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This is the official account of the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

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PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 5

Delighted to share our Medical Ethics Division is the 2025 recipient of the ASBH Cornerstone Award! For more than 30 years, Penn Bioethics has been a leader in bioethical scholarship, teaching and training, public policy and engagement, and service. We look forward to carrying on this tradition!

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Apr 15

A huge congratulations to @hollylynchez.bsky.social on being named to the @statnews.com STATUS List of 2025, which features "50 influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences across biotech, medicine, health care, policy, and health tech.” www.statnews.com/status-list/...

STATUS List | Holly Fernandez Lynch

Holly Fernandez Lynch, a bioethicist and lawyer, studies drug development and what happens when the needs of patients and pharma companies don't align.

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Harsha Thirumurthy @hthirumurthy.bsky.social · Apr 11

Very proud of my brilliant and caring @pennmehp.bsky.social colleague @hollylynchez.bsky.social - she’s on the 2025 STATUS List of 50 influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences!
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STATUS List | Holly Fernandez Lynch

Holly Fernandez Lynch, a bioethicist and lawyer, studies drug development and what happens when the needs of patients and pharma companies don't align.

www.statnews.com

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thank you to everyone who applied for our Assistant Professor in Health Policy position. We had a record number of strong applicants this year and are now in the flyout stage. We wish everyone who applied best of luck with your job search.

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Steve Joffe @stevejoffe.bsky.social · Sep 25

Thrilled to welcome Dr. Derek Griffith, our newest Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, to @pennmehp.bsky.social & the Penn School of Nursing. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/derek-g...

Derek Griffith appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor | Penn Today

Griffith is an innovator in the study of health equity, and will teach in the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine.

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PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 21

Join our MEHP faculty group (Emily Largent, Matt McCoy, and @hollylynchez.bsky.social) participating in panel "The Ethics of Patient and Public Engagement in Drug Development, Approval, and Access, in room Regency A (First Floor) at 8:45 am CT. #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 20

At 10:15 am CT, Emily Largent presents during the panel: "Responding to people facing dementia: improving interprofessional learning and practice in aging societies," in room New York/Illinois Central (Second Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 20

Connie Ulrich starts of the day at 8:15 am CT participating in the panel: "Investigating Moral Distress in the Reproductive Healthcare Workforce post Dobbs," in room Grand A (First Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 19

T32 fellow, Jonathan LoTempio, presents during the #ELSI Affinity Group: "Ethics choices during the Human Genome Project reflected their policy world, not ours," at 5:45 pm CT in room Frisco Burlington (Second Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 19

Molly Sinderbrand presents her paper “A Virtue Theory of Organizational Bioethics” at 4:30 pm CT in room Midway 6 (First Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 19

@haraldschmidt.bsky.social presents during the panel "Equitable chances: a novel weighted lottery approach to crisis standards of care," at 4:30 pm CT in room Midway 5 (First Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 19

At 3 pm CT, @domsisti.bsky.social presents during panel "How Psychedelics Challenge Core Assumptions about Medicine, Ethics, and Humanity" in room Grand D-F (First Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 19

T32 fellow, Andy Murray, presents his paper “Technology Transfer and Bioethics of the Public Good in Genomic Biomedicine” at 10:45 am CT in room Midway 5 (First Floor). #ASBH24 #ELSI

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 19

At 10:45 am CT, Jen Walter presents during the panel "Caring for a patient or violating a corpse? The new brain death guidelines and unsettled questions about personhood and power" in room Grand A (First Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 18

At 4:30 pm CT, Autumn Fiester leads "Managing Challenging Conversations through Skill Facilitation" in room Grand B (First Floor). #ASBH24

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our Health Policy Division is hiring! Please apply or share with those interested in applying! apply.interfolio.com/152931. We are specifically looking for researchers interested in #populationhealth

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PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our Medical Ethics division is hiring! Please apply or share with those who might be interested in applying! apply.interfolio.com/152959

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Aug 21

Emily Largent, Jason Karlawish, & @annawexler.bsky.social identify ethical & regulatory considerations across the digital health product-development lifecycle to help developers grapple with potential challenges & advance desirable outcomes. bmcdigitalhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

From an idea to the marketplace: identifying and addressing ethical and regulatory considerations across the digital health product-development lifecycle - BMC Digital Health

Widespread adoption of digital health tools has the potential to improve health and health care for individuals and their communities, but realizing this potential requires anticipating and addressing...

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Harald Schmidt @haraldschmidt.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lots of debate re IAB's 2024 World Congress location (Qatar). Important. But the debate about global bioethics equity is broader: All need to actively engage in the next phase. Not engaging isn't neutral. It's being complicit in sustaining inequitable status quo jme.bmj.com/content/50/9...

Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together

Earlier this year, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) hosted the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) in Doha, Qatar. Understandably, controversy surrounded the decision to hold th...

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Rather than another empty, feel-good bill, both presidential candidates should commit to improving the options available to dying patients, avoiding false promises, and emphasizing equity," write @hollylynchez.bsky.social & Alison Bateman-House.

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Trump gave patients a 'right to try.' It hasn't helped them

Trump often invokes the Right to Try Act. Who wouldn't want to let people who are dying and desperate try something that might help? But the appealing name belies the law's critical shortcomings.

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PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Aug 9

The development has inspired new interest and predictions about the device. @annawexler.bsky.social expressed caution: “It certainly raises questions about what’s drawing these people into the studies and what they’re understanding about what they’re getting into.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Second brain implant by Elon Musk’s Neuralink: will it fare better than the first?

Device allowing the user to control a computer cursor using their thoughts has been adjusted in a bid to prevent glitches with the first implant. Device allowing the user to control a computer cursor ...

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Steve Joffe @stevejoffe.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/ Pleased to share a new Open Access paper in Clinical Trials, led by Emily Largent, on the value of community consultation in clinical trials that request waivers of the requirement for informed consent (threadlet). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The ethical value of consulting community members in non-emergency trials conducted with waivers of informed consent for research - Emily A Largent, Steven Joffe, Neal W Dickert, Stephanie R Morain, 2...

There is growing interest in using embedded research methods, particularly pragmatic clinical trials, to address well-known evidentiary shortcomings afflicting ...

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Steve Joffe @stevejoffe.bsky.social · May 4

Thanks to @annawexler.bsky.social for sharing her perspective, as the mother of a child with a rare genetic disease and as a bioethicist, on the invaluable role that rare-disease online forums play and on the ethical challenges that they raise. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

My Digital Refuge

In this narrative medicine essay, a medical ethicist discusses the complexity of juggling the interests of members in online forums dedicated to rare

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PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Apr 26

Congratulations to Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy on his appointment to Division Chief of Health Policy effective July 1! Read the full announcement here: medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events/in-th...

PennMEHP @pennmehp.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Largent on her appointment to Division Chief of Medical Ethics effective July 1. Read the full announcement here: medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events/in-th...