The official account of the HMS Center for Bioethics. Get our newsletter for the latest: https://xitter.cf/t.co/LbYiLLBjn7 📰 #HMSBioethics

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Joined July 2014
📣 Application deadline extended to October 1st! Learn more about our Online Fellowship Certificate in Bioethics: bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/ed…
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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: linkedin.com/pulse/traduttor…
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💊 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: lp.constantcontactpages.com/…
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Get to know @BeccaBrendel in this interview with Massachusetts Medical Society for their recent issue of Vital Signs: massmed.org/Publications/Vit… #HMSBioethics
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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: lnkd.in/e8MwhNxF
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
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: ms.spr.ly/6015a1JQU
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
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
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
🔦 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 petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/a…
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
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: bit.ly/2026-Symposium-Livest…
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
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
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
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 🔗 nejm.ai/4lOe1iO
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There's still time to register (lp.constantcontactpages.com/…) for today's seminar, "The Ethical Implications of AI in Surgical Training & Practice." #HMSBioethics #AI #surgery #medicalschool
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📑 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: bit.ly/MBBW2026 #HMSBioethics
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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics retweeted
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: bit.ly/4utio6N
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Our director @BeccaBrendel will be speaking at the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine conference on May 8th. Join us as she discusses "Dimensions of Responsibility in AI in Medicine" during Session 2C. Learn more and register: aimedicine.one #HMSBioethics #AIMed
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