THE LONG ISLAND CENTER FOR ETHICS
HOSTS
THE NASSAU-SUFFOLK ETHICS NETWORK
END-OF-LIFE CARE:
THE ETHICS COMMITTEE AND THE INSTITUTION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
Registration: 12:30 p.m.
Program: 1:00 p.m.
C.W. POST CAMPUS - Tilles Center-W1
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
Those involved in clinical ethics in Nassau and Suffolk counties have many common interests, and can benefit from the development of a forum to share ideas and concerns. This program is designed to enhance the skills needed by professionals and institutional ethics committee members to explore ethical decision-making as it applies to end-of-life care in an organizational setting. It will be the first of a series of regular meetings and conferences designed to develop the expertise of professionals confronting ethical issues.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be able to:
· Discuss the organization's responsibilities in end-of-life care;
· Consider the reasons why ethics committees need to be aware of organizational issues;
· Recognize the role of the administrator in quality end-of-life care;
· Explain the physician's and spiritual care perspective;
· Describe types of cases in which organizational issues play a role.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Ethics committee chairpersons and members, physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, patient representatives, administrators, pastoral care, hospice personnel, home care providers.
PROGRAM
12:30 REGISTRATION
1:00 Introduction
Ellen M. McGee, Ph.D.
Director, The Long Island Center for Ethics
1:10 ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND END-OF-LIFE CARE
Alice Herb, J.D., LL.M
Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Division of Humanities in Medicine,
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
2:10 REFRESHMENT BREAK
2:30 Case
Jeffery Berger, M.D.
Director of Clinical Ethics, Winthrop University Hospital
2:50 PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator:
Jack Coulehan, M.D., MPH
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society,
SUNY Stony Brook
James T. D'Olimpio, M.D.
Director of Palliative Medicine,
North Shore University Hospital
Stephen Unger
Director, Chaplaincy Services,
Stony Brook University Hospital
Michael McClain
Associate Director for Community Affairs, Stony Brook University Hospital
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND FEES
Pre-registration by April 3
Individual rate $35
Individual members rate 30
Institutional member rate: 5-10 participants from a single facility (not system) 160
Late registration after April 3
Individual rate $45
Individual member rate 40
Institutional member rate: 5-10 participants from a single facility (not system) 210
The fee includes tuition, refreshment break, and parking. Space is limited and early registration is advised. Refunds, less a $15 processing fee, will be made if cancellation is received in writing no later than April 3.
Registration Form
For additional information call 516-299-2341.
For directions call 516-299-2900.
CONFERENCE LOCATION
W 1, Tilles Center, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. 720 Northern Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville, NY 11548. Directions and details can be found on our web site: www.liu.edu/ethics
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Jeffery Berger, MD
John Coulehan, MD
Ellen M. McGee, Ph.D.
CONFERENCE SPONSOR
The Long Island Center for Ethics, The Ethics Committees of UH-SUNY and Winthrop University Hospital.
FUNDING
The Long Island Center for Ethics gratefully acknowledges the unrestricted educational grants provided by the following organization in support of this conference:
The John P. McGrath Fund
Long Island University is...
a multi-campus, highly-diverse, independent doctoral university with access to the life and resources of the world's greatest city. Offering a full range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs, its highest priority is student-centered education, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, enriched by research and experiential learning, and made available to promising students from all walks of life. Combining the personalities of distinctive campuses with the resources of a large university, its residential campuses are downtown Brooklyn, including the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; C.W. Post in suburban Brookville; and Southampton College, by the sea in Southampton. Its regional campuses, primarily offering master's degrees, are in Rockland and Westchester counties and Brentwood, Long Island, and it operates extension sites at some of America's largest corporations and the United States Military Academy at West Point. The University is actively engaged in continuing education, community service, consulting and cultural outreach. It is the nation's eighth-largest independent university, with nearly 30,000 students, 700 full-time faculty members, an annual operating budget of $343 million, NCAA Division I and II athletic teams, and more than 116,000 living alumni. It bestows the annual George Polk Awards in journalism and is home of Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and WPBX-FM and WCWP-FM, the Long Island University Public Radio Network.
The personalities of distinctive campuses,
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