Thursday, April 19

Reception: 5:30 pm

Dinner: 6:45 pm Ethics of Transitions of Care 

Friday, April 20, 2012

Joan Berkley Bioethics Symposium

7:30 am – 2:30 pm

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Annual Dinner
Thursday, April 19
Reception: 5:30 pm
Dinner: 6:45 pm

Marriott Muehlebach Hotel
12th and Wyandotte
Downtown Kansas City, MO

For sponsorship and ticket information click here or contact Cindy Leyland at 816-979-1357.
You may also email AD2012@practicalbioethics.org

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Ira Byock, MD is Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and a Professor at Dartmouth Medical School, Departments of Anesthesiology and Community and Family Medicine.

Dr. Byock has authored numerous articles on the ethics and practice of hospice, palliative and end-of-life care. His first book, Dying Well, (1997) has become a standard in the field. The Four Things That Matter Most, (2004) is used as a counseling tool by palliative care and hospice programs, as well as within pastoral care.

Dr. Byock is widely quoted in the news media and on You Tube regarding issues related to aging and end of life. His new book, The Best Care Possible, will be available at the dinner.
2012 Vision to Action Recipients: Lee and Bob Woodruff

Co-authors of In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing. Lee is an author and contributor on veterans issues for CBS This Morning. Bob may be seen on ABC News. Lee will accept the award on behalf of her husband.

Honorary Co-Chairs:
	John W. Bluford, III, president and chief executive officer, Truman Medical Centers
	Rand O’Donnell, PhD, president and chief executive officer, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
	Bob Page, president and chief executive officer, University of Kansas Hospital
	Julie Quirin, chief executive officer, Saint Luke’s Hospital

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Ethics of Transitions of Care
Joan Berkley Bioethics Symposium
April 20, 2012
7:30 am – 2:30 pm

Marriott Muehlebach Hotel
12th and Wyandotte
Kansas City, Missouri

Major national initiatives are now under development to address inadequacies in the way transitions of care occur – from hospital to nursing home to place of residence – and how follow-up care gets delivered.

National and local experts in the field of palliative care, hospital and home care will employ in-depth analysis, an environmental scan and narrative ethics to tease out the vexing issues while offering innovative models.

Presenters:
•    David Schulke, American Hospital Association
•    Penny Feldman, PhD, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
•    Richard Payne, MD, Duke University
•    Ira Byock, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
•    Myra Christopher, Center for Practical Bioethics
•    Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin, Center for Practical Bioethics

Registration:
$95.00
Continuing Education Units pending.

For online registration click here or you may call Cindy Leyland at (816) 979-1357 or email AD2012@practicalbioethics.org

About Joan Berkley:

Joan Berkley has served on the Center for Practical Bioethics board of directors for a number of years, and has been a strong supporter of the Center’s work in aging and end of life and pain policy.

“Over the years, the Center has been blessed with extraordinary leadership,” says Myra Christopher, former Center CEO and now the Kathleen M. Foley Chair for Pain and Palliative Care at the Center. “But Joan Berkley is one of a kind!  Her enthusiasm for our work makes her our biggest cheerleader; her attendance at Center events makes her one of our most knowledgeable community leaders; her generosity makes her our benefactor, and her kindness makes her one of our dearest friends.  We are grateful to her for her many contributions!”

“The Center for Practical Bioethics is near and dear to my heart because it is committed to helping guide communities and families through todays most pressing issues in health and health care,” says Joan Berkley. “The organization is recognized nationally because of our work in the reduction of pain and end-of- life issues. We are most fortunate to have an organization of such high caliber here and I am dedicated to its continued success.”

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About the Book:
Too often, patients in American hospitals are subjected to painful, expensive, and futile treatments because of a physician’s notion of medical duty or a family’s demands. Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker renew their call for common sense and realistic expectations in medicine in this revised and updated edition of Wrong Medicine.

Written by a physician and a philosopher—both internationally recognized experts in medical ethics— Wrong Medicine addresses key topics that have occupied the media and the courts for the past several decades, including the wrenching Terry Schiavo case. The book combines clear descriptions of ethical principles with real clinical stories to discuss the medical, legal, and political issues that confront doctors today as they seek to provide the best medical care to critically ill patients.

The authors have added two chapters that outline theoretical, legislative, judicial, and clinical developments since the first edition. Based on the latest empirical research, Wrong Medicine continues to guide a broad range of health care professionals through the challenges of providing humane end-of-life care.

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The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, as adopted and revised, affirms personal autonomy of those who wish to donate organs or tissue after death. Not even next of kin are permitted to revoke such “first person” authorizations to donate.

So what happens, or ought to happen, if the family says, “No!” to donation?

Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin will examine this question and more during a 90 minute webinar scheduled for February 22, 2012 at 11 am Central.

For more information and to register click here.

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They believe the provision of hospice care for dying inmates transforms lives:  the life of the dying inmate and the life of the inmate caregiver.

Find out how during a special program January 30th at 5 pm at the Community Christian Church in Kansas City, MO. Serving Life, a documentary about the hospice program at Angolo Penitentiary in Louisiana, will be shown followed by discussion and review of a traveling photo exhibit about the program.

For more information and to register click here.

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Link to video here.

Joe Waeckerle, MD, has worked on the ground in disasters all over the world, including the Hyatt Hotel collapse in Kansas City in 1981. He tells Lorell LaBoube of the Center for Practical Bioethics that during a disaster medical professionals are challenged with changing their mindset to the reality of compromising care. It’s a mindset the public must accept as well, according to Dr. Waeckerle.

Dr. Waeckerle spoke during the Disaster Ethics Symposium and Public Forum in Kansas City on December 7, 2011.

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Shepherd’s Center of the Northland is at Antioch Community Church, 4805 N.E. Antioch Road, Kansas City, North.

Reservations are required. Call 816-452-4536. Lunch will be provided.

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Link to article here.

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Link: Rise above the ‘opioid wars’ to manage chronic pain, Seattle Times, December 22, 2011

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The Institute of Medicine Report on pain was published in June of 2011. What makes this Report distinct?  Why are organizations and stake holders working collaboratively to advance this report?  Why does this particular IOM Report matter to every person in America?

Host Jan Chambers, president and founder of the NFMCPA, will be chatting with special guest, Myra Christopher, Director of Pain Action Alliance Initiative: A National Strategy (PAAINS) and the Kathleen M. Foley Chair for the Center for Practical Bioethics.

Link to podcast here<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nfmcpa/2011/12/09/relieving-pain-in-america-how-you-can-help-to-improve-care>.

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The December 2011 edition of The American Journal of Bioethics features a special “trending” section on personalities and politics in bioethics.

Wesley Smith, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, chose to write about William Hurlbut in an article entitled “Building a Bridge over Troubled Stem Cell Waters.” Lorell LaBoube visited with Smith about the article in this edition of The Bioethics Channel.

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