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8 October 2026
14.00-17.30 hrs
WTC Postillion Rotterdam
Programme Scientific Session
'Practising under pressure: Balancing moral distress and resilience'
14.00 hrs
Opening remarks by dr. Jacqueline Kitulu, President WMA
14.10 hrs
Welcoming remarks and introduction by dr. Jurriaan Penders, MSc, President Royal Dutch Medical Association
14.15 hrs
Introduction programme by dr. Antina de Jong, Royal Dutch Medical Association
14.20 hrs

Keynote Lecture

Prof. Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN Anne & George Bunting, professor of Clinical Ethics & Nursing, Baltimore, USA
Transforming Moral suffering in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities.

14.50 hrs
Dr. Peter Almos, PhD, associate professor mental health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Szeged, Hungary; President Hungarian Medical Chamber

Professional Autonomy under Constraint: Implications for Physicians’ Moral Distress
15.10 hrs
Dr. Katharina Bauer, PhD, associate professor of practical philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam

AI-doctors and Google-patients: Technologies, moral distress and moral agency
15.40 hrs Afternoon break
16.00 hrs
Prof. Christiaan Vinkers, MD PhD, professor of psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centre

Moral distress in healthcare: psychological consequences and resilience
16.20 hrs Dialogue discussion and exchanging experiences about moral distress
16.50 hrs

Panel discussion

Prof. Cynda Rushton, Dr. Peter Almos, Dr. Katharina Bauer, Prof. Christiaan Vinkers

17.15 hrs Summary and closure by Antina de Jong and Jurriaan Penders
17.25 hrs

Housekeeping annoucements
by Secretary General, dr. Ramin Parsa-Parsi