October 2025

Faculty Scholars, Alums, and Committee Members: ASBH 2025 Annual Conference Presentations

Several members of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program community will present their work at this year’s American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, which will be held in Portland from October 22-25, 2025. A schedule of their presentations is below.  

To view this schedule as a PDF, click here. A full listing of presentations is also publicly available online in the conference schedule

Thursday, October 23, 2025

9:00 – 10:00 A.M. PDT
Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention: A Bioethical Analysis of the Legal Determinants of Health in a Hidden Population 
Paper Presentation 
Katharine R. Peeler, MD 

9:00 – 10:00 A.M. PDT
Bioethics for Whom? Abolition Bioethics in Times of Crisis
Panel Presentation 
Jennifer James, PhD 

10:30 - 11:30 A.M. PDT
Bioethics: The Next Generation and the Need for Inclusion
Panel Presentation
Faith Fletcher, PhD 

10:30 - 11:30 A.M. PDT
Futility in Psychiatry: Ethical Opportunities and Challenges
Panel Presentation
Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD 

2:00 – 3:00 P.M. PDT 
Shiftwork in Surgery and Impact on Ethical Patient Care 
Debate 
Ryan Antiel, MD 

2:00 – 3:00 P.M. PDT
Pragmatics of the Clinic: Framing Effects in Medical Communication
Panel Presentation
Tyler Tate, MD 

3:15 - 4:15 P.M. PDT
Cutting-Edge ELSI Issues Surrounding the Integration of Health AI in Academia, Government, and Industry
Panel Presentation
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD 

Friday, October 24, 2025 

1:15 - 2:15 P.M. PDT
Psychedelic Ethics: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future
Panel Presentation
Amy Lynn McGuire, JD, PhD
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD 

2:30 - 3:30 P.M. PDT
Clinician Advocacy at the Bedside: A Pro-Con Debate
Debate 
Douglas Opel, MD 

2:30 - 3:30 P.M. PDT
When Parents Decline the “Best” Treatment Option: When Can State Intervention, Nudges, and Non-disclosure of Treatment Options be Justified 
Panel Presentation
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD 

3:45 - 4:45 P.M. PDT
Reproductive Justice Under Siege: The Ethics of Contraception, Sterilization, and Pregnancy Healthcare in Post-Roe America 
Panel Presentation 
Faith Fletcher, PhD 
Jennifer James, PhD 
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD 

3:45 - 4:45 P.M. PDT
Vaccines and Public Health
Featured Panel Presentation 
Douglas Opel, MD 

Saturday, October 25 

9:15 - 10:15 A.M. PDT
Reasonableness as the Key to Defining, Measuring, and Improving IRB Quality
Panel Presentation 
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD 

9:15 - 10:15 A.M. PDT
Writing a Winning Bioethics Manuscript: Tips from Authors and Editors for Empirical, Normative, and Case-based Papers 
Panel Presentation 
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD 
Alex Kon, MD 

2:30 - 3:30 P.M. PDT
Exploring the Concept of “Waste” in Clinical Decision-Making and Healthcare Policies
Panel Presentation
Govind Persad, JD, PhD 
Maria Merritt, PhD 

2:30 - 3:30 P.M. PDT
Debate: Is Medical Aid in Dying/Physician-Assisted Suicide Ethically Supportable?
Debate
Alex Kon, MD 

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