URMC / Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics

Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics

Our Mission

The Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics serves to promote three central aims throughout the region: to advance bioethical training, education, and research; to help professionals, patients, and families think through ethically complicated decisions they face; and to enhance community understanding of bioethical issues. This mission builds on the Biopsychosocial Model to address contemporary ethical issues in healthcare and to develop innovative responses to ethical concerns and challenges.

About the Center

People

Our interdisciplinary and interprofessional leadership team encourages connections and collaborations across campuses and throughout the region.

Meet Our Team

History

At the home of the biopsychosocial model, we understand the importance of values and relationships at the individual, group, and institutional level.

Our History

Education, Research & Scholarship

Core and affiliate faculty teach across the learning continuum and conduct research and scholarship on a wide variety of bioethical issues.

Our Research

Student Spotlight

Lilia Shen and Caleb Obregón

Bioethics Research for Care of the Whole Patient.

More Student Achievements

Announcements

The Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics and Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics would like to welcome new department Director Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD

URMC Bioethicist Lainie Ross Elected to National Academy of Medicine

An internationally renowned bioethicist who is building a bold new department at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Ross has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an organization comprised of the best of the best in American health care and academic medicine.

Year-Long Series on Grief

The Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics is proud to be partnering with the Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics and the University of Rochester Humanities Center to present a year-long series on grief. Here is the full schedule of events:

September 19, 2023: Joshua Rashaad McFadden, artist, photographer, director (moderated by Reenah Golden)
October 2, 2023: Patricia Caicedo, Soprano and Musicologist
October 18, 2023: Book Discussion on summer reading: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
October 25, 2023: Reel Mind movie viewing: Daughters.
February 8, 2024: Reel Mind movie viewing: Evelyn.
March 12, 2024: Sussman Lecture featuring Thomas Lynch, Essayist, Poet & Funeral Director
March 12, 2024: Thomas Lynch poetry reading
April 16, 2024: Juliet Hooker, PhD: Why Erica Garner Also Couldn’t Breathe: Maternal Grief and Black Politics

For more information on these events, contact us.