2024 Pediatric Bioethics Conference

Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics

Conference speakers

Thank you for joining us for the 19th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference! Hosted by the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care, the 2024 conference explored the theme of Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics.

The conference featured nationally recognized speakers and drew more than 200 participants from across the nation to discuss many controversial and ethical implications of AI in healthcare.

Through a wide range of interdisciplinary experts, conference attendees gathered to discuss topic related questions such as:

Can AI care?
Will health care professionals be replaced by AI?
What are the impacts of the emergence of AI on child development?
How can we use AI tools to promote equity in child and family health?

Explore Previous Conference Archives

Since 2005, the Pediatric Bioethics Conference has been a leading resource for exploring current pediatric bioethics and palliative care conversations. Learn more about previous conference topics.

Save the Date! July 17 to 19, 2025

The Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care will be hosting the 20th annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Attending to Stories: Narrative Ethics and Pediatrics. More information will be shared in the months to come.

2024 Pediatric Nursing Bioethics Conference: Nursing Ethics: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges

Nursing conference speakers

Thank you for joining Seattle Children's Center for Pediatric Nursing Research 2024 nursing ethics conference: Nursing Ethics: Today's Realities and Tomorrow's Challenges. This year, nurses, physicians, advanced care providers, social workers and ethicists discussed ethical complexities at the heart of the nursing experience. Experts shared insights into new ways of conceptualizing moral distress and analyzed how current controversies in society can impact the care nurses provide.

Many nurses from Seattle Children's, as well as neighboring institutions, were in attendance. Thanks to the support of the conference planning committee and partner donors, nurses, physicians and healthcare providers gathered to explore novel ways to common ethical challenges, aiming at innovating approaches to improve overall physical, social and emotional wellbeing of patients and caretakers.

Center for Pediatric Nursing Research

The Center for Pediatric Nursing Research advances clinical practice–focused research among Seattle Children’s nurses at all career levels. The center also promotes research collaboration as part of multidisciplinary teams, with universities and in other pediatric healthcare settings. Learn more about the center.

Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care

The Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care was the first in the nation to focus on bioethics issues and palliative care scholarship in pediatrics. Learn more about the center’s interdisciplinary research.