Event Category: Bioethcs Learning Community Event

Norman Fost Lectureship on Skepticism and Critical Thinking

Gretchen Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS

December 10, 2026 @ 7:30 am - 8:30 am HSLC 1325 and Zoom Link to Event Website

Norman Fost, MD, MPH, professor emeritus of pediatrics and bioethics, joined the Department of Pediatrics in 1973 and founded the Program in Medical Ethics that same year. He had decided early in his education at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins, that he wanted to combine pediatrics and bioethics, even though there existed no such …