Past Events Archive
2023
Standards for Surrogate Decision-Making
- Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, University of Minnesota
This session of Unpacking Bedside Bioethics dives deep into the process of surrogate decision-making. Building on the previous session “'Who Ya Gonna Call?' When Your Patients Can’t Decide by Themselves," this session will explore what…
Equitable Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Research
- Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, DrPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University
Approximately 25 percent of adults in the U.S. have one or more cognitive, visual, hearing, mobility, developmental, or intellectual impairments. In addition, many people will develop a disability at some point in their life and/or may be…
One Health: The Inextricable Links of Human Health, Animal Health, and the Environment
- Lawrence Gostin, JD, LL.D (Hon.), Georgetown Law
This talk discussed the inextricable links between human health, animal health, and the environment. It showed how we are at the greatest risk ever of more cataclysmic health events, including epidemics and pandemics. Dr. Gostin showed how…
Black Reproductive Health: Getting at the Root Cause of Inequity
- Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Structural racism disadvantages Black birthing people before, during, and after pregnancy, leading to heartbreaking health inequities for them and their babies. Relationship-centered and culturally-centered care models provide needed…
Informed Consent: Beyond "Consenting" the Patient
- Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
- Miriam Shapiro, MD, University of Minnesota Medical School
Informed consent is a critical piece of respecting a patient’s autonomy. Only if a patient or surrogate understands the risks, benefits, and alternatives to proposed health care can they adequately evaluate whether that health care is…
Physicians’ Experiences with and Perceptions of Caring for Patients with Disability
- Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc, Harvard Medical School
After participating in the session, attendees should be able to: (1) Describe potential cases of health care disparities for people with disabilities. (2) Identify major responsibilities of physicians under the Americans with Disabilities…
2022
An Eco-Structural Approach to Health Ethics
- Lisa Eckenwiler, PhD, George Mason University
Dr. Eckenwiler will describe an eco-structural approach (ESA) to health ethics, suggesting that it should advance ethical ideals in many domains, especially health justice. With a conception of people as ecological subjects, an ESA…
Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe
- Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C, University of Virginia
- Lynn Paltrow, JD, Pregnancy Justice
For decades abortion access has been one of the most polarizing issues in American society. The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has catalyzed the elimination or severe restriction of access to legal…
“Who Ya Gonna Call?” When Your Patients Can’t Decide by Themselves
- Joan Henriksen, PhD, RN, HEC-C, Abbott Northwestern Hospital
In daily clinical practice, care decisions must be made even when patients lack capacity to independently provide informed consent and shared decision-making. If the patient has not named someone to speak for them, it can become a…
The Case for Health Care Reparations
- Camisha Russell, PhD, University of Oregon
In this talk, Dr. Russell draws on Olefumi Taiwo’s constructive view of reparations to argue that US healthcare systems must be rebuilt in the name of racial justice. Dr. Russell discusses the accumulations of advantage and disadvantage…