Conflicts & Conscience in Healthcare

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July 15-17, 2004

Deerfield, Illinois, USA

Co-Sponsors

Christian Medical & Dental Association
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- David Stevens, MD)
  • “Moral Complicity: Personal, Clinical, and Organizational Ethics” -- Robert Orr, MD

Courses

  • Intensive Bioethics Institute -- Nigel Cameron, PhD
  • Advanced Bioethics Institute -- John Kilner, PhD and David Fletcher, PhD
  • Pluralism Bioethics Institute -- Edmund Pellegrino, MD and Peter Cha, PhD
  • Undergrad/Pre-Med 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 -- Robert Orr, MD and Arthur Dyck, PhD
  • Post-Conference Seminar: Launching a Bioethics Center -- Nigel Cameron, PhD and Jennifer Lahl, RN, MA