Talks
Upcoming
Buchman, D.Z. (2024, September). Stigma and the brain disease model of chronic pain: An empirical bioethics investigation. Panel presentation at the 26th Annual American Society for Bioethics and Humanities conference, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Select past talks (since 2019)
Buchman, D.Z. (2024, August). Chronic pain as a disease: Lessons for stigma from the brain disease model of addiction. Panel presentation at the IASP World Congress on Pain, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Buchman, D.Z (2024, June). Psychedelic Ethics at the Intersection of Research, Practice, and Population Mental Health. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Medical Grand Rounds, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Buchman, D.Z. (2024, May). Potential Unintended Consequences of AI in Psychiatry. Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Conference, Absolutely Interdisciplinary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Panel].
Buchman, D.Z. (2024, May). Data Ethics: From the Personal to the Population. Canadian Concussion Network Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [Plenary]
Shier, R., Magel, B., Grundy, Q., Davies, T.E., Mahajan, S., Sud, A., Garner, G., Timothy, R.K., Soklaridis, S., Buchman DZ. (2024, May). Canadian Cannabis Researcher Perspectives on Financial Relationships with the For-Profit Cannabis Industry. Paper presented at the Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Consortium (TC3) Research and Innovation Symposium. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
McCall, I.C., Bosma, R., Lo, C., Sukhera, J., Chandler, J., Burke, E., Patmore, D., Magel, B., Hasan, Z., Davis, K.D., Buchman, D.Z. (2024, May). Attitudes toward disease model explanations of chronic pain among Canadian and U.S Adults without chronic pain: Ethical implications for stigma. Paper presentation at the International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation-Canadian Bioethics Society Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Serota, K., Buchman, D.Z., Atkinson, M. (2024, May). Acknowledging family members’ complex bereavement experiences following medical assistance in dying (MAiD). Paper presentation at the International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation-Canadian Bioethics Society Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Hasan, Z., Salis, M., de Bie, L., Vila, A., Islam, F., Buchman, D.Z. (2024, May). Developing and evaluating clinical ethics frameworks at a Canadian academic psychiatry hospital: Approaches to knowledge user engagement. Paper presentation at the International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation-Canadian Bioethics Society Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Buchman, D.Z. (2024 April). Introduction: Harm Reduction History and Key Values. Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network Conference: As Good as it Gets: Ethics and Harm Reduction in Healthcare. [Invited Lecture: Virtual]
Buchman, D.Z., McCall, I.C., Seminowicz, D., Burke, E., Wiggleton-Little, J. (2024, April). The brain disease model of chronic pain: Helping or hurting? Panel presentation at the International Neuroethics Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, United States.
McCall, I.C., Magel, B., Bosma, R., Lo, C., Sukhera, J., Chandler, J., Burke, E., Patmore, D., Davis, K., and Buchman, D.Z. (2024, April). Attitudes toward disease model explanations of chronic pain among Canadian and US adults without chronic pain: A contrastive vignette study. Poster presentation at the International Neuroethics Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Hasan, Z.H., and Buchman, D.Z. (2024, March). Promoting Compassion in Healthcare Ethics Consultation Education: A Framework to Approach Structural Stigma in Mental Health and Substance Use Health. Paper presentation at the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) Meeting, San Diego, California, United States.
Buchman, D.Z. (2024, February). Prescribed safer supply: A public health ethics framework. National Safer Supply Community of Practice: Hot Topics Webinar. [Invited Panel].
Buchman, D.Z. (2024, February 1). Chronic pain as a disease of the brain and the implications for stigma. Philosophy of Psychiatry Webinar.
Buchman, D.Z., Magel, B., and Coates McCall, I. (2023, October). Attitudes toward disease model explanations of chronic pain among adults without chronic pain: Ethical implications for stigma. University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series.
Abi-Jaoude, A. Artna, E., Perry, C., Narajos A., Johnson, A., Wun, C., Sockalingam, S., Buchman, D.Z. (2023, May). Understanding attitudes and beliefs toward the COVID-19 vaccines among transition-aged youth with mental illness. Poster presentation at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Buchman, D.Z., and Perry, C. (2023, February). Understanding Attitudes and Beliefs toward the COVID-19 Vaccines among Transition-Aged Youth with Mental Health Challenges. Invited seminar for the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Hasan, Z.S., Soklaridis, S., Buchman, D.Z. Developing a Framework to Address Structural Stigma in Mental Health and Substance Use Health Care Ethics Education. Poster presentation at the annual Don Wasylenki Education Day, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. 9 February, 2023.
Buchman, D.Z. Should chronic pain be considered a brain disease? Neuroethics lessons from the brain disease model of addiction. Dr Keith Brownell Lectureship in Ethics, University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Calgary, AB, Canada, 9 December 2022.
Buchman, D.Z., Imahori, D., Mahajan, S., Soklaridis, S., Sud, A., and Grundy, G. Big Cannabis and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Exploring an Emerging Industry’s Influence on the Sponsorship of Scientific Research. Paper presentation at the 24th American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, Portland, OR, United States, 26-29 October 2022.
Buchman, D.Z., Imahori, D. The seductive allure of AI: Implications for stigma, empathy, and compassion in mental health and addiction. Paper presentation at the 16th World Congress of Bioethics, Basel, Switzerland, 20-22 July 2022.
Buchman, D.Z. Irremediability, mental illness, medical assistance in dying, and the entanglement of facts and values. Panel presentation for the symposium on Futility in Psychiatry at the 16th World Congress of Bioethics, Basel, Switzerland, 20-22 July 2022.
Grundy, Q., and Buchman, D.Z. Canadian Big Cannabis Companies and the Financial Sponsorship of Scientific Research. University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series. Watch the recording here.
Buchman, D.Z. (2021, December). Psychedelics in PERIL: An Ethics Analysis of Psychedelic Industry-Healthcare Relationships. Invited panel for the Health INC: Corporations, Capitalism, and the Commercial Determinants of Health Seminar Series, Lawrence S Bloomberg and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Lecture]
Buchman, D.Z., Levitt, S. (2021, November). Towards a palliative approach in psychiatry: Ethical reflections on futility. Fourth Interdepartmental Mental Health Day at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal. [Invited Keynote].
Buchman, D.Z., Wagner, F. (2021, November). COVID-19 and mental health: Reflections on ethics during the pandemic. Interprofessional Grand Rounds, Ontario Shores for Mental Health Sciences, Whitby, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Lecture]
Buchman, D.Z., (2021, November). COVID-19 Vaccines in Children. Panel presentation for the Patient and Family Learning Space, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Lecture]
Buchman, D.Z. (2021, November). Ethics and Chronic Pain Management: Challenges and Opportunities. Ethics Grand Rounds, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. National Health Ethics Week. [Invited Lecture]
Buchman, D.Z. (2021, October). Conflicts of interest. Panel presentation on “Money, Research, and Conflicts of Interest” to the Toronto Pain Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Panel]
Buchman, D.Z., Godkin, D. (2021, October). Medical assistance in dying for persons with a mental disorder: Perspectives from practicing health care ethicists in Canada. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Affinity Group. Virtual Conference.
Buchman, D.Z. (2021, March). Should chronic pain be considered a brain disease? Ethics lessons from the brain disease model of addiction. Pain BC. Webinar. [Invited Keynote]
Buchman, D.Z. (2021, March). Beyond harm-producing vs. harm reduction: A qualitative meta-synthesis on the perspectives and experiences of people who use drugs on buprenorphine extramedical use and diversion. Panel presentation of Buprenorphine diversion, regulation, and reimbursement. Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Conference. [Invited Panel]
Buchman, D.Z. (2021, February). An ethics perspective on widening digital participation. Panel presentation of A Call to Action: Widening Digital Participation in Digital Health and Virtual Mental Health Care. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada. [Invited Panel Keynote]
Buchman, D.Z. (2020, October). The ethics of pain management in the shadow of the overdose crisis. University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Keynote Panel]
Buchman, D.Z., de Oliveira, M., Davis, K.D. (2020, October). Stigmatizing and Legitimizing? A survey of patient attitudes on the use of brain imaging to detect and treat chronic pain. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, United States [Virtual Conference due to COVID-19].
Buchman, D.Z. (2020, August). Toward justice and ethics in chronic pain management. Social inequalities and pain: The untold history of Blacks and chronic pain (with Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Carmen R Green, and Hance Clark). Canadian Pain Society Webinar. [Invited Keynote Panel]
Buchman, D.Z. (2020, April). Ask the Bioethicist: Sharing scarce resources during a pandemic: What’s fair? The Sciences of COVID-19, The Institute for Education Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Keynote]
Rieder, T., Ho, A., Buchman, D.Z. (2019, October). Bioethics book club: In Pain: A Bioethicists Personal Struggle with Opioids. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Buchman, D.Z. (2019, September). Ethics and big data: From privacy to population health. International Society for the Advancement of Clinical MEG. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Keynote]
Buchman, D.Z. (2019, June). Stigma, disability rights, and population health inequalities at the neurotechnological interface. Neurotechnology for High Consequence Decision-Making, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Invited Keynote Response]
Buchman, D.Z. (2019, June). Ethics and the overdose crisis: Principles, values, and considerations. Canadian Anesthesiologists Society Annual Conference, Calgary, Alberta. [Invited Panel]
Buchman, D.Z. (2019, May). Chronic pain, substance use, and stigma in context of the overdose crisis. Part of the panel, Ethical, legal, and social dimensions of chronic pain: Considerations for medical assistance in dying, the overdoses crisis, and a national pain strategy (with J. Chandler and K. Davis). 40th Annual Canadian Pain Society Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Buchman, D.Z. (2019, February). A climate of distrust: Stigma and epistemic injustice in chronic pain management. Annual Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States [Invited Talk].