1. ICCEC (Cleveland)
The inaugural conference in the series, Clinical Ethics Consultation: First International Assessment Summit was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on April 4-6, 2003 with sponsorship by a large group of international societies including the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Australian-Asian Bioethics Society, Canadian Bioethics Society, European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics, Bioethics Education Network of the International Association of Bioethics, and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. 

These organizations recognized that although ethics committees and formal ethics consultation services has grown rapidly in North America and spread to Europe and other parts of the world during the last two decades, opportunities for open discussion of challenges involved in ethics consultation and clinical ethics in general have lagged. This conference was an effort to fill this gap.

2. ICCEC (Basel)
The Second International Conference: Clinical Ethics Consultation was held in Basel, Switzerland on March 17-20, 2005. The meeting was sponsored by the Institute for Applied Ethics and Medical Ethics of the University of Basel, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Participation in this meeting doubled from the Cleveland conference to over 300, considerable international participation.

3. ICCEC (Toronto)
The Third International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation was held as a joint meeting with the Canadian Bioethics Society in Toronto, Canada on May 30 – June 3, 2007. Participation was extremely positive and the collaborative arrangement between the Canadian Bioethics Society and the ICCEC enjoyed a remarkable success with over 600 participants in the joint meeting. At this meeting, plans were made to have schedule annual, rather than biannual, meetings beginning in 2008.

4. ICCEC (Rijeka)
The Fourth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation, Rijeka, Croatia, September 5, 2008 as a satellite of the 9th World Congress of Bioethics of the International Association of Bioethics. This meeting is being organized to provide a forum for interaction between participants from around the world focusing on commonly discussed cases and presentations. A poster session will round out the program. This satellite conference will be complemented with sessions on clinical ethics consultation and clinical ethics scheduled during the World Congress of Bioethics, September 5-8, 2008.

5. ICCEC (Taipei)
The Fifth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation will have the theme "Bioethics and Ethical Consultation in a Diversified World", and will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan on March 12-14, 2009.

6. ICCEC (Portland)
The Sixth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation will have the theme: "The Art of Clinical Ethics", and will be held in the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, OR) on May 11-14, 2010. 

7. ICCEC (Amsterdam)
The Seventh International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation will have the theme: "Moving Ethics", and is hosted by the Department of Medical Humanities at the Emgo+ Research Institute of the Free University Medical Centre (VUmc) in Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 18-21, 2011.

8. ICCEC (Sao Paulo)
The Eighth International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation will have the theme: "Clinical Bioethics in Diversity", and is hosted by the Sao Camilo University Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 16-29, 2012.