Organizers: Working Group on Digitalization and Health of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine and the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine (MHH)
Venue/Room: Building J01 – Lecture Hall G
Contact person: PD Dr. Frank Ursin
Email address: ursin.frank@mh-hannover.de
For the 1st Forum on Ethics, Digitalization, and Health, the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine (MHH) is collaborating with the “Digitalization and Health” Working Group of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine. The goal is to establish a platform for discussion on digitalization and the use of AI in healthcare. To this end, we are providing a space to discuss specific project ideas from the “Digitalization and Health” working group, as well as an inspiring keynote lecture on the history of technological errors and malfunctions.
When: Thursday, October 8, 2026, 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625 Hannover, Lecture Hall G
What: Discussion of project ideas and an inspiring public keynote lecture
Program:
2:00–3:30 p.m.
1. Project presentation: Dr. Joschka Haltaufderheide (Greifswald), Dr. Hendrik Kempt (Aachen), Prof. Dr. Christian Herzog (Lübeck): “What It Means to Be an Agent—Ethical Perspectives on Agent-Based AI in Healthcare”
2. Project Presentation: PD Dr. med. Alexander Kowski (Berlin), Marlon Kajus Lüning, M. Sc. (Berlin): “Ethical Requirements for AI-Based Decision Support in the Psychosocial Care of Patients”
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Public Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler (TU Darmstadt): “Living with AI: Fallible Humans Meet Fallible Machines”
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Public reception at the MHH
Please register by email at lorina.buhr@med.uni-goettingen.de by July 15, 2026.
Warm regards from the coordination team of the “Digitalization and Health” working group
(Lorina Buhr, Joschka Haltaufderheide, Robert Ranisch, Frank Ursin)
Open to anyone interested.