THE LONG ISLAND CENTER FOR ETHICS
Presents
JUSTICE IN HEALTH CARE

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
8:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Tilles Center

The Long Island Center for Ethics · C.W. Post Campus
720 Northern Blvd. · Brookville, NY 11548-1300

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
Challenging questions concerning the allocation of health care and medical resources confront our society. The ethical principle of justice requires fairness in the distribution of the good of health care. This conference will focus on examining professional practice, institutional missions, managed care and research on human subjects from a justice perspective. It will enable participants to critically assess the present situation and to propose future directions designed to address current problems.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be able to:

• Discuss the requirements of a good society for the health care of the community
• Consider the role of managed care in a just system of care
• Explain justice as it relates to organizational ethics and compliance standards
• Describe programs, models, management strategies, and formal mechanisms which exist to assist organizations in meeting justice goals
• Describe the role of Federal research initiatives designed to improve access and eliminate health disparities experienced by sexual, racial and ethnic minorities

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
Application has been made for Continuing Education Credit for Physicians, Nurses, and Long Term Care Administrators

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Board members, physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, patient representatives, administrators, pastoral care, managed-care providers, hospice personnel, home care and assisted living providers, community activists, human resource personnel, education coordinators, clinical and institutional review board ethics committee members, and researchers.

REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee is $45 before Oct 8; $55 after Oct 8. It is free for current Long Island University graduate and undergraduate students with 2001-2002 I.D. The fee includes tuition, continental breakfast, 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 before October 8.

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Tilles Center, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Northern Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville, NY 11548. Directions and details can be found on our web site: www.liu.edu/ethics

PROGRAM

8:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

8:45 WELCOME and INTRODUCTION
Ellen M. McGee, Ph.D.
Director, The Long Island Center for Ethics

9:00 JUSTICE
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., M.A.C.P.

10:00 Organizational Ethics, Compliance and Justice
Patricia Werhane, Ph.D.

11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:15 JUSTICE IN RESEARCH
Greg Koski, Ph.D., M.D.

12:15 CLOSING REMARKS
Ellen M. McGee, Ph.D.

PROGRAM FACULTY

Greg Koski, Ph.D., M.D., is the first Director of the newly created Federal Office for Human Research Protections. Formerly he was Director of Human Research Affairs, Partners Health Care System in Massachusetts General Hospitals and Harvard Medical School.

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., M.A.C. P., is the John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is the former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics at Georgetown.

Patricia H. Werhane, Ph.D., is the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, and author of Organization Ethics for Health Care.

CONFERENCE SPONSOR
The Long Island Center for Ethics of C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to fostering the study of applied and professional ethics.

FUNDING
The Long Island Center for Ethics gratefully acknowledges the unrestricted educational grants provided by the following organizations in support of this conference:

Catholic Health Services of Long Island
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
The John P. McGrath Fund
The Long Island Physical Therapy Association

PLANNING COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Ellen M. McGee, Ph.D., The Long Island Center for Ethics

CONVENER: John Dowling, M.D., M.P.H., Board Member, Hospice Care Network

MEMBERS: Phyllis Barell, Anti-Defamation League; Jennifer Batson, LI Minority Aids Coalition; Jeffrey T. Berger, M.D., Director of Clinical Ethics, Winthrop University Hospital; Francis Carr, Hospice Care Network; Mark Cappola, Nassau County Medical Society; Robert C. Cassidy, Ph.D., Director of Bioethics & Social Policy, Schneider Children's Hospital and L.I. Jewish Medical Center; Mingder Chang, American Cancer Society; Lynda Cooper, MS, CSW, North Shore-L.I.J. Health Systems; Sally Faith Dorfman, M.D., Medical Society of New York State; Gregory Fitzgerald, Citibank; Bruce Gans, M.D., North Shore-LIJ Health System; Ruth Haskel, CSW Consultant, Health & Human Services/Gov. Relations; Cheryl Hoyk, Ph.D., EOC of Nassau County, Inc.; Bert Jablon, MA, New York State Public Health Assoc-LI Region; Loretta Knapp, Ph.D., Chair, Nursing Dept., Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus; Sandra A. Mahoney, Catholic Health Services of Long Island; Angelina Martinez, MS, DSW, National Association of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Social Workers; Sharon Mead, M.D., Nassau Academy of Medicine; Ilene Nathanson, MSW, DSW, Social Work and Center on Aging, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus; Scheralda Small, CSW, Hospice Care Network; Mignon Smith, 100 Black Women; Jeff Schwartz, NY Physical Therapy Association; Gail Vitale, Nassau County Medical Center; David Weiss, Ph.D., Health Care & Public Administration, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus.

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. 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 $324 million, NCAA Division I and II athletic teams, and more than 112,000 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,
The resources of a large university