Speakers and Subject Areas
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Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD
Social Determinants of Health / Social Justice, Health Inequities / Racism and Sexism in Healthcare
Stigma (esp. pain & weight stigma)
History of Medicine / Public Health Law
Jean Abbott, MD, MH
Challenging Cases in Clinical Ethics
Physician-assisted dying: historical and contemporary issues
Palliative Care Ethics
Challenging Patients / Challenging Ethical Situations / Ethics Consultation Services
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP
How Healers Became Killers: The Holocaust and Modern Medical Ethics
Physician-assisted dying: historical and contemporary issues
Caring for diverse and communication-vulnerable patients: a patient safety challenge
Legal and Ethical Issues in Addressing Medical Errors
Professionals, professionalism and the Ethics of Health Care/Transdisciplinary Professionalism
Communication Quality in Health Care: Ethical and Measurement Issues
Race, Trust and Health Disparities
Ethics and Quality of Care During Global Health Disasters
Innovative Care or Unregulated Research: What's the Difference?
Communication Training to Improve the Patient Experience and Practitioner Engagement
Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
Intersections of Medicine and Religion
Mental Illness and Stigma
Narrative Medicine
Physician Burnout and Resiliency
Mark Levine, MD
Physician Participation in Genocide: Can it Happen Again?
Daniel Johnson, MD
Communication in Serious & Advanced Illness / Futility (Unrealistic or Unhelpful Therapies)
Self-Care and Resiliency / Palliative Care
Jessica Pierce, PhD
Animal Ethics / Ethics of Euthanasia / Palliative Care and End of Life for Animals
Warren Capell, MD
Human Research Regulations / Informed Consent / IRBs / Human Subject Research vs. QA/QI
Gidon Felsen, PhD
Neuroscience / Neuroethics / Public Policy
Casey Frank, JD, MPH
Law & Medicine / Surrogate Decision-Making / Dilemmas in Reconciling Advance Care Directives
Steve Lewis, MD, FACOG, FCAP
Advanced Reproductive Technologies / Adverse Perinatal Outcomes / Placental Pathology
Art Appreciation and the Art of Medicine
Kristin Furfari, MD
Hospital-Based Ethics Consultation Services
Larry Hergott, MD
Reflective Writing / Narrative Medicine
Poems and Essays Focused on How Medical Practitioners and Their Loved Ones Lead the Medical Life
Sue Townsend, MD, FAAP
Extreme Prematurity / Prenatal Counseling / Newborns with Life-Threatening or "Lethal" Anomalies
Substance Use During Pregnancy / Newborns Exposed to Drugs in Utero