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We still have a few spots available in the Master of Health Science in Bioethics program! Applications to the program for classes beginning in September are being accepted until May 24, 2019. For more information about the program, including how to apply, please visit our website.
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JCB Awards - Submissions
We are current accepting submissions for our faculty and student awards for 2019. These awards will be presented at the 8th Annual Research & Awards Celebration on Wednesday, June 5th. Submissions are being requested for the following awards:
- Christine Harrison Bioethics Education Award for Integration of Theory and Practice
- Ross Upshur Graduate Thesis Mentorship Award
- Mervis-Simon Family Award in Bioethics
- Larry Librach Prize in Ethics and End of Life Care
- Peter A. Singer Award in Bioethics Mervis-Simon Family Award in Bioethics
The deadline for all awards has been extended to May 15th (midnight). For more information on each award and how to nominate candidates or apply, please visit our website.
If you are interested in attending, and haven't yet sent in your RSVP, please email Terry Yuen at jcb.ea@utoronto.ca.
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In the News
Transforming Health Care: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Medical Landscape
Artificial intelligence in health care carries huge potential, according to experts in computer science and medicine, but it also raises serious questions around bias, accountability and security. (Jennifer Gibson, CBC News)
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AI Could Predict Death. But What if the Algorithm is Biased?
As the conversation around artificial intelligence and medicine progresses, it is clear we must have specific oversight around the role of AI in determining and predicting death.
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Nearly 7,000 Canadians Have Died with Medical Assistance: Health Canada
Almost 7,000 Canadians have received medical help to end their lives since Canada legalized assisted dying three years ago.
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Announcements
Rebecca Greenberg has accepted the position of Senior Bioethicist at Sinai Health System.
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Publications
JCB members' publications for the month of May 2019.
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If you have a publication you would like to add to next month's list, please email newseditor.jcb@utoronto.ca.
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Educational Opportunities
Summer Institute in Bioethics
June 10-July 27, 2019
The 14th annual Summer Institute in Bioethics, offered by Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, will take place from June 10-July 27, 2019. This 7-week program is for graduate students, professional students, and select undergrads. At this point in our application cycle, we are seeking applications from graduate students and professionals.
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Call for Submissions
Applications:
Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics (CSB) Program
The JCB is now accepting applications to the CSB program. The CSB prepares students who will specialize in bioethics with an emphasis on innovative interdisciplinary research and scholarship in bioethics, and trains scholars whose primary goal is to contribute original research in bioethics. Prospective students must be admitted to one of the 12 collaborating graduate units before applying to the CSB program.
Submission deadine: June 14, 2019
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Nominations:
Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute and the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology & Society
U of T is pleased to invite nominations and applications for the Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute and the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology & Society, an ambitious interdisciplinary initiative to address the ethical and philosophical questions that technological advances raise for our future.
Submission deadine: May 15, 2019
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Papers:
Philosophical Issues in Research Ethics Workshop
We invite paper submissions from faculty within five years of first appointment, postdoctoral fellows and job-market-ready doctoral students. Papers must address a philosophical issue in the ethics of research involving human participants.
Submission deadine: July 15, 2019
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JCB Events
17th Annual Jus Lecture - "Imaging, Objectivity, and Chronic Pain Stigma: Connecting Past to Present for Social Justice"
May 29, 2019
Daniel S. Goldberg, JD, PhD, Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, CU School of Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, CO School of Public Health, Scholar in Equity, Health, amd Law, Farley Health Policy Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Dying at 'Home': Caring for People with Structural Vulnerabilities at End of Life
June 6, 2019
The Ontario College of Family Physicians, in collaboration with the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Ontario Palliative Care Network, is pleased to present a three-part webinar series. This introductory webinar is focused on caring for people with limited social support and/or financial resources at end of life.
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Events
Café Bioethics: Social Robots as the Cure for Loneliness?
Toronto, ON
May 9, 2019
This month they will be discussing social robots as a cure for loneliness. Leading the discussion is Nipa Chauhan, Café Bioethics Founder and President.
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Issues in Health Ethics Series
Edmonton, AB
May 10, 2019
This presentation offers an opportunity to learn more about the work of David Diamond, internationally recognized and respected director of "Theatre for Living" in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
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1st Bi-Annual Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy Conference: AI, Digital, and the Creative Destruction of Careers in Healthcare
Toronto, ON
May 24, 2019
Themes of our conference include the impact of AI on the roles of clinicians, industry, and the broader care environment; how we can adapt our organizations and systems to embrace the power of AI; as well as ethical considerations in the new care environment. Jennifer Gibson will be participating as one of the keynote speakers.
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Machine M.D. Conference
Ottawa, ON
May 31-June 1, 2019
How will tomorrow's developments in artificial intelligence and big data intersect with healthcare, and how should our laws, policies, and ethics evolve to be ready?
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MAiD 2019 Conference
Vancouver, BC
May 31-June 1, 2019
CAMAP is a national not-for-profit medical association whose mission is to support MAiD assessors and providers in their work, educate both the public and the health care community about MAiD, and provide leadership on determining medical standards and guidelines.
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Neurotechnology for High-Consequence Communication and Decision-Making
Toronto, ON
June 5, 2019
Experts from industry, academia and legal professions will come together to discuss the social and ethical implications of neurotechnology relating to health, crime, and civil and disability rights.
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Fairness and Equity in a Digital Age
Toronto, ON
June 11, 2019
The University of Toronto's Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society launch symposium features keynote speaker Ruha Benjamin, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Professor Benjamin, a leading scholar of the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine, will join our thought leaders to explore the intersections between technology, society, fairness, and equity.
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17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Montreal, QC
June 17-21, 2019
The conference is held biennially under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) and in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI).
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Community Ethics Network Spring Workshop: Reconciling Risks - Responding Ethically to Potential Harms
Toronto, ON
June 27, 2019
The 2019 Spring Workshop will explore the inherent ethical challenges in assessing, managing and reconciling the many risks regularly encountered in the provision and use of community-based health and support services – clients choosing to live at risk, staff perceiving risks in their workplace, the need to recognize 'the dignity of risk', concerns over reputational risk, and the tensions arising when attempting to respect autonomy and prevent harms.
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8th Congress of the French Medical Humanities College
Paris, France
June 27-28, 2019
Reforms in health studies accompany discourses and practices that claim deeper social and institutional changes, some of which are already underway or even completed, while others are only anticipated or "promised". In the field of care centers, laboratories, faculties, social networks, arts and creation, what problems, what roles, what challenges, to the interdisciplinary exploration of medical humanities?
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