About EACME Annual Conference in Zurich

Health care is undergoing a rapid transformation, with scientific and technological developments as key drivers. Shaping this transformation in a way that creates fair value for patients, professionals and organizations while minimizing risk and burden for individuals, communities and ecosystems requires responsible innovation along the entire translational pathway, from discovery to implementation. 
As an interdisciplinary field, biomedical ethics provides a broad spectrum of approaches that contribute to a richer understanding of what is at stake when significantly transforming the health care sector, how we should - or should not - move forward, and why. Together with scientists, healthcare professionals, patients, policymakers and the public, ethicists can work towards the integration of ethical reflection and debate into the fabric of health care innovation. 
This year’s EACME Annual Conference will focus on the transformative potential of ethical inquiry in shaping the trajectory of scientific and technological developments towards promoting health and well-being. We encourage contributions reflecting on questions like:

• In what areas might bioethicists be falling short in integrating ethical considerations into health care research/innovation, and how can they more effectively improve responsible innovation?
• What are best practices to encourage and enable collaboration on ethical issues between life scientists, clinicians, entrepreneurs, social scientists and scholars from the humanities?
• In what ways, and based on which rationales and aims, can patients and the public be meaningfully engaged in responsible research and innovation?
• How can we address the complexities and responsibilities of health care innovation on a global scale, including its ecological impact?