Below are listed completed ABN Ethics Talk Webinars. They are grouped according to the yearly cycle that runs from September through May. When available, a Power Point presentation and/or audio recording is provided for you to review or download. The webinar scenarios and discussions do not constitute medical or legal advice and are presented simply as another ABN educational tool addressing ethics in health care.
ABN ETHICS TALK WEBINARS
September 2011 through May 2012
ABN EthicsTalk # 12 (January 25, 2012)
The Acceptability of Discontinuing Treatment After an Unsuccessful Suicide Attempt, with Greg Loeben, PhD, Associate Professor at Midwestern University (Glendale, AZ) and member of numerous health care ethics committees in the Phoenix area.
- EthicsTalk recording (57 minutes)
- EthicsTalk slides
ABN EthicsTalk # 11 (December 1, 2011)
Ethical Wisdom: Doing the Right Thing Every Day, with Jack Gilbert, EdD FACHE, Director of the Master of Healthcare Innovation Program at ASU and author of Strengthening Ethical Wisdom: Tools for Transforming Your Health Care Organization (2007) published by the American Hospital Association Press.
ABN EthicsTalk # 10 (October 27, 2011)
Ethics Challenges of the “Revolving Door Syndrome” Between Long Term Care and Hospitals, with Mindy Skelton, MS, ANP, a clinical ethicist and Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 10 years experience working in long term care with a frail elderly population.
ABN EthicsTalk # 9 (September 22, 2011)
Ethics Consultation Liability: Real or Imagined?, with Bruce White, DO, JD, formerly at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and currently Director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College, New York.
- EthicsTalk recording (56 minutes)
- EthicsTalk slides
September 2010 through May 2011
ABN Ethics Talk # 8 (May 18, 2011)
Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation: Strategies and Challenges, with Jason Robert, PhD, Franca Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences, Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Biotechnology and Medicine, and Director Bioethics, Policy & Law Program in the Center for Biology and Society in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and Shaylona Kirk, MD, MA.
Assessing National Health Care Reform: Perspectives on Individual and Communal Health, with James Hodge Jr., JD, LLM, Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Director, Public Health Law and Policy Program as well as Director, Public Health Law Network – Western Region Office.
ABN EthicsTalk # 6 (March 22, 2011)
Saving the Life We Can, with Carol Bayley, PhD, VP for Ethics and Justice Education, Catholic Healthcare West.
ABN EthicsTalk # 5 (February 22, 2011 )
Right of Refusal: Who Suffers and Why-a moral discourse on judgment, with David Beyda, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Ethics and Humanism Theme and Director of Global Health at University of Arizona College of Medicine and Pediatric intensivist and Chair of the Bioethics Committee, Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
ABN EthicsTalk # 4 (January 19, 2011)
Who is really in charge: Surrogacy challenges in the Neuro ICU, with Charlene Grove, MS, RN and Stephanie Strickland, MS, RN, CNRN, both ICU nurse managers at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.
ABN EthicsTalk # 3 (December 1, 2010):
Who Gets To Decide?, with James Bowen, JD, who has 18 years experience as an ethics committee member on Banner Thunderbird Medical Center’s Bioethics Committee.
ABN EthicsTalk # 2 (October 27, 2010):
Janet’s Request: Would you Agree to Provide “Palliative Sedation?“, with Gillian Hamilton, MD, PhD, Administrative Medical Director, Hospice of the Valley.
ABN EthicsTalk # 1 (September 22, 2010):
George’s Wife’s Request: An ethics case analysis of moral distress, with Jason Robert, PhD, Franca Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences, Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Biotechnology and Medicine, and Director Bioethics, Policy & Law Program in Center for Biology and Society in School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.