Location: LaRoche College Campus, Zapalla College Center, Ryan Room (lower level by the Cafeteria)
8:30 am: Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00 am: Program Start
12:00 pm: Lunch
4:15 pm: Program adjournment
Cost:
Registration |
Lunch |
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CEP Member Representative |
$00.00 |
$10.00 |
Staff from CEP Member Institution | $75.00 | $10.00 |
CEP Non-Member |
$150.00 |
$10.00 |
Program Overview
For additional information and to register for this program, contact Jody Stockdill, 412-623-2033.
8:30 am |
Registration / Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 – 10:30 am |
Cyborg on the Bridge to Nowhere: Problems from the Edge of Life Jesse Soodalter, MA, MD Abstract: Mr. H, a previously healthy 51-year-old African-American man, presents to a major academic medical center with several days of flu-like symptoms, and is found to be in fulminant heart failure, a rare autoimmune complication of a common virus. Over several days and an escalating series of emergent interventions, his heart dies, and he winds up on a highly advanced complex of life support technologies that replace the function of his heart, lungs, and kidneys. This constellation of care is known as “bridge therapy,” a definitionally temporizing configuration intended to keep a dying patient alive long enough to reach some “destination,” be it recovery, transplant, implantation of more permanent support devices, or decision to withdraw care. In the case of Mr. H, a lengthy, tumultuous, and ultimately tragic series of events follows. Mr. H’s sojourn on the bridge affords a vantage point from which we can consider problems of race, class, sovereignty, and power as they play out in the increasingly technologized setting of critical care in America. We will consider the possibilities and limitations of radical resistance to this regime of power over life and death. |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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10:45 – 12:00 pm |
Getting to the Soul of the Matter: Engaging patients in discussion of their religious/spiritual beliefs during medical encounters Tara Cook, MD Krissy Moehling, PhD, MPH Abstract: What does religion and spirituality (R/S) have to do with clinical patient care? More than first meets the eye. It turns out, that R/S can have a significant role in medical decision making shaping the clinical encounter, the treatment sought and adhered to, clinical outcomes, and the level of patient reported satisfaction with quality of care received. Physicians, nursing staff, pharmacists, allied health care professionals, social workers and public health professionals will encounter patients whose R/S beliefs will shape their response to care received. Drawing on research and clinical experience, this talk will explore how to we make room for and conduct patients' R/S assessment within the clinical encounter, as well as how clinicians may appropriately manage their own R/S beliefs and/or biases when engaging with patient's whose beliefs and views may differ from their own. |
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12:00 – 1:15 pm |
LUNCH |
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1:00 – 4:15 pm |
Medical Communication: The Art of Saving Lives David E. Kappel, MD, FACS E. Phillips Polack, MD Susan M. Wieczorek, PhD Dawn Drahnak, DNP, CCNS, RN, CCRN
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4:15 pm |
Adjournment |