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Desk registration opened at Auditorium Hall (CHUV)

Category: Parallel sessions

Pre-Conference Workshops – June 4, 2025

 
 
 
 
 
NOTE : Unfortunately, Pre-Conference no5 had to be cancelled

 

Category: Registration

Desk registration opened at Palais de Rumine

Category: Pre-conferences

Public conference at Palais de Rumine : Gender dysphoria in minors: The role of medicine and clinical ethics

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Category: Social Program

Location : Atrium of Palais de Rumine

Category: Registration

Desk registration opened at Auditorium Hall (CHUV)

Category: Posters

The following posters will be displayed throughout the day at the congress venue :

  1. Le Bourgeois F. Parents from a Roma community refusing treatment in paediatrics, place of the principle of autonomy  
  2. Tareen M. Surrogate decision-making and ethical dilemmas in palliative care: balancing patient autonomy in Muslim-majority settings
  3. Lavoie B. Value, Bridge Builder, or Obstacle? Clinical Perceptions of Parents' Religion in Complex Pediatric Situations
  4. Moreno-Molina J. Transnational Reproductive Medicine and the Role of Clinical Bioethics: The Case of Colombia
  5. Robin M. Increasing Outpatient Life-Sustaining Treatment Discussion and Documentation in a Veterans' Administration Outpatient Clinic
  6. Mann D. MD DBe HEC-C Complicit with the illicit, how physician involvement risks condoning unorthodox parental behavior.
  7. Goset K. Enhancing Patient Autonomy: An Advance Care Planning/Advance Directives Initiative by a Healthcare Ethics Committee.
  8. Patten C. Ethics on Record: A Study of Clinical Documentation Practices in EHRs
  9. Tan M. Quo Vadis? Reforming Practices on Determining Mental Capacity and Identifying Surrogate Decision-Makers in Malaysia
  10. Masilla S. Prognostic uncertainty and Shared Care Planning: a case of a Fetus with Severe Renal Hypoplasia and Early Anhydramnios
  11. Landi A. Navigating Difficult Conversations: A Pilot Training for Clinical Ethics Fellows in Palliative Communication Skills
  12. Lavoie B. Going to court: exploring the motivations of pediatricians in situations of treatment refusal expressed by parents
  13. Mesnage V. How clinical ethics changed my outlook and made me a committed citizen
  14. Gillam L. and Court A. Parents driving too much medical treatment for their child - Responding to the ethical challenges
  15. Ab Manan M., Tan M. Baby Steps: Growing Clinical Ethics Services for Pediatrics in a Malaysian Teaching Hospital
  16. Applewhite M. ETHICS CONSULTATION SERVICES AND SURGEONS: HOW TO BUILD TRUST AND COLLABORATION"
  17. Dallaire C. Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education: Action Research for the Development of a Participatory Reflective Tool 
  18. Eijkholt M. To disclose or not to disclose. What the HEC(k) between medical law and medical Ethics
  19. Fumie A. The Meaning of Experiences of Communicating about heredity in Early Genetic Diagnosis of Muscular Dystrophy
  20. Jacques R. Principled approach to comingled human remains 
  21. Knochel K. Principle-based ethical case analysis as a tool for normative conflict resolution in pediatrics
  22. Landi A. Requesting permission to consult palliative care: Patient-driven instead of patient-centered
  23. Menon S. Not just advisory: Clinical Ethics Committees as the approving authority for innovative salvage treatments for patients
  24. Moazzen V. Contribution of Forensic Medicine Specialists to Clinical Ethics Consultation and Legal Advice in Iranian Hospitals
  25. Nikolakakis I. Bioethics and Bioterrorism: Past, Present, and Future
  26. Paulsen W. Midwifery ethics  – more diverse as supposed to be. Do we need a broader approach?
  27. Raimondi C. Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Diagnosis and Prevention of Childhood Melanoma
  28. Rhodes R. Innovation in Collaborative Clinical Ethics Consultation
  29. Šteina E. The Ethical Dilemmas of Slow and Show Codes in Healthcare 

Location: César-Roux

Speakers :
Ralf J. Jox,  chairman of ICCEC 2025
Mirela Caci, Vice medical director, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
Patrick Bodenmann, Vice dean, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne
Arnaud Perrier, President of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences


Location: César-Roux

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Mark Aulisio

 

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Annina Seiler

 

Location: Auguste Tissot

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Stella Reiter-Theil

Location: Mathias Mayor

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Silviya Aleksandrova-Yankulovska


Location: Maternité

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Placid Nicod

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 3

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Andros

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: César-Roux

Category: Plenary

Speakers :

- Richard Huxtable
- Sarah Barclay
- Anna Hirsch
- Julia Palmiano Federer

Abstracts :

Richard Huxtable, Is there any alternative…? Identifying, avoiding, and addressing conflict

Despite even best efforts to hear and heed alternative perspectives, conflicts can sometimes arise in the clinical setting between (and among) clinicians, patients, and people close to the patient. The nature, sources, and complexities of conflicts vary, as do the various means of avoiding or addressing them. In this presentation, I will reflect on research undertaken with Louise Austin and Harleen Johal, in which we examined conflicts arising in England and Wales in “best interests” decision-making for patients, of all ages, who lack the capacity or competence to make decisions for themselves. The projects respectively focused on conflicts in paediatrics, especially paediatric intensive care, and in adult intensive care. In both settings, five approaches tended to be prominent, which involved looking to: the team; second (or more) opinions; clinical ethics support services; mediators; or the courts. We found that each had their merits, but also presented problems. I close with some reflections on the further work that is needed to understand not only which approaches are being used (and when and by whom), but also which should be used (and when and by whom).

Anna Hirsch, Autonomy and well-being in patient care: How philosophical analysis can provide guidance in cases of conflict

Ethical conflicts that arise in patient care and are discussed in clinical ethics (consultations) often involve conflicting values, norms, and obligations. For example, the obligation to benefit a patient (from a medical-professional point of view) may conflict with the obligation to respect the patient’s autonomy – highlighting a conflict between the values of well-being and autonomy. In order to deal with these conflicts in an ethically sound way, it is necessary to be sufficiently clear about what it actually means to promote patients’ autonomy and to protect and foster their well-being. One approach often referred to in clinical ethics is the four-principles model of Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. While this approach can be helpful in identifying ethical conflicts and drawing attention to key obligations in patient care, it often remains too vague regarding the interpretation of core concepts on which it is based on, particularly “autonomy” and “well-being.” As a result, in ethically very complex situations, the model offers limited guidance on how to interpret and weigh these obligations. In my talk, I will argue that more sophisticated philosophical theories and concepts can compensate for the conceptual shortcomings of the four-principles model. Drawing on a concrete case study, I will illustrate how such concepts and theories can deepen our understanding of autonomy and well-being in the context of patient care. This, in turn, can enhance our ability to analyse conflicts and provides arguments for specifying and balancing competing obligations. In this way, I contend, philosophical theories and concepts can contribute to robust and ethically well-founded decisions in clinical ethics (counselling).

Sarah Barclay, Recognising, understanding and managing conflict in paediatric healthcare: reflections on the use and impact of mediation skills to support the management and de-escalation of conflict between families and health professionals.

Conflict between parents/families and health professionals about the care and treatment of a sick child has become a significant phenomenon in paediatric healthcare. Research by the Medical Mediation Foundation found that conflict was prevalent across paediatric specialties, and particularly in neurology, general paediatrics and neonatology.  The four key causes identified were communication breakdown, disagreements about treatment, unrealistic expectations/ “excessive” healthcare demands and families wishing to micromanage care.

The impact of conflict can be significant and damaging for families and professionals alike, involving considerable amounts of staff time, fracturing of working relationships  and a loss of focus on the child. 

Providing clinicians with the confidence and skills to recognise the warning signs of conflict and use mediation skills to help engage in conversations with families when conflict has arisen, have been shown to support both early recognition of conflict and its de-escalation. 

In this presentation I will offer some reflections on working with clinicians and families where communication breakdown and conflict have had on working relationships between family and professionals. I will also discuss how embedding the use of mediation skills in clinical teams can support families and professionals alike in navigating challenging conversations in which entrenched positions are having a negative impact on shared decision-making and constructive dialogue.

Julia Palmiano Federer, Resolving conflicts in our society: Applying international conflict resolution practices to the hospital

This input collapses interdisciplinary boundaries and discusses how conflict resolution practices developed to address situations of violent political armed conflict can be applied to intercultural and political conflicts in public health and hospital settings. 

The input will first introduce the basics of conflict resolution mechanisms such as peace negotiations and mediation. It will then delve into specific tools for conflict resolution practitioners such as “conflict analysis,” and “process design.” In particular, the input will draw from Dr. Palmiano Federer’s research and practice supporting and studying mediation processes in several armed conflict settings, for instance in Myanmar and the Philippines.

The input will end by arguing that the techniques and practices of conflict resolution can be applied to other sectors including public health, as the challenges that our global society faces (e.g. the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic racism, climate change, and other pressing public health issues) are interconnected. These challenges exacerbate as well as create new conflicts that negatively affect the communities that we serve.

Moderator : Ralf J. Jox

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Category: Posters

Meeting point for each poster tour is at the first poster being presented.

The following posters will be presented by their authors during a guided poster walk :

Clinical ethics around the world (moderation: Jürg Streuli)

  1. Le Bourgeois F. Parents from a Roma community refusing treatment in paediatrics, place of the principle of autonomy
  2. Tareen M. Surrogate decision-making and ethical dilemmas in palliative care: balancing patient autonomy in Muslim-majority settings
  3. Lavoie B. Value, Bridge Builder, or Obstacle? Clinical Perceptions of Parents' Religion in Complex Pediatric Situations
  4. Moreno-Molina J. Transnational Reproductive Medicine and the Role of Clinical Bioethics: The Case of Colombia

Challenges in clinical ethics (moderation: Natalia Amasiadi)

  1. Robin M. Increasing Outpatient Life-Sustaining Treatment Discussion and Documentation in a Veterans' Administration Outpatient Clinic
  2. Mann D. Complicit with the illicit, how physician involvement risks condoning unorthodox parental behavior. 
  3. Goset K. Enhancing Patient Autonomy: An Advance Care Planning/Advance Directives Initiative by a Healthcare Ethics Committee
  4. Patten C. Ethics on Record: A Study of Clinical Documentation Practices in EHRs
  5. Tan M. Quo Vadis? Reforming Practices on Determining Mental Capacity and Identifying Surrogate Decision-Makers in Malaysia

Conflict resolution (moderation: Nicolas Foureur)

  1. Masilla S. Prognostic uncertainty and Shared Care Planning: a case of a Fetus with Severe Renal Hypoplasia and Early Anhydramnios
  2. Landi A. Navigating Difficult Conversations: A Pilot Training for Clinical Ethics Fellows in Palliative Communication Skills
  3. Lavoie B. Going to court: exploring the motivations of pediatricians in situations of treatment refusal expressed by parents
  4. Mesnage V. How clinical ethics changed my outlook and made me a committed citizen (TBC)
  5. Gillam L., Court A. Parents driving too much medical treatment for their child - Responding to ethical challenges (TBC)

Location: César-Roux

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Renzo Pegoraro

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Jürgen Wallner

Location: Auguste Tissot

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Dario Sacchini

Location: Mathias Mayor

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Pernilla Pergert

Location: Jequier-Doge

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Placid Nicod

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Paros

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Andros

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: César-Roux

Category: Plenary

Speakers :

- Kristina Würth
- Kevin Dzi
- Nancy Berlinger
- Rainer Tan

Abstracts :

Kevin Dzi and Kristina Wurth

The relevance of racism in and for healthcare is immense and goes far beyond the level of individual action. At the same time, racism is a topic that provokes strong defensive reactions, is emotionally charged, and is often exploited for populist purposes. While it seems difficult for some to talk about racism and to acknowledge the existence of racist mechanisms in our societies, the issue of implicit bias is less emotionally charged and has been studied in several areas of healthcare and medicine—such as gender medicine and migrant health—revealing alarming results. In this presentation, we will explore what we mean when we speak of racism, taking into account societal and local contexts, as well as historical dimensions. We will then discuss ethical and philosophical aspects and conclude with a look at current data.

Nancy Berlinger, Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Concerning Patients, Caregivers, and Staff Who Are Migrants

Every person needs some way to receive health care should they need it, in the place where they are. Health care institutions such as hospitals and clinics meet basic human needs by providing essential services that save lives, restore health, or manage symptoms.  Yet whether and how health care institutions should provide access to health care for migrant individuals and populations is frequently unclear. These perennial challenges are intensified during periods of social and political uncertainty or turmoil concerning migration. This presentation will offer an ethical framework, grounded in familiar principles of public health and healthcare ethics and based on pandemic-era guidance developed by The Hastings Center, for healthcare institutions in different regions to explore and adapt.

Rainer Tan, Migration Health and Strategies for Equitable Care

Asylum seekers and refugees encounter significant and multifaceted barriers to healthcare, including limited health literacy, unfamiliarity with healthcare systems, linguistic challenges, medical mistrust, and discrimination. These populations also face a disproportionate burden of health issues, such as mental health disorders, infectious diseases, and worse sexual and reproductive health outcomes. The migration journey itself—along with precarious resettlement conditions—intensifies these vulnerabilities, underscoring the need to address structural determinants of health. This presentation will examine these challenges and highlight strategies implemented in Switzerland aimed at promoting health equity for migrant populations.

 

Moderator : Brenda Bogaert and Rachel Rutz

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Category: Social Program

Location : Auditorium Hall, CHUV

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Category: Registration

Desk registration opened at Auditorium Hall (CHUV)

Category: Posters

The following posters will be displayed throughout the day at the congress venue :

  1. Al-Maamari A. Navigating Ethical Challenges in Digital Healthcare: Strategies for Responsible Implementation
  2. Bartlett V. Through the Looking Glass: Where “Emerging Issues” in AI Meet Experience and Insights from Clinical Ethics Consultation  
  3. Badaiki W. DECLUTTERING THE ETHICS CLOSET: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS IN CLINICAL ETHICS DOCUMENTATION AND PRACTICE. 
  4. Cutillo Z. Promoting Positive Childhood Screen Time Usage in the Age of Technology: Ethically Preserving Contemporary Youth Health
  5. Heistruevers L. From being seen to being heard and understood: Addressing structural vulnerability in the hospital setting
  6. Furfari K. Colorado's Physician Proxy Law: Lessons in Surrogate Decision-Making and Patient Advocacy
  7. Monteverde S. Vulnerability and vulnerabilization in healthcare: what can we learn from the Coronavirus pandemic?
  8. Khan J. Cross-border end-of-life decision-making: Ethical considerations in repatriation and cultural sensitivity
  9. Meudec M. and Marin A. Promoting inclusion and/or combating discrimination in ethics? Conflicts of loyalty in research in Quebec
  10. Streuli J. and DeClerq E. Training healthcare navigators with expertise in variations of sex characteristics(VSC)
  11. Rajasegaran K. Disability, uncertainty and quality of life: does culture and religion matter?
  12. Seiler A. Ethical Dilemmas in Phase 1 Clinical Cancer Trials
  13. Healy E. An Ethical Dilemma: Blood Product Transfusions in Situations of Physiological Futility
  14. Chan Z. Ethical Challenges of Robot-Assisted Vascular Surgery: Insights and Implications for the UK
  15. Lahfafa A. What factors influence families' bereavement after a death in paediatric intensive care?
  16. Boutillier B. PRENATAL WORKSHOP AND SUPPORT GROUP FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO WILL COME TO THE NICU 
  17. Ravindran N. Empathy Beyond Belief: Navigating Spirituality in Palliative Care Education With Sensitivity And Self-reflection
  18. Chua E. Feeling Strangled: Balancing Best Interests and Public Health in a Breathless and Belligerent Patient
  19. Eves M.  Clinical Ethics Consultation on a Continuum: An Examination of a Coaching approach 
  20. Fecci A. Ethical Considerations in Research Studies with Transgender and Gender-Diverse Populations
  21. Jankowski J. Innovating to Meet Demand: Various Approaches to Personnel and Service Delivery Models in Ethics Consultation 
  22. Rossetti E. Digitally driven proceduralization of medicine: How clinical ethics can preserve the role of intuition
  23. Ruggiero R. and Spiezia F. S. How can a health care organization improve patient care while remaining sustainable and effective?
  24. Saverio Spiezia F. Ruggiero R IS IT POSSIBLE TO RESOLVE AND PREVENT CONFLICTS? THE KEY ROLE OF CLINICAL ETHICS IN DECISION-MAKING AT THE PATIENT'S BEDSIDE

Location: César-Roux

Category: Plenary

Speakers :

- Nikola Biller-Andorno
- Karin Jongsma
- Georg Starke

Abstracts :

Nikola Biller-Andorno, Clinical ethics and articifial intelligence: navigating a complex relationship

This keynote explores the evolving relationship between clinical ethics and artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting how AI may both support and challenge ethical practice in healthcare. It argues that while AI can assist with tasks like case summarization and provide useful tools for research and training, we cannot outsource moral judgment without compromising our human moral agency. The talk examines which elements of clinical ethics can be technologically supported and where human involvement remains indispensable. It also considers how clinical ethics can shape responsible AI use in medicine, focusing on triage and decision-support as use cases. The conclusion underscores the need for human responsibility, ethical oversight, and ongoing education to avoid overreliance on AI and to preserve the relational and interpretive nature of ethical reasoning in clinical care.

Karin Jongsma, In favour of the Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4)

When patients lose capacity, their surrogates often struggle to guess what they would have wanted and many feel overwhelmed by the burden of deciding alone.
In this talk, I will introduce a possible way to address these issues of surrogate decision-making: the Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4). This hypothetical model for predicting patient preferences would harness advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create large language models (LLMs) adapted to (that is, fine-tuned on) a person-specific corpus of text. The result would be a kind of ‘digital psychological twin’ of the person that could be queried in real-time as to the patient’s most likely preferences for treatment in any given healthcare crisis.
In this presentation, I will briefly outline the technical progress that can make the P4 possible, the problems it can address and outline the reasons in favour of employing the P4.

Georg Starke, Personalized predictors or preference parrots? A critical view on digital psychological twins for determining patients’ preferences

The idea of a personalized patient preference predictor (P4) has been prominently discussed in the past year. Supposedly such a P4, based on person-specific text, can reliably predict patients’ likely preferences, informing surrogate decision making for patients lacking capacity. In this talk, I will highlight some of the concerns surrounding this approach. In particular, I will discuss issues that relate to fundamental technical limitations of current large language models (LLMs) as well as to new ethical challenges that may arise from introducing a P4 into clinical practice. Finally, I will also shed light on broader inadvertent negative consequences of integrating AI into end-of-life decision making, offering further reasons why, at least for the time being, we may want to refrain from employing a P4 in clinical settings.

Moderator : Audrey Lebret

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Location: César-Roux

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Stella Reiter-Theil

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Mark Aulisio

Location: Auguste Tissot

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Dario Sacchini

Location: Mathias Mayor

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Anne Slowther

Location: Charlotte Olivier

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Annina Seiler

Location: Maternité

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Rosamond Rhodes

Location: Jequier-Doge

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 2

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 4

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Auguste Tissot

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Headed by Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki

You are all invited to download the draft WHO Guidance on Clinical Ethics and comment it online:

https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/call-for-public-consultation-for-the-draft-who-guidance-on-clinical-ethics

 

Category: Posters

Meeting point for each poster tour is at the first poster being presented.

The following posters will be presented by their authors during a guided poster walk :

Communication and the digital (moderation: Katie Wasson)

  1. Al-Maamari, A. Navigating Ethical Challenges in Digital Healthcare: Strategies for Responsible Implementation 
  2. Bartlett V. Through the Looking Glass: Where Emerging Issues in AI Meet Experience and Insights from Clinical Ethics Consultation
  3. Badaiki W. DECLUTTERING THE ETHICS CLOSET: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS IN CLINICAL ETHICS DOCUMENTATION AND PRACTICE. 
  4. Cutillo Z. Promoting Positive Childhood Screen Time Usage in the Age of Technology: Ethically Preserving Contemporary Youth Health

Vulnerability (moderation: Richard Huxtable)

  1. Heistruevers L. From being seen to being heard and understood: Addressing structural vulnerability in the hospital setting
  2. Furfari K. Colorado's Physician Proxy Law: Lessons in Surrogate Decision-Making and Patient Advocacy
  3. Monteverde S. Vulnerability and vulnerabilization in healthcare : what can we learn from the Coronavirus pandemic?
  4. Khan J. Cross-border end-of-life decision-making: Ethical considerations in repatriation and cultural sensitivity 
  5. Meudec M., Marin A. Promoting inclusion and/or combating discrimination in ethics? Conflicts of loyalty in research in Quebec (TBC)

Conceptual challenges & dilemmas (moderation: Anne Slowther)

  1. Streuli J. and DeClerq E. Training healthcare navigators with expertise in variations of sex characteristics(VSC)
  2. Rajasegaran K. Disability, uncertainty and quality of life: does culture and religion matter?
  3. Seiler A. Ethical Dilemmas in Phase 1 Clinical Cancer Trials
  4. Healy E. An Ethical Dilemma: Blood Product Transfusions in Situations of Physiological Futility

Critical care, life & death (moderation: Marie-Eve Bouthillier)

  1. Chan S.M. Ethical Challenges of Robot-Assisted Vascular Surgery: Insights and Implications for the UK
  2. Lahfafa A. What factors influence families' bereavement after a death in paediatric intensive care?
  3. Boutillier B. Prenatal Workshop And Support Group For Parents Of Children Who Will Come To The NICU
  4. Ravindran N. Empathy Beyond Belief: Navigating Spirituality in Palliative Care Education With Sensitivity And Self-reflection

Location: César-Roux

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Manuel Trachsel

Location: Auguste Tissot

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Renzo Pegoraro

Location: Mathias Mayor

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Stuart Finder

Location: Charlotte Olivier

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Brenda Bogaert

Location: Jequier-Doge

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Oswald Hasselmann

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Maternité

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Paros

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: César-Roux

Category: Plenary

Speakers :

- Cristina Richie
- Andrew Hantel

 

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Abstracts :

Cristina Richie

Every medical development, technique, and procedure impacts the environment through carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions contribute to climate change, climate-change related health hazards, and perpetuate social determinants of health. This talk will explore ethical issues related to the carbon emissions of health care delivery in the context of the clinician-patient relationship, such as the obligation for high carbon health care systems to reduce emissions and preserving ethical standards in the therapeutic relationship. It will use the frame of Green Bioethics- an ethical methodology that synthesizes environmental and biomedical ethics- and reflect on the nature of clinical ethics in a time of climate crisis. 

Andrew Hantel

Climate change has profound impacts on human health and illness while healthcare delivery produces substantial waste and emissions which propagate climate change. This talk will take the “good clinical ethics begin with good facts” approach by first outlining the impacts of climate change on human health and of clinical care on the environment, which serves as the basis for why clinical ethics should care about the climate crisis. We will then consider the overarching ethical issues that arise based on the intersection of climate and health and how clinical ethics might approach them in relation to the related fields of health policy, organizational, and research ethics.

Moderator : Rachel Rutz and Brenda Bogaert

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Category: Social Program

Location : Olympic Museum, Lausanne

Link to detailed information

Category: Registration

Desk registration opened at Auditorium Hall (CHUV)

Category: Posters

These posters will be available :

  1. Blanc S. “Not at home”: insights from case studies on setting preferences in assisted suicide
  2. Kennedy A. Proposed Legislation on Physician Assisted Dying in the UK Compared to the International Standards
  3. Yan Y. Evidence-Based on End-of-life Decision-making in China for Severe Brain Injury 
  4. Buturovic Ponikvar J. The case of organ donation after euthanasia
  5. Hahlweg P. Aid in dying requests: longitudinal processes on diverse levels
  6. Furfari K. Beyond Hierarchies: Rethinking Surrogate Decision-Making with Colorado’s Inclusive Approach
  7. Eves M. Lawst in the Silence: When Lack of Legal Clarity Harms Patients
  8. Propper R. My Patient Was Dying, And I Did Not Tell Her: Exceptions to Truth-Telling in Pediatric Critical Care
  9. Hassanein M. Provider Preferences and Protected Characteristics: Navigating Requests in a Pediatric Setting
  10. Baker C. Show Me the Money: Comparing Industry Payments to Physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians Across Specialties in the USA
  11. Pichardo A. Preventing Financial Toxicity in Healthcare: Organizational & Ethical obligations
  12. Mtande T. Exploring the Potential of Moral Community and Moral Dialogues at Bwaila Family Health Unit in Lilongwe, Malawi
  13. Anderson D. HEC for Healthcare Buildings: Bioethics Peer Review 
  14. de Janon-Quevedo L. Ambivalence While Training Communication of Bad News May Suggest Academic Burnout Among Medical Students 
  15. Hassanein M. Navigating Challenges: The Interplay of Identity and Environment in Clinical Ethics Fellowships
  16. Toader  E. PATIENT WELFARE IN PALLIATIVE CARE: INTEGRATING MEDICAL, MORAL, AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS
  17. Eikamp L.R. Moral Measuring: Thinking or Feeling you know how to measure somethingEves M. Lawst in the Silence: When Lack of Legal Clarity Harms Patients
  18. Aebischer G. When you say “conflict of interest”, do you mean “corruption”?
  19. Burgess T. South African researchers’ experiences of ethical challenges during COVID-19 and lessons learned for future pandemics
  20. Horsburgh C. Filling the Gap: Does Clinical Ethics Immersion Continue to Serve the Field? 
  21. Larocque A. Balancing Risk: Clinicians’ Perceptions and Breast Cancer Screening Recommendation in Quebec
  22. Moreno-Molina J. Euthanasia in Colombia: Expanding Legal Boundaries and the Role of Clinical Ethics Consultation
  23. Pannekoek J. Community and Healthcare Professional Input on the Topic of Normothermic Regional 
  24. Pegoraro R. Clinical Ethics Committee’s Deliberation on a Complex Cystic Fibrosis: the Issue of Pregnancy
  25. Smith A. Newsome Paging Externist: Utilizing Clinical Ethicists in Patient-Engaged Care Planning to Improve Clinical Outcomes Post-Discharge 
  26. Spriggs K. Lessons from the Holocaust: Patient Advocacy in Nursing Education

Location: César-Roux

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Katie Wasson

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Pernilla Pergert

Location: Auguste Tissot

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Marie-Eve Bouthillier

Location: Mathias Mayor

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Oswald Hasselmann

Location: Maternité

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Georg Marckmann

Location: Jequier-Doge

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 2

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 3

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 4

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Paros

Category: Parallel sessions

Category: Posters

Meeting point for each poster tour is at the first poster being presented.

The following posters will be presented by their authors during a guided poster walk:

End of life & aid in dying (moderation: Kevin Dirksen)

  1. Blanc S. "Not at home": insights from case studies on setting preferences in assisted suicide
  2. Kennedy A. Proposed Legislation on Physician Assisted Dying in the UK Compared to the International Standards
  3. Yan Y. Evidence-Based on End-of-life Decision-making in China for Severe Brain Injury 
  4. Buturovic J. The case of organ donation after euthanasia
  5. Hahlweg P. Aid in dying requests: longitudinal processes on diverse levels

Pediatrics, family and surrogate decisions (moderation: Philippe Sylvestre)

  1. Furfari K. Beyond Hierarchies: Rethinking Surrogate Decision-Making with Colorado's Inclusive Approach
  2. Eves M. Lawst in the Silence: When Lack of Legal Clarity Harms Patients
  3. Propper R. My Patient Was Dying, And I Did Not Tell Her: Exceptions to Truth-Telling in Pediatric Critical Care
  4. Hassanein M. Provider Preferences and Protected Characteristics: Navigating Requests in a Pediatric Setting

Organizational ethics (moderation: Samia Hurst)

  1. Baker C. Show Me the Money: Comparing Industry Payments to Physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians Across Specialties in the USA
  2. Pichardo A. Preventing Financial Toxicity in Healthcare: Organizational & Ethical obligations
  3. Mtande T. Exploring the Potential of Moral Community and Moral Dialogues at Bwaila Family Health Unit in Lilongwe, Malawi
  4. Anderson D. HEC for Healthcare Buildings: Bioethics Peer Review  

Challenges in clinical ethics (moderation: Bert Molewijk)

  1. de Janon-Quevedo L. Ambivalence While Training Communication of Bad News May Suggest Academic Burnout Among Medical Students 
  2. Hassanein M. Navigating Challenges: The Interplay of Identity and Environment in Clinical Ethics Fellowships
  3. Toader E. Patient Welfare In Palliative Care: Integrating Medical, Moral, And Spiritual Dimensions
  4. Eikamp L. Moral Measuring: Thinking or Feeling you know how to measure something

Location: César-Roux

Category: Plenary

Speakers :

- Mark Aulisio
- Stella Reiter-Theil
- Laura Guidry-Grimes

Abstracts :

Mark Aulisio, Clinical ethics consultation (CEC) and socio-political context: the past, the present, and the future

This closing panel will zoom out to the bigger picture of clinical ethics consultation and its links to socio-political challenges of our time. The first part of this session will address the relationship between core competencies for clinical ethics consultation and the socio-political context in which it occurs. The format will highlight first how this has been a central part of ASBH's Core Competencies for Healthcare Ethics Consultation from its inception (1st, 2nd, and public draft of 3rd edition) and then suggest that clinical ethics consultation, indeed clinical ethics itself, is fundamentally contextual and, therefore, must remain attentive to changing features of the clinical context, particularly socio-political ones, if it is to continue to meet the kinds of needs it emerged to address.

Stella Reiter-Theil and Laura Guidry-Grimes

During the second half of the plenary, Laura Guidry-Grimes will interview Stella Reiter-Theil about her experiences and observations of the field of clinical ethics consultation, as well as the ICCEC conference series, over the years. This interview will highlight the past, present, and future of clinical ethics consultation from the perspective of clinical ethicists at different career stages. Guidry-Grimes and Reiter-Theil will discuss the sociopolitical dimensions of clinical ethics, reflecting on significant shifts in recent years that can affect health, health care, and clinical ethics work in different parts of the world. Attendees will be invited to share their experiences of the field and consider the sociopolitical aspects of their context.  George Agich will moderate the discussion.

Moderator : George Agich

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Location: César-Roux

Speakers : Ralf J. Jox, George Agich

Awards for the 3 best posters
Awards for the 3 best abstracts of junior researchers
Honoring Stella Reiter-Theil
Presentation of ICCEC 2026

Location: César-Roux

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Natalia Amasiadi

Location: Alexandre Yersin

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Antoine Payot

Location: Auguste Tissot

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Samia Hurst-Majno

Location: Mathias Mayor

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Brenda Bogaert

Location: Jequier-Doge

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Stuart Finder

Location: Maternité

Category: Parallel sessions

Moderation: Georg Agich

Location: Séminaire 2

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 3

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Séminaire 4

Category: Parallel sessions

Location: Paros

Category: Parallel sessions