Below, in reverse chronological order, are over 400 academic and public presentations that I made at universities, hospitals, and professional associations in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia.
2022 Presentations
Advance Directives: Essential Tools for a Win- Win- Win Opportunity, ST. JOSEPH / CANDLER HEALTH SYSTEM, Savannah, Georgia (March 9, 2023).
Current Concepts and Controversies: Brain Death Determination and Circulatory Death Organ Donor Status, ST. JOSEPH / CANDLER HEALTH SYSTEM, Savannah, Georgia (March 10, 2023).
Medical Aid in Dying in Pennsylvania, PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, Hershey, Pennsylvania (March 6, 2023) (Physician Assistant Medical Ethics).
Clinical Impact of Key Variations in U.S. MAID Laws, SECOND ANNUAL NATIONAL CLINICIANS CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING (NCCMAID), Portland, Oregon (February 17-18, 2023).
Move from Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making, DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY (February 15, 2023).
Unpacking Bedside Bioethics: Informed Consent, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota (February 14, 2022).
New Strategies for Avoiding and Resolving Conflicts over Medically Ineffective Treatment,MOUNT SINAI INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS, New York, New York (February 2, 2023).
Key Strategies for Responding to Requests for Non-Beneficial and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment, ADVENT HEALTH REDMOND, Rome, Georgia (February 1, 2023).
Key Strategies for Responding to Requests for Non-Beneficial and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment, ADVENT HEALTH REDMOND, Rome, Georgia (January 31, 2023).
Navigating Challenges with VSED Dementia Directives, VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK (January 12, 2023).
Linking Payment to Patient Preference: Medicare Coverage Mandates for Shared Decision Making, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW 16TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM (Evolution and Innovation in the Health Care Payment Landscape), Chicago, Illinois (November 11, 2022).
Navigating Newly-Expanded End-of-Life Options: Medical Aid in Dying and VSED, OHIO HEALTH (November 9, 2022).
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Lesser Known but Widely Available End-of-Life Option, WORLD FEDERATION OF RIGHT TO DIE SOCIETIES BIANNUAL CONFERENCE, Toronto, Canada (November 4, 2022).
Can Death Determined by Neurologic Criteria Be Salvaged? Alternatives and Implications,AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 23rd ANNUAL MEETING, Portland, Oregon (October 28, 2022).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 23rd ANNUAL MEETING, Portland, Oregon (October 27, 2022).
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Lesser Known but Widely Available End-of-Life Option in Maine, MAINE HEALTH (October 18, 2022).
Right to Die and Right to Try: Similarities and Differences in How the US and Canada Empower Terminally Ill Patients,COMPLETED LIFE INITATIVE (October 18, 2022).
VSED Update, DEATH WITH DIGNITY - DIGNITY50 (October 12, 2022).
Reader/Reviewer for Health Law Scholars Workshop, SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Louis, Missouri (September 29 - October 1, 2022).
Accommodating Objections to Brain Death, CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR TRANSPLANTATION, Banff, Alberta (September 21, 2022).
Café Scientifique: The Legal & Ethical Status of Pre-Transplant Vaccine Requirements: A Look at the Recent Legal Case of Lewis v. Alberta Health Services, CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR TRANSPLANTATION, Banff, Alberta (September 21, 2022).
Brain Death Controversies, PEDIATRIX NATIONAL MEDICAL GROUP MEDICAL DIRECTORS MEETING (September 20, 2022).
Key Strategies for Responding to Requests for Ineffective and Non-Beneficial Treatment, HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL, Los Angeles, California (September 7, 2022).
Legal Barriers to VSED, END OF LIFE DOULA TRAINING (August 14, 2022).
Controversies in Brain Death, BROWARD HEALTH, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (June 22, 2022).
Implementing SDM into Clinical Practice: Law and Policy Update, 11th INTERNATIONAL SHARED DECISION MAKING CONFERENCE, Kolding, Denmark (June 21, 2022).
Patient Decision Aids Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Liability Risk, 11th INTERNATIONAL SHARED DECISION MAKING CONFERENCE, Kolding, Denmark (June 21, 2022).
Best Interests and Beyond: Standards of Medical Decision‐Making in Pediatrics Conference,SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Missouri (June 8-10, 2022).
Brain Death: Must Clinicians Obtain Consent to Perform Testing for Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria? 45th ANNUAL HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Phoenix, Arizona (June 1-3, 2022).
Brain Death Controversies, INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, New York, New York (May 12, 2022).
Brain Death Is Integral to the UDDA, UNIFORM LAW COMMISSION DRAFTING COMMITTEE ON THE UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT (April 21, 2022).
Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids: Time to Revolutionize Informed Consent, So Patients Can Understand Their Treatment Options, BROCHER FOUNDATION, Hermance, Switzerland (March 3, 2022).
Consent for Death Determination Testing, DEFINITION AND DETERMINATION OF DEATH PROJECT - CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, CANADIAN CRITICAL CARE SOCIETY (March 1, 2022).
Patient Decision Aids & Shared Decision Making: Growing Legal and Policy Support, DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY (February 16, 2022).
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Lesser Known, Widely Available Palliative Option of Last Resort,ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE, Nashville, Tennessee (February 11, 2022).
Who Is Alive and Who Is Dead? Growing Uncertainty and Reasons for Amending the Uniform Determination of Death Act, MITCHELL HAMLINE FELLOWS SERIES (February 1, 2022).
Medical Aid in Dying in Minnesota, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BIOETHICS (January 28, 2022).
Assisted Dying in the United States, DYING WITH DIGNITY CANADA (January 27, 2022).
Why and How Your Living Will & Health Care Directive May Fail You, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION - SENIOR LAWYERS DIVISION (January 13, 2022).
2021 Presentations
Moving Toward Better Quality and Uniformity in Brain Death Determination: Ethical and Legal Considerations, ORGAN DONATION ALLIANCE (December 16, 2021).
California S.B. 380: A Clinical Perspective, AMERICAN CLINICIANS ACADEMY ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING (December 1, 2021) (with four MAID physicians).
Legal History of Medical Aid in Dying, COMPLETED LIFE INITIATIVE (November 9, 2021) (with Tim Quill).
Who Is Alive and Who Is Dead? Growing Uncertainty, Growing Variability, and Why Is New Jersey So Different KENT PLACE SCHOOL, Summit, New Jersey (November 4, 2021).
Potential and Problems in the Evolving Legal Framework for Brain Death,NEUROCRITICAL CARE SOCIETY 19th ANNUAL MEETING, Chicago, Illinois (October 29, 2021).
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, COMPLETED LIFE INITIATIVE (October 21, 2021).
Legal Foundations, INTERNATIONAL DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FORUM, Montreal, Quebec (October 14-15, 2021).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 23rd ANNUAL MEETING (October 13-16, 2021).
Success on Law Review - Panel, MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW (October 4, 2021).
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death, END OF LIFE CHOICES NEW YORK (September 30, 2021).
What's Good and Evil about Probate Conservatorships and How to Avoid the Bad Parts, HEMLOCK SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO (September 26, 2021).
Medical Aid in Dying in the USA, NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHCARE & HOSPICE INNOVATION (NPHI) - CEO THINKTANK (September 9, 2021).
New Legal Standards for Determining Death, ORGAN DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION ALLIANCE - NATIONAL DONOR MANAGEMENT SUMMIT (September 1-2, 2021).
Non-Therapeutic Pre-Mortem Interventions for Organ Donation,
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA CONFERENCE ON ORGAN DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION (June 17-18, 2021).
Dementia Advance Directives - Stop Eating and Drinking Directives,
ARIZONA BIOETHICS NETWORK (June 16, 2021).
Medical Malpractice Evolution from Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making, 44th ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE (June 9-11, 2021).
Discussion Leader: Jay Healey Teaching Session, 44th ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE (June 9-11, 2021).
Seven Obstacles to MAID for Canadian Dementia Patients, CANADIAN BIOETHICS SOCIETY 32nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE (May 26-28, 2021).
Mentor: Student Mentorship & Networking Event, CANADIAN BIOETHICS SOCIETY 32nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE (May 26-28, 2021).
Legal and Ethical Considerations at End of Life, WEINBERG CENTER FOR ELDER JUSTICE SPRING ALLIANCE SYMPOSIUM (May 13, 2021).
Decision-Making for Incapacitated Hospice Patients: The Fundamentals, VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK - HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE GRAND ROUNDS (April 30, 2021).
Legalizing Euthanasia: Expansion of Medical Aid in Dying in the USA and around the World, MITCHELL HAMLINE FACULTY FELLOWS (April 21, 2021).
Brain Death: Legal Constructs and Complications, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY BRAIN DEATH CONFERENCE (March 24-25, 2021).
Importance of Bioethics for Post-Acute Care: Compliance and Risk Management Benefits, AMERICAN HEALTH LAW ASSOCIATION (AHLA) - LONG TERM CARE AND THE LAW (March 4, 2021) (with Christine Wilson).
Death and the Brain: Time to Re-Examine the Legal Definition of Death,UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA CENTRE FOR HEALTH LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS (February 25, 2021).
Advance Directives and Assisted Dying: Legal and Ethics Frameworks, COMPLETED LIFE INITIATIVE (February 4, 2021).
Time to Promote Uptake of Patient Decision Aids, DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY (January 13, 2021).
Patient Rights and Healthcare Decision-Making after COVID-19: Transformations and Future Directions?QUT GLOBAL LAW, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES (November 19, 2020).
Voluntary Assisted Dying in the U.S. and Australia - Australian Center for Health Law Research Coffee with a Colleague, QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (November 15, 2020).
Informed Consent Law and Ethics, VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK (November 9, 2020).
Making Treatment Decisions for Unrepresented Patients, VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK (November 9, 2020).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 22nd ANNUAL MEETING (October 15-18, 2020).
Current Ethical and Legal Issues in Brain Death in Our Pluralistic World, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 22nd ANNUAL MEETING (October 15-18, 2020).
Film Screening Discussion, WORLD FEDERATION OF RIGHT TO DIE SOCIETIES (November 2, 2020)..
Hot Topics: Cool Talk - Physician Assisted Suicide, UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS TERRENCE J. MURPHY INSTITUTE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 30, 2020) (debate with John Kelly).
Completing Life by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Little Known Yet Readily Available Option, COMPLETED LIFE INITIATIVE (October 8, 2020) (with David Gruenewald).
Brain Death: Fundamental Principles and Growing Ethical Challenges, OMAHA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ETHICS GRAND ROUNDS, Omaha, Nebraska (October 9, 2020).
Brain Death and Clinic Ethics Consultation, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (August 3, 2020) (canceled for COVID-19).
Advance Care Planning during a Pandemic: POLST is a Vital Tool, MINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (July 1, 2020).
David Thomasma Memorial Lecture, INTERNATIONAL BIOETHICS RETREAT, Paris, France (June 24, 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die: What Are the Normative Questions, and How Should Bioethics Respond? IAB WORLD CONGRESS OF BIOETHICS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (June 19-21, 2020) (with Nancy Berlinger, Mara Buchbinder, Jane Lowers) (withdrawn for COVID-19).
Implementing Shared Decision Making into Clinical Practice: Law and Policy Update, IAB WORLD CONGRESS OF BIOETHICS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (June 19-21, 2020) (withdrawn for COVID-19).
Medical Aid in Dying in Minnesota, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS - GOLDEN VALLEY, webinar (June 10, 2020).
Dancing with Prognosis, AMERICAN CLINICIANS ACADEMY ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING, webinar (June 9, 2020).
Optimizing Advance Healthcare Directives to Ensure Patient Safety During a Pandemic, LAWLINE (June 9, 2020) (with Ferdinando Mirarchi).
Informed Consent: More than a Piece of Paper, VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK, Burlington, Vermont (May 18, 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Selectively Objecting: Is This (Y)our Future? Complex Decisions for MAiD Clinicians (Royal College of Physicians and Suregons of Canada McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship Lecture), CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF MAID ASSESSORS AND PROVIDERS (CAMAP), Toronto, Canada (May 1, 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Debate on Advance Requests for Medical Aid in Dying (Royal College of Physicians and Suregons of Canada McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship Lecture),CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF MAID ASSESSORS AND PROVIDERS (CAMAP), Toronto, Canada (May 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Future of Medical Aid in Dying (Royal College of Physicians and Suregons of Canada McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship Lecture), UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Toronto, Canada (May 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Religion-Affiliated Providers, AMERICAN CLINICIANS ACADEMY ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING, webinar (April 22, 2020).
Providing MAID During COVID-19: Ethical Issues, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF MAID ASSESSORS AND PROVIDERS (CAMAP), webinar (April 21, 2020).
Medical Aid in Dying, MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE (MNHPC), Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 6, 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Hot Topics: Cool Talk- Physician Assisted Suicide, UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS TERRENCE J. MURPHY INSTITUTE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (March 18, 2020) (postponed for COVID-19).
Proposal to Revise the UDDA to Address Medicolegal Controversies in Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria, UNIFORM LAW COMMISSION HEALTHCARE LAW COMMITTEE (April 3, 2020) (with Ariane Lewis, Matthew Kirschen, and Richard Bonnie).
Medical Aid in Dying: Assessing the Illinois Patient Choices at End of Life Act (John and Marsha Ryan Bioethicist in Residence Lecture), SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Springfield, Illinois (February 28, 2020).
Medical Aid in Dying: Assessing the Illinois Patient Choices at End of Life Act (John and Marsha Ryan Bioethicist in Residence Lecture), MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF CARBONDALE, Carbondale, Illinois (February 27, 2020).
Medical Aid in Dying: Assessing the Illinois Patient Choices at End of Life Act (John and Marsha Ryan Bioethicist in Residence Lecture), SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Carbondale, Illinois (February 26, 2020).
Leveraging Video Technology to Enhance Patient Safety and Deliver Concordant Care, COALITION TO TRANSFORM ADVANCED CARE (C‐TAC), webinar (February 19, 2020).
Patient Centered Health Communications, DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY, webinar (February 18, 2020).
Medical Aid in Dying: Six Variations among U.S. State Laws, NATIONAL CLINICIANS CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING (NCCMAID), Berkeley, California (February 14-15, 2020).
Minnesota End of Life Options Act, MINNEAPOLIS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CIVIC BUZZ, Minneapolis, Minnesota (December 3, 2019).
Minnesota is Ready for the End of Life Options Act: Evolving Status of Medical Aid in Dying, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 22, 2019).
Strategies for Effective Advance Directives, MINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, Saint Paul, Minnesota (November 22, 2019).
End-of-Life Ethics,BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Provo, Utah (November 18, 2019).
VSED Law - Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die Project Work Group, THE HASTINGS CENTER (New York City, November 8, 2019).
Law on Decision Making Capacity - Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die Project Work Group, THE HASTINGS CENTER (New York City, November 7, 2019).
Essential Elements of Bioethics Blogging: A Workshop, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 21ST ANNUAL MEETING, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 26, 2019).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics,AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 21ST ANNUAL MEETING, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 24, 2019).
Medical Futility & Brain Death, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (October 17, 2019).
Death with Dignity Legislation: The Legal Doctrine of Physician Assisted Death in the United States, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY BIOETHICS CONFERENCE, Lexington, Kentucky (October 8, 2019).
Physician/Advanced Practitioner Support for Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking, WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION & WASHINGTON END OF LIFE COALITION, Seattle, Washington (Sept. 13-14, 2019).
Physician Participation in Physician-Assisted Death, WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION & WASHINGTON END OF LIFE COALITION, Seattle, Washington (Sept. 13-14, 2019).
Implementing SDM into Clinical Practice: Law and Policy Update, 10th INTERNATIONAL SHARED DECISION MAKIING CONFERENCE, Quebec City, Canada (July 7-10, 2019).
Brain Death: Legal Status Amid Growing Uncertainty, 42ND ANNUAL ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Chicago, Illinois (June 5-7, 2019).
Non-Maleficence: Unwanted Medical Treatment and Informed Consent, MUNSON MEDICAL CENTER 4TH ANNUAL CLINICAL ETHICS CONFERENCE, Traverse City, Michigan (May 17, 2019) (invited keynote).
Brain Death Bioethics: Fundamental Principles and Emerging Issues, EIGHTH ANNUAL GREAT LAKES PALLIATIVE CARE CONFERENCE, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (May 3, 2019) (invited plenary).
Legal Update on MAID, VSED, and PSU in the United States, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL ANNUAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE, Boston, Massachusetts (April 11-12, 2019).
Brain Death Is Broken: Status Shift and Implications, EMORY HEALTHCARE ETHICS CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE, Atlanta, Georgia (March 21, 2019) (invited keynote).
Shared Decision Making: Time to Revolutionize Informed Consent, EMORY UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia (March 20, 2019).
VSED Divulged: Legal, Ethical, and Clinical Status of the Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking Exit Option, THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (ICEL3), Ghent, Belgium (March 7-9, 2019) (plenary).
Brain Death and the Law – Hard Cases and Legal Challenges, THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (ICEL3), Ghent, Belgium (March 7-9, 2019).
Medical Futility Dispute Resolution Options in the United States: Law & Ethics Fundamentals, THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (ICEL3), Ghent, Belgium (March 7-9, 2019).
Global Panel: Latest Developments in Assisted Dying around the World, THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (ICEL3), Ghent, Belgium (March 7-9, 2019).
The Ethics of Dying: A Panel Discussion on End-of-Life Care, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDENT COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS, Minneapolis, Minnesota (February 21, 2019).
Euthanize Informed Consent: Moving to Shared Decision Making with Certified Patient Decision Aids after Fifty Years of a Failed Doctrine, MAYO CLINIC, Rochester, Minnesota (December 13, 2018).
Brain Death Bioethics,MAYO CLINIC, Rochester, Minnesota (December 13, 2018).
Roundtable on Jahi McMath and Other Controversial Brain Death Cases, VIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BRAIN DEATH AND DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Havana, Cuba (December 4-7, 2018) (chairperson, moderator).
Brain Death Uncertainty: Growing Challenges to Its Legal Status, VIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BRAIN DEATH AND DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Havana, Cuba (December 4-7, 2018) (opening plenary).
Brain Death Uncertainty: Growing Challenges to Its Legal Status,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN DIEGO BIOMEDICAL ETHICS SEMINAR SERIES, San Diego, California (November 19, 2018).
Avoid Unwanted Medical Treatment: How to Ensure Your Wishes Are Followed, HEMLOCK SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO, San Diego, California (November 18, 2018).
Avoid Unwanted Medical Treatment: How to Ensure Your Wishes Are Followed, HEMLOCK SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO, Solana Beach, California (November 17, 2018).
Medical Futility in Minnesota, MINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, ETHICS AND MEDICAL-LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 6, 2018).
Brain Death: New Challenges, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (October 29, 2018).
Ethics Committees Are Not Just for Hospitals: Advancing Person-Centered Care in Long-Term Care Facilities, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 20TH ANNUAL MEETING, Anaheim, California (October 18-21, 2018).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 20TH ANNUAL MEETING, Anaheim, California (October 18-21, 2018).
Shared Decision Making and Advance Care Planning: Using Decision Aids to Improve Patient Safety, MICHIGAN ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONFERENCE, Lansing, Michigan (October 11-12, 2018).
Dementia, Withholding Food and Water, and Overcoming Barriers to VSED by Advance Directive, MICHIGAN ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONFERENCE, Lansing, Michigan (October 11-12, 2018).
Ending Self-Regulation of Medicine: Does Less Physician Control Improve Patient Safety and Protect Patient Rights? MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR ETHICS AND HUMANITIES IN THE LIFE SCIENCES, Lansing, Michigan (October 10, 2018).
Medical Aid in Dying: Pro-Con Debate, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF NURSING, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 8, 2018) (with Sen. Chris Eaton, Dr. Kirk Allison, Prof. Dennis O'Hare).
Medical Aid in Dying, MINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ELDER LAW SECTION, Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 27, 2018).
Revolutionizing Informed Consent Law and Practice: Empowering Patients with Certified Decision Aids, 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal (September 1-4, 2018).
Medical Futility Dispute Resolution Options in the UK and USA: Law and Ethics Fundamentals, Charlie Gard, and the Transfer Requirement, 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATION (ICCEC), Oxford, England (June 20-23, 2018).
Rationing Organs in the United States, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, England (June 20, 2018).
Revolutionizing Informed Consent Law and Practice: Empowering Patients with Certified Decision Aids, INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ETHICS SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Oxford, England (June 19, 2018).
When Is the Patient Dead? When May Clinicians Stop Treating Dead Patients? Growing Challenges to the Status of Brain Death and Strategies for Clinical Ethics Consultants, INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ETHICS SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Oxford, England (June 19, 2018).
Understanding New and Emerging Issues Regarding Medical Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients, MINNCLE HEALTH LAW INSTITUTE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 13, 2018).
Die Better: A Legal Toolkit, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME) 41ST HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Cleveland, Ohio (June 7-9, 2018).
Next Steps: Moving from Science and Policy to Practice: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids to Promote Shared Decision Making for Patients with Serious Illness, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 18, 2018) (Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care).
Washington State Experience: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids to Promote Shared Decision Making for Patients with Serious Illness, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 18, 2018)
Is Informed Consent Necessary Before Brain Death Testing? DEFINING DEATH: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION AND THE 50-YEAR LEGACY OF THE HARVARD REPORT ON BRAIN DEATH, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts (April 11-13, 2018).
Brain Death and the Law: Hard Cases and Legal Challenges, DEFINING DEATH: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION AND THE 50-YEAR LEGACY OF THE HARVARD REPORT ON BRAIN DEATH, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts (April 11-13, 2018).
Right to Die? The Bioethical and Legal Issues in End of Life Care, AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 3, 2018).
Under-examined End-of-Life Option: Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED), DYING IN THE AMERICAS, Henderson, Nevada (March 21-25, 2018).
Importance of Bioethics for Post-Acute Care: Compliance and Risk Management Benefits, AMERICAN HEALTH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION - LONG TERM CARE AND THE LAW, New Orleans, Louisiana (March 2, 2018) (with Christine Wilson).
Current Landscape: Implementation and Practice, Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape and Potential Approaches - A Workshop, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Washington, DC (February 12-13, 2018).
Making Better Healthcare Decisions for Unrepresented Patients in California, UCLA HEALTH, Los Angeles, California (January 17, 2018).
Five New California Bioethics Cases, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIOETHICS COMMITTEE CONSORTIUM, Los Angeles, California (January 17, 2018).
Better Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients, CITIZEN'S LEAGUE TASK FORCE - A BACKUP PLAN FOR SOLOS (WILDER CENTER), Saint Paul, Minnesota (December 12, 2017).
Medical Aid in Dying in Minnesota: Legal Landscape and Ethical Justifiability, HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota (December 8, 2017).
Better Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, Minneapolis, Minnesota (December 5, 2017).
The Unrepresented Patient,CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES ETHICSLAB WEBINAR (November 28, 2017).
Unwanted Medical Treatment: the Tragic, Utter Failure of U.S. Informed Consent Law, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts (November 20, 2017).
Healthcare: Beyond the Insurance Coverage Debate, THE WHOLE TRUTH WITH DAVID EISENHOWER, Washington, DC (November 10, 2017) (taping at Newseum).
Final Instructions: Dilemmas in Drafting Wishes at the End of Life, Barbara Jordan Conference Center, KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION, Washington, DC (November 8, 2017).
Fundamentals of Healthcare Decision Making by Minnesota Surrogates, FALL AGING CONFERENCE, SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS SENIOR WORKERS ASSOCIATION, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 26, 2017).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 19TH ANNUAL MEETING, Kansas City, Missouri (October 20, 2017).
One Patient, or Two? Brain Death and the Pregnant Patient,
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 19TH ANNUAL MEETING, Kansas City, Missouri (October 21, 2017).
Meet the Professor, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 19TH ANNUAL MEETING, Kansas City, Missouri (October 20, 2017).
Effecting Change & Impacting Policy - Law & Bioethics Affinity Group, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 19TH ANNUAL MEETING, Kansas City, Missouri (October 21, 2017).
Brain Death: New Challenges, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE October 17, 2017).
Narrowing the Gap Between Theory and Practice of Informed Consent: Ongoing Evolution to Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids - 2017 Plous Family Lecture, AURORA HEALTH CARE, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 9, 2017).
Other End of Life Options, Ethical Issues and Legal Considerations,
MINNESOTA COALITION FOR DEATH EDUCATION & SUPPORT (MCDES) FALL CONFERENCE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 29, 2017).
From Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making: Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Medical Liability Risk with Patient Decision Aids, MINNESOTA SOCIETY FOR HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGEMENT, Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 28, 2017).
The Role of State Constitutions and State Judiciaries in Establishing Civil Rights: A Look at Aid in Dying, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW, Albuquerque, New Mexico (September 23, 2017).
The End of Death: Growing Challenges to the Legal Status of Brain Death, SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE, LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE, Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 15-17, 2017).
Medical Futility Dispute Resolution Options in the United States: Law & Ethics Fundamentals, SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE, LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE, Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 15-17, 2017).
The Under-examined End-of-Life Option: Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED), SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE, LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE, Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 15-17, 2017).
Better Healthcare Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients without Surrogates, OFFICE OF GUARDIANSHIP AND ELDER SERVICES, WASHINGTON STATE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS (July 19, 2017) (with David Godfrey, ABA).
Three Legal Tools for Promoting Shared Decision Making, 9TH INTERNATIONAL SHARED DECISION MAKING (ISDM) CONFERENCE, Lyon, France (July 2-5, 2017).
Gaps in Minnesota Surrogate Decision Making Law, MINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION - ETHICS AND MEDICAL-LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 21, 2017).
2017 Health Law Institute, MINNCLE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 15-16, 2017) (planning committee).
Where and How to Set Limits, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES (AACN Minnesota Chapter),Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 13, 2017).
Finally Ending Legal Deference to Physician Judgment, 40TH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME) HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Atlanta, Georgia (June 8-10, 2017).
Jay Healey Teaching Session (Externships), 40TH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME) HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Atlanta, Georgia (June 8-10, 2017).
End of Life Options in Minnesota, MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 27, 2017).
Advance Care Planning in Minnesota, ROSEVILLE COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS TEAM, Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 22, 2017).
Simon’s Law: Unleashing Surrogate Authority to Demand Potentially Inappropriate Treatment, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER (April 14, 2017).
Faculty Colloquium on Feedback, MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 12, 2017) (with Dena Sonbol).
VSED: The OTHER End of Life Option, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE (UNCC) ETHICS CENTER, Charlotte, North Carolina (April 6, 2017).
Withholding Food and Fluids in Cases of Advanced Dementia: An Ethical and Legal Choice? DAVIDSON COLLEGE, Charlotte, North Carolina (April 6, 2017).
Medical Futility, MINNESOTA NETWORK FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE (MNHPC), Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 4, 2017).
End of Life Options in Ohio: The Legality of Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED), UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI SCHOOL OF LAW, Cincinnati, Ohio (March 21, 2017).
Round Table on Health Care Decision Making, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION COMMISSION ON LAW & AGING, Washington, DC (March 17, 2017).
Medical Jurisprudence, SAINT GEORGES UNIVERSITY, Grenada, West Indies (February 9-14, 2017).
Better Healthcare Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients without Surrogates, 3rd ANNUAL WINGS MN GUARDIANSHIP SUMMIT, Minneapolis, Minnesota (February 3, 2017).
Works in Progress for New Health Law Teachers [Commentator], ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS, ANNUAL MEETING, San Francisco, California (January 5, 2017).
Changing Legal Status of Brain Death inCalifornia, CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER, Los Angeles, California (December 21, 2016).
Unbefriended and Unrepresented: Medical Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients without Healthcare Surrogates, MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER, Saint Paul, Minnesota (December 9, 2016).
When May You Stop Life-Sustaining Treatment without Consent? Leading Dispute Resolution Mechanisms for Medical Futility Conflicts, CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 18, 2016).
The Right to Die: 40 Years after Quinlan, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia (November 11, 2016).
When Is Your Patient Dead? When May You Stop Treating Dead Patients? KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES, Kansas City, Missouri (November 8, 2016).
Brain Death, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BIOETHICS PROSEMINAR, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 18, 2016).
Advance Care Planning: Make Your Choices Known, ROSEVILLE COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS TEAM (CHAT)Roseville, Minnesota (October 15, 2016) (helped organize, train student volunteers).
Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Clinical, Legal, Ethical, Religious, and Family Perspectives, SEATTLEUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Seattle, Washington (October 14-15, 2016) (planning committee).
VSED Is Legal: Defending Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Seattle, Washington (October 14-15, 2016).
Bioethicists Must Engage the Public: Using Social Media to Advance Public Literacy in Bioethics, ASBH 18th ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, DC (October 8, 2016).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, ASBH 18th ANNUAL MEETING, Washington, DC (October 8, 2016).
When Is Your Patient Dead? When May You Stop Treating Dead Patients? The Changing Legal Status of Brain Death, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO (September 29, 2016).
Better Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients without Surrogates, NORTH DAKOTA LONG TERM CARE ASSOCIATION, Fargo, North Dakota (September 21, 2016).
Physician Aid in Dying, MINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Minneapolis, Minnesota (August 24, 2016).
Hot Topics in Bioethics, SEALS, Amelia Island, Florida (August 5, 2016).
Medical Jurisprudence, SAINT GEORGES UNIVERSITY, Grenada, West Indies (July 28- August 3, 2016).
Revolutionizing Informed Consent Law: Empowering Patients with Certified Decision Aids, 3rd INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ETHICS, Edinburgh, Scotland (June 18, 2016).
Revolutionizing Informed Consent Law: Empowering Patients with Certified Decision Aids, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BIOETHICS (IAB) 13th WORLD CONGRESS, Edinburgh, Scotland (June 2016).
Revolutionizing Informed Consent Law: Empowering Patients with Certified Decision Aids, 39th ASSOCIATION OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME) HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Boston, Massachusetts (June 4, 2016).
Career Paths in Public Health Law and Health Law, NETWORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH LAW (June 1, 2016) (webinar).
Caring for the “Unrepresented Patient”: Strategies to Avoid Moral Distress and Substandard Car, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATION (ICCEC), Washington, DC (May 21, 2016).
Brain Death: Expanding Duties to Accommodate Objections, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATION (ICCEC), Washington, DC (May 20, 2016).
Making Decisions in the ICU for Incapacitated Patients without Available Surrogates, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY, San Francisco, California (May 13, 2016).
Policy and Legal Perspectives on End-of-Life Care, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Palo Alto, California (May 12, 2016).
National Healthcare Decisions Day [Panel], ROSEVILLE COMMUNITY HEALTH ACTION TEAM, Roseville, Minnesota (April 16, 2016).
Dementia and VSED, MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 11, 2016) (with Vic Sandler).
Futility Redux: When May/Should/Must a Clinician Write a DNAR Order without Patient or Surrogate Consent? UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI & FLORIDA BIOETHICS NETWORK, Miami, Florida (April 8, 2016).
Dying Fast and Slow: Improving Quality of Dying and Preventing Untimely Deaths, SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Louis, Missouri (April 1, 2016).
Testimony before the Minnesota Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing on S.F. 1880, MINNESOTA SENATE, Saint Paul, Minnesota (March 16, 2016).
Jahi McMath and the California End of Life Options Act, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (March 3, 2016) (guest lecture webinar).
Minnesota Compassionate Care Act, SENATE LISTENING SESSION, Mankato, Minnesota (February 20, 2016) (panelist for Q&A on proposed legislation).
Medical Jurisprudence, SAINT GEORGES UNIVERSITY, Grenada, West Indies (February 11-18, 2016).
Minnesota Compassionate Care Act, SENATE LISTENING SESSION, Saint Paul, Minnesota (January 30, 2016) (panelist for Q&A on proposed legislation).
Commentator, New Law Teachers Workshop, ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS (AALS) ANNUAL MEETING, New York, New York (January 7, 2016).
Policy Panel, END OF LIFE OPTION ACT RESPONSE CONFERENCE, San Francisco, California (December 12, 2015).
Addressing Ethical Issues at the End of Life, MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE, Plymouth, Minnesota (November 12, 2015) (sessions on POLST, VSED, futility, and aid-in-dying).
Resolving Medical Futility Conflicts with Efficiency and Fairness, 8th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, WOLFSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & FLORIDA BIOETHICS NETWORK, Jacksonville, Florida (November 6, 2015).
Legal Update 2015: Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, ASBH 17th ANNUAL MEETING, Houston, Texas (October 22-25, 2015).
The Unbefriended Must Not Be Unprotected: Organizational and Clinical Management of Patients Without Surrogates, ASBH 17th ANNUAL MEETING, Houston, Texas (October 22-25, 2015).
Advance Directives and POLST, MinnCLE MINNESOTA ELDER LAW INSTITUTE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 20, 2015).
Minnesota Compassionate Care Act, SENATOR EATON LISTENING SESSION, Brooklyn Park, Minneosta (October 17, 2015) (panelist for Q&A on proposed legislation).
Medical Futility, SAINT CATHERINE'S UNIVERSITY, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 8, 2015) (presentation to health sciences students).
Physician Aid in Dying: Legal Landscape & Ethical Justifiability. NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS & HEALTH POLICY, Loyola University Chicago (September 24, 2015).
Medical Jurisprudence,ST. GEORGES UNIVERSITY, Grenada, West Indies (July 30 - August 5, 2015).
Discussion Group: Hot Issues in Law and Bioethics, SEALS ANNUAL MEETING, Boca Raton, Florida (July 27, 2015).
Revolutionizing Informed Consent Law, ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, St. Louis, Missouri (June 4-6, 2015).
Brain Death: Expanding Family Objections and Recommended Clinician Responses, MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (June 2, 2015).
Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Clinicians' Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Objections and Continue Physiological Support --at the 2015 Annual Conference Law, Religion, and American Healthcare, PETRIE-FLOM CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND BIOETHICS, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts (May 8-9, 2015).
ACA Impact on Public Health, INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH - HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 24, 2015).
Medical Futility, MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 21, 2015).
POLST, MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 20, 2015) (with Vic Sandler).
Overtreatment at the End of Life: Legal Solutions, RYAN BIOETHICIST IN RESIDENCE - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Springfield, Illinois (April 17, 2015).
Adjudicating Bioethics Disputes: Reconcling Saikewicz and Quinlan 40 Years Later, RYAN BIOETHICIST IN RESIDENCE - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Carbondale, Illinois (April 16, 2015).
Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Clinicians' Legal Duties to Accommodate Objections and Continue Physiological Support, RYAN BIOETHICIST IN RESIDENCE - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Springfield, Illinois (April 15, 2015).
Tools for Landing a Job in Public Health Law (Panel for Public Health Law Career Workshop), NETWORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, William Mitchell College of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 14 2015).
Texas Advance Directives Act: Almost a Model Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Intractable Medical Futility Conflicts, CHICAGO HEALTH LAW COLLOQUIUM - DePaul University College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois (March 18, 2014).
Deadly Debacle: Informal Dispute Resolution in U.S. Hospitals, QUINNIPIAC YALE DISPUTE RESOLUTION WORKSHOP, Hamden, Connecticut (February 27, 2015).
Adjudicating Bioethics Disputes: Reconcling Saikewicz and Quinlan 40 Years Later, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER, New York, New York (February 26, 2015).
Brain Death: Clinician Duties to Accommodate Objections and "Treat" the Dead, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, Minneapolis, Minnesota (February 13, 2015).
Medical Jurisprudence, ST. GEORGES UNIVERSITY, Grenada, West Indies (February 6-13, 2015).
What Is Reasonable Accommodation and Are We Doing It? -- at the "Brain Death": Facilitating Family/Hospital Dialogue about Death by Neurological Criteria, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY BIOETHICS INSTITUTE & SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIOETHICS COMMITTEE CONSORTIUM (SCBCC), Los Angeles, California (January 18, 2015).
The Unbefriended Elderly: Making Medical Decisions for Patients without Surrogates, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (AALS), Washington, DC (January 3, 2015) (organized and moderated program co-sponsored by Section on Law & Aging; and Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care).
Health Law Works in Progress Workshop, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (AALS), Washington, DC (January 3, 2015) (organized program by Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care).
Health Care Reform Implementation in Minnesota: Mission Advanced but Not Accomplished, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Saint Paul, Minnesota (October 24, 2014) (organizer, moderator).
[Program Committee, Plenary Moderator], AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 16th ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, California (October 16-19, 2014).
Mandatory Reporting Guidelines for Hospice Workers, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 16th ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, California (October 18, 2014).
Legal Update: Brain Death & Medical Futility, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 16th ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, California (October 18, 2014).
How Are We Resolving Medical Futility Conflicts, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, October 3, 2014 (webinar).
Organizational Efforts, 20TH WORLD RIGHT TO DIE CONFERENCE, Chicago, Illinois (September 20, 2014) (3-hour session chair).
Population Health: Healthcare's New Frontier, LEADERSHIP SAINT PAUL HEALTH CARE DAY, SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Saint Paul, Minnesota (September 11, 2014) (moderator).
Hubris to Humility: Medical Power in Medical Futility Conflicts, SPECTRUM HEALTH ETHICS CONFERENCE,Prince Conference Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan (September 5, 2014).
Comparative Flash Points in End of Life Law, Ethics and Policy, International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy & Practice (ICEL 2014), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August 13-15, 2014).
Resolution of Intractable Medical Futility Conflicts over Life-Sustaining Treatment: United States Law and Practice, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE: LAW, ETHICS, POLICY & PRACTICE (ICEL 2014), Queensland University of Technoogy, Brisbane, Australia (August 13-15, 2014).
Health Law & Bioethics Workshop, SOUTHEAST ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (SEALS), Amelia Island, Florida (August 1-7, 2014).
Mandatory Reporting Duties for Hospice Workers, NHPCOETHICS ADVISORY COUNCIL, NATIONAL HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ORGANIZATION (July 16, 2014) .
Revitalizing Informed Consent Law, DARTMOUTH SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR INFORMED PATIENT CHOICE (SIIPC), Lebanon, New Hampshire (June 25-27, 2014).
Brain Death and Futility, ARIZONA BIOETHICS NETWORK Webinar (June 19, 2014).
Starting, Building, and Fostering Health Law Programs: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, 37th ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS (ASLME), San Francisco, California (June 5-7, 2014).
Death with Dignity, Hosted #DWDChat, a weekly TwitterChat (May 8, 2014).
Health Care Decisions and the “F” Word: Counseling Clients about Medical Futility, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA) Webinar (April 23, 2014).
The Decline and Fall of Physician Power to Self-Regulate the Practice of Medicine, YALE LAW SCHOOL, New Haven, Connecticut (March 28, 2014).
Medical Futility: Legal Tools and Limits for Resolving Disputes over Inappropriate Life-Sustaining Treatment, YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PROGRAM FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS, New Haven, Connecticut (March 27, 2014).
Ethics and Professionalism, REVIEW FOR ABIM INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD EXAM (March 2014).
Doing Everything Possible: The Best or Worst Thing about American Medicine, WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March 12, 2014).
Definition of Death, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS AND HEALTH POLICY (February 27, 2014) (guest class speaker).
Growing Power of Healthcare Ethics Committees Heightens Due Process Concerns, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & SCHOOL OF LAW, Los Angeles, California (February 25, 2014).
Jahi Mcmath and Medical Futility: California Law on Therapeutic Obstinacy and Non-beneficial Treatment, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & SCHOOL OF LAW, Los Angeles, California (February 25, 2014).
Ethics Grand Rounds: Ethics and the Law: Mandatory Disclosure Laws and Current Cases, HCA Healthcare -Webinar (February 4, 2014).
Medical Futility: Legal Status Nationwide and in Minnesota, What Does the Future Hold?, REGIONS HOSPITAL ETHICS GRAND ROUNDS, Saint Paul, Minnesota (December 10, 2013).
Medical Futility in Minnesota: Legal Status of Consensus Guidelines, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BRENNAN CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 22, 2013).
Dispute Resolution and Bioethics, CARDOZO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, New York (November 18, 2013).
The Progress of POLST Programs Across the Nation, Litigation Arising From Failure to Respect Patients’ Rights, DMOST CONFERENCE, Wilmington, Delaware (November 12, 2013).
Futility in the ICU: Prevention, Procedure, and Policy, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS ANNUAL MEETING, Chicago, Illinois (October 26-31, 2013).
Top 10 Issues in Law and Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) ANNUAL MEETING, Atlanta, Georgia (October 24-27, 2013).
Dispute Resolution and Medical Futility, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 18, 2013).
Health Care Reform Reprised: What Has Changed Since Last Year? SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (SEALS) ANNUAL MEETING, Palm Beach, Florida (August 4-10, 2013).
Is There Room for Conscientious Objection in Critical Care Medicine? AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY (ATS) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (May 21, 2013).
The Status of Medical Futility in the United States, Annual Ethics Committee Retreat and Grand Rounds, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, Burlington, Vermont (May 10, 2013).
The ACA and Public Health, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES, Saint Paul, Minnesota (April 22, 2013).
Facebook Can Help You Die - Better, AMARILLO COLLEGE CREATIVE MINDS HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES, Amarillo, Texas (March 28, 2013).
Averting Today's Biggest Public Health Epidemics with Social Media, AMARILLO COLLEGE CREATIVE MINDS HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES, Amarillo, Texas (March 28, 2013).
Does the Concept of "Medical Futility" Help Clinicians, CHILDRENS MERCY BIOETHICS CENTER, Kansas City, Missouri (February 5, 2013).
Health Law Cases before the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, Saint Paul, Minnesota (January 29, 2013).
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).
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).
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).
Model Regulations and Guidelines for New York Healthcare Ethics Committees, ALDEN MARCH BIOETHICS INSTITUTE, ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Albany, New York (November 18, 2011).
Proper and Improper Use of Institutional Medical Futility Policies, HCA, Nashville, Tennessee (November 7, 2011) (webinar).
Lessons from Tragedy: Legal, Professional, and Ethical Issues Raised by Bradley and Beyond - Roundtable Discussion on Legislation, WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Wilmington, Delaware (November 4, 2011) (moderator).
Continuing Lessons from Betancourt, Guest Lecture for Biomedical Ethics and the Law, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS AND HEALTH POLICY, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine (October 17, 2011).
Impact of State Legislation on Ethics Committee Case Review, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 13-16, 2011).
Facilitating End-of-Life Decisions: Advance Directives and MOLST, WILMINGTON VAMC [VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER], Wilmington, Delaware (September 30, 2011).
Divergent Legal Approaches to Medical Futility Disputes: Comparing Australia and the United States, AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIOETHICS AND HEALTH LAW 2011 CONFERENCE, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (July 7-10, 2011).
Safe Harbor Immunity: The Right Prescription for Providers' 'Bad Law' Claims and Hyper Risk Averseness? 34th ANNUAL ASLME HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, Chicago, Illinois (June 10, 2011).
Ethics, End-of-Life Care, and the Law: Overview for APNs, BAYADA NURSES [at the Adventure Aquarium], Camden, New Jersey (June 7, 2011).
Medical Futility Treatment Disputes: Constraints, Best Practices, and Strategies, 2011 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ELDER LAW ATTORNEYS (NAELA) ELDER AND SPECIAL NEEDS LAW ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 20, 2011).
Statement on Futility and Goal Conflict in End-of-Life Care in ICUs, AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY, Denver, Colorado (May 13, 2011) (workshop).
Lessons from Seville: Identifying and Reducing Inappropriate End-of-Life Treatment in New Jersey, Z. STANLEY STYS MEMORIAL LECTURE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Princeton, New Jersey (May 10, 2011).
Medical Futility in New Jersey, TRI-COUNTY REGIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE, Brightview Senior Living, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey (April 21, 2011).
Delaware Next of Kin Registry, NATIONAL HEALTHCARE DECISIONS DAY at CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM, Newark, Delaware (April 16, 2011).
Legal Liability and the Good Faith Standard, NATIONAL HEALTHCARE DECISIONS DAY at CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM, Newark, Delaware (April 15, 2011).
Testimony on the Patient and Family Treatment Choice Rights Act of 2011, H.B. 3520, Human Services Committee, TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Austin, Texas (April 12, 2011).
Medical Futility at the End of Life: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Considerations for Nurses,DELAWARE NURSES’ ASSOCIATION 2011 SPRING DNA/APRN CONFERENCE, Newark, Delaware (April 7, 2011).
Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, FEDERALIST SOCIETY OF WIDENER LAW SCHOOL, Wilmington, Delaware (March 28, 2011) (moderator).
The Advantages of MOLST over PACD, DELAWARE LONG TERM CARE CONTINUUM NURSING COUNCIL ("DON Group"), Smyrna, Delaware (March 8, 2011).
The Advantages of MOLST over PACD, DELAWARE OFFICE OF THE STATE LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN, MILFORD SERVICE CENTER, Milford, Delaware (March 8, 2011).
Impact of Federal Healthcare Reform on End-of-Life Care, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, Dover, Delaware (February 23, 2011).
Hot Issues in Health Law, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION LAW STUDENT DIVISION, THIRD CIRCUIT SPRING MEETING, Wilmington, Delaware (February 12, 2011).
Ethics Rounds: Advance Directives, CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM, Newark, Delaware (December 8, 2010).
Medical Futility and Maryland Law, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW, Baltimore, Maryland (November 30, 2010).
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 WISCONSINSCHOOL OF LAW, Madison, Wisconsin (November
5, 2010).
Unilateral
Refusal of Treatment by Providers: Ethical and Legal Challenges, MERITERHOSPITAL 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 12th 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 12th ANNUAL
MEETING, San Diego, California
(October 22, 2010)
(workshop small group leader).
Bioethics
from the Bench, AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES 12th 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 LawSchool Success, WIDENERUNIVERSITYSCHOOL 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, 10thWORLD
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. TrinitasHospital, 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,SOUTHWESTUNIVERSITY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW, Chongqing, China (December 14, 2009).
Medical Futility Laws and Policies: Are They Making a Difference?SUMMITMEDICALCENTER (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, WIDENERUNIVERSITYSCHOOL 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,WIDENERUNIVERSITYSCHOOL 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 MANITOBAHEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE, Winnipeg,
Manitoba (December 16, 2008).
Multi-Institutional
Health Care Ethics Committees: the Procedurally Fair Internal Dispute
Resolution Mechanism, HAMLINEUNIVERSITYLAWSCHOOL,
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 CANTERBURYCHURCH, 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 CASTLECOUNTYBRANDYWINE
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).
2006 Presentations
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).
2005 Presentations
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 BUFFALOLAWSCHOOL,
Buffalo, New York
(January 14, 2005).
2004 Presentations
Paternalism
and Tort Law: The Obesity Cases, UNIVERSITY OF AKRONLAWSCHOOL,
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, LOSANGELESCOUNTY
BAR ASSOCIATION BIOETHICS COMMITTEE, Los Angeles,
California (April 14, 2004).