Research Ethics & Policy Series (REPS): Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care Trials and the Impact of a Pragmatic Paradigm

5/12/2026 | 12:00-1:00pm | 3600 Civic Center Blvd (Hybrid)

Please join Penn Medical Ethics and Health Policy (MEHP) for their Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) with Dr. Kate Courtright, MD, MSHP: “Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care Trials and the Impact of a Pragmatic Paradigm.”

Dr. Courtright’s research focuses on optimizing the quality and outcomes of palliative care for individuals with serious illness. Her major research interests include developing and implementing novel, scalable strategies to promote timely and equitable palliative care and serious illness communication and evaluating their effects in large pragmatic clinical trials. Relatedly, she is interested in developing innovative approaches to measure patient-centered outcomes reliably and pragmatically using routinely available clinical and administrative data.

Click here to watch a recording of Dr. Courtright’s talk.