Past Speaking Engagements

2020

World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

• When Your Doctor is a Robot
• Robot Caregivers

Digital Life Design, Munich, Germany

• Why High-Tech Innovation Needs a Higher (Global) Ground

2019

World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

• Briefing on Germline Gene Editing with Victor Dzau, President of National Academy of Science and Medicine (YouTube)
• Promise and Progress of Bioengineering
• Future of Bio-Innovation: How to Evolve Governance
• What If Everyone Had Their Genome Sequenced at Birth?
• World in Transformation: Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Global Future Council: Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Emerging Biothreats: Envisioning a Universal Platform to Prevent Illicit Gene Synthesis

Royal Society of Medicine, London

New Research Paradigm for Empathy

Pi Capital

Ethics for Innovative Technology: AI and Gene Editing

XCONOMY

Ethical Paradigm Shift for Innovative Technology

TECHONOMY

Ethics Guardrails for the Digital World

FORTUNE HEALTH BRAINSTORM

Trust: The Missing Ingredient in Healthcare

2018

World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

• The Future of Consciousness with Yuval Hararri and Daniel Dennet (YouTube)
• Empathic Curiosity in the Workplace
• Empathy and Emerging Technologies

Herrenhausen Conference, Hannover, Germany

• Innovative Neuroscience and Ethics

Chan-Zuckerberg Forum on Germline Gene Editing

• With co-panelists Jennifer Doudna and Matthew Porteus

Annual Meeting for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIMR), San Diego

• Hope and Hype in Research Decision-Making

2017

World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Dalian, China

• Working with Robots
• The Benefits of a Curious Mind: Enhancing Empathy
• Human-Centered High-Tech: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Future of Medicine Conference, Denver

• New Research and Challenges to Empathy in Healthcare

American Medical Women’s Association

• Crises, Conflicts and the Power of Empathic Curiosity

Philosophy Talk, National Public Radio (NPR)

• The Limits of Medical Consent

2014-2016

Catholic Healthcare Annual Ethics Symposium, Keynote Speaker

• Empathic Healthcare in a Changing Political Climate

Personalized Medicine World Conference, Mountain View, California

• Innovative Ethical Approaches to Personalized Medicine

SOCAP (Social Capital), San Francisco, California

• When ROI is in Lives and Health: Ethical Quandaries

International Society for Emotions

• Developing a New Research Agenda for Empathy

2013 and earlier

Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Stockholm, Sweden

• Rethinking Empathy in light of Empirical Research

Singularity University, Mountain View, California

• Novel Psychiatry, Nanoscience and the Self

The Hillside Club, Berkeley, California

• Why the Public Needs Empathic Doctors

Collaborative Ethics Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles

• Cultivating Empathy—An Ethical Imperative” and “How Can Clinical Conflicts Become Therapeutic Opportunities?

Annual Kaiser Permanente Ethics Symposium

• Advanced Ethics Seminar and Expert Panel

National Project on Empathy and Virtue, University of Indiana, Bloomington

• Empathy and Social Reconciliation in the Aftermath of War

Emory University Center for Bioethics and Georgia Healthcare Consortium Annual Conference

• Empathy, Barriers to Communication and Emotional Challenges

Annual Ethics Conference, Kaiser of Northern California

• Conflict, Anger and Difficult Emotions in Clinical Encounters

University of Oslo Center for Medical Ethics, Norway

• Barriers to Clinical Empathy

Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley

• Human Rights and Research, from Tuskegee to Guatemala (with Susan Reverby and Eric Stover)

Global Health Leadership Network, San Francisco, California

• Moral Dilemmas for International Leaders

University of Chicago

• How the Social Brain Experiences Empathy (with Jean Decety, Frans De Waal, Allan Young, Sue Carter, Nancy Eisenberg)

Johns Hopkins University

• Brinn Endowed Lecturer in Oncology

University of Miami

• Endowed Lectures in Philosophy and Medicine

Delft, Holland

• Emotions and Risky Technologies

Leiden, Holland

• Affective Forecasting, Risk and Health Policy Decisions

NIH-Georgetown Joint Bioethics Symposium, Washington D.C. 2008

• Emotions and Health Decisions