Ethics Week 2027
Mar 8-9 Clinical Ethics Unconference
Mar 10 Workshops / Ski Day
Mar 11-12 Pediatric Ethics Conference
Call for abstract submissions open June 1 - September 30, 2026!
Setting the Course
By the conclusion of Ethics Week, participants will be able to:
Analyze emerging trends, innovations, and unresolved challenges shaping the evolving landscape of clinical ethics and healthcare delivery.
Evaluate practical strategies, tools, and programmatic approaches that can be adapted across diverse clinical ethics and healthcare settings.
Examine how changes in healthcare systems, technology, organizational structures, law, policy, and patient expectations are influencing clinical ethics practice in both adult and pediatric environments.
Apply interdisciplinary perspectives to complex ethical challenges arising across clinical care, organizational ethics, consultation, education, and program development.
Identify opportunities for collaboration, systems improvement, innovation, and relationship-building within clinical ethics and healthcare ethics-related work.
Explore approaches to anticipating, preparing for, and responding to future ethical challenges within healthcare and clinical ethics practice.
Mapping the Journey
Day
Event
Location
Meals Provided
Days 1 & 2
Clinical Ethics Unconference
Who should attend?
- Practicing clinical ethicists
- Healthcare ethics consultants
- Directors and leaders of clinical ethics programs
The Clinical Ethics Unconference is a highly interactive, discussion-driven experience designed to bring practicing clinical ethicists together to explore emerging challenges, innovations, and unresolved tensions within the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare and clinical ethics. Through lightning talks, collaborative solution-sharing sessions, panels, posters, and facilitated discussions, attendees will collectively examine how clinical ethics programs are adapting to shifting institutional, legal, technological, cultural, and organizational environments.
Centered around this year’s theme, Prairies to Peaks: Mapping Change, the Unconference will focus on how the field is responding to rapid change while simultaneously preparing for future ethical challenges still emerging on the horizon. Sessions will emphasize innovation, implementation, adaptability, and collaborative exploration of both current and anticipated issues shaping clinical ethics practice.
Please note: To preserve the collaborative and practice-oriented spirit of the Unconference model, registration will be monitored to maintain an attendee group primarily composed of individuals actively engaged in clinical ethics practice and program leadership.
Day 3
Workshops or Ski Day
Who should attend?
- Practicing clinical ethicists
- Healthcare ethics consultants
- Healthcare professionals
- Trainees and learners
- Ethics committee members
- Organizational leaders
- Chaplains, social workers, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and allied health professionals
- Individuals interested in ethics, communication, leadership, or systems improvement in healthcare
Day 3 offers attendees the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops focused on practical skill development, applied learning, and interdisciplinary engagement. Workshop topics may include clinical ethics consultation skills, communication strategies, moral distress and resiliency work, program development, facilitation techniques, organizational ethics, and emerging areas of ethics practice.
Recognizing the importance of relationship-building, reflection, and restoration within ethics work, attendees may also choose to use this day for informal networking and recreation in the Colorado mountains.
This day is intentionally designed to balance professional development, collaboration, and community-building.
Days 4 & 5
Pediatric Ethics Conference
Who should attend?
- Practicing clinical ethicists
- Healthcare ethics consultants
- Pediatric clinicians
- Nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers, and allied health professionals working in pediatrics
- Ethics committee members
- Learners and trainees
- Chaplains, social workers, psychologists, and child life specialists
- Organizational leaders in pediatric healthcare
- Individuals interested in pediatric healthcare ethics and interdisciplinary pediatric care
The Pediatric Ethics Conference is an interdisciplinary conference focused on ethical issues arising within pediatric healthcare settings.
Through presentations, panels, and discussions, attendees will explore contemporary challenges in pediatric clinical ethics, including complex decision-making, communication, family dynamics, systems-level concerns, emerging technologies, and evolving ethical questions within pediatric care.
The conference emphasizes practical application, interdisciplinary dialogue, and collaborative learning relevant to the realities of pediatric healthcare environments. Sessions are designed to support thoughtful reflection and provide attendees with strategies, perspectives, and connections that can inform ethical practice across pediatric settings. Continuing education credits will be offered.