2021 Webinar Archive

You’ve held a bioethics consult, now what? A previous webinar by Kathleen O’Connor DPS, MBA, LMSW discussed how to prepare a patient case for an ethics committee consultation. In this webinar, Patricia Mayer, MD, MS, HEC-C will lead us through a best practice manner of entering the documentation following the consultation into the medical record.

Leonardo Candelario Pérez, PhD is a sexual health psychologist and co-chair of Adolescent Gender Services at Health Partners, a consultant for the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health, and the LGBTQI+ consultant for Centro Tyrone Guzman. Dr. Leo will be sharing with us the importance and methods of providing gender-affirming healthcare.

Buprenorphine is used to treat opioid use disorder. In order to prescribe it, however, professionals are required to take training and apply for a waiver. That requirement was set to be removed in January 2021, but President Biden withdrew that option. Dr. Brady will share the data regarding the geographic distribution of the providers’ waivers and discuss best practice policies for the future in opioid use disorder.

In this webinar, Dr. Pope will detail some of the options available for advanced directives for persons with dementia, and the legal structure to voluntarily stop eating and drinking.

Dr. Campo-Engelstein, PhD is the Director of the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities as well as the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine. She is also Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Population Health at University of Texas Medical Branch. In this webinar she discusses the ethics of contraceptive justice and the need for a male contraceptive pill.

There is considerable debate in legal and bioethical circles about consent-requirements for secondary medical research. Secondary research is often distinguished from primary research. For example, where primary medical researchers collect blood samples from a participant, secondary medical researchers conduct research on collected blood samples in biobanks.

Jimmy Jenkins is a reporter at KJZZ and has been reporting recently on the health and health care access of prisoners under the supervision of Arizona Department of Corrections. He will share some of his reporting with us as we discuss the ethical responsibility of Arizona in providing health care for incarcerated persons.

The pandemic has highlighted the need for persons having not only an advanced care directive, but also having it accessible across communities and providers. Chase Millea is In-House Counsel and Director of Regulatory Compliance of Health Current. In this webinar he will describe efforts to record advanced care directives on Health Current.