July 15-17, 2004

Deerfield, Illinois, USA

Co-Sponsors

Christian Medical & Dental Associations
Christian Legal Society
Nurses Christian Fellowship
Americans United for Life
Trinity International University

Plenary Speakers

• “Conflict ”-- Ken Sande, JD
• “Conscience” -- J. Budziszewski, PhD
• "The Patient’s Good vs. Society’s Good” -- Edmund Pellegrino, MD
• “Right of Conscience: Professional and Institutional” -- Teresa Collett, JD (Response/Dialogue with Sam Casey, JD and Nik Nikas, JD) Panelists -- Dorinda Bordlee, JD, Richard Doerflinger, MA, and William Saunders, JD
• “Speaking Forthrightly for Patients: Placebos and Other Perils to Virtuous Communication” -- Susan Salladay, RN, PhD (Response/Dialogue with Mary Thomson, RN, MSN)
• “Medical Futility: End-of-Life Conflict Among Patients, Family, and Caregivers” -- Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD
• “Legal Constraints on Medicine: Malpractice, Medicine, and Beyond” -- Curtis Harris, JD, MD
• “Following Conscience in the Face of Beginning-of-Life Conflict” -- Yvonne Moore, MD (Response/Dialogue with David Stevens, MD)
• “Moral Complicity: Personal, Clinical, and Organizational Ethics” -- Robert Orr, MD

Courses

• Intensive Bioethics Institute -- Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
• Advanced Bioethics Institute -- John Kilner, PhD and David Fletcher, PhD
• Pluralism Bioethics Institute -- Edmund Pellegrino, MD and Peter Cha, PhD
• Pre-Med/Undergraduate Bioethics Institute -- Joyce Shelton, PhD
• Wrap-Around Conference Graduate Course -- Dennis Hollinger, PhD
• Wrap-Around Conference Undergraduate Course -- Joyce Shelton, PhD
• Post-Conference Seminar: End-of-Life Ethics: Tough Cases -- Robert Orr, MD and Arthur Dyck, PhD
• Post-Conference Seminar: Launching a Bioethics Center -- Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD and Jennifer Lahl, RN, MA