The Program hosts several events each year for the public and for staff; from week long retreats to hour long lectures. Check back here regularly to see what is being offered.

Professional & Community Events

Upcoming Professional Events

Institute on Aging
Capacity: What Is It? How Do We Assess It? What Happens When We Lose It?, 16 Sept. 2009, St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco

This program will provide an overview of decision-making capacity in older adults. Focusing on financial, medical, cultural, legal and ethical topics, presenters from a wide range of disciplines will examine the difficulties that surround the issue of capacity. Presentations will include: How to help your client and their family plan for incapacity, advance directives, capacity screening tools, working with victims with diminished capacity, diversity, updates on legislation/laws, autonomy vs. safety, financial abuse, scams and fraud; protecting yourself and your client.
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATION, May 11-14, 2010, Portland, Oregon

The International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation series (ICCEC) was founded by George Agich, PhD and Professor Dr. Stella Reiter-Theil to fill the significant gap that they perceived in the field between the explosion of clinical ethics, ethics committees, and ethics consultation services around the world and the relative lack of critical and academic discussion of the many practical, institutional, and ethical issues associated with this work.

Noon Conferences & Grand Rounds

For California Pacific Staff

For more information on these events, please call (415) 600-1647.

Upcoming Grand Rounds

None scheduled at this time.


Upcoming Noon Conferences

20 August 2009
Introduction to Ethics in the Hospital
Enright Room

15 October 2009
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12 November 2009
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28 January 2010
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15 March 2010
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15 June 2010
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Annual Summer Workshop in Clinical Ethics

University of San Francisco, 6 June 2009

In addition to our other events, each year the Program offers a continuing medical education day-long course in medical ethics. The Summer Workshop in Clinical Ethics offers CME credit as well as CEUs. For more information on this year's workshop, click here.

David C. Thomasma International Bioethics Retreat

22-25 June 2009, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Each year, the Program, along with the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics and Cambridge University Press, sponsors the David C. Thomasma Memorial International Bioethics Retreat. For more information click here.