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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, World Medical Association
14.10 hrs
Welcome remarks by dr. Jurriaan Penders, MSc, President Royal Dutch Medical Association
14.15 hrs
General Introduction to the theme by dr. Antina de Jong, PhD, LLM, Legal and ethical consultant, Royal Dutch Medical Association

Keynote Lecture

Prof Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN Anne & George Bunting, Professor of Clinical Ethics & Nursing, Baltimore, USA

Moral distress: key concepts, current challenges and resilience



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

15.30 hrs

Afternoon break



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


Prof. Christiaan Vinkers, MD PhD, professor of psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centre

Moral distress in healthcare: psychological consequences and resilience


Working groups:
discussion and exchanging experiences about moral distress
17.15 hrs

Summary and closure by Antina de Jong and Jurriaan Penders
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