2015 Webinar Archive

In light of the need for a code of ethics that will establish a baseline for ethical conduct amongst professionals from many disciplines, and from those same professionals to the patient, a group of health care professionals and students were invited to draft a preliminary code of ethics. This presentation reports on their work and invites discussion and evaluation of the code.

Starting with the AIDS epidemic, patient advocates successfully challenged the norms of clinical research and gained access to investigational drugs based upon “compassionate use”. In this presentation, Dr. Bateman-House will discuss the evolution from the AIDS epidemic to current “Right to Try Laws” enacted by several states and what that means ethically and practically.

Dr. Chidwick provides ethics services to health care organizations throughout Ontario. She publishes and lectures widely on a variety of topics including ethics in transitions, ethics quality improvement, ethics and error, end-of-life, and advance care planning.

Dr. Lovern and Carol Locust co-authored “Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialogues.” Lavonna L. Lovern received her PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA in Philosophy.

Barbara Mancini has been a nurse for over three decades. In this webinar she describes her experience in 2013 when she was arrested and prosecuted in Pennsylvania on the charge of aiding the attempted suicide of her dying 93-year old father after handing him his prescribed morphine four days before his death.

Maribeth Gallagher, DNP, FAAN, serves as director of the dementia program at Hospice of the Valley and speaks on “Valuing Personhood in Dementia: Considerations for Humane and Dignified Care” in our June 18 webinar.

Sarah Bird, VP of Clinical Operations of Hospice of the Valley presentation.

Steven Oppenheim, MD, the Palliative Care Medical Director at Banner Thunderbird Hospital, clears up some misconceptions about palliative care in this webinar.

In our February webinar, James Bowen will discuss the discuss legal and ethical considerations in requiring minor patients to undergo medical treatment against their wishes.

Jason Robert, PhD, presents some of the foundations of bioethics.