Methods Matter! Engaging Bioethical Issues with Rigor

How should we think about bioethics in an age of evidence-based medicine? How can empirical research properly inform vexing bioethical issues ranging from gene editing to honoring patients' preferences for care to obtaining meaningful informed consent? How should such studies relate to determining what ought to be done in particular settings? Bioethicist Jeremy Sugarman (co-editor of the classic Methods in Medical Ethics, soon to be in its third edition) will provide a high-level but practical overview of the many tools now employed in bioethics -- and which of them to use in the right way at the right time.

Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA is an internationally recognized leader in bioethics with particular expertise in applying empirical methods for evaluating and analyzing bioethical issues. His contributions to bioethics and policy include work on the ethics of stem cell-related research, international HIV prevention research, global health, informed consent, clinical research and research oversight. Dr. Sugarman is the author of over 400 articles, reviews and book chapters. He has also edited or co-edited four books. Dr. Sugarman served as senior policy and research analyst for the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.