Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds
Jointly organized by the Departments of Humanities, Medicine, and Surgery
Normothermic Regional Perfusion:
The Ethical Landscape
February 10, 2026 • 7:30-8:30 a.m.
Lecture Room D
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Presented by: Ana S. Iltis, Ph.D.
Carlson Professor of University Studies,
Professor of Philosophy,
Director, Center for Bioethics Health and Society
Wake Forest University
The history of organ transplantation includes debates over the ethical and legal permissibility of various practices. Sometimes, legal and ethical analysis culminated in new laws or new interpretations of existing laws. Implementation of donation after circulatory death (DCD) with normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) (DCD-NRP) is renewing attention to ethical and legal questions at the center of those debates, including questions that previously appeared to be relatively settled. This presentation reviews some ways in which the emerging practice of DCD-NRP re-ignites old ethical and legal questions regarding organ transplantation and introduces new ones and assesses possible responses.
At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
1. Describe at least two ethical questions DCD-NRP raises.
2. Contrast interpretations of key terms in the Uniform Determination of Death Act.
3. Assess the implications of different understandings of key terms in the Uniform Determination of Death Act for the ethical analysis of DCD-NRP.
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