The FBN is in its fourth decade. Its history, role and function were marked in 2022 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, at which the FBN director participated in a panel, "The Public Role of State Bioethics Organizations in Advancing Ethical Practices and Policies."
In his remarks, Ken Goodman of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine recounted some of the FBN’s history, including the vision and initiative of its founder, Ray Moseley of the University of Florida College of Medicine; noted the professional diversity of the FBN Advisory Board; described three decades of conferences and other educational activities, including 15 years of the pediatrics bioethics conference; and gave an account of the board's work on crisis standards of care during the Covid pandemic.
The session received a warm reception, and contributed to consideration of an ASBH “affinity group” on statewide bioethics networks.
Citation: Goodman KW, Tolle S, Blackler L. The Public Role of State Bioethics Organizations in Advancing Ethical Practices and Policies. American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, Portland, Oregon, October 29, 2022. In addition to presenters, the panel was conceived by Louis Voigt of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Stephen Post of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.
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