"Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions” Conference 

In conjunction with the University of Miami Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, this conference began in 1993 as a modest workshop and has evolved into what has been described as one of the largest community bioethics conferences in the country, regularly attracting as many as 400 attendees. As its name makes clear, the program aims both to provide a forum for the discussion and debate of issues in bioethics and to contribute to ethical solutions for problems and challenges in clinical practice, research and public policy.

April 10, 2026
34th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Slides
  • Session 2: The (Futile?) Attempts to Address Futility at End-of-Life
  • Session 3: When ICE knocks at the hospital door: Florida's hospitals between immigration policy and the duty to care
  • Session 4: Bioethics and the Rules-BasedInternational Order
• Stream Recording

May 9, 2025
33rd Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Session 1 Handout: State of the Art in Service and Practice:Guardianship in Florida
• Session 2 Slides: The South Florida Pediatric Bioethics Consortium
• Stream Recording

April 5, 2024
32nd Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Slides
  • Session 1: The Importance of Pediatric Emergency Care Readiness and Preparation- Every Child, Every Day, Every County
  • Session 2: Reanimation after Circulatory Death: New Opportunities. Ethical and Legal Challenges for Organ Procurement
  • Session 3: Ethics Service Tune-up: Consultations, Policies, Education (Reprise)
• Stream Recording

April 14, 2023
31st Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Stream Recording

April 29, 2022
30th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Sponsor Prospectus
• Syllabus
• Session 3 Slides: Abortion Law in Florida
• Stream Recording

April 9, 2021
29th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Sponsor Prospectus
• Syllabus
• Stream Recording

November 13, 2020
28th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Virtual

• Program
• Sponsor Prospectus
• Syllabus

April 12, 2019
27th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program
• Sponsor Prospectus
• News Release
• Slides
  • Session 2 and 3: Expanding Patient Access to Health Records
  • Session 4: POLST: End-of-Life Advocacy and Public Policy
  • Session 5: Educating the Modern Hospital Ethics Committee

April 6, 2018
26th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program
• Sponsor Prospectus

April 7, 2017
25th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program

April 8, 2016
24th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program
• Slides
  • Session 1: Climate Change and Bioethics
  • Session 2: Florida POLST Update: Ethics and/or Politics
  • Session 4: Ethics, Cancer and 21st Century Health Care
  • Session 5: AIDS to Zika: Ethics of Setting Priorities in Public Health
  • Session 6: Futility Redux: When May/Should/Must a Clinician Write a DNAR Order Without Patient or Surrogate Consent?

April 17, 2015
23rd Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program

April 4, 2014
22nd Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program

April 5, 2013
21st Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami

• Program

March 30, 2012
20th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami Beach

• Program

April 1, 2011
19th Annual Florida Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions Conference
Miami Beach

• Program