

Nursing conference speakers

Thank you for joining Seattle Children's Center for Pediatric Nursing Research 2024 nursing ethics conference: Nursing Ethics: Today's Realities and Tomorrow's Challenges.  This year, nurses, physicians, advanced care providers, social workers and ethicists discussed ethical complexities at the heart of the nursing experience. Experts shared insights into new ways of conceptualizing moral distress and analyzed how current controversies in society can impact the care nurses provide.

Many nurses from Seattle Children's, as well as neighboring institutions, were in attendance. Thanks to the support of the conference planning committee and partner donors, nurses, physicians and healthcare providers gathered to explore novel ways to common ethical challenges, aiming at innovating approaches to improve overall physical, social and emotional wellbeing of patients and caretakers.

Videos of presentations are posted below.

Thusday, July 18, 2024

Welcome and Introduction and Land Acknowledgment
Vittorio Gallo, PhD; Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Office, Seattle Children’s Research Institute 
Leah Kroon, MA, MN, RN, CPHON; Seattle Children’s

Introduction to the Conference and Donor Acknowledgement 
Debra Ridling, PhD, MS, RN, NEA-BC; Seattle Children’s

Is There a New Way to Think About Moral Distress?
Leah Kroon, MA, MN, RN, CPHON; Seattle Children’s

Different Perspectives of Moral Distress and Interventions to Address It 
Lucia Wocial, PhD, FAAN, RN, HEC-C; John J. Lynch Center for Ethics, Medstar Washington Hospital Center 
Georgina Morley, PhD, MSc, RN, HEC-C; Center for Bioethics and Stanley S. Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence, Cleveland Clinic

Nursing Through the Noise:  Navigating Nursing Ethics in a Time of “Controversy” 
Ian Wolfe, PhD, MA, RN, HEC-C; Children’s Minnesota, University of Minnesota Medical School

The Code of Ethics for Nurses: Looking Forward 
Kara Curry, MA, RN, HEC-C; American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights

Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics

Conference speakers

Thank you for joining us for the 19th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference! Hosted by the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care, the 2024 conference explored the theme of Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics.

The conference featured nationally recognized speakers and drew more than 200 participants from across the nation to discuss many controversial and ethical implications of AI in healthcare.

Through a wide range of interdisciplinary experts, conference attendees gathered to discuss topic related questions such as:

  • Can AI care?
  • Will health care professionals be replaced by AI?
  • What are the impacts of the emergence of AI on child development?
  • How can we use AI tools to promote equity in child and family health?

Videos of presentations are posted below.

Friday, July 19, 2024

The Emergence of AI in Medicine
Peter Lee, PhD, Corporate VP, Microsoft Research and Incubations

Opportunities for AI and Big Data to Improve Child and Family Well-Being
Mjaye Leslie Mazwi, MD, MBChB, Seattle Children’s/University of Washington

Child Development in the Age of AI
Tiffany Munzer, MD, University of Michigan

Understanding AI and Pediatrics Through Lens of Literature and Culture
Martha Montello, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Does AI Bring Us Closer to Our Patients or Make Us Strangers
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, University of Rochester

Medical AI: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Considerations
Glenn Cohen, JD, Harvard Law School

The Role of Bias in AI Models
Tanu Mitra, PhD, The Information School, University of Washington

Exploring the Relationship Between AI and Health Equity for Children and Their Families
Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc, Women's & Children's Hospital; Australian Institute for Machine Learning; University of Adelaide; SickKids Research Institute

Implications of Open Science and Mandated Data Sharing for Pediatrics Research
Kate MacDuffie, PhD, MA, Seattle Children’s/University of Washington

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Welcome and Introduction
Douglas Diekema, MD

Can AI Care?
Georgina Campelia, PhD, HEC-C, University of Washington

AI and the End of Nursing?
Ian Wolfe, PhD, MA, RN, HEC-C, Children’s Minnesota, University of Minnesota Medical School

Chat GPT in the Clinic, Journal and Classroom
Denise Dudzinski, PhD, Seattle Children’s/University of Washington
Sam Finlayson, MD, PhD; Seattle Children’s/University of Washington
Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, Nationwide Children’s Hospital the Ohio State University College of Medicine

Ethical Issues in Making AI Work for Clinicians and Patients
Ellen Clayton, MD, JD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and School of Law

Concluding Comments and Adjourn

Center for Pediatric Nursing Research

The Center for Pediatric Nursing Research advances clinical practice–focused research among Seattle Children’s nurses at all career levels. The center also promotes research collaboration as part of multidisciplinary teams, with universities and in other pediatric healthcare settings. Learn more about the center.

Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care

The Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care was the first in the nation to focus on bioethics issues and palliative care scholarship in pediatrics. Learn more about the center’s interdisciplinary research.