Sep 16, 2020

Visiting Clinical Professor Warren Binford, JD, Ed.M, was recognized with the Justice Hans A. Linde Award by the Oregon chapter of the American Constitution Society, at a virtual award ceremony hosted by Willamette University on September 16th. Binford is an internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate who is a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of children’s issues, including 21st century forms of child abuse, exploitation, and neglect.

Sep 21, 2020

JAMA Viewpoint: Authors Jean Abbott, Daniel Johnson and Matthew Wynia conclude that an ethical approach to pandemic surge planning requires recognizing and addressing threats of scarcity throughout the community. Failure to plan for adequate palliative and hospice care when a substantial increase in disease and death is expected is unconscionable, and it risks undermining patient-family trust, long-term emotional health, and the core values of society.

Sep 16, 2020

HEALTH AFFAIRS: Predicting prognosis is as old as medicine itself. Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have led to algorithms that promise to answer one of life’s ultimate questions: When will I die? Co-author Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD concludes that aligning care with patient priorities and avoiding biases should be the explicit aims of such work.

Sep 10, 2020

THE ATLANTIC: Amid a global pandemic, the NFL’s non-guaranteed contracts force players into a familiar choice: stay safe, or stay on the field. "If they cared about health and well-being as a primary concern, they would do things differently,” says Christine Baugh, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Sep 2, 2020

POLITIFACT-NC: Center Director Matthew Wynia explained, "Any evidence of such deaths are likely to be anecdotal, and not necessarily something that’s documented. If your ICU is full, you’re going to try to make the best of it. You’re likely going to try to treat them in a step-down unit,” Wynia said. “You’re not going to find anyone who says we openly discussed this with the family and says ‘I’m sorry, we’re out of beds and ventilators."

Sep 4, 2020

CHALKBEAT: CBH Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD, said he hopes schools recognize that if plans change, they need to ensure students are in comfortable environments that provide good food, internet and proper accommodations. Colleges and universities must take responsibility for closures, as well as their role in stopping the spread of the disease to other communities.

Aug 31, 2020

COLORADO SUN: "Vaccinating the population is important. Keeping the population united is more so. We tend to go with guidelines in the U.S.,” Center Director Matthew Wynia explained. “We’re reluctant to force people to do anything. But that does come with a cost that there will be a pretty high risk that there will be haves and have nots,”

Aug 20, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES: Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH was quoted in this article, describing one of the first monoclonal antibody research studies in the war on the coronavirus. “There just isn’t a culture in nursing homes that is attuned to doing research and clinical trials.”

Aug 13, 2020

NEXT AVENUE: Dr. Andrea Kittrell, a Lynchburg, Va. otolaryngologist and chair of the medical ethics committee at her regional hospital system, founded the advance directive website, Save Other Souls. CBH Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH voiced concerns.

Jul 31, 2020

GREELEY TRIBUNE: "The state’s power to regulate its citizen’s health, safety and welfare under our federal system … is vast,” said Daniel Goldberg, a public health ethicist, attorney and CBH faculty. “These lawsuits that crop up —I’m not saying they can’t ever prevail — but they have an uphill battle.”

Jul 2, 2020

ERIE NEWS NOW / CNN: Hospitals may have to use crisis care standards if they become overwhelmed to prioritize patients with higher chances of survival. "Making that decision would come down to one question," says Center Director Dr. Matthew Wynia. "What's the likelihood that you will survive this acute illness and still be alive six months or a year from now."

Jul 3, 2020

INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS: “There is a resonance between the Holocaust and medicine today, including racial health disparities, managed care and doctors as the stewards of communal resources,” says Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH. "How do you get physicians to the point where they maintain their ability to do the job and also retain their human compassion, empathy and the ability to form strong bonds with individual patients? I think that’s a balancing act that many of us struggle with throughout our careers. I hope that teaching Holocaust history helps physicians understand the risk of turning individual human beings into numbers."

Jul 1, 2020

ABC15 NEWS-PHOENIX: “People who’ve experienced military triage and having to make these decisions on the battlefield are sometimes scarred for life by this. It’s not something you ever really forget,” said Dr. Matthew Wynia, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Jun 29, 2020

JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY: Over 230 medical oncologists nationwide responded to the first study exploring oncologists' perceptions regarding MM for older adults with cancer, in which CBH Research Director Eric Campbell, PhD is a co-author. The research suggests that perceptions regarding the breadth of MM's benefits rather than its risks drive their views on its utility for older adults.

Jun 22, 2020

TIME: “You have some stakeholders who want to downplay things and make it sound like we’ve had a wonderful response, it all worked beautifully,” says Center Director Dr. Matthew Wynia, who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee studying the issue. “And you’ve got others who say, ‘No, no, no. Look at all the people who were harmed.’”

Jun 25, 2019

PBS: Amid shocking reports of the U.S. government’s treatment of detained migrant children, Warren Binford, a lawyer who visited one of the facilities in Texas, discusses the squalid living conditions as well as the resignation of acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, John Sanders. Professor Binford is Director of the Clinical Law Program at Willamette University, and will be joining our faculty in July, 2020.

Jun 23, 2020

KENNEDY INSTITUTE OF ETHICS JOURNAL: Covid-19 like other outbreaks, amplifies both person-centered, explicit racism and the structural, institutionalized racism that is responsible for racial health inequalities in the US. Author and Center faculty Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD, says, "Laws and policies should be prioritized as primary anti-stigma mechanisms.

Jun 16, 2020

CBS4 NEWS: CU Boulder graduate student Gavriel Kleinwaks is one of nearly 29,000 people who have signed up to be willingly infected with the coronavirus. CBH faculty Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD questions if it's ethical to infect people with a potentially lethal virus with no reliable treatment.

Jun 11, 2020

DAILY BEAST: Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH commented about UCSF Professor Dr. John Balmes, walking the ethical line of using ones university position to further an advocacy agenda.

Jun 9, 2020

Congratulations to Clinical Nurse Ethicist Karen Jones, RN, RNC-NIC and Associate Professor Curtis Coughlin, MBe, MS who recently passed the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) exam!