Pediatric Grand Rounds (RECORDING) Ethical Challenges Implementing New Technologies to Healthcare

This presentation is a recording of a Stanford Pediatric Grand Rounds Session.  World-renowned experts will present the latest research, practice guidelines, and treatment protocols to advance best practices in the care of pediatric patients. These online recordings will provide pediatricians and family physicians with up-to-date clinical information on a wide range of clinical issues encountered in daily pediatric practice. In this session, Danton Char discusses research to improve understanding of the ethical challenges influencing decision- making in complex pediatric illness, the impact ethical challenges have on the lives of children and their caregivers, and efforts to empirically develop ethical guidance for implementation of novel technologies to complex care (such as Ventricular Assist Devices, Genomic Sequencing, and Machine Learning).

  Release Date: March 23, 2023
  Expiration Date: March 22, 2024
  Estimated Time to Complete: 1.0 hour
  Registration Fee: FREE
 *Originally recorded 12/16/2022.

1. Discuss that though new clinical technologies (such as AI) have benefits, there are likely to be ethical challenges.
2. Examine methodology for considering ethical and practical implications of novel clinical technology is needed.
3. Review guidance for ethical challenges that will come from both prior ethical scholarship and new studies.

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Alan R. Schroeder, MD
Clinical Professor
Stanford University

Co-Course Director

Nothing to disclose

Olivera Marsenic Couloures, MD
LPCH

Course Director and Reviewer

Nothing to disclose

Danton Samuel Char, MD
Associate Professor
Stanford

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Debra Babcock, MD
Stanford Childrens (PCHA)

Planner

Nothing to disclose

Lisa Jo Chamberlain, MD
Professor of Pediatrics – General Pediatrics
Stanford Children's Health

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Nothing to disclose

Baraka Dechelle Floyd, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Stanford University School of Medicine

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Nothing to disclose

Charles Gawad, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Stanford

Planner

Ownership-BioSkryb Genomics

Allison Guerin, EdD
Stanford

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Nothing to disclose

Mary Beth Leonard, MD, MSCE
Arline and Pete Harman Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University

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Nothing to disclose

Ryan Lion, MD, MS
Stanford University

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Nothing to disclose

Lauren E O'Brien, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
LPCH

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Nothing to disclose

Stephen J Roth, MPH, MD
Attending, Cardiovascular ICU
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

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Nothing to disclose

Stephanie Squires, MD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow
Stanford Health Care/ Stanford Children's Hospital

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Nothing to disclose

Ke-You Zhang, MD
Stanford University

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