When the CHIPs are Down: How Policy M-147 Can Help Safeguard your Patient
Mark Ard, MD, MA
Continued Hospitalization of an Incapacitated Patient (M-147) is a new LLUMC policy that allows clinicians to extend the hospitalization of patients who lack decision-making capacity but are unsafe for discharge. Please join us for a case-based discussion with experts and clinician leaders on implementing this policy.
The Truth Does Hurt: The Interplay of Disease and and Culture in Modern History
Katherine Koh, PhD
Culture affects the way we perceive and respond to disease. Come learn with us as we examine our history to see who is most affected when we attempt to "fit" disease into our cultural narrative.
The Willingness to Enter into the Chaos of Another
C. Phifer Nicholson, Jr. MTS Student and MD Candidate
Peter Casarella, PhD, MA
Alex Lion, DO, MPH
Jennie Block, Min, OP
What is a Christian clinician's calling when facing patients who experience poverty, oppression, and social marginalization? How might the Christian faith transform the ethos and practice of healthcare? Please join us as four distinguished panelists draw on the theological idea of accompaniment and their clinical experience to sketch a vision of healthcare that is not afraid of entering into the chaos and suffering of patients.
Entertaining Angels Unawares: An Articulation of the Distinctive Virtues of Community Medicine
Mark Fox, MD, PhD, MPH
Virtues commonly associated with medicine include phronesis, compassion, and the abnegation of self-interest. The hallmark of community medicine, as a distinct form of medical practice, is a commitment to redressing health inequity. To fulfill this commitment through the care of medically disenfranchised individuals and communities requires the cultivation of virtues distinctive to community medicine: hospitality and reconciliation. This presentation explores the foundations for creating an environment in which the medically disenfranchised might re-engage with the health care community.
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When the Herd Includes Children
A pharmacist, health policy leader, and infectious disease physician discuss ethics and policies related to the vaccination of children.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how COVID-19 affects the pediatric population
- Examine the vaccination rate required to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19, including how this may impact pediatric care
- Propose strategies for effective and fact-based anticipatory guidance for parents around pediatric COVID-19 vaccinations
The Utility of Futility: What’s the Point?
Grace Chan Oei, MD, MA, HEC-C
Gina Jervey Mohr, MD
Jukes P Namm, MD, HEC-C
Three physicians and clinical ethicists from LLU examine the concept of medical futility and provide a practical approach for clinicians to resolve difficult clinical situations.
Medicine Made Strange: Seeing Medicine’s Power Through the Lens of Liturgy
Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD (Saint Louis University)
Dr. Kornu is assistant professor of health care ethics and palliative medicine at the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University. Professor Kornu presented a lecture on the use of liturgy as an analytical tool for examining the nexus between medicine, society, and theology using examples in anatomical dissection, organ transplantation, and physician-assisted suicide. Following the lecture, responses were given by Dr. Grace Oei and Dr. Sigve Tonstad from Loma Linda University.
Words as Tools: The Challenge and Magic of Family Meetings
Sunita Puri, MD (Keck Medical Center, USC)
Objectives:
1. Articulate the ways palliative medicine assists patients with advanced illness, and how palliative medicine differs from hospice care.
2. Understand the difference between outpatient and inpatient goals of care discussions.
3. Understand communication techniques to clarify patient goals, make medical recommendations, and discuss the non-beneficial nature of some treatments with compassion and precision.
Checks and Balances
Judge Tara Reilly (Superior Court of San Bernardino)
Critical interactions between the medical and legal professions in decision making for our most vulnerable community members
After harm: truth-telling, apology, repair, and forgiveness in healthcare
Nancy Berlinger, PhD (The Hasting Center)
Hasting Center's Research Scholar, Nancy Berlinger, talked about how doing harm in a healing role raises profound moral and ethical concerns for physicians and other health care professionals and for the organizations in which they work. This lecture explored error, forgiveness, harm, and safety in health care work, drawing on health care ethics, theological perspectives, and personal narratives.
Medical Innovation or Human Experimentation? Primum Non Nocere
Jukes Namm, MD (Loma Linda University)
Loma Linda University's surgical oncologist and clinical ethicist, Dr. Jukes Namm, explored the ethical issues that should be considered for innovative medical interventions and addressed our moral obligation to patients.
Life after Perfect
Kate Bowler, PhD (Duke University)
Duke University Divinity School professor and best-selling author, Kate Bowler, spoke on her research in the prosperity gospel and her book, Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved at 3:00 pm on February 8, 2020.
Playing God?: Defining Appropriate Parameters for Embryo Selection in the Age of Genetic Testing
Speakers
Karen Lebacqz, PhD (Pacific School of Religion, California)
Manid Mavani, PhD (Bayan Claremont, California)
Gina Messina, PhD (Ursuline College, Ohio)
Immigrant Family Detention:the Duty of the Medical Profession
Scott Allen, MD (University of California, Riverside, California)
"Ethics for Community Wholeness"
May 6-7, 2019
This conference was a gathering of leaders from the five Adventist health systems in North America as well as leaders from the Adventist Church.
Resources from the conference are available through the Adventist Bioethics Consortium website (User Account Required).
"Going Down Fighting: Do Patients Have the Right to Experimental Therapies?"
April 10, 2019
Grace Oei, MD, MA, HEC-C (Loma Linda University)
MEDICINE AND RELIGION CONFERENCE
"My Pain is Always With Me"
Medicine and Faithful Responses to Suffering
March 29-31, 2019
The annual conference on Medicine and Religion is a leading forum for discourse and scholarship at the intersection of medicine and religion. It exists to enable health professionals and scholars to gain a deeper and more practical understanding of how religion relates to the practice of medicine, with particular attention to the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This forum was intended to build bridges between theory and practice, science and theology, the academy and lay communities, the various health professions, and the Abrahamic religious traditions.
PROVONSHA LECTURE
“Devout requests for maximal treatment: Sanctity of (earthly) life, or crisis of faith?”
March 1, 2019
Robert Macauley, MD, MBA
Cambia Health Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care at OHSU
Some studies have suggested that patients who are persons of devout faith, who presumably believe that this earthly existence is one tiny slice of what will be eternal life, are more apt to choose aggressive treatment at the end of life. Does that suggest a lack of faith? Or a hearty affirmation of the life we’re entrusted with on earth? The lecture addressed these and related questions from the standpoint of Christian theology and ethics.
BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS
"What’s New in the New Common Rule?
Protecting Human Beings in Medical Research"
February 20, 2019
Nancy M. P. King, JD
Co-Director, Center for Bioethics, Health, & Society
Wake Forest University
A nationally noted ethics and legal scholar discussed the federal government’s latest efforts to protect participants in research.
BIOETHICS CONVOCATION
"Genetic Testing: Would You Want to Know?"
February 2, 2019
Gina Kolata
Best-selling and nationally acclaimed medical reporter for the New York Times, Gina Kolata, will speak on the topic of her most recent book, Mercies In Disguise.
BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS
"Athens or Jerusalem? Virtues for 21st Century Professionalism"
January 16, 2019
Mark Carr, PhD
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE
"The Unrepresented Patient: Where Institutional and Clinical Ethics Meet"
October 21, 2018
Grace Oei, MD, MA
Gerald Winslow, PhD
Gina More, MD
Making heath care decisions for unrepresented patients that lack both decision making capacity and a legally appropriate surrogate can be difficult. This presentation discussed LLUH experience in creating a policy for decision making for unrepresented patients and reviewed data gathered from the clinical ethics consultation service for two years prior and after implementation of this policy.
BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS
"Gestational Surrogacy: A Christian Feminist Account"
October 17, 2018
Grace Kao, PhD
Although increasing in usage, surrogacy remains the most controversial method of assisted reproductive technology. Grace Kao, PhD, from Claremont School of Theology, offered a feminist Christian framework of principles for assessing the ethics of surrogacy.
3RD ANNUAL ADVENTIST BIOETHICS CONFERENCE
"Ethics of Faithfulness for 21st Century Adventist Healthcare"
May 7-8, 2018
Hosted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church North American Division Headquarters and Adventist Healthcare. Coordinated by Loma Linda University Center for Christian Bioethics.
BIOETHICS GRAND ROUNDS
"Suing the Ethics Committee: A patient, his surrogate, and a procedure."
April 11, 2018
David Chooljian, MD, JD
Grace Oei, MD
What is the responsibilities of ethics committee members who participate in clinical consultations? These medical professionals discussed the conflicts of interest that may result in decisions contrary to the patient’s best interest.
PROVONSHA LECTURE
"What Does Medicine Have to do With the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ?"
March 2, 2018
Farr Curlin, MD
Dr. Farr Curlin, noted author, physician, and theologian, holds faculty appointments at Duke University’s School of Medicine and School of Divinity. Three scholars from LLU responded to Dr. Curlin: Psychologist, Dr. Barbara Hernandez; Physician and Ethicist, Dr. Grace Oei; Theologian, Dr. Richard Rice.