Center for Medicine after the Holocaust Conferences
The Center for Medicine after the Holocaust conferences encourage researchers and healthcare professionals to learn from the experiences of the Holocaust that have forever changed the practice of contemporary medicine and research.

Past Conferences

2019: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia after the Holocaust

This workshop, held January 17, 2019, focused on palliative care, hospice and last resort options.

This was an invitation-only event and no recorded media was produced.

2017: Bioethics after the Holocaust

This workshop, held January 23-24, 2017, focused on bioethics after the Holocaust.

2015: First International Scholars Workshop on Medicine after the Holocaust

The first Scholars Workshop on Medicine after the Holocaust brought together thought leaders and scholars to discuss the history, current impact and future implications of Eugenics after the Holocaust. This event, held March 2-4, 2015, centered on delineating what was needed to establish this subject as an academic discipline, and understanding the relevance of the Holocaust to contemporary healthcare policy, medical practice and research.

2012: Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust Conference

By bringing to the forefront various probing aspects of human subject research after the Holocaust, this event, held December 5, 2012, engaged future doctors, nurses, scientists and allied healthcare professionals with the ethical lessons learned from the Holocaust and their applications to contemporary medicine and research.