Presenter: Gabriel Bosslet, MD, MA
Presenter: Gabriel Bosslet, MD, MA
Presenter: TBA
Title: TBA
Presenter: Richard Gunderman, MD, Ph.D
Presented by Visiting Professor: Martha Montello, Ph.D
Learning Objectives:
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food & Drinks are not permitted in the ROC Auditorium.
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Montello is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine where she also chairs the Pediatrics Ethics Committee. She holds a PhD in English language and literature from the University of Maryland and has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland, Yale Medical School, and Harvard Medical School, teaching literature, ethics, and writing. She is the author of numerous publications in professional journals and the co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (Routledge, 2002). She currently directs and teaches courses in medical ethics, and publishes research work in the areas of medical ethics, literature and medicine, and the patient-physician relationship.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
Lecturer: Rita Bair, MD, MPH
2010-2011 Ethics Fellowship Applications Open
Applications are available for the 2010-2011 Clinical Ethics Fellowship sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. The application deadline is April 30, 2010.
This nine-month, part time fellowship focuses on training health care professionals in clinical ethics, including ethics consultation, hospital ethics committee work, and ethics research. Graduates will become capable members of the ethics community.
The target audience for the fellowship includes physicians, nurses, chaplains, and social workers. Other members of the community (e.g. attorneys or members of administrative staffs) may also apply.
Application to the fellowship is competitive. The application process includes submission of a written application (which includes several brief narrative essays), a letter of support from the applicant’s immediate supervisor, one letter of recommendation, and interviews with Fairbanks Center staff.
For an application and additional information go to the Fairbanks Center website or contact Patty Bledsoe, Fairbanks Center Program Manager, at 962-9260 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Additional Live-Broadcast Site: Methodist Petticrew Auditorium
Speaker: Michael A. Webber, MD
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1. Identify the clinical features of cluster B personality disorders
2. Conceptualize difficult behaviors in medical patients based on underlying personality psychopathology
3. Knowingly approach these difficult behaviors in a compassionate and limit-based manner.
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food & Drinks are not permitted in the ROC Auditorium**
About the Lecturer:
Michael A. Webber, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, joined the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine in September 2008. Dr. Webber’s professional interests and responsibilities are numerous; he is the Medical Director of the Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment and Research at Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, the attending psychiatrist for the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center’s Psychosocial Oncology and Complete Life Program. Dr. Webber also sees patients at the University Hospital Adult Outpatient Center and plans to develop a Personality Disorders section at this site.
Dr. Webber obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, and completed his medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he was awarded the Patricia H. Sharpley Award for Outstanding Performance in Psychiatry for a Graduating Medical Student in 2004. He completed his residency at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, which is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at http://www.fairbankscenter.org.
Lecturer: Valita Fredland, JD, MA
When: Wednesday March 3rd, 2010
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Methodist Petticrew Auditorium
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1. Describe concepts of privacy in health care
2. Identify HIPAA and Red Flag Rules
3. Learn Internet social networking issues
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. You may “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.**
About the Lecturer:
Ms. Fredland earned her undergraduate degree in economics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, her law degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and a master’s degree in clinical bio-medical ethics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2005 she became certified as an Information Privacy Professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals and completed the 2007 Hoosier Fellows Program sponsored by the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership at Indiana University. Ms. Fredland has functioned in a multi-disciplinary role since joining Clarian Health Partners in 1998 as Associate General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer. She also serves Clarian hospitals as a member of the Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultation Sub-Committee by providing a valued perspective in the many clinical ethics dilemmas which include legal considerations. Ms. Fredland is a Senior Affiliate Faculty member with the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Lecturer: Susan Hickman, Ph.D
Objectives:
Dr. Hickman is an Associate Professor in the Environments for Health Department at the Indiana University School of Nursing. She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and doctorate in psychology from the University of Kansas. Dr. Hickman completed fellowship training in geropsychology from the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and completed additional postdoctoral training in clinical ethics through the University of Washington School of Medicine Certificate Program in Health Care Ethics in 2001. Prior to relocating to Indiana, she was on faculty at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing and was a Senior Scholar in the Center for Ethics in Health Care. She also served as a co-chair of the OHSU Institutional Review Board and is a member of the National POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Paradigm Task Force.
Dr. Hickman’s research focuses on ethical issues in end-of-life care and in research. Her work in end-of-life care includes a federally funded multi-state study on use of the POLST in nursing facilities. The POLST is designed to document patient treatment preferences in the form of immediately actionable medical orders that follow the patient throughout the healthcare system. Programs based on this model are currently being used or in development in approximately 30 states, but it is currently not available in Indiana. Dr. Hickman also has federal funding to study the effect of ethical concerns on the conduct of end-of-life research, building on prior work supported by The Greenwall Foundation to evaluate ethical issues in community-based research. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the Journal of Palliative Medicine, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Lecturer: Paul R. Helft, MD
Objectives:
1. Learn the principles of ethics consultation
2. Reflect on the goals and proper outcomes of ethics consultation
3. Consider the process of how ethics committees arrive at consensus about complex ethical cases
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided but you may “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.**
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Helft was appointed Director of the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics in November, 2004. A native of Indianapolis, he completed his undergraduate degree in humanities, medical degree, his internship and residency in internal medicine, and fellowships in hematology/oncology and clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago. There, he was a Fellow and Senior Fellow and Doctor-Patient Relationship Scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Helft joined the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2001, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine. His clinical work is based in the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. At Clarian Health, he is a member of the Ethics Committee and co-chairs the Ethics Consultation Subcommittee.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at http://www.fairbankscenter.org.
Presenter: Mary Ott, MD
Title: Checking the Vital Signs of Clarian Nurses: Where are we with Moral Distress?
When: Wednesday October 7th, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
A live-broadcast of the event will be shown at Methodist Hospital in room DG-422a
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1. Define the concept of Moral Distress
2. Review the baseline assessment of Moral Distress in Clarian Nurses
3. Describe a new tool for measuring Moral Distress
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food and Drink are not permitted in the ROC Auditorium**
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Wocial received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN and her Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Nursing from the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR. She has been in clinical practice for more than 20 years. Her clinical background is in neonatal intensive care. Her doctoral dissertation, Life Support Decisions Involving Imperiled Infants, examined parents’ experience with the ethical dilemma of considering withdrawing or withholding treatment from their newborns. Prior to joining the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics in July, 2007, Dr. Wocial worked in a variety of health care organizations from small private hospitals to large academic teaching centers that include the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital. She is highly regarded as a lecturer, educator, researcher, consultant and practitioner in the field of medical ethics, particularly as it applies to the nursing profession.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1. Distinguish a calling from a job
2. Outline features of a calling
3. Describe their own sense of calling to healing
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided but you may “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.**
About the Lecturer:
Richard Gunderman is Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy at Indiana University, where he also serves as Vice Chair of Radiology. He is also a Fellow of the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence and serves on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Advanced Study and the Kinsey Institute. He received his AB Summa Cum Laude from Wabash College, MD and PhD (Committee on Social Thought) from the University of Chicago, and MPH from Indiana University. He is a seven-time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, and has also received the Wayne Booth Award, the Robert Shellhamer Award for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the School of Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial All-University Award for Teaching Excellence. In December, he was named the 2008 Outstanding Educator by the Radiological Society of North America. He is the author of over 230 scholarly articles and has published six books, including Achieving Excellence in Medical Education (Springer, 2006) and We Make a Life by What We Give (Indiana University, 2008). His most recent book, Leadership in Healthcare (Springer, 2009), was released in January. He and his wife, Laura, have four children.
Copies of Dr. Gunderman’s books will be available for purchase before and after the lecture.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Lecturer: Kimberly A. Quaid, Ph.D
Objectives:
Dr. Kimberly Quaid is a Faculty Investigator for the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and a Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also the Co-Director of the Masters Program in Genetic Counseling in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics as well as the Director of the Predictive Testing Program.
Dr. Quaid received her B.A. with Honors in Psychology from Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology with a
concentration in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland. The title of her dissertation, under the direction of Dr. Ruth Faden, was
“Informed Consent: The Effects of Disclosure for a Prescription Drug on Patients’
Knowledge, Beliefs and Response to Treatment.”
Dr. Quaid has held academic positions in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Quaid came to Indiana University in 1990 from Johns Hopkins where she was the coordinator of one of the first programs in the world to offer presymptomatic genetic testing for Huntington Disease. As Director of the Predictive Testing Program, she now provides genetic counseling and testing for individuals with and at risk for Huntington Disease, early onset Alzheimer Disease and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease as well as other late-onset autosomal dominant disorders.
Dr. Quaid currently teaches a campus-wide course in research ethics. She chaired the IUPUI Ethics in Research Committee charged with investigating allegations of scientific misconduct from 1998-2003 and was a member of the IUPUI/Clarian IRB from 2002-2006 and well as a member of review board of the General Clinical Research Center at IU School of Medicine. She served as Chair of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Study Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH from 2005-2007. She has authored or co-authored over 35 books, book chapters and peer reviewed publications.
Vegetative State and Related Disorders: Clinical Concepts and Ethical Dilemmas
Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series
Lecturer: Edward J. Dropcho, MD
When: Wednesday March 18th, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1. Identify the pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, and clinical outcomes for vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and related disorders
2. Review current legal and ethical issues for persons in vegetative state or other chronic disorders of consciousness
3. Review current neuroimaging techniques relating to the pathophysiology and management of persons with chronic disorders of consciousness
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food and beverages are not permitted in the ROC Auditorium**
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Edward J. Dropcho is a professor in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the director of the Neuro-Oncology Program at the IU Simon Cancer Center and a member of the Section on Ethics of the American Academy of Neurology. He received his MD from the University of Chicago, completed a residency in Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and completed a fellowship in Neuro-Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Title: Will they take the medicines? Children’s adherence to antiretroviral therapy in a resource-limited setting.
When: Wednesday February 18th, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Methodist Petticrew Auditorium
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1) Explain the critical role of adherence to the medications for HIV in resource-limited settings.
2) Evaluate the current state of children’s adherence to the medications for HIV in low-income countries.
3) Identify the key factors sustaining children’s adherence to antiretroviral therapy in western Kenya.
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. However, you are more than welcome to “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Vreeman is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a member of the Riley Children’s Health Services Research Program. In addition, she is Co-Director of Pediatric Research for the Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH), an academic collaboration that provides comprehensive HIV treatment for over 80,000 patients in Kenya. Dr. Vreeman is also an Affiliated Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, a Faculty Investigator with the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research, and a Faculty Scholar with the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). Dr. Vreeman is a pediatrician who received her MD from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and completed her internship, residency, and a chief residency in Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She also completed a fellowship in Children’s Health Services Research and a Masters degree in Clinical Research from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Vreeman’s research work focuses on the development of instruments to improve health care within resource-limited settings. In particular, she studies how best to measure health behaviors, such as adherence to medicine for HIV. She coordinates an international research collaboration aimed to improve children’s health outcomes in Kenya. Dr. Vreeman is also a member of an expert advisory panel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Objectives:
1) Identify the complexities of disclosing medical mistakes.
2) Describe methods to recognize provider’s own reaction to making a medical mistake.
3) Explore communicative strategies to disclose the medical mistake to patients and their families, including productive apologies.
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food and drinks are not allowed in the Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium.
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Petronio is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at IUPUI, a faculty in the IU School of Medicine, an adjunct faculty in the IU School of Nursing and Informatics, and a senior affiliate faculty at the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. She has a B.A. in interdisciplinary social science from The State University of New York at Stony Brook, received her M.A. in social psychology and a Ph.D. in communication from The University of Michigan. Dr. Petronio has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Twin City campus, Arizona State University, and Wayne State University, Detroit. Dr. Petronio’s areas of research and teaching expertise are in privacy, disclosure, and confidentiality studied within health, family, and interpersonal contexts. She developed the evidenced-based “Communication Privacy Management” theory, publishing a SUNY press book “Boundaries of Privacy: Dialectics of Disclosure” on this theory. This book has won the Gerald R. Miller Award from the National Communication Association and the book award from the International Association of Relationship Research. Dr. Petronio has published five books, including one on HIV/AIDS and disclosure, numerous articles in scholarly journals and books, and served as a journal editor and special issues editor for several communication journals. In June 2005, Petronio was invited by the Consortium on Social Science Associations to give a Congressional Briefing on issues of privacy in Washington, DC.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721. For additional information about the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, please visit our website at www.fairbankscenter.org.
Leadership in Healthcare
Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series
Lecturer: Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD
When: Wednesday December 17th, 2008
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1) Describe the role of health professionals in leading healthcare organizations
2) Identify new opportunities for leaders in contemporary healthcare
3) Develop leadership approaches that enhance professional fulfillment and patient care
**Please Note– Lunch will not be provided. Food and drinks are not allowed in the Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium.
About the Lecturer:
Richard Gunderman is Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy at Indiana University, where he also serves as Vice Chair of Radiology. He is also a Fellow of the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence and serves on the Boards of Governors of the Kinsey Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study. He received his BA Summa Cum Laude from Wabash College, MD and PhD (Committee on Social Thought) from the University of Chicago, and MPH from Indiana University. He is a six-time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, and has also received the Wayne Booth Award, the Robert Shellhamer Award for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Indiana University School of Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial All-University Award for Teaching Excellence. Earlier this month, he was named the 2008 Outstanding Educator by the Radiological Society of North America, an organization of over 42,000 worldwide imaging professionals. He is the author of over 220 scholarly articles and has published five books, including Achieving Excellence in Medical Education and We Make a Life by What We Give. His most recent book, Leadership in Healthcare, was released by Springer in November.
Copies of Dr. Gunderman’s books will be available for purchase before and after the lecture.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics sponsors the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation. For additional information, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 317-962-1721.
Title: Professionalism Conflicts Created by Physician-Industry Interactions: The Case for Banning Industry from Educational Venues.
Presenter: Carey Chisholm, MD
Suzanne Gordon, an award-winning journalist, playwright, and author of such books as Nursing Against the Odds, Life Support, and Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, will present a lecture on the ethics of teamwork in the Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium on Wednesday October 15th, 2008. Additional information about Suzanne Gordon can be found on her website, www.suzannegordon.com. Suzanne’s books will be available for purchase before and after the lecture, and there will be a book signing immediately following the lecture.
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics has provided the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series since 2005 as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
Please note: Lunch will not be provided, but you may “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.
For questions and comments, please contact Amy Chamness at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (317)962-1721.
Free CME/CE Credit Offered
Objectives:
1) To understand better objective ways of measuring the quality of a health care system.
2) To better understand the facts about aspects of health care reform on the health care system.
3) To gain better insight in the ways in which we could reform our health care system to improve access, quality, or cost.
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is currently an associate professor of Pediatrics in the Children’s Health Services Research Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998. He completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He stayed at the University of Washington to complete a health services research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. During that time he received his masters degree in Health Services. Dr. Carroll’s current research interests include the use of information technology in pediatric health care, decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis, and health policy and professionalism.
“Strange Bedfellows: Torture and Medical Professionals” will be presented by Meg Gaffney, MD, on Wednesday, May 28 at 11:30 AM in the Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. Dr. Gaffney will outline the history of physician participation in torture, identify professional, international and military codes that are relevant to torture, and describe current controversies related to medical personnel and treatment of prisoners.
Dr. Gaffney is a practicing dermatologist, core faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine. She is the director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course I and of the Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgment competency in the revised curriculum of the Indiana University School of Medicine. She chairs the Wishard Hospital Ethics Committee, serves on the Clarian and Riley Hospital ethics committees, provides ethics consultation, and collaborates on the Indiana University Conscience Project.
Lectures in the Fairbanks Ethics Series are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge. Lunch will not be provided but you may “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.
For additional information contact Patty Bledsoe, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 962-9260.
Topic: Work in Progress Reports
Content Experts: Lucia Wocial, RN, PhD
Alexia Torke, MD, MS, and
Patty Bledsoe, MSW, LCSW
Alexia Torke, MD, MS, will present “The Challenges of Surrogate Decision Making in the Hospital” on Wednesday, May 14 at 11:30 AM in the Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. Dr. Torke will describe research evidence and theories that challenge the standard model for making medical decisions for adults who lack decision making capacity. She will describe a new model based on consensus and respect for persons.
Dr. Torke is Associate Director of the Fairbanks Fellowship in Clinical Ethics, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of General Medicine and Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Research Scientist with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute. Dr. Torke’s research investigates ethical aspects of medical decision making for older adults and end-of-life decision making for hospitalized adults. Her current work focuses on the processes by which physicians, family members and others make decisions for older patients with dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment. Her research has been published in Archives of Internal Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Ethics.
Lectures in the Fairbanks Ethics Series are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge. Lunch will not be provided but you may “brown bag” your lunch and eat during the presentation.
Topic: “Communication Challenges”
Content Expert: Sandra Petronio, PhD
Topic: “Ethics & Public Health Emergency:
Planning for Pandemic Flu”
Content Expert: Eric Meslin, PhD
Topic: TBD
Content Expert: TBD
Topic: Work in Progress Reports
Content Experts: Lucia Wocial, RN, PhD
Alexia Torke, MD, MS and
Sandra Petronio, PhD
Visiting professor Martha Montello, PhD, will present “Narrative Bioethics: How Stories Matter” on Wednesday, April 23 at 11:30 AM in the Riley Out-Patient Center (ROC) Auditorium. Dr. Montello will identify how basic guidelines from the narrative model can help structure moral thinking about difficult medical ethics cases. She will describe two recent hospital ethics cases which demonstrate the utility and transformative power of bringing narrative concepts and techniques to the center of the work of clinical ethics. She will also illustrate how narrative methods provide a necessary complement to legalistic, philosophical, and normative methods for analyzing ethics cases.
Dr. Montello is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine where she also chairs the Pediatrics Ethics Committee. She holds a PhD in English language and literature from the University of Maryland and has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland, Yale Medical School, and Harvard Medical School, teaching literature, ethics, and writing. She is the author of numerous publications in professional journals and the co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (Routledge, 2002). She currently directs and teaches courses in medical ethics, and publishes research work in the areas of medical ethics, literature and medicine, and the patient-physician relationship.
Please be aware that food and beverages are not permitted in the ROC Auditorium.
The ROC Auditorium is on the lower level of the Riley Out-Patient Center which is located just north of the intersection of West Michigan Street and West Drive on the IUPUI campus. Parking is available next door in the ROC Garage, 575 West Drive.
Topic: TBD
Content Expert: Martha Montello, PhD
Topic: “The International Right to Health”
Content Expert: Eleanor Kinney, JD, MPH
Topic: Work in Progress Reports
Content Experts: Lucia Wocial, RN, PhD
Alexia Torke, MD, MS and
Patty Bledsoe, MSW, LCSW
Topic: “Ethics & Organ Transplantation”
Content Expert: Paul Kwo, MD
Topic: TBD
Content Expert: TBD
Topic: Writing Mistakes
Content Expert: Chris Callahan, MD
Topic: “Pregnancy & Perinatal Catastrophe”
Content Experts: Carrie Riessen, RN
Lucia Wocial, RN, CCNS, PhD
Team Meeting
Title: “National Healthcare Decisions Day 2008”
Speaker: George Annas JD, MPH
Topic: “Ethics & Pain Management”
Content Expert: Sean Morrison, MD
Topic: “Assisted Reproduction Technology Art”
Content Expert: Carole Wegner, PhD