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Graceful Journey Project - World Cafe, MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES & HONORING CHOICES MINNESOTA, Saint Paul, Minnesota (November 29, 2012).

The ACA and Public Health, INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES, Saint Paul, Minnesota (November 27, 2012).

Freedom of Choice at the End of Life: Protecting the Patient's Rights over Government, Health Care Provider and Pressure Group Resistance, NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL, New York, NY (November 16, 2012).

Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW & HAMLINE HEALTH LAW INSTITUTE, Saint Paul, Minnesota (November 8-9, 2012) (organizer, moderator).

Law Affinity Group, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS & HUMANTITIES ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, D.C. (October 19, 2012) (moderator).

Legal Update 2012: Top Ten Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS & HUMANTITIES ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, D.C. (October 18, 2012).

Plenary Panelist:  Healthcare Reform and Health Care Stakeholder Disputes: Can We Identify Common Ground?  MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 12, 2012).

The Patient-Healthcare Provider Relationship: When Is the Relationship Broken?  - Healthcare Reform and Health Care Stakeholder Disputes: Can We Identify Common Ground?  MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 12, 2012).

The Affordable Care Act Decisions: Implications for Healthcare and Beyond, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Paul, Minnesota (September 12, 2012) (moderator).

Introduction to the Health Law Institute, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Paul, Minnesota (August 30, 2012).

ASBH-ABA Collaboration, ABA SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS AND THE LAW, ABA ANNUAL MEETING, Chicago, Illinois (August 4, 2012).

The Meaning of Reproductive Rights Today, SOUTHEAST ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (SEALS) ANNUAL MEETING, Amelia Island, Florida (July 30, 2012).

Implementing Healthcare Reform: What the Headlines Missed, SOUTHEAST ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (SEALS) ANNUAL MEETING, Amelia Island, Florida (July 29, 2012).

Developing Clinical Practice Guidelines, COMPASSION & CHOICES CONFERENCE, Chicago, Illinois (July 2, 2012).

Bioethics and End-of-Life Choice, COMPASSION & CHOICES CONFERENCE, Chicago, Illinois (June 29, 2012).

The New Landscape of End-of-Life Decision-Making: How POLSTs (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Turn Health Care Decisions into Medical Orders, 35TH ANNUAL ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW), Tempe, Arizona (June 8, 2012).

What Are the Boundaries of Acceptable Medical Practice Near the End of Life In ICUs?  Legal Mechanisms to Resolve Futility Disputes, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, San Francisco,California (May 23, 2012).

Statement on Futility and Goal Conflict in End-of-Life Care in ICUs, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, San Francisco,California (May 21, 2012) (drafting workshop).

Statement on Conscientious Objection, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, San Francisco,California (May 20, 2012) (drafting workshop).

New 2012 Legislation Impacting Healthcare Facilities' Non-Beneficial Treatment Policies, HCA, Nashville, Tennessee (May 14, 2012) (webinar).

White House Policy Briefing on Judicial Vacancies, THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, DC (May 7, 2012) (with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights).  

National Healthcare Decisions Day, HILTON MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL AIRPORT – MALL OF AMERICA, Bloomington, Minnesota (April 16, 2012) (planning committee, facilitator).

National Healthcare Decisions Day TweetChat, http://www.nhdd.org/chat/ (February 16, 2012) (host).

Biannual Briefing to the HLI Advisory Committee, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Feb. 13, 2012). 

New York’s 2010 Family Health Care Decisions Act and Its Impact at the Hospitalized Patient’s Bedside,, ALDEN MARCH BIOETHICS INSTITUTE, Albany, New York (November 19, 2010). 

 Allowing Death Can Be Love’s Demand, 2010 FILM AND HISTORY CONFERENCE, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (November 13, 2010).

 Is Treatment Ever Futile?  Who Decides? UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF LAW, Madison, Wisconsin (November 5, 2010).

 Unilateral Refusal of Treatment by Providers: Ethical and Legal Challenges, MERITER HOSPITAL 21st ANNUAL FALL ETHICS CONFERENCE, Madison, Wisconsin (November 5, 2010).

 Legal Update 2010: The Top Ten Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES 12^th ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, California (October 21, 2010) (organizer, presenter). 

 What's Law Got to Do with It?  Legal Issues in Ethics Consultation, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES 12^th ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, California (October 22, 2010) (workshop small group leader).

 Bioethics from the Bench, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES 12^th ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, CaliforniaOctober 22, 2010) (organizer, moderator).

 The Impact of Betancourt on the Resolution of Futility Disputes in Delaware, CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM, ETHICS RETREAT (September 30, 2010).

 Fear of Lawsuits Driving Clinical Treatment, RADY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, San Diego, California (September 14, 2010).

 Essential Tips for Law School Success, WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ORIENTATION, Wilmington, Delaware (August 17, 2010).

 Conscientious Objection and Intensive Care Medicine: Legal Overview, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY POLICY STATEMENT WORKING GROUP WEB CONFERENCE (July 29, 2010).

 The Growing Decision Making Power of Healthcare Committees and Why Regulation Is Needed to Assure Due Process, 10^thWORLD CONGRESS OF BIOETHICS, Singapore (July 28-31, 2010) [withdrawn].  

 Bioethics Resources outside the Institutional Setting, DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE (DAHC) ANNUAL MEETING, MeadowWood Behavioral Health System, New Castle, Delaware (June 17, 2010).

 Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option at the End of Life, 33rd ANNUAL HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Austin, Texas (June 4, 2010).

Pro-Con Debates in Critical Care Medicine, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, New Orleans, Louisiana (May 16, 2010).

The Growing Decision Making Power of Healthcare Committees and Why  Regulation Is Needed to Assure Due Process, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATION (ICCEC), Portland, Oregon (May 12-14, 2010).

Advance Directives, Ethics Rounds, CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM, Newark, Delaware (May 12, 2010).

Appellate Oral Argument in Betancourt v. Trinitas Hospital, No. A-003849-08T2, NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT - APPELLATE DIVISION, New Brunswick, New Jersey (April 27, 2010).

Health Law and the Elderly: Planning for the End of Life, WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW  Wilmington, Delaware (March 26, 2010) (organizer, moderator).

The Scope of Patient Autonomy at the End of Life:  Unsettled Questions, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ACADEMY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING, Wilmington, Delaware (March 18, 2010).

Divergent Approaches to End-of-Life Decision Making: China and the United States, SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW, Chongqing, China (December 14, 2009).

Medical Futility Laws and Policies: Are They Making a Difference?  SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER (HCA), Nashville, Tennessee (December 4, 2009).

Model Mechanisms for Resolving Medical Futility Disputes, HCA FAMILY OF HOSPITALS, Webinar (December 1, 2009).

Health Law and Bioethics for Nurses, WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING, Chester, Pennsylvania (November 23, 2009).

Legal Update 2009: The Top Ten Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES 11TH ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, DC (October 16, 2009) (organizer, moderator).

Resolving Conflicts over Non-Beneficial Treatment Ethics Rounds, MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Sept. 25, 2009)

What Can (and Must) Bioethics Learn from Corporate Governance Decisions Like Disney and Van Gorkom?  32nd ANNUAL HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Cleveland, Ohio (June 5, 2009).

Advance Care Planning in Delaware, NATIONAL HEALTH CARE DECISIONS DAY, Wilmington, Delaware (April 16, 2009) (organizer).

Multi-Institutional Health Care Ethics Committees: the Procedurally Fair Internal Dispute Resolution Mechanism, WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY WIP WORKSHOP, Wilmington, Delaware (March 18, 2009).

Long Term Care Regional Ethics Committees: How Does New Jersey Measure Up?  NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF THE PUBLIC ADVOCATE, OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN FOR THE INSTITUTIONALIZED ELDERLY, Trenton, New Jersey (March 12, 2009).

Compliance Standards Concerning End-of-Life Care, WIDENER HEALTH LAW INSTITUTE:  CERTIFICATION FOR HEALTHCARE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONALS – HOSPITAL AND LONG-TERM PROVIDER PROGRAM, Wilmington, Delaware (March 4, 2009) (with Dr. John Goodill).

Multi-Institutional Health Care Ethics Committees: the Procedurally Fair Internal Dispute Resolution Mechanism, CAMPBELL LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM ON PRACTICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH LAW, Raleigh, North Carolina (January 30, 2009).

Avoiding and Resolving Medical Futility Disputes: U.S. Lessons for Manitoba, CRITICAL CARE MONTHLY ROUNDS, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE, Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 17, 2008).

Mechanisms and Strategies for Resolving End-of-Life Disputes (Medical Residents), UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE, Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 16, 2008).

Mechanisms and Strategies for Resolving End-of-Life Disputes (Critical Care Fellows), UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE, Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 16, 2008).

Limits to Patient Autonomy: Where and on What Basis Can They Be Drawn? MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE, Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 16, 2008).

Multi-Institutional Health Care Ethics Committees: the Procedurally Fair Internal Dispute Resolution Mechanism, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, St. Paul, Minnesota (December 10, 2008).

The Failure of Advance Health Care Directive Policies: What to Do About Them, 8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL AARP AGING AND LAW CONFERENCE, Arlington, Virginia (December 6, 2008) (with Stanley Terman).

Pitfalls and Potentials in Planning End-of-Life Treatment: Educational and Strategic Initiatives, 8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL AARP AGING AND LAW CONFERENCE, Arlington, Virginia (December 5, 2008) (with Stanley Terman).

Multi-Institutional Health Care Ethics Committees: Motivations and Models, MARYLAND HEALTHCARE ETHICS COMMITTEE NETWORK (MHECN), Baltimore, Maryland (December 3, 2008).

Moderator: Role of Government in Public Health, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES 10TH ANNUAL MEETING, Cleveland, Ohio (October 25, 2008).

Future Tense: How to Better Avoid and Resolve Tomorrow’s End-of-Life Treatment Disputes, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES, Cleveland, Ohio (October 24, 2008).

Institutional and Legislative Approaches to Medical Futility Disputes in the United, PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS, Arlington, Virginia (September 12, 2008).

Divergent Approaches to Medical Futility Disputes: Comparing Great Britain and Australia with Canada and the United States, NINTH WORLD CONGRESS OF BIOETHICS, Rijeka, Croatia (September 5, 2008).

Medical Ethics, Medical Decision Making, and Backlash to Autonomy, ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY CHURCH, Albuquerque, New Mexico (August 30, 2008).

Drafting Hospital Policies to Better Address End-of-Life Care, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, Albuquerque, New Mexico (August 29, 2008).

Resolving Medical Futility Disputes, W. STERLING EDWARDS SURGERY GRAND ROUNDS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, Albuquerque, New Mexico (August 28, 2008).

Hospital Ethics Committees as a Forum of Last Resort under the Texas Advance Directives Act: A Violation of Procedural Due Process, FACULTY WORKSHOP, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, St. Louis, Missouri (June 23, 2008).

Extrajudicial Resolution of Intractable Futility Disputes: Empowering Multi-Institutional Ethics Committees, 31st ANNUAL HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (June 6, 2008).

Advance Care Planning in Delaware:  National Health Care Decisions Day, NEW CASTLE COUNTY BRANDYWINE HUNDRED LIBRARY, Wilmington, Delaware (April 16, 2008).

Medical Futility Statutes: Can/Ought They Be Resuscitated? AUSTIN M. KUTSCHER MEMORIAL CONFERENCE: THE PULSE OF DEATH NOW, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York (March 29, 2008).

End-of-Life Conflicts and the Law, HEALTH LAW SOCIETY BROWN BAG, WIDENER UNIVERSITY, Wilmington, Delaware (February 21, 2008).

The Intersection of International Human Rights and Bioethics, SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL ON NEW VOICES IN HUMAN RIGHTS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (AALS) ANNUAL MEETING, New York, New York (January 6, 2008).

Withdrawing Life Support Despite the Patient’s Decision to Continue:   The Adjudicatory Authority of Hospital Ethics Committees, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, Philadelphia, PA (December 4, 2007).

Withdrawing Life Support Despite the Patient’s Decision to Continue:  Adjudicatory Authority of Hospital Ethics Committees, WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Wilmington, Delaware (November 28, 2007).

Withdrawing Life Support Despite the Patient’s Decision to Continue:  Adjudicatory Authority of Hospital Ethics Committees, DRAKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Des Moines, Iowa (November 16, 2007).

Moderator:  Panel on Beginning and End-of-Life Issues, PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CONFERENCE, WIDENER UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Wilmington, Delaware (October 19, 2007).

Decisional Authority of Ethics Committees, KAISER PERMANENTE BIOETHICS COMMITTEE OFFSITE RETREAT, San Diego, California (September 26, 2007).

Legal Landscape Here and Elsewhere: What Can We Learn from the Texas Advance Directives Act, KAISER PERMANENTE BIOETHICS COMMITTEE OFFSITE RETREAT, San Diego, California (September 26, 2007) (keynote).

Hospital Ethics Committees as a Forum of Last Resort under the Texas Advance Directives Act: A Violation of Procedural Due Process, TEXAS JUNIOR LEGAL SCHOLARS CONFERENCE, TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Fort Worth, Texas (August 11, 2007).

Medical Futility Statutes: Can They Be Resuscitated? AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME), 30TH ANNUAL HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Boston, Massachusetts (June 1, 2007).

Dispute Resolution in Health Care, SYMPOSIUM ON ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION STRATEGIES IN END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS, SPONSORED BY THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND THE ABA SECTION OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION, Columbus, Ohio (January 18, 2007).

Medical Futility is a Healthcare Rationing Issue, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELDER LAW ATTORNEYS (NAELA), 2006 ADVANCED ELDER LAW INSTITUTE, HEALTH CARE SIG PANEL, Salt Lake City, Utah (November 4, 2006).

Pulling the Plug without Consent: the Impact of Laws Authorizing Health Care Providers to Override Patient Requests for Treatment, WILLIAM MITCHELL COLLEGE OF LAW, St. Paul, Minnesota (October 17, 2006).

Medical Futility Policies: Legal Obstacles, ANNUAL HEALTH LAW SCHOLARS WORKSHOP, SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, St. Louis, Missouri (September 15-17, 2006).

Pulling the Plug without Consent: The Unilateral Decision Statutes, ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (SEALS), Palm Beach, Florida (July 18, 2006).

The Legitimacy and Prevalence of Medical Futility Policies Authorizing Involuntary Passive Euthanasia, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME), 30TH ANNUAL HEALTH LAW TEACHERS CONFERENCE, Baltimore, Maryland (June 3, 2006).

Moderator:  Panel on Concierge Medicine, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME), 30TH ANNUAL HEALTH LAW TEACHERS CONFERENCE, Baltimore, Maryland (June 2, 2006).

It’s Your Right to Live or Die – Or Is It?  PUBLIC FORUM INTERDISCIPLINARY PANEL, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, Memphis, Tennessee (April 17, 2006).

The Right of Health Care Providers to Unilaterally Make Determinations of Medical Futility, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, Chicago, Illinois (February 7, 2006).

License to Kill:  The Right of Health Care Providers to Unilaterally Make Determinations of Medical Futility, CENTRAL STATES LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, Lansing, Michigan (November 5, 2005).

The Right of Tennessee Health Care Providers to Unilaterally Make Determinations of Medical Futility under the New Health Care Decisions Act, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LAW SCHOOL, FACULTY COLLOQUIA SERIES, Memphis, Tennessee (October 27, 2005).

Your Right to Unilaterally Write a DNAR Order under the Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act, BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS, LEBONHEUR CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER, Memphis, Tennessee (September 20, 2005).

Volenti Non Fit Injuria: The Decline and Fall of Consent and Consent-Based Doctrines in Tort Law, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SCHOOL OF LAW, Memphis, TN (April 20, 2005).

A Plan for Improving the Content and Design of the Practicelaw.org Website, MINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, Minneapolis, MN (April 18, 2005).

A Critique of Consent-Based Justifications for Hard Paternalism, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, FACULTY WORKSHOP, Orange, California (March 3, 2005).

The Evolution of Classical Liberalism and Public Health Ethics, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CONSORTIUM ON LAW AND VALUES IN HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT & THE LIFE SCIENCES, Minneapolis, Minnesota (January 24, 2005).

Paternalism and Tort Law: The Obesity Cases, SUNY - UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL, Buffalo, New York (January 14, 2005).

Paternalism and Tort Law: The Obesity Cases, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON LAW SCHOOL, Akron, Ohio (Nov. 29, 2004).

Choosing the Proper Framework for Balancing Autonomy and the Control of Lifestyle Epidemics, AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 132D ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, DC (Nov. 9, 2004).

Public Health Paternalism: Justificatory Criteria, AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 132D ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, DC (Nov. 9, 2004).

Go Sue Yourself: Limitations of Tort as a Public Health Tool, AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 132D ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, DC (Nov. 8, 2004).

Revising Hospital CPR Policies to Provide for Unilateral DNAR Orders - II,   LOS ANGELES COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION BIOETHICS COMMITTEE, Los Angeles, California (May 12, 2004).

Revising Hospital CPR Policies to Provide for Unilateral DNAR Orders - I,     LOS ANGELES COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION BIOETHICS COMMITTEE, Los Angeles, California (April 14, 2004).