End-Of-Life Care: Bioethical Perspectives And Conflict Resolution

Main Category: Palliative Care / Hospice Care
Also Included In: Seniors / Aging;  Primary Care / General Practice
Article Date: 07 Jan 2007 - 13:00 PDT

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End-of-life care is vitally important to patients, their families, medical providers, and the public. Yet no consensus has emerged on the type and duration of medical treatments that are appropriate at the end of life. How do we decide when to say enough is enough? How do we resolve conflicts among family members and among families, the patient, and doctors?

In this symposium an internationally recognized group of medical and legal experts (listed below) will debate these questions in the context of selected, typical cases. They will analyze the interests at stake in these cases, provide cross-national perspectives, and evaluate a range of conflict resolution models. CLE credit is available.

Agenda

8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Welcome Dean Joan G. Wexler, Joseph Crea Dean and Professor of Law

9:15 am Panel I: Diversity of Perspectives and Interests at the End of Life

Speakers Peter S. Arno, PH.D., Professor and Head, Division of Public Health and Policy Research, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health

Adrienne Asch, PH.D., M.S., Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University

Nessa Coyle, N.P., PH.D., Pain and Palliative Care Service, Department of Neurology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Carol Levine, Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund

Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., PH.D., Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics, John J. Conley Department of Ethics, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan; Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute, New York Medical College

Moderator: Marsha Garrison, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

11:30 am Panel II: Models of Conflict Resolution

Speakers Barbara L. Chanko, R.N., M.B.A., Health Care Ethicist, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Ethics in Health Care

Nancy N. Dubler, LL.B., Director, Division of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Monteflore Medical Center

Joseph J. Fins, M.D., F.A.C.P., Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Public Health and Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Honorable Michael Gage (Ret.), Administrative Judge of the New York City Family Court ; Instructor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sylvia A. Law, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, New York University Law School

Moderator: Carol B. Liebman, Clinical Professor, Columbia Law School

1:15 pm Luncheon

2:30 pm Panel III: End-of-Life Care: Cross-national Perspectives

Speakers Carl H. Coleman, Professor of Law; Director, Health Law and Policy Program, Seton Hall Law School

Bernard Dickens, Professor Emeritus of Health Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Amos Shapira, K. Lubowski Chair of Law and Biomedical Ethics, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Evert van Leeuwen, Chair, Center for Ethics and Philosophy, Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam

Moderator: Karen Porter, Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Executive Director Center for Health, Science and Public Policy, Brooklyn Law School

4:30 pm Concluding Remarks

Honorable David G. Trager, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York

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Brooklyn Law School Symposium Advisory

END-OF-LIFE CARE: BIOETHICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
A David G. Trager Public Policy Symposium Sponsored by the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy

Thursday, February 8, 2007, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 RSVP:
http://www.brooklaw.edu/rsvp

Contact: Ivy Miller
Brooklyn Law School

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