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Center For Bioethics

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Clinical Ethics

The Center for Bioethics provides clinical ethics support, which is an essential component of excellence in clinical care.

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Clinical Ethics

We provide ethics consultation support for all of the hospitals in the M Health Fairview system. We help educate teams across system hospitals using a number of strategies, including bedside teaching, educational forums on issues raised by site ethics committees, and webinars on common challenges across the system. We also conduct background research and provide input on system policies and on organizational ethics issues, working with the system’s Clinical Ethics Council.

Debra DeBruin, PhD, oversees the clinical ethics work. Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C, and Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, serve as the system-wide clinical ethics consultation co-leads; they also co-chair the ethics committee at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, HEC-C, and Justin Penny, DO, MD, also serve as clinical ethicists.

Upcoming Talks

Feb

14

Informed Consent: Beyond "Consenting" the Patient

Miriam Shapiro, MD, University of Minnesota Medical School
Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

12:15 - 1:15pm

Recent Talks

“Who Ya Gonna Call?” When Your Patients Can’t Decide by Themselves

Joan Henriksen, PhD, RN, HEC-C, Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Nov 8, 2022

The True Role of Autonomy in Medicine

Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C, University of Minnesota

Sep 20, 2022

Demystifying Decision-Making Capacity

Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, University of Minnesota

May 25, 2022

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News

New Case Commentary: Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria

Debra DeBruin, PhD, Awarded BENUM Board Member of the Year

Population Screening for Genetic Disease: Are We Ready for the Next Phase of Personalized Medicine?

New Article: Bioethics for Neonatal Cardiac Care

Scott Jensen’s unconventional health care views spread beyond COVID-19

Study shows adolescents with cancer can benefit from advance-care discussions

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