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Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace
Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace


Chair | Co-Chair

Introduction | History, core principles and revision process
Introduction | History, core principles and revision process



Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
Social program - Registration required
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(this Sessions will be transmitted live)
(this Sessions will be transmitted live)
Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina

Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
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Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina

Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina









Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes

Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes








Rui Nunes
Head International Chair in Bioethics | Portugal

Otmar Kloiber
World Medical Association | Germany

Annabel Seebohm
Lawyer | Brussels

Tiago Jacinto
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto | Portugal
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina


Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia
Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia


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Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina







Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Gala Dinner (with live music performance)
Social program - Registration required

Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace
Introduction | History, core principles and revision process
Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
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Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina

Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
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Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina





Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes


Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina
Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia
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Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Gala Dinner (with live music performance)
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Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace
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Introduction | History, core principles and revision process
Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
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Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
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374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina

Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
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Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina





Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes



Rui Nunes
Head International Chair in Bioethics | Portugal

Otmar Kloiber
World Medical Association | Germany

Annabel Seebohm
Lawyer | Brussels

Tiago Jacinto
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto | Portugal
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina
Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia
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Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Gala Dinner (with live music performance)
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Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace
Introduction | History, core principles and revision process
Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
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Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina

Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
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Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina





Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes


Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina
Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia
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Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Gala Dinner (with live music performance)
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Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace
Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace


Chair | Co-Chair

Introduction | History, core principles and revision process
Introduction | History, core principles and revision process



Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
Social program - Registration required
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Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina

Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)

Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
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Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina

Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina













Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes

Mónica Correia
Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes










Rui Nunes
Head International Chair in Bioethics | Portugal

Otmar Kloiber
World Medical Association | Germany

Annabel Seebohm
Lawyer | Brussels

Tiago Jacinto
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto | Portugal
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina


Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia
Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia


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Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina






Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti
Gala Dinner (with live music performance)
Social program - Registration required

Welcome Greetings
Presentation of the Art Exhibition Bioethics4Peace
Introduction | History, core principles and revision process
Panelists:
Leah Wapner | Christofer Lindholm | Otmar Kloiber
Moderators:
Rui Nunes | Ramin Parsa-Parsi
Social program - Registration required
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Co-Chairs: Francisca Rego
153 - Defining death beyond biology: Whole Brain Death and the loss of the person
Jose-Maria Dominguez-Roldan, Salvador Alegre Herrera, Felipe Martinez-Alcala, Spain
491 - Dignity therapy in paediatric palliative care
Francisca Rego, Harvey Max Chochinov, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs:
374 - The ICB WORLD edition of the First Syllabus for Youth Bioethics Education
Miroslava Vasinova, Alessandra Pentone, Italy
376 - The "Ethics & Disabilities as Different Abilities Department call for action" project
Alessandra Pentone, Italy
513 - Presentationof the project ‘Intergenerational Relations and Well-being: A Cultural andEducational Challenge”
Patrizia Borsellino, Italy
Co-Chairs: Yuju Su; Cristina Prudêncio
044 - Reporting Suspected Child Neglect from PrenatalSubstance Exposure Requires Ethical Vigilance
Yu Serena Sheung Wing, Hong Kong
311 - Autonomy, Refusal of Care and Medical Pluralism:A Bioethical Reflection from Indigenous Mexico
Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Italy
100 - Occupational Health And Safety Assessment UponBioethical Framework: The Case Of Stress-Sensitive Workplace Environments
Maria Sartzetaki, Ifigeneia Koltsikoglou, StylianosZantanidis, Theodore Constantinidis, Dimitrios Dimitriou, Greece
268 - Reconstruction and international Comparison ofPolitical and Societal Frames used during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milou Looijmans, Jan Grimell, Jelle van Gurp, NiekKok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C. Gomes de Almeida, BrunoMessina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose Paulo Fiks, Patricia Mattos, The Netherlands
255 - Potentially morally injurious events duringthe COVID-19 pandemic and long-term consequences for healthcare professionals
Anna Hjalmarsson, Jan Grimell, Milou Looijmans,Jelle van Gurp, Niek Kok, Astrid Hoedemaekers, Tine Molendijk, Alexandra C.Gomes de Almeida, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Andrea Feijó de Mello, Jose PauloFiks, Patricia Mattos, Sweden/The Netherlands/Brazil
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Debora Cavalcanti
019 - Inclusive VITABalance-Med: from BasicSchools to Family - the EU-R-EKO game!
António Rui Leal, Álvaro Ribeiro,David Moreira, Ivone Pinto, Daniela César, Teresa Adão, Portugal
087 - Understanding Of Plagiarism AndAcademic Integrity In Medical Writing: A Study On Undergraduate MedicalStudents Of A Private Medical College In Karachi, Pakistan
Beenish Shah, Pakistan
155 – Teaching of Bioethics in Clinicalsetting
Chandrakant Mhaske, Christina Mhaske,Preeti Ketak Desai, India
177 - Cinemaforum as an effective method ofteaching medical ethics and law
Ekaterine Sanikidze, Georgia
346 - Experience sharing of teachingProfessional Ethics to Undergraduate Medical (UG) students in a premier MedicalInstitute of National Importance (INI) in North East India.
Forhad Akhtar Zaman, India
Co-Chairs: Juan Michel Fariña; Evie Kendal
452 - Dystopian Literature and Bioethics in Times of Digitalization and AI: A Contribution from A. Huxley's Brave New World
Eduardo Diaz-Amado, Colombia
453 - Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: The ethical conditions of an intervention
Santiago Dechecco, Argentina
515 - The Complacent Mirror: Bioethical Issues in The Use of Generative AI for Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Dora Serué, Argentina

Co-Chairs: Shai Linn; Ingrid Bispo
055 - Ethical Challenges of Repeated Research Participation and Incentivization:Insights from Research Staff
Gul Afshan, Salma Rattani, Kausar Sayed Khan, Pakistan
218 - Legal Precision vs. Communicative Clarity: The Language of ResearchInformation
Anita Gałęska-Śliwka, Poland
328 - The Biblical Code: Environmental Scirnce (epigenetics) and the Mind Mirroredin Speech
Liora Weinbach, Israel
379 - Psychological Monitoring andSupport of Neurotechnology Users: A Proposed Application Model
Francisco Miguel de Oliveira Gonçalves,Sandra Carvalho, Portugal
178 - Navigating Ethical Challenges in Forensic Nursing: A Narrative Review.
Giuseppina Seppini, Emiliano Bruno, Mauriziano Umberto, Italy
478 - The right to be forgotten as a tool for non-discrimination of patients
Ana Paula Cabral, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Natália Oliva-Teles; George Mendz
004 - Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Relativism: the Question of the Status of an Embryo in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Jakub Valc, Czech Republic
022 - Genetic Engineering: Advances, Ethical Challenges and Regulatory Perspectives
Gabriela de Almeida Teixeira, Daniela Serra de Almeida, Fábio de Almeida Teixeira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Brazil
197 - Genomic Medicine in Japan: Bridging Policy, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Jusaku Minari, Japan
273 - Neural organoids: ethical issues and agile governance
Martin Davies, UK
305 - Ethical and legal stewardship of legacy indigenous DNA samples in Costa Rica: toward a participatory framework for genomic research and benefit sharing
Alejandro Leal, Ramiro Barrantes, Jorge Morales-Elizondo, Denia Román-Solano, Costa Rica
500 - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genetic Research: Participant Perspectives and Policy Implications
Georgia Charalambidou, Cyprus
Co-Chairs: Rajiv Ahluwalia; Sofia B. Nunes
015 - Robotic physicians are transforming medical ethics by challenging traditionalprinciples of decision-making, patient trust, and professional responsibility
Kazim Hilmi Or, Germany
162 - Beyond animal replacement: how New Approach Methodologies reshape bioethicalresponsibility
Aurélie Thomas, UK
220 - Innovation and Regulation in Telemedicine: A Comparative Study of PatentTrends in the US, EU, and India
Gazala Parveen, Padmavati Manchikanti, India
300 - Scientific Research under the Digital Omnibus Proposal: Towards a MoreResearch-Friendly GDPR?
Ioannis Iglezakis, Greece
403 - From Dependency to Partnership: Ethical Reasons for Including Older Adults asCo-Designers of Wearable Robotics
Rich Harvey, USA
429 - AI Scribes and the Ethical Costs of Clinical Efficiency
Ursula M. Francis, Baddr Shakhsheer, Heather Whitney, US
Co-Chairs: Jasna K. Zanetti; Jon Borowitzi
063 - Will AI replace human clinical decision making?
Robert Anthony Gamboa Dennis, Spain
092 - Can the use of artificial intelligence become an addiction (and should we be worried about it)?
Susanne Uusitalo, Finland
152 - Agentic AI in Medical Ethics: Strengths and Limitations
George L. Mendz, Australia
326 - Ethics of Embryo Genome Simulation
Maurizio Balistreri, Italy
415 - Iberian Observatory for Disorders of Consciousness (IBERCON)
Liliana Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
496 - As Medicine Changes, Will Physicians’ Ethical Perspectives Change With It?
Ana Isabel Azevedo, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Maria Gonçalves
Participation of:
Muriel Slim (IFMSA),
Maria Leal (ANEM),
Ana Beatriz Gato (ANEP),
Afonso Gomes (FMUP)
Co-Chairs: Domenico Palombo; Eva Dias Costa
051 - Ethical Conflicts, Agency, and the Dystopian Institution: Understanding theMaking of Transgression in Outreach Work with Homeless Populations
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Elisabeth Greissler, Canada
052 - Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Conversational Mental HealthChatbots: A Systematic Review
B. Zara Malgir, Switzerland
068 - Limits on Interference with Patients’ Liberty: Restraints and InvoluntaryHospitalization in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights MainAuthor
Viktor Typlt, Czech Republic
099 - When Justice Meets Reality: Institutional Constraints in Funding HealthInnovation
Rigobel N. Azanwi, UK
239 - Underage Motherhood and Parental Consent in Critical Healthcare: A Legal andEthical Dilemma in Pakistan
Fatima Khan, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly; Evie Kendal
032 - Assisted Reproduction and the Place of the Child’s Best Interests in European Constitutional Reasoning
Salomeja Fernandez Montojo, Lithuania
042 - Maternal Autonomy versus the Moral Status of the Newborn: An Empirical Bioethics Study on Planned Home Birth
Drauzio Oppenheimer, Alcir Teixeira Júnior, Giullya Salomão Silva, Leonardo Filipini Campos, Sofia Nunes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil/Portugal
338 – Conscientious Objection in Croatia: Towards a Better Legal Framework
Ivana Tucak, Gordana Pelčić, Barbara Pelčić, Croatia
304 - Measuring, What Matters? A Data-Driven Model for Ethics Consultation Tracking and Organisational Accountability
Daniel Wyzynski, Robert Sibbald, Canada
176 - Ethics Under Fire: How Medical Decision-Making Adapts in War
Karen Mashiah Zvang, Israel
Co-Chairs: RobynaKhan; Sofia B. Nunes
040 - Human Dignity: The Transdisciplinarity Of The Ethics Of Alterity In PursuitOf Scientific And Technological Responsibility
Ricardo Geraldo de Carvalho, Brazil
057 - The Pursuit of Youth in time’s mirror. Ethical Reflections on CosmeticDermatology
Sophie Hintzen, P. Lora, J. Hintzen, J.P. Rothlaender, M. Augustin, Germany/DominicanRepublic
141 - Concept of Human Dignity in theEra of Personalized Medicine
Nino Rodonaia, Georgia
246 - The Paradox of Moral Distress: Rethinking Moral Sensitivity and InstitutionalConstraint in Nursing Ethics
Keiichiro Yamamoto, Tomohide Ibuki, Kyoko Takashima, Yusuke Inoue, Eisuke Nakazawa, Japan
501 - Xenotransplantation in its infancy: Ethical issues as the field enters early clinical trials.
Bruce Gelb, USA
308 - The Capabilities Approach As A Key Factor To Reduce Vulnerability
Sonia Jimeno, Spain
Co-Chairs: Marie-José Gijberts; Francisca Rego
046 - Vulnerability at the end of life:bioethical and legal reflections on autonomy, care and human dignity
Sara Elena Villanueva Sáenz, México
378 - Ethical Considerations in Output versus Outcome Measurement in PalliativeCare: A READ-Based Qualitative Study
Manuel Barbosa, Beth Russell, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
247 - To Tell or Not to Tell: How Different Perspectives Shape the Ethics ofHonesty and Concealment
RogerYat-nork Chung, China
133 - Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Reconciling Patient Choice withInstitutional Religious Policies
Nada Malek, Andria Bianchi, Leslie Shafran, Canada
184 - Understanding Christian perspectives on palliative sedation
Jonathan Lambaerts, Nele De Weyer, Bert Broeckaert, Belgium
373 - The Ethics of Antimicrobial Intent: A Bioethical Framework forDecision-Making Across the Continuum of Antimicrobial Therapy
Ricardo Fernandes, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jose Maria Roldán; Jadranka Ponikvar
048 - Ethical Considerations in Online Echo Chambers: Why Personal Agency andCharacter Matter
Hilde Doris Miniggio, Philip Baron, South Africa
083 - Medical Ethics and Physical Restraint
Andrea Tarantola, Italy
091 - Faces as health data: Rethinking ethics in facial AI
Susana Silva, Helena Machado, João Santos, Niklas Juth, Portugal/Sweden
110 - Strike! Between Patients and Protest: How Career Stage Shapes UK Doctors’Views on Industrial Action
Idrhys Zaman-Khan, UK
277 - Ethical Challenges, National Conflicts of Interest Regulations andOncologists’ Disclosure Practices: Findings from the Multinational ONCOTRUST-2Study
Abdelhaq Roun, Dario Trapani, Nasser Laouali, Khalid El Bairi, Morocco
297 - Pigs, Sheep, and Sacred Boundaries: An Empirical Study in Xenotransplantation Ethics in Egypt
Gabriel Andrade, United Arab Emirates
112-Physician Participation in Capital Punishment as a Case Study of the Tension Between Legislation and Medical Ethics
Inbar Kimhi Levy, Israel
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Daniela Keidar
International Chair in Bioethics | Israel

Igor Milinkovic
Faculty of Law of the University of Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina





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Alberto Costa | Jacinto Oliveira | Luís Pinto | Paulo Serra

Rui Nunes


Co-Chairs: Barna Ganguly ; Paulo S. Oliva-Teles
147 - Mental Health in Pediatric Palliative Care: Clinical and PsychosocialPerspectives
Deli Grace De Barros Araújo, Marcos Barros de Araújo, Mateus Barros deAraújo, Hae Nah Lee Chung, Marcelo Barros de Araújo, Laiane Moraes Dias, MariaLuísa de Morais e Sousa de Castro Guedes, Ivone Duarte, Brazil/Portugal
327 - Spiritual Well-being and Ethical Dimensions of Person-Centred Care inInstitutionalised Older Adults Receiving Geriatric Palliative Care
Joana Isabel Pinto Briga, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Portugal
315 - Palliative Care Needs and Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents:Contributions to a Bioethical Reflection on Dignity and Person-Centred Care
Maria Filomena Nascimento, Francisca Rego, Sofia Nunes, Emília Moreira,Portugal
417 - Bioethical Aspects of AddressingSpirituality in Clinical Practice
Laiane Moraes Dias, Anelise Fonseca, CamilaVeloso, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Brazil
282 - The obstinancy of “care”: whenThe rigidity of palliative care becomes maleficence
Tania Carta, Italy
264 - Implementation and Challenges of Palliative Care in Mozambique: A Systematic Review
Telma Soda Licumba, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Mohsin Sidat, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
333 - The Ethics of the Unasked Question: When Silence Becomes an Ethical Decision in Palliative Care
Carolina Alves Portela, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Igor Milinkovic; Antonella Mauri
079 - Defining Death: A BioethicalExamination of Organ Donation for Heart Transplantation by Circulatory Death(DCD)
Darnelle Stinfort, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez,Tomoko Y. Steen, USA
109 - From Clinical Complexity toDefensible Causation: Forensic Epidemiology in Alleged Medical Negligence
Harry Herkutanto, Putri Dianita IkaMeilia, Klarisa, Indonesia
179 - Broad consent in paediatricbiobanking – A review of current practises across Europe
Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Gesine Richter,Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Roberto Bilbao, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, GauthierChassang, Kris Dierickx, Roland Jahns, Peggy Manders, Deborah Mascalzoni;Ingrid Metzle, Maria Judit Molnar, Marjut Salokannel, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag,Torild Skrivarhaug, Cathie Sudlow, Aaro Tupasela, Austria
286 - Restricted Autonomy and ConsentLimits in Neural-Data Governance
Chenrui Xu, Ang Liu, China
245 - Barriers to Accessing Cervical CancerScreening and Treatment in the Amazon Region—A Systematic Review
Marcia Helena Ribeiro De Oliveira,Sandra Lopes Aparício, José Antônio Cordero da Silva , Domingos Aires LeitãoNeto, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
330 - How can we find and spread peace?
Gabriela Renault, María Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
425 - Can Artificial Intelligence Decide About Human Suffering Based on Ambiguous Ethical Principles
Irene Onik, Ester Alfie, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Jon Borowicz; Maria Gonçalves
200 - Educating for Justice: Reframing Social Accountability in Medical Education as an Ethical Responsibility
Altumush Saad, Omar Odeh, Rowaydah Alaa, Muriel Slim, India
250 - Amplifying Medical Students’ Voices in Global Policy: IFMSA’s Contribution to the WFME Declaration
Kana Halić Kordić, Muriel Slim, Dominika Flisek, Geneviève Moineau, Lebanon
190 - Guiding Physician Integrity: From Capacity Building to Grounded Exchange Practices
Rowaydah Alaa, Ismail Mousa, Anna Liakopoulou, Egypt
206 - Human Rights and Bioethics Education for Future Physicians: Evaluation of a Student-Led Capacity-Building Program
Mehrsa Hamidi, Balssam Essoul, Zeliha Tayran, Dominika Flisek, Muriel Slim, Iran
201 - Co-Creating Ethical Medical Education: A Student-Led, Technology-Enhanced Approach
Muriel Slim, Catarina Pais Rodrigues, Mustafa Kamala, Lebanon
446 - Microgestures: An Ecobioethical Proposal for the Everyday Construction of Peace
Natalia Ferrucci, Carla Amoroso
Co-Chairs: Rosylane Nascimento Rocha; Sandra Lopes Aparício
279 - Bioethical Dimensions of Newborn Screening by Human Genome Sequencing: A NewRecommendation of the Greek National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics
TheodorosTrokanas, Greece
337 - Training Nurses to Combat Stigma Against People Living with HIV – EthicalIssues and Potential Solutions
JérômePelletier, Geneviève Rouleau, Dave Bergeron, Canada
229 - Doctor-patient relationschip. A new model of relationship between doctor,patient, caregiver, family: the extended floating model
Luca Pratticò, Antonia A. Giorgi, Italy
005 - Contested Norms: Understandingthe Ethical and Legal Foundations of Pathogen ABS
Abbie-Rose Hampton, UK
329 - The Necropolitical Paradox of theBrazilian State: The Criminalization of Euthanasia and the Naturalization ofMistanasia in Population Aging
Bianca Araujo da Silva, Débora Gozzo,Brazil
135 - The Biopolitics in 15th-Century Venice: The Emergence of Survival Ethics in the “Laboratory” of Global Public Health
Chrysa Apostoloumi, Christina Gkampitsaki, Alexandra K. Tsaroucha, Greece
Co-Chairs: Tiago Jacinto; Cristina Prudêncio
012 - Triadic Dialogue In Responsible Biotechnology Governance: We Need To Talk
LarissePrinsen, South Africa
078 - The MAGI Framework as a Real- Time Guardrail for Safe Autonomous RoboticSurgery
YaraCoelho Siqueira Meireles, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Junior, Pedro Incerte AyerPereira, Carolina Maia De Cia, Vitor Neves Chinellato de Lima, Brazil
384 - Medical Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Bioprinting: BioethicalImplications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CristinaPrudêncio, Ana Paula Nascimento, Paula Amador, Paula Lopes, Mónica Vieira, RuiNunes, Portugal
016 - Cross-Border Robotic Surgery in theEU: Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges
Jean V. McHale, UK
497 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprints and Our Ethical Foortprints
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, USA
Co-Chairs: Ivone Duarte; Rui Nunes
Project presentation: Communication Access and Equity in Healthcare for Deaf People
435 - CARES-Deaf: Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People
Sílvia Alves, Susana Barbosa, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Rui Nunes, Alberto Freitas, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
440 - Communication Accessibility and Healthcare Equity for Deaf People: Evidence from Four European Countries
Alberto Freitas, Andreia Teixeira, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes, Helder Morgado, Sofia Baptista, Susana Barbosa, Sílvia Alves, Sara Castro, Inmaculada Camarena, Rayco Montesino, Hakan Sari, Beyza Yakici, Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
439 - Communication Access and Equity in Mental Health Care for Deaf People: Findings from Spain in the CARES-Deaf Project
Inmaculada Garrote Camarena, Spain
441 - Can Mental Health Care be Ethical Without Accessible Communication?
Helena Marques, Portugal
508 - Beyond Communication: Deafness, Disability and Cultural Dimensions of Healthcare Access in Latin America
Francisco J. Rapela, Spain
514 - Communication Access as a Foundation for Equitable Deaf Health Care
Michael Mckee
Co-Chairs: Igor Milikovic; Nuno Vale
106 - Ethical Guardrails for Healthcare Digital Twins: Pluralistic Multi-AgentDeliberation and FAIR Data Principles
Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Urbano, Carolina MaiaDe Cia, Maria Carolina Ferreira Villela, Maria Luisa de Sales Cabral Barison,Marcela Calado dos Santos Carvalho, Carlos Henrique Valério de Moraes, LucianoMagalhães Vitorino, Sanderson Oliveira de Macedo, Brazil
249 – ‘Vulnerability’: A layered approach towards telemedicine
Valeria Contiero, Italy
213 – When AI Becomes the Decision-Maker: Should Algorithms Hold ClinicalResponsibility?
Inês Costa Santos, Portugal
382– Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees: BioethicalChallenges of Communication, Vulnerability and Justice
Sandra Lopes Aparício, Marcia Helena Ribeiro de Oliveira, Ana IsabellaCampos Aparício, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Carla Amoroso; Sara Pinto
007– Gender-based Violence against Women - when is a Femicide a Femicide?
Kristina Wolff, Germany
036– Designing for Whom? Stakeholder Perspectives on Sex and Gender Bias inImplantable Medical Devices
ZoiKonsta, Chiara Silipigni; George Kouvas; Bernice Simone Elger, Switzerland
059– Overcoming Gender Underrepresentation in Deep Brain Stimulation: TowardStructural Reform
Chiara Silipigni, Zoi Konsta; Georgios Kouvas; Bernice S. Elger; Tenzin Wangmo,Switzerland
289 - Bodily integrity – meanings and variations
Anna Alichniewicz, Poland
222- Progressive Autonomy and Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender Transition Treatments: A Dialectical Legal and Bioethical Analysis of Bell v. Tavistock
Claudia Orellana, México
516 - Buildind a Culture of Peace: .Subjectivity, Gender and the Ethics of Coexistence in Contemporary Bioethics
Carla Amoroso, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Ivana Tucak; Bruce Gelb
071 - The Many Faces of the Right to Bodilyand Mental Integrity in Bioethics and Biolaw
Joanna Rozynska, Poland
150 - How Best Interest is Better than Harmin Paediatrics
Schuyler Pringle, Canada
151 - Between Protection and Autonomy: AHuman Rights Perspective on Care in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
Jorge Miguel França Santos, SofiaMarques da Silva, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes, Portugal
314 - Informational Inviolability andSelf-Determination of the Self
Bruno de Almeida Lewer Amorim, Brazil
348 - Surgical Interventions in IntersexChildren: Rethinking Bodily Integrity in Pediatric Care
Mariya Petrova, Bulgaria
136 - Balancing Fiscal Sustainability and Equity in Contribution-Based Healthcare Systems: A Fiduciary Framework applied to Monaco
Christina Gkampitsaki, Chrysa Apostoloumi, Monaco
107 – Caring And Migration: The Place Of Listening
Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Jasna Zanetti; Antonella Mauri
237 - Comparison of Ethical Knowledge andAttitudes Between Doctoral Mentors and Doctoral Students at the Faculty ofMedicine, University of Ljubljana
Stefan Grosek, Lara Pungartnik, Tia Škrjanc,Vanja Erčulj, Matej Podbregar, Slovenia
248 - The Pulse of the Story: NarrativeEthics as a Bridge to Ethical Sensitivity in Medical Education
Hasan Erbay, Turkey
287 - Perceptions about Collaboration andCompetition in Research: A Game-Theoretic Exploration of Multi-InstitutionalDynamics
Naureen Valliani, Pakistan
101 - Bioethical Foundations upon Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice: Leason learned from ancient Greece culture
Dimitrios Dimitriou, Vasileios Benteniotis, Katerina Mpoulieri, Antonia Moutzouri , Aristi Karagkouni, Maria Sartzetaki, Greece
103 - The Limits of Existing Accounts of Prognosis
Natalie Martin, Canada
066 - A qualitative study on research ethics education approaches, learning, and practices in Rwanda: experiences from faculty and students
Pacifique Ndayishimiye, Cynthia Khamala Wangamat, Marie Françoise Mukanyangez, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Norway
486 - Visual Art in Bioethics Pedagogy: Expanding Knowledge, Awareness, and Decision-Making Skills
Kristina Baldwin Larson, USA
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ormart, Michel Farina
Post mortem insemination in Argentina
470 - Bioethical Issues Linked to Postmortem Insemination
Elizabeth Ormart, Argentina
128 - Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval in Israel during the October 7th War: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Yossef Walfisch, Israel
448 - Uncertainties in Posthumous Reproduction
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández, Spain
490 - Bioethics and Grief Technologies: Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (1927)
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña, Eduardo Laso, Argentina
Co-chairs: José Gallo; Jon Borowitz
160 - On-Demand Medical Ethics Education:An empirical study of medical students' use of digital resources to supportethics and law learning
Jordan A. Parsons, UK
157 - “My present vision of the core ofMedicine based on the message of a painting and a ship travel, made both on theXVI century”
Jose Manuel Domingues Pocas, Portugal
362 - Engaging Ethics: Learner-CenteredBioethics Education Through Reflection and Simulation
Tashfeen Ahmad, Anita Allana, MustafaAslam, Ashar Malik, Qamar Riaz, Shahzadi Resham, Tazeen Saeed Ali, MuhammadShahid Shamim, Asra Qureshi, Robyna Khan, Kulsoom Ghias, Pakistan
132 - Student Autonomy and Informed Consent in Peer Physical Examination: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan
Sumera Saeed, Pakistan
Co-Chairs: Patrícia Ribeiro
085 - Environmental Equity and Evolutionary Engineering: Our Ecological Footprintsand Our Ethical Footprints
Paul Brandt-Rauf, USA
189 - Environmental Crisis as a Public Health Crisis: Justice, Human Rights, andthe Reinforced Duty to Protect Older Persons
Cláudia Monge, Portugal
031 - Conceptual Synergies in Ethics, Environmental Health, and Spiritual Dimensionindicate that a Health-centric approach to Climate Change can address itsEthical Issues.
Mahesh Bhatt, India
322 - I want to be human, I hope it’s not too late
Maria Lucila De Picciotto, Argentina
298 - Dreamer autonomy and ethical restraint in Ullman’s experiential dreamwork: a bioethics pedagogy for clinical psychology training
Maria Campo-Redondo, United Arab Emirates University
510 - Family Secrets and Professional Ethics: Between Confidentiality and Disclosure
Silvia Saraceno Fasce, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
511 - Autism Diagnosis: A Starting Point. Bioethical Reflections on Nomination and Singularity
Silvina Martínez, Marcela Fernández Amado, Argentina
Co-Chairs: Patrizia Borsellino; Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar
180 - Decisions In Emergency: Ethical Risks And The Decision-Making Map InPediatric Testicular Torsion
Toader Elena, Corina Andone Turcu, Romania
225 - Moral Distress Among Physicians in an Internal Medicine Emergency Department:Ethical Burden Under Structural Constraints
Željka Večerić-Haler, Jadranka Buturović Ponikvar, Slovenia
113 - Making the Invisible Visible: Using Comics to Address the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education
Krystal Rampersad, Rachqueda Salfarlie, Nitsa Topale, Grenada
187 - Neurorights in the Age of Neurotechnology
Attila Menyhard, Hungary
343 - The Hyperjuridification of Medical Practice: Defensive Medicine as aBioethical Crisis
Ingrid Vitória Secco Dameão, Brazil
450 - Palliative Radiotherapy and end of life: a delicate balance between beneficence and non-maleficence
Paulo S. Oliva Teles, Aida Vieira Oliva Teles, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Michel Farina; Inês Falcão Pires
120 - When Values Collide: Patterns and Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultationsat a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center in Pakistan
Muhammad Rohaan Ali Jarral, Habiba Zaheer, Badar Afzal Khan, Muhammad Atif Waqar,Pakistan
121 - The Role of Research Ethics Committees in the Development of GovernanceFrameworks for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data within the EuropeanHealth Data Space Regulation
Laura Centeno Casado, Spain
081 - Lack of Clarity on “Fair” Compensation in Medical Research CompromisesResponsible Practices Among Investigators in Uganda
Mary Namukisa, Gertrude N. Kiwanuka, Uganda
401 - Building Capacity for Clinical Ethics in Malaysia
TanHui Siu, Zilfalil bin Alwi, Erwin Khoo Jiayuan, Wan Shahrul Liza Shahran,Malaysia
406 - Challenges and Competencies of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Local Health Units in Portugal
Giovanni Cerullo, Andreia Teixeira, Ivone Duarte, Portugal
Co-Chairs: RitaNegrão; Ana Paula Cabral
122 - Psychopathy and Rational Agency: Mechanistic Constraints on Informed Consent
Daniel Lee, Germany
207 - Informed consent and patient safety
Marco Aurélio Constantino, Portugal
219 - Informed Consent in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Its Impact on ClinicalPractice
Maria João Begonha, Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Inês Guimarães, Portugal
045219 - Limits of Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice
Alvaro Garzo Chumilla, Spain
342 - From Promise to Practice: Identifying Ethical Challenges in Personalised Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Signe Mežinska, Latvia
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Co-Chairs: Santiago Decheco; Lincoln Ferreira
341 - Advance Directives in Portugal: thestate of the art
João Carlos Macedo, Portugal
356 - Ethical Implications ofPay-for-Performance in Primary Care: A Structured Literature Review
Aida Íris da Costa Vieira Oliva Teles,Maria João das Neves, Patrícia Fernandes da Costa, Paulo S. Oliva Teles,Rafaela Alexandra Marques Esteves, Portugal
366 - Moral Leadership in Challenging Times
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, USA
108 - Pain Management in Greece: Bioethicaland Legal Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Maria Gatzoflia, Greece
086 - Interactive Normative Repository onBioethical Issues in Ibero-America
Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, Martha PatriciaHernández Valdez, Javier Migueltorena Puertas, Alexis Posadas Delgado, MarcoAntonio Cortez Cortes, México
Co-Chairs: Filomena Nascimento; Waldemar Amaral
168 - Torn Between Two Types of Fear in AI Healthcare - Is the Solution Legal orEthical?
Henrique Curado, Portugal
281 - Legal Protection Of Health Data In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: AnExamination Within The Framework Of Chinese And U.S. Legal Regulations
Umut Berkay Polat, Türkiye
288 - Beyond the Loop: Why Human Beings Must Govern - not Inhabit - AI in Medicine
Jim Damron, USA
318 - Looking Beyond Data: Why Narrative Bioethics And Narrative Medicine Matter In(Digital) Healthcare
Susana Magalhães, Portugal
339 - Beyond the Four Principles: Human Relationality and AI in Medicine
Carl Hildebrand, Hong Kong, China
426 - The Contradiction of AI in Healthcare: Environmental and Health Impacts of AI Data Centres
Vivian Deng, Canada
Co-Chairs: Annabel Seebohm; Luís Fonseca
124 - Courage Over Compliance: A Qualitative Study of Compassionate Breach inMental Health Research
UsmanAdeel, Pakistan
165 - Autonomy and Suffering in Implementing Advance Euthanasia Directives forpersons with Dementia
Adelheid Rigo, Johan Stuy, Belgium
208 - 10 Questions & Answers Regarding a Clinical Case – Ethics in MedicalPractice
Mariana Lessa Simões, Portugal
276 - Burnout X Other Mental Disorders: Analysis Based On Real Clinical Cases
Maria Helena Abreu Teixeira, Ana Cristina Sáad, Brazil
056 – Criteria to approach limitations in the assessment of psychiatric disease in physician-assisted death
Luís Fonseca, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Silvina Martínez; Elizabeth Ormart
067 - When Universal Coverage Is Not Enough: Inequities in HIV Treatment Access inColombia
Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Yeferson Vélez Agudelo, AarónZea, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Canada
098 - Depiction of the Bioethical Stigma towards Operation of Autism OccupationalCare Units
Aristi Karagkouni, Pegky Dimitriou, Litsa Lagakou, Alexandra Tsaroucha,Greece
195 - When Is a Person Seen as a Person, Not a Diagnosis? Dignity, Quality of Life,and the Ethical Perception Gap in Severe Neuromuscular Disease
Maks Lenart Černelč, Štefan Grosek, Slovenia
350 - From "Is Ageing Bad?" to "What Makes Ageing Unjust?": AChinese Medical Ethics Response
MinChen, China
377 - Autonomy, Risk and Coercion: A Bioethical Comparison of Safeguards in Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Mariana L. Nogueira, Rui Nunes, Sandra Lopes Aparício, Luís Fonseca, Portugal
424 - The SMART- TC (Therapeutic Considerations) Ecobioethical Framework for the Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Safeguarding Human Dignity, Clinical Responsibility, and the Therapeutic Encounter
Moty Benyakar, Irene Onik, Argentina
Co-Chairs: PauloS. Oliva-Teles; Ivone Duarte
111 - Medical ethics, health law and organ transplant abuse abroad
David Matas, Canada
293 - The Development of Stem Cell Law and Ethics in Malaysia
Wong Choong Wai, Malaysia
310 - Autonomy as Moral Responsibility: Grounding Informed Consent in an AutonomyDerived from Dignity and Vicegerency in Islamic Theology
Nourah Alhusayni, Saudi Arabia
102 - Is Consent Still Central? EHDS and the Future of Patient Trust in Europe
Dorota Krekora-Zając, Poland
438 - Health Data, Artificial Intelligence and Biobanks: Building Trustworthy Research Ecosystems
Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Poland
Coordinator: Waldemar Amaral; Evie Kendal
149 - Parts and wholes: the relationshipbetween cells and humans
Naja Rathje Lennert, Denmark
117 - The Role of the Biobank as a CentralMechanism for Managing the Flow of Data and Biological Material in MedicalResearch: Implications for Quality, Legal Compliance, and the Protection ofPatient Rights
Patrycja Szałapska, EwelinaBobel-Katryniok, Polska
183 - One Nation, Many Genomes: ReviewingGenomic Heterogeneity and Ancestral Representation in Indian Oncology Trials
Vidushi Surana, India
458 - Beyond Anonymisation: A Bioethical Governance Model for AI-Enabled Genetic Databases in Brazil
Henrique Zarpellon Martin, Christiane Peres Caldas, Henderson Fürst, Francisca Rego, Rui Nunes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Juan Pablo Duarte; Tiago Jacinto
181 - Perceptions of Pediatric Specialists in Pakistan regarding Assent forResearch Participation in Children
Hana Arbab, Tazeen Ali, Mustafa Aslam, Pakistan
069 - A Review of Online Calls for Participation Targeting Healthy Volunteers inPaid Clinical Trials in Poland: An Ethical Analysis
Emilia Kaczmarek, Poland
231 - Ethical Perceptions of Cognitive Enhancement via Brain Implants: A Qualitative Study Among Medical Faculty in Karachi, Pakistan
Talea Hoor, Pakistan
167 - Efficiency in Bioethics: A Bibliometric Analysis of Conceptualizations, Trends, and Research Patterns (2010–2026)
Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Helena Donato
412 - Bioethics Applied to Anthropometry
Bruno Sousa, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Branca Soares da Costa; Rui Amaral Mendes
217 - The Relationship Between Medical Ethics And Health Law: Beyond Primacy TowardIntegration
Daria Lunca, Mihaela Pertea, Netherlands
291 - Antisemitism in Medicine and the events of October 7th: A medicalprofessional duty to address
Tessa Chelouche, Israel
129 - Beyond the Dichotomy: Toward a New Framework for Innovative MedicalInterventions
Julia Stanek, Poland
142 - The Right to Be Forgotten in Health Data: A Bioethical Analysis of thePortuguese Reallity
José António Correia de Oliveira Miranda, Portugal
240 - Organ Transplantation in Azerbaijani Criminal Law: Bioethical Challenges and Reform Perspectives
Sevda Karimova, Yeganə Abbasova, Azerbaijan
Co-Chairs:Robyna Khan; Joana Briga
259 - Ethics at a Safe Distance
Onur Naci Karahanci, Türkiye
271 - Exploring patterns associated with time to retraction in nursing sciences: Anintegrity analysis of over 500 recent retractions
Khalid El Bairi, Aya Ikhelk, Hind Felja, Ouiam Yammad, Imane Kabbach, Morocco
372 - Informed Refusal of Psychiatric Care in Azerbaijan: Translating StatutoryRights into Clinical Documents
Gulay Mammadzada, Araz Manucheri-Lalen, Narmin Guliyeva, Azerbaijan
353 - From Neuroenhancement to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Personal Identity, Human Agency and Democratic Values
Sara Fernandes, Portugal
Co-Chairs: Sara Pinto; Diana Altavilla
223 - Exploring Decisional Conflict in Dialysis Initiation: Insights from aMixed-Methods Study
Ingrid Romero Bispo, Francisca Rego, Guilhermina Rego, Portugal
272 - Ethical Challenges in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Management in Portugal
João Serdoura dos Santos, Portugal
170 - Between Compassion and Consciousness: Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on Palliative Sedation
Nele De Weyer, Jonathan Lambaerts,, Bert Broeckaert
495 - Beyond Longevity: Quality of Life as a BioethicalDimension of Healthcare Decision-Making
José Manuel Teixeira, Sofia B. Nunes, Portugal
512 - Dignified Death, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Contemporary Bioethical Dilemmas
Diana Altavilla, Silvina Vanesa Martinez, Argentina
Presentation of Carmi Wold Prize in Bioethics – Daniella Keidar
Presentation of the Honorary Awards of the ICB – Natália Oliva Teles & Jasna Karacic Zanetti