We heard terrific talks from the two keynotes Drs. Jen James and Louise King

This article explores how longevity biotechnology is framed in surveys assessing public attitudes toward life extension. It advocates for expanding the understanding of the public's motivations to accept and embrace interventions aimed at extending lifespan.

Tiffany Bystra recently published a short story under the Culture and Arts in Medicine section of Tourniquet: Tejas Journal for Medicine and the Arts called "An Angel Summoned in a Rural King Parking Lot".  https://tourniquet-ojs-uh.tdl.org/tourniquet/article/view/33/Angel

Dr. Jarrel De Matas and Students Ginika Oguagha and Francis Amuzu Publish "Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia"

Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein, along with one of her coeditors, Dr. Rene Almeling, discussed their forthcoming edited volume Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics with the Broadly Conceived seminar series based in the UK

This is an article for AJOB Empirical Bioethics titled “Whether to offer interventions at the end of life: What physicians consider and how clinical ethicists can help”. Mikaela co-wrote with Dr. Janet Malek from Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Joelle Robertson-Preidler from The University of Texas Health Science Center. 

This article is an OPC for the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) titled “Exceptional Stigma: Parallels Between Marginalized Groups and Psychedelic Medicine” co-written with fellow UTMB students Hannah Carpenter, Suzy Lee, Grayson Jackson, and Institute director Dr. Campo-Engelstein. 

This article raises important ethical questions about what happens when a patient doesn't believe the information a doctor tells them and whether this affects their capacity to make medical decisions. https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2024/11/13/jme-2024-110365 View the blog about the article in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/how-a-court-ruled-that-patients-have-a-right-to-disbelieve-doctors-242090  

Hannah recently attended the Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law Conference in Sydney Australia where she received the John McPhee Law Student Essay Prize at the conference.  

She presented “Conscientious Objection and Discrimination Against LGBTQ Individuals” to the Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health

"Does the Glove Fit? Finding the Right Ethical Framework to Justify Honoring Parental Requests in the context of Pediatric End-of-Life Care"

“Queer Eye for the Clinician and PI: Ethically Caring for LGBTQIA+ Individuals”

Putting epistemic justice into practice: The case of knowledge encounters 

"Remaking Bioethics Together" and "Enacting "bounded justice" through HIV integrated planning in the United States" 

Off the record: Ensuing privacy protections in free and charitable health clinics 

Research Ethicists' Work Beyond the IRB to Integrate Justice-Based Considerations 

Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Ethical Concerns Regarding Standardized Cognitive Assessments in Healthcare 

Safeguarding or Gatekeeping? Historical, legal, and clinical perspectives on mandatory ethics involvement in gender-affirming care 

"Genetic Revolutions & Moral Crossroads: Navigating the Moral Landscape of CRISPR's Debut FDA Approval for Sickle Cell Disease and "Empowering Parkinson's Patients: Proactive Consent for Optogenetic Trials"

"Bioethics poetry group: A sustainable program of express and self-care"