Clinical ethics events
Support for clinical ethics initiatives
CESA is committed to promoting initiatives in clinical ethics that contribute to and build the CESA community and welcomes applications for support for such initiatives from CESA members. Find more information in the Clinical Ethics Society of Australasia Policy on Supporting Clinical Ethics Activities.
Upcoming events
Details of upcoming clinical ethics events supported by CESA will be posted on this website.
Clinical Ethics Roundtable, there will be three sessions in 2026 in this series of online meetings that create room for ethics reflection and skill development, co-hosted by the clinical ethics teams at South Eastern Sydney LHD, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, and Western Sydney LHD. Roundtable is an informal space to explore practical clinical ethics issues in greater depth and in conversation with clinicians, academics and others. Dates in 2026:
Tues 20 October, 7pm-8.30pm: Hosted by the WSLHD team, “Meeting the challenge of clinician moral distress: the role of the Clinical Ethics Service”, with speaker Sally Greenaway. Organiser contact WSLHD-ClinicalEthicsServices@health.nsw.gov.au.
Tues 30 June, 7pm-8.30pm: Hosted by the SCHN team, “Psychiatric assessment and therapy of parents who induce/fabricate illness in their children”, with guest speaker Prof Jon Jureidini. Organiser contact schn-clinicalethicssupport@health.nsw.gov.au
Tues 24 Feb, 7pm-8.30pm: Hosted by the SESLHD team, “Supported decision-making and capacity assessment promote patient autonomy in modern medicine”, guest speaker Prof Jochen Vollman, discussant Prof Jackie Leach Scully. Organiser contact seslhd-clinicalethics@health.nsw.gov.au
Clinical Ethics Symposium, hosted by the East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) Clinical Ethics Committee (WA), a one-day symposium dedicated to exploring ethical issues in complex tertiary health care environments. Find more information and registration here: https://events.humanitix.com/emhs-clinical-ethics-symposium
CESA webinar: part of a series of sessions to be held in 2027 “So you want to start a Clinical Ethics Service…”.
Past events
An archive of past events supported by CESA will also be maintained.
Australasian College of Legal Medicine 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting, “Health and Justice”, 17-18 Oct 2026, hybrid (Cairns and online)
Inaugural Isaacs Kilham Clinical Ethics Forum, “Beyond distress and dilemma: The unexamined ethical residues of caring”, 15 October 2026, 1pm-2pm, in person Children's Hospital Westmead and online.
Workshop: Building an ethics toolkit for Intensive Care, Melbourne, 27 Sept 2026, a World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) pre-conference workshop, held with Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) and Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACNN).
Sydney Clinical Ethics Intensive, held at Sydney Law School, Sydney, 20-21 March 2026.
Clinical Ethics Advisory Group Special Interest Meeting, at Manawa, Christchurch, 6 December 2025. This session was held the day prior to the Australasian Association of Bioethics annual conference, 7-9 December 2025.
Clinical Ethics Roundtable 2025 (online)
4 Feb: Hosted by the SESLHD team, “Decisions about the treatment of unfunded patients”.
8 April: Hosted by the SCHN team, “Nazism and the Holocaust - reflections for contemporary healthcare”.
5 Aug: Hosted by the SCHN team, “Reconstituting the person in clinical care”.
28 Oct: Hosted by the SESLHD team, “Ethical tensions between patient best interests and organisational reputation”, presented by the new Clinical Ethics Service at Western Sydney Local Health District.
Working Through the Ethical Challenge: From Theory to Practice - 16th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, 3-5 September 2025.
Sydney Clinical Ethics Colloquium 2024, at Sydney Law School, Sydney, 20 Nov-1 Dec 2024
Past events
An archive of past events supported by CESA will also be maintained.
Workshop: Building an ethics toolkit for Intensive Care, Melbourne, 27 Sept 2026, a World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) pre-conference workshop, held with Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) and Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACNN).
Sydney Clinical Ethics Intensive, held at Sydney Law School, Sydney, 20-21 March 2026.
Clinical Ethics Advisory Group Special Interest Meeting, at Manawa, Christchurch, 6 December 2025. This session was held the day prior to the Australasian Association of Bioethics annual conference, 7-9 December 2025.
Clinical Ethics Roundtable 2025 (online)
4 Feb: Hosted by the SESLHD team, “Decisions about the treatment of unfunded patients”.
8 April: Hosted by the SCHN team, “Nazism and the Holocaust - reflections for contemporary healthcare”.
5 Aug: Hosted by the SCHN team, “Reconstituting the person in clinical care”.
28 Oct: Hosted by the SESLHD team, “Ethical tensions between patient best interests and organisational reputation”, presented by the new Clinical Ethics Service at Western Sydney Local Health District.
Working Through the Ethical Challenge: From Theory to Practice - 16th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, 3-5 September 2025.
Sydney Clinical Ethics Colloquium 2024, at Sydney Law School, Sydney, 20 Nov-1 Dec 2024