Here are the four 1-hour sessions:Supporting Family Decision-making for a Child with Serious Illness Vanessa Madrigal, MD MSCE HEC-CDirector Pediatric Ethics Program / Pediatric Critical Care Medicine / Children’s National HospitalMedical Decision Making, Psychology, and EthicsJennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD, MACullen Professor of Medical Ethics & Associate Director / Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy / Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TXBrain Death: Strategies… [read post]

 Learning Objectives:After this conference, attendees will be able to:Describe the nature of decision-making capacity, the tenuous nature of capacity assessments, and the vulnerabilities faced by patients with cognitive impairments in the course of their medical care.Describe different sociohistorical and moral positions on death, the clinical and moral contours of neurological death, and current controversies surrounding brain death declarations.Articulate the different ways in which patients… [read post]