2024 Annual Dinner
40th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5:30 Reception
6:15 Welcome & Awards Presentation
7:15 Program, Keynote & Dialogue
The Abbott, 1901 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO
The Center for Practical Bioethics, based in Kansas City and founded in 1984, is celebrating 40 years of raising and responding to ethical issues in health and healthcare. We call this work “practical bioethics” because the Center applies ethics to real-life challenges and decisions in health and healthcare. Some challenges affect specific groups, such as students, clinicians, healthcare IT, CEOs and public officials. Others, such as serious illness and end-of-life care, affect every one of us!
Keynote Speaker: Daniela Lamas, MD
Daniela Lamas is a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. In her recent book, You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death and In Between, Lamas examines the thin border between life and death through real stories of patients, whose lives were saved by medical technology.
She has worked as a medical reporter at the Miami Herald and is frequently published in the New York Times. Daniela writes about modern issues in medicine with her unique real-life stories and a great deal of compassion for the patients. Not only do we learn about the needed improvements in medicine, but we also learn to understand doctors not only as a tool to recovery but as compassionate professionals. She has written on humanism in medicine, medical ethics and women in healthcare, to name a few.
Daniela has done research in many aspects of medicine, from current challenges of ineffective electronic health record systems to chronic critical illness and death. Her work has been published in influential medical journals.
Honoring Our Past
FOUNDER’S AWARD
Mary Beth Blake, Co-Founder
Center for Practical Bioethics
VISION TO ACTION AWARD
John G. Carney, Retired President and CEO
Center for Practical Bioethics
VISION TO ACTION AWARD
Myra Christopher, Founding CEO
Center for Practical Bioethics
Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
RUBY ($25,000)
• Two (2) tables for 10 at the Dinner
• Ten (10) guests at the Patron Event
• Ten (10) valet parking passes
• Verbal recognition at the Dinner
• Logo prominently on marketing assets and social media
• Customized education or training opportunity led by CPB professionals
PREMIER ($15,000)
• One (1) table for 10 at the Dinner
• Six (6) guests at the Patron Event
• Six (6) valet parking passes
• Logo on marketing assets and social media
• Customized education or training opportunity led by CPB professionals
MISSION ($10,000)
• One (1) table for 10 at the Dinner
• Four (4) guests at the Patron Event
• Two (2) valet parking passes
• Name listed on marketing assets and social media
• Customized education or training opportunity led by CPB professionals
PATRON ($5,000)
• One (1) table for 10 at the Dinner
• Two (2) guests at the Patron Event
• Name listed on marketing assets
HEART ($2,250)
• One (1) table for 10 at the Dinner
• Your name listed on marketing assets
FRIEND ($1,000)
• Seating for two (2) guests at the Dinner
• Name listed on marketing assets
INDIVIDUAL ($225)
Seating for one guest at the Dinner
More Information
For more information about the 40th anniversary events or this dinner, including event sponsorship, please use our contact us form or contact Cindy Leyland at cleyland@practicalbioethics.org or 816.221.1100. Thank you.
PRESENTING SPONSORS
American Century Investments
The Berkley Family
Kansas City University
DINNER EVENT CHAIRS
Robin and Marc B. Hahn, DO
Past Events
Monday, September 30, 2024
“Will AI Health Apps Make Us Healthier?” is the topic of the Center’s 30th Annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture on September 30, 2024. The lecture, presented by Anita Ho, bioethicist, author, and clinical professor, will weigh the ethical pros and cons of AI in personal healthcare. Attend in-person in Kansas City or virtually on YouTube.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Join us for a “fireside chat” and mingle with the expert leaders of services to help healthcare organizations integrate ethics into all facets of their organizations.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
You can hear me, but are you listening? Listening to the Patient’s Voice
Dr. Jeff Goldenberg and Naomi Kirtner, are the parents of Talia Goldenberg, who died tragically at age 23 following spinal surgery. Talia, her physician father and her mother pleaded with doctors and medical staff, urging them to recognize that Talia couldn’t breathe. Talia’s parents have a powerful story to share.
Advance Care Planning Training — Open to Everyone
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 12 noon – 1 PM CT
Thursday, May 25, 2023, 12 noon – 1 PM CT
An inspirational morning exploring how listening to stories and creating art depicting the wishes of elders can open new pathways to connection, reconciliation and peace.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:00 AM
Symposium 9:00 AM – Noon
Thursday, November 3, 2022
In this free webinar, we invite new and current users to learn about the new TPOPP/POLST Clinical Guide and form.
Advance Care Planning Training
Open to Everyone
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Thursday, September 8, 2022
In this free webinar, we invite you to participate in a conversation with Dr. Sanne Magnan about what you can do to address the social determinants of health and to advance health equity in your communities.
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Nurse leaders will address the nursing crisis using ethics to understand what is going on and what might be a fitting response. Join us in-person for the reception and lecture or virtually for the lecture. Registration is free.
An exhibition celebrating the wishes of elders and protecting the interests of those whose voices have not been heard or heeded.
May 12, 2022
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore
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