Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics
Our 3rd Annual Paul M. Schyve MD Center for Bioethics Conference is set for
Friday, May 2nd, 2025.
Our Mission
The Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics serves to promote three central aims throughout the region: to advance bioethical training, education, and research; to help professionals, patients, and families think through ethically complicated decisions they face; and to enhance community understanding of bioethical issues. This mission builds on the Biopsychosocial Model to address contemporary ethical issues in healthcare and to develop innovative responses to ethical concerns and challenges.
For the 2nd Annual Ethics in Healthcare Conference on April 26th, 2024, the Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics Director, Lainie Ross, interviewed Dr. Schyve himself to welcome all of the attendees to the conference and to discuss his experiences during his time at the University of Rochester, how ethics is central to healthcare, and to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Paul M. Schyve, MD, Center for Bioethics.
About the Center
People
Our interdisciplinary and interprofessional leadership team encourages connections and collaborations across campuses and throughout the region.
History
At the home of the biopsychosocial model, we understand the importance of values and relationships at the individual, group, and institutional level.
Education, Research & Scholarship
Core and affiliate faculty teach across the learning continuum and conduct research and scholarship on a wide variety of bioethical issues.
Student Spotlight
Lilia Shen and Caleb Obregón
Bioethics Research for Care of the Whole Patient.
Announcements
The Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics and Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics would like to welcome new department Director Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
URMC Bioethicist Lainie Ross Elected to National Academy of Medicine
An internationally renowned bioethicist who is building a bold new department at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Ross has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an organization comprised of the best of the best in American health care and academic medicine.
The Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics and the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester Present a Year-Long Series on Dignity
- September 23, 2024: William J. FitzPatrick: Reflections on the Notion of Dignity and its Uses and Misuses in Bioethics
- October 1: Mike Durkin: The Mending Quilt, Community Dignity
- November 6, 2024: Ondi Timoner film screeing: Last Flight Home
Moderated by: Rob Horowitz & Jason Middleton - November 11, 2024: Vincent Lloyd & Josh Dubler Book Discussion: Black Guilt and Black Dignity
- November 19, 2024: Dr. Sidney H. Sobel, MD Lecture: “How Faith Informs Practice in End-of-Life Issues: From Withdrawal of Life Support to Medical Aid in Dying”
- January 29, 2025: Guest seminar with Dan Brudney
For more information on these events, contact us.