Bioethics Grand Rounds

Legal Considerations for Critically Ill and Dying Patients Who Lack Surrogate Decision Makers | HMC Ethics April Forum

This presentation will discuss the legal framework that guides processes for ensuring that a patient’s interests are represented when determining whether to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

OBJECTIVES:

  1. Review Washington’s legal requirements for withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.
  2. Recognize when a guardianship appointment or court authorization is necessary for withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

SPEAKERS:

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Dr. Klitzman will draw on in-depth interview research to examine how, given the political and religious polarization in our nation today, patients and family members from a wide range of backgrounds -- from evangelical to agnostic, atheist and 'nothing in particular' -- seek and find sources of meaning, connection and hope when facing serious medical illness. The book explores the challenges that doctors, chaplains and others confront in aiding patients in these journeys and ways we can improve. 

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“White Trauma: Creating Space for White People’s Vulnerability with The Hopes of Undoing the Perpetuation of Structural/Systemic Racism" | HMC Ethics November Forum

Sherronda Jamerson presents how racism, at its most basic level, is a lens though which people interpret, naturalize, and reproduce inequality. She explains that racism is not a “white” issue it is a systematic/structural issue designed to keep in place white cultural dominance. Learn why this system has caused harm to us all.

OBJECTIVES:

1) Maintaining openness and moving forward.

2) Learn how trauma and stress can invade the body and skew perception.  

3) Increase awareness of how unconscious or unspoken racism can compromise discussions and outcomes 

Legal Updates | HMC Ethics September Forum

Her presentation is about Legal Updates regarding Beginning of Life Issues and a small discussion afterwards.

Patricia C. Kuszler joined the faculty of the School of Law at the University of Washington in 1994 and is a Charles I. Stone Professor of Law.

In addition to her law faculty appointment, Professor Kuszler is an Adjunct Professor in the UW School of Medicine (Department of Bioethics and Humanities), the School of Public Health, and core faculty in the University's Institute for Public Health Genetics.

Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

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The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids & Human-Animal Neural Chimeras | Grand Rounds

John H. Evans is the Tata Chancellor's Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of the Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and the University of California, San Diego. He is an elected member of three honorific societies representing bioethicists, sociologists, and scholars of the relationship between religion and science. He is the author of seven books and over 60 articles examining science bioethics, and religion.

Trauma Informed Care | Harborview Ethics Forum

The Bioethics and Humanities department presents a Harborview Ethics Forum presentation by Dr. Alexandra Hernandez, MD, MCR on "Trauma Informed Care." This presentation will review the definitions of trauma and trauma informed care and discuss ways in which we can apply trauma informed care in our daily practice. Dr. Alexandra Hernandez will also describe the current American College of Surgeons initiative to embed trauma informed care training in trauma centers nationally.

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Gun Violence Prevention: What is Possible? | Harborview Ethics Forum

The Bioethics and Humanities department presents a Harborview Ethics Forum lecture by Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, PhD and Julia Schleimer, MPH: Gun Violence Prevention: What Is Possible?.

This presentation will summarize the scope of gun violence in the United States and review specific approaches with the greatest potential to prevent it and reduce its harmful consequences. Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar will describe the scope of gun violence in the United States and identify specific approaches with the greatest potential to prevent gun violence and reduce its harmful consequences.