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$50,000 prize, focus on future of medicine are highlights of annual ethics conference

$50,000 prize, focus on future of medicine are highlights of annual ethics conference [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-Oct-2011
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Contact: John Easton
john.easton@uchospitals.edu
773-795-5225
University of Chicago Medical Center

Largest award of its kind to go to Wennberg, founding editor of the Dartmouth Atlas

The 23rd annual Dorothy MacLean Fellows Conference on medical ethics will tackle the role of professionalism in improving patient care and strengthening the alliance between medicine and society. A highlight of the conference, which will be held Nov. 11-12, will be the presentation of the first MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes.

The $50,000 award, which is the largest such prize in the ethics field, will go to John Wennberg, MD, MPH, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School and founding editor of The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. The Atlas project, which examines the patterns of medical resource intensity and utilization in the United States, has reported on patterns of end-of-life care, inequities in the Medicare reimbursement system and the underuse of preventive care.

The two-day conference will feature an esteemed lineup of experts on medical ethics. Among the speakers on Friday, Nov. 11:

  • Arthur Rubenstein, MD, dean emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Christine Cassel, MD, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Troy Brennan, executive vice president and chief medical officer of CVS Caremark
  • Richard Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School
  • Paul Starr, PhD, professor of communications and public affairs at Princeton University

On Saturday, Nov. 12, sessions will include talks on recent studies of the effects of neighborhoods on health, end-of life issues, the process of ethics consultations, and medical education. Saturday's program will also feature a discussion of a new book, "Open Wound," a historical novel by former ethics fellow Jason Karlawish, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The book examines the professional and ethical issues raised by William Beaumont, a 19th-century surgeon who cared forand experimented ona patient with a shotgun-induced hole in his stomach and used this wound as a window to decipher the mysteries of digestion.

The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics was founded by Mark Siegler, MD, the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service professor of medicine and executive director of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago. The center's aim is to foster a network of clinical scholars worldwide who use clinical ethics to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes.

Since its founding in 1984, the MacLean Center has become the largest program in clinical ethics in the world. More than 250 physicians and other health professionals have trained at the MacLean Center, many of whom now hold professorships, endowed chairs and directorships of ethics programs in the United States, Canada and Europe. The research, conducted by former MacLean fellows, has helped open the bioethics field to a new research approach that is now described as "the empirical turn" in bioethics.

The medical ethics conference will be held at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street. Although there is no fee for this conference, attendees are asked to register online at ethicsconference2011.uchicago.edu. For questions, please contact Kimberly Conner at 773-702-1453 or email kconner1@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, November 11, 2011

The Law School Auditorium, 1111 E. 60th Street

Moderator: Mark Siegler

1:00 Arthur Rubenstein, University of Pennsylvania
Challenges and Opportunities for the Medical Professional

1:45 Christine Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine
Knights, Knaves, or Pawns: Physicians as Accountable Professionals

2:15 - 2:45 Question and Answer

2:45 - 3:15 Break

3:15 Troy Brennan, CVS Caremark
Professionalism Theory to Action: The Case of Conflict of Interest in Prescription Medications

3:45 Paul Starr, Princeton University
Professionalism as a Public Resource

4:15 Richard Epstein, New York University Law School
Will the Deprofessionalization of Medicine Improve Quality of Care?

4:45 5:15 Question and Answer
Clinical Medical Ethics

Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Law School Auditorium, 1111 E. 60th Street

8:00 9:15 End of Life Moderator: Daniel Sulmasy

8:00 Joshua Hauser, Northwestern University EPEC for Veterans: Palliative Care Education in the VA System

8:10 Alexia Torke, Indiana University
Family Experiences of Health Care Decision Making for a Hospitalized Older Adult

8:20 Gretchen Schwarze, University of Wisconsin
The Role of Surgeon Error in Withdrawal of Post-Operative Life Support

8:30 James Kirkpatrick, University of Pennsylvania
A Different Way of "Going Green": Reuse of Pacemakers

8:40 Lynn Jansen, Oregon Health Sciences University
The Problem with Optimism and Clinical Trials

8:50 9:10 Question and Answer

The MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes

9:15 9:30 Award Presentation

9:30 10:00 MacLean Prize Lecture: John Wennberg


The Importance of Patient Preferences and Shared Decision Making in American Medicine

10:00 10:30 Break

10:30 11:15 Neighborhood Effects on Health
Moderator: John Wennberg, Dartmouth College

10:30 Elizabeth Lamont, Harvard University
Associations Between Area Social Factors and Health Care Availability

10:40 Milda Saunders, University of Chicago
Geographic Variation in Dialysis Facility Quality

10:50 Stacy Lindau, University of Chicago
Empirically Defining the Intersectoral Health System in a High Poverty Urban Area

11:00-11:15 Question and Answer

11:15 12:15 Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Moderator: Mark Siegler

11:15-11:45 Jason Karlawish, Author of "Open Wound"
American Social and Political Norms and the Concept of Professionalism

11:45 Response: Daniel Sulmasy, University of Chicago

11:55 Response: Alison Winter, University of Chicago

12:05-12:15 Question and Answer

12:15 1:30 Lunch
The Green Lounge

1:30 3:00 Ethics Consultations
Moderator: Lainie Ross

1:30 Ellen Fox, Department of Veterans Affairs
Using Innovative Tools to Improve Ethics Consultation Quality

1:40 Robert Orr, Loma Linda University and the Graduate College of Union University
A Comparison of Methods of Training Clinical Ethics Consultants

1:50 Susan Tolle, Oregon Health Sciences University When DNR is Not the Most Important Question: Lessons Learned From the Oregon POLST Registry

2:00 Angela Bradbury, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Genetic Testing of Minors for Adult-onset Disease: Parent Opinions and Experiences with Early Communication of Genetic Risk

2:10 Alberto Ferreres, University of Buenos Aires
Cognitive Status of Surgical Patients: Are They Capable of Understanding What We Explain?

2:45 3:15 Break

3:15 5:50 Medical Education and Medical Institutions
Moderator: Lainie Ross

3:15 Mary Simmerling, Weill Cornell Medical College
Individual and Institutional Responsibility and Challenges

3:25 John Yoon, University of Chicago
Virtuous Exemplars and the Informal Curriculum in Medicine: Do Role Models Make a Difference?

3:35 Keiki Hinami, Northwestern University
Novel Collaborative Care Models for Complex Hospitalized Patients

3:45 Eric Grossman, University of Chicago
Ethics Education in Surgical Residency: A New Model of Surgical Training

3:55 Paul Helft, Indiana University
Teaching Ethical Communication Skills to Surgical Residents

4:05 David Brush, University of Chicago
ICU Physicians and Life Support Recommendations:
Results from a National Survey

4:15 Sarah-Anne Schumann, University of Chicago
An Ethical Approach to Service-Learning in Medical Education

4:25-5:00 Question and Answer

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$50,000 prize, focus on future of medicine are highlights of annual ethics conference [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-Oct-2011
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Contact: John Easton
john.easton@uchospitals.edu
773-795-5225
University of Chicago Medical Center

Largest award of its kind to go to Wennberg, founding editor of the Dartmouth Atlas

The 23rd annual Dorothy MacLean Fellows Conference on medical ethics will tackle the role of professionalism in improving patient care and strengthening the alliance between medicine and society. A highlight of the conference, which will be held Nov. 11-12, will be the presentation of the first MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes.

The $50,000 award, which is the largest such prize in the ethics field, will go to John Wennberg, MD, MPH, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School and founding editor of The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. The Atlas project, which examines the patterns of medical resource intensity and utilization in the United States, has reported on patterns of end-of-life care, inequities in the Medicare reimbursement system and the underuse of preventive care.

The two-day conference will feature an esteemed lineup of experts on medical ethics. Among the speakers on Friday, Nov. 11:

  • Arthur Rubenstein, MD, dean emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Christine Cassel, MD, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Troy Brennan, executive vice president and chief medical officer of CVS Caremark
  • Richard Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School
  • Paul Starr, PhD, professor of communications and public affairs at Princeton University

On Saturday, Nov. 12, sessions will include talks on recent studies of the effects of neighborhoods on health, end-of life issues, the process of ethics consultations, and medical education. Saturday's program will also feature a discussion of a new book, "Open Wound," a historical novel by former ethics fellow Jason Karlawish, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The book examines the professional and ethical issues raised by William Beaumont, a 19th-century surgeon who cared forand experimented ona patient with a shotgun-induced hole in his stomach and used this wound as a window to decipher the mysteries of digestion.

The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics was founded by Mark Siegler, MD, the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service professor of medicine and executive director of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago. The center's aim is to foster a network of clinical scholars worldwide who use clinical ethics to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes.

Since its founding in 1984, the MacLean Center has become the largest program in clinical ethics in the world. More than 250 physicians and other health professionals have trained at the MacLean Center, many of whom now hold professorships, endowed chairs and directorships of ethics programs in the United States, Canada and Europe. The research, conducted by former MacLean fellows, has helped open the bioethics field to a new research approach that is now described as "the empirical turn" in bioethics.

The medical ethics conference will be held at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street. Although there is no fee for this conference, attendees are asked to register online at ethicsconference2011.uchicago.edu. For questions, please contact Kimberly Conner at 773-702-1453 or email kconner1@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, November 11, 2011

The Law School Auditorium, 1111 E. 60th Street

Moderator: Mark Siegler

1:00 Arthur Rubenstein, University of Pennsylvania
Challenges and Opportunities for the Medical Professional

1:45 Christine Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine
Knights, Knaves, or Pawns: Physicians as Accountable Professionals

2:15 - 2:45 Question and Answer

2:45 - 3:15 Break

3:15 Troy Brennan, CVS Caremark
Professionalism Theory to Action: The Case of Conflict of Interest in Prescription Medications

3:45 Paul Starr, Princeton University
Professionalism as a Public Resource

4:15 Richard Epstein, New York University Law School
Will the Deprofessionalization of Medicine Improve Quality of Care?

4:45 5:15 Question and Answer
Clinical Medical Ethics

Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Law School Auditorium, 1111 E. 60th Street

8:00 9:15 End of Life Moderator: Daniel Sulmasy

8:00 Joshua Hauser, Northwestern University EPEC for Veterans: Palliative Care Education in the VA System

8:10 Alexia Torke, Indiana University
Family Experiences of Health Care Decision Making for a Hospitalized Older Adult

8:20 Gretchen Schwarze, University of Wisconsin
The Role of Surgeon Error in Withdrawal of Post-Operative Life Support

8:30 James Kirkpatrick, University of Pennsylvania
A Different Way of "Going Green": Reuse of Pacemakers

8:40 Lynn Jansen, Oregon Health Sciences University
The Problem with Optimism and Clinical Trials

8:50 9:10 Question and Answer

The MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes

9:15 9:30 Award Presentation

9:30 10:00 MacLean Prize Lecture: John Wennberg


The Importance of Patient Preferences and Shared Decision Making in American Medicine

10:00 10:30 Break

10:30 11:15 Neighborhood Effects on Health
Moderator: John Wennberg, Dartmouth College

10:30 Elizabeth Lamont, Harvard University
Associations Between Area Social Factors and Health Care Availability

10:40 Milda Saunders, University of Chicago
Geographic Variation in Dialysis Facility Quality

10:50 Stacy Lindau, University of Chicago
Empirically Defining the Intersectoral Health System in a High Poverty Urban Area

11:00-11:15 Question and Answer

11:15 12:15 Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Moderator: Mark Siegler

11:15-11:45 Jason Karlawish, Author of "Open Wound"
American Social and Political Norms and the Concept of Professionalism

11:45 Response: Daniel Sulmasy, University of Chicago

11:55 Response: Alison Winter, University of Chicago

12:05-12:15 Question and Answer

12:15 1:30 Lunch
The Green Lounge

1:30 3:00 Ethics Consultations
Moderator: Lainie Ross

1:30 Ellen Fox, Department of Veterans Affairs
Using Innovative Tools to Improve Ethics Consultation Quality

1:40 Robert Orr, Loma Linda University and the Graduate College of Union University
A Comparison of Methods of Training Clinical Ethics Consultants

1:50 Susan Tolle, Oregon Health Sciences University When DNR is Not the Most Important Question: Lessons Learned From the Oregon POLST Registry

2:00 Angela Bradbury, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Genetic Testing of Minors for Adult-onset Disease: Parent Opinions and Experiences with Early Communication of Genetic Risk

2:10 Alberto Ferreres, University of Buenos Aires
Cognitive Status of Surgical Patients: Are They Capable of Understanding What We Explain?

2:45 3:15 Break

3:15 5:50 Medical Education and Medical Institutions
Moderator: Lainie Ross

3:15 Mary Simmerling, Weill Cornell Medical College
Individual and Institutional Responsibility and Challenges

3:25 John Yoon, University of Chicago
Virtuous Exemplars and the Informal Curriculum in Medicine: Do Role Models Make a Difference?

3:35 Keiki Hinami, Northwestern University
Novel Collaborative Care Models for Complex Hospitalized Patients

3:45 Eric Grossman, University of Chicago
Ethics Education in Surgical Residency: A New Model of Surgical Training

3:55 Paul Helft, Indiana University
Teaching Ethical Communication Skills to Surgical Residents

4:05 David Brush, University of Chicago
ICU Physicians and Life Support Recommendations:
Results from a National Survey

4:15 Sarah-Anne Schumann, University of Chicago
An Ethical Approach to Service-Learning in Medical Education

4:25-5:00 Question and Answer

###


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