"The Role of Clinical Ethics in Critical Care"

Speaker: Lauren Sankary, J.D., M.A., HEC-C

Lauren Sankary, J.D., M.A., HEC-C, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and in the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, is a Clinical Ethicist at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. She joined UT Southwestern in 2025 after serving for five years as a faculty clinical ethics consultant at Cleveland Clinic, where she previously completed NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship training integrating clinical ethics consultation with research on ethical issues in early phase brain device trials. Ms. Sankary’s empirical bioethics research focuses on clinical ethics and translational research ethics involving cognitively vulnerable patient populations.

Drawing on her background in law and qualitative research methods, she studies informed consent, decision-making capacity, and participant protections in innovative neuroscience research. Her work is supported by NIH and foundation funding and is grounded in her direct experience providing bedside clinical ethics consultation and supporting consent in high-risk neurological studies.

Friday, June 5
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.-Noon
Lecture: Noon-1 p.m.

Join us for this Critical Care Ground Rounds and learn from an esteemed expert in the field.