The MacLean Center

About the Conference

Join leading experts and colleagues for an engaging exploration of today's most pressing ethical challenges in medicine. This dynamic conference equips healthcare professionals with practical tools and fresh perspectives to navigate complex ethical dilemmas across diverse clinical settings.

Through thought-provoking lectures, interactive panel discussions, and rich collaboration, participants will gain strategies to strengthen the patient-physician relationship, ensure informed consent, and address disparities in care and outcomes.

Featuring the 2026 MacLean Center Prize Winner: Margaret "Gretchen" Schwarze, MD, MPP

cme.uchicago.edu/maclean2026

Conference Location

David Rubenstein Forum
University of Chicago
1201 E 60th St
Chicago, IL 60637

Learning Objectives

• Analyze ethical situations that arise in routine clinical encounters
• Evaluate diverse perspectives, including legal, medical, cultural, and religious, when addressing clinical ethical dilemmas
• Integrate current literature, policies, and directives in clinical medical ethics to support decision-making in practice
• Examine how clinical medical ethics principles influence the healthcare system and specialty-specific practice
• Apply the tenets of clinical medical ethics to case-based scenarios within participants' specialties

Continuing Education Credit

Physicians: Up to 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME.

Social Workers: 12.75 continuing education units for LSW and LCSW social workers in Illinois.

Other Participants: Certificate of Participation provided.

Course Director

Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, HEC-C
Kilbride-Siegler-Clinton Professor of Surgery and Medicine
Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Contact

MacLean Center Staff: Anne Wong, Haley Beck, Natasha Megherea

Email: macleancenter@bsd.uchicago.edu