Welcome

Bioethics, responsibility and human dignity

Welcome letter

Dear friends and colleagues,

On behalf of the Fundació Grífols UVic-UCC Chair of Bioethics, we are pleased to invite you to the 4th International Bioethics Congress, to be held in Vic (Barcelona), on 25 and 26 February 2027. Building on the success of the editions held in 2019, 2022 and 2025, this year’s congress will focus on the theme “Bioethics, responsibility and human dignity”.

The congress is structured around four thematic areas, within which communications may be presented:

Euthanasia: an international perspective

Rethinking ethics committees

Bioethics in AI

End-of-life autonomy

The Congress will feature a combination of both keynote lectures and round-table discussions, in a format designed to encourage open debate among experts and other attendees. We hope that the programme will be both engaging and thought-provoking, and that it will inspire active participation, whether through the submission of a communication or by attending the congress.

Cordially,

Núria Terribas

Director of the Fundació Grífols Bioethics Chair at UVic-UCC

Congress organisers

Organising Committee

Núria Terribas (Coordinator)

Director of the Fundació Grífols Bioethics Chair at UVic-UCC.

Esther Argilés

Clinical nurse in the Oncology Unit and expert in palliative care. President of the Bioethics Committee of Andorra.

Ester Busquets

Coordinator of the Fundació Grífols Bioethics Chair and Professor of Bioethics at UVic-UCC.

Sílvia Font

Primary care physician and member of the Martorell Ethics Committee.

Anna Ramon

Professor at the Faculty of Health and Welfare Sciences at UVic-UCC.

Scientific Committee

Bernabé Robles (Coordinator)

Associate Professor of Neurology and Bioethics at UVic-UCC and President of the Ethics Committee at the Parque Sanitario de Sant Joan de Déu.

Juan Pablo Beca

Pediatrician, neonatologist and Associate Professor at Universidad del Desarrollo. Founder of the UDD Bioethics Centre.

Patricia Beroiz

Geriatrician, President of the Ethics Committee at Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol and Vice-President of the Catalan Society of Bioethics.

Montserrat Busquets

Retired Professor at the School of Nursing of the University of Barcelona.

Benjamín Herreros

Director of the Francisco Vallés Institute of Clinical Ethics, European University.

Salvador Macip

Physician, researcher and Professor at the University of Leicester and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

Ferran Masanés

Internal medicine physician, Head of the Geriatrics Section and member of the Health Ethics Committee at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Màrius Morlans

Retired nephrologist and President of the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia.

David Pérez Surribas

Clinical analyst and Former President of the National Bioethics Committee of Andorra.

Olga Rubio

Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine. President of the Health Care Ethics Committee of the ALTHAIA University Hospital of Manresa.