Ethics in Healthcare 2026 A One-Day Conference for Collaborative Dialogue and Inter-Professional Exchange

Friday, May 29, 2026, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Medical Education Research Facility (MERF), Iowa City, IA

Each session will be 90 minutes (a 60-minute lecture with audience interaction followed by a 30-minute Q&A between the speaker and audience).

All sessions will be in Room 2117 of the Medical Education Research Facility (MERF)
375 Newton Road
Iowa City, IA

For conference registration questions contact: 
Suzanne Gurnett Streitz, BA
Conference Coordinator
Program in Bioethics and Humanities
319.335.6706 • [email protected]

For detailed conference information and to register visit the Ethics in Healthcare 2026 Conference Website

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.00 hours), AAPA Category 1 CME credit (6.00 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (6.00 hours), ASWB Ethics CE Credit (6.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.00 hours)

1. Illustrate the moral tension between the concepts of altruism and duty.
2. Describe health care professional character traits that influence fiduciary responsibility to patients.
3. Summarize strategies to assure appropriate responsibility in patient care
4. Identify ways in which the ethics of pediatric decision-making differs from adult decision-making.
5. Determine the roles played by parent, professional, and patient in the decision-making process.
6. Analyze a pediatric ethics case by applying a framework of 5 inter-related pediatric ethics principles.
7. Describe important aspects of the patient-clinician relationship.
8. Enumerate examples of how AI might enhance or threaten the traditional patient-clinician relationship.
9. Identify key components of patient care that should not be sacrificed by the use of AI.
10. Describe the types of ethics resources and references used by clinical ethics consultants.
11. Compare references recommended by ASBH with references used by clinical ethics consultants.
12. Use clinical examples to demonstrate how different references can provide different ethical guidance.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Physician Associate: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this activity for a maximum of 6.0 ANCC contact hours.

Social Worker: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 6.0 general continuing education credit(s).

Other Health Care Provider: A certificate of participation will be available after successful completion of an online evaluation. It is the responsibility of the licensees to determine if this continuing education activity meets the requirements of their professional licensure board. 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.