2019 National Bioethics Symposium
 
Agenda

Agenda subject to change.

DAY 1—Thursday, October 3, 2019

12:30pm – 1:00pm

Registration

1:00pm – 2:45pm

Concurrent Workshops

Workshop A: Integrating Gratitude in Integrated Ethics
Kraig Russell, MD, Ben Rrustemaj, Mdiv & Jennifer Hopping-Winn, LCSW

Workshop B: Myers-Briggs Types and Ethics Consultation
Mathew Pauley, JD, MA, MDR

2:45pm – 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Concurrent Workshops


Workshop A: Easing Moral Distress in Clinical Practice
Denise Dudzinski, PhD


Workshop B: Clinical Ethics Consultation & Complex Care Cases
Ruchika Mishra PhD and Shilpa Shashidhara PhD

5:00pm

Workshop adjourns

DAY 2—Friday, October 4, 2019

7:30am – 8:00am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 8:20am

Welcome
Kraig Russell, MD

 



8:20am – 9:30am

Keynote: Ritual in Medical Ethics
Tod Chambers, PhD

9:30am—9:45am

Walk Time

9:45am – 10:55am

Concurrent Breakout Session #1 – Organizational Ethics, Humanities, Communications & Voice

1A: Ethical Dilemmas: Requests for Non-Beneficial Treatment
Eli Weber, PhD & David Lerman, MD, JD

1B: Graphic Medicine - Stories Tell Us What We Need to Know: Perspectives for Ethical Dilemmas
Tom Janisse, MD

1C: Telehealth and Ethical Considerations
Jeanne Robinson, MD

10:55am—11:15am

Break

11:15am – 12:25pm

Concurrent Breakout Session #2 Organization & Community, Humanities, and Communications & Voice

2A: Harm Reduction & Clinical Ethics
Kevin Dirksen, M.Div., M.Sc., HEC-C & Kate Marshall, MD

2B: Today's CRISPR Babies Case and Frankenstein’s Vision of Scientific Progress without Moral Limits
Thomas May, PhD & Jamil Mustafa, PhD

2C: Attending to Our Own Humanity so We Can Attend to the Humanity of Others
Melissa Monner, MS and Keren McCord, LCSW, OSW-C

12:25pm – 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm – 2:15pm

Full Group Table Activity: Integrating Ethics Group Session - Examining Rituals of Healthcare Service Lines and Identifying Potential Ethical Dilemmas

2:15pm – 2:25pm

Walk Time

2:25pm – 3:35pm

Concurrent Breakout Session #3 –Organization Ethics, Humanities, and Communications & Voice

3A: Feminist Ethics: Application to Ethical Dilemmas in Maternity Care
Marcy Lake, DO

3B: Metaphors in Medicine and the Language of Violence in Healthcare
Anthony Morton, MD

3C: The Patient Voice on the Ethics Committee –Model of KPNW Patient Representative Program
Jennifer Baisa, MS

3:35pm – 4:00pm

Break

4:00pm – 4:50pm

Panel: KP SCal Bioethics Program – Process for Identifying Gaps and Examples of Implemented Bioethics Projects in the Region
Bates Moses MD, Paula Goodman-Crews MSW LCSW, Debra Kasman MD

4:50pm – 5:00pm

Regroup, Meditation, and Valediction
Wisdom from Today and Setting the Tone for Tomorrow
Shawna McDermott, MBA

5:00pm 

Day 1 Adjourns

DAY 3—Saturday, October 5, 2019

7:30am – 8:00am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 8:15am

Welcome Back
Kraig Russell, MD



8:15am – 9:15am

Keynote: Ordinary Medicine – Ethical Rationality in an Aging Society
Sharon Kaufman, PhD

9:15am – 9:25am

Walk Time

9:25am – 10:35am

Concurrent Breakout Session #4 – Well Being, Beginnings & Endings and Organizational Ethics

4A: Health, Ethics, and the Interconnectedness of Life
Prakash Chenjeri, PhD

4B: Homelessness and Housing's Impact on Health and Well-Being
John Vu

4C: Dignified endings in Pediatrics
Robert MaCauley, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM

10:25am –11:00am

Break

11:00am – 12:10pm

Concurrent Breakout Session #5 - Community, Beginnings & Endings and Well Being

5A: Public Health Ethics
Jennifer Vines, MD, MPH

5B: Medical Decision-making for Periviable Infants
Melinda Caskey, MD

5C: Moral Distress, Burnout and the Resilient Nurse
Laurie Morrison, MD

12:10pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm – 2:25pm

Panel: Dignified Journeys through Serious Illness and End of Life
Paula Goodman-Crews MSW LCSW, Leong Koh MD, Anthony Morton MD, Kraig Russell, MD, Anna Skold MD

2:25pm – 2:35pm

Walk Time

2:35pm – 3:45pm

Concurrent Breakout Session #6 – Well Being, Beginning & Endings, and Organizational Ethics

6A: Revisiting Virtue Ethics - An Antidote to Burnout?
Kjell Benson, MD

6B: The Value of Existential Distress and Ethical Considerations in Treating It
Fred Grewe, DMin, BCC


3:45pm – 4:00pm

Break

4:00pm – 4:50pm

Panel: Community Ethics League (CEL) Committee Model
Keough, Russell, Kockler, Lee, Morrison & Price

4:50pm – 4:55pm

Regroup, Meditation, and Valediction
Shawna McDermott, MBA

4:55pm – 5:00pm

Farewell and Thank you!
Kraig Russell, MD

5:00pm

Symposium Ends