Conference Materials
The following conference materials are available for download until August 31, 2025.
Handouts
Some speaker handouts have been shared and are available for download in advance (see below). Presentation handouts will only be provided electronically.
A limited printed syllabus with program agenda, meeting information and notes paper will be provided at the meeting.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
The Power of Words: The Science, Theory and Practice of Communicating With Patients and Families
Communicating With Patients and Families During Serious Illness
Jennifer Mack, MD, MPH
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Shared Decision-Making?
Doug Opel, MD, MPH
Do Words Matter? Humanizing Stigmatized Groups Through the Words We Use
Maya Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS
Interdependent Decision-Making: What It Means for Pediatrics
Emily A. Largent, JD, PhD, RN
Breakout Sessions
- Workshop 1: Leveraging Language to Mitigate Against Bias
Gitanjli (Tanya) Arora, MD
Amy Trowbridge, MD - Workshop 2: Pearls and Pitfalls in the Study of Communication in the Healthcare Encounter
Doug Opel, MD, MPH
Jeffrey D. Robinson, PhD - Workshop 3: The Weight of Words: Recognizing the Linguistic Tools We Use to Assert Power
Jennifer Kett, MD
LTC Jeanne Krick, MD, MA
Aaron Wightman, MD, MA
Friday, July 18, 2025
Attending to Stories: Pediatrics, Bioethics and Narrative
Poetry Broadsides: Patient Narratives Through Creativity
Sierra Nelson
Narrative Ethics: Diverse Meanings and Practices
Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, MS, HEC-C
Narrative Ethics: The Moral Work of Stories
Martha Montello, PhD
Story Matters: The Importance of Narrative in Clinical Care and Ethics
Micah Hester, PhD
Bearing Witness: Narratives for Promoting Change in Medicine – No handout
Rachel Pearson, MD, PhD
Making Space for Stories: Articulating the Common Threads That Connect Us
Maren E. Olson, MD, MPH, MEd
Cases That Haunt Us: Narrative in Clinical Ethics Consultation
Denise Dudzinski, PhD
Attending to the Silenced Voices
Arika Moore Patneaude, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C
Rethinking the Bioethics Origin Story
Aaron Wightman, MD, MA
A Conversation With Sheri Fink – No handout
Sheri Fink, MD, PhD
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Attending to Stories: Pediatrics, Bioethics and Narrative
From Monologue to Dialogue to Broader Conversation: Learning Through Story Collections
Ana S. Iltis, PhD
Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Who Controls Our Storied Selves?
Keisha Ray, PhD
The Fragility of Narrative: Unpacking the Fallibility of Memory and Storytelling
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Abstract Sessions – No handouts
Past and Future Stories: Narrative and Moral Imagination in Pediatrics
Luke Mosley, MD, MTS