Discusses artificial placenta and womb technologies, including some ethical considerations for first-in-human clinical trials.

Our guest today is Stephanie Kukora who is a neonatologist and bioethicist at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, where she serves as core faculty in the Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics. She conducts research related to shared decision-making, global health, and education targeting communication skills for clinicians.

Additional resources:

• “Ethical challenges in first-in-human trials of the artificial placenta and artificial womb: not all technologies are created equally, ethically:” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-023-01713-5
• CITI Program’s Bioethics course: https://about.citiprogram.org/course/bioethics/
• CITI Program’s Healthcare Ethics Committee course: https://about.citiprogram.org/course/healthcare-ethics-committee/