Continuing from our 2019 pilot training on best practices and consultation, the 2022 workshop stood independent with new topics and speakers. The half-day (4-hour) CME accredited workshops covered topics useful to members of hospital ethics committees and other decision-makers in clinical settings. Emphasis was on practical approaches to clinical ethics and included discussion of cases.
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8am-Noon (VIRTUAL)
Training for Ethics Committee Members and Decision-Makers
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
| 8-8:30 | Moral Resiliency | Jamie Seale, APRN, UofU Health |
| 8:40-9:10 | Capacity Assessment | Brent Kious, MD, PhD, UofU Health |
| 9:20-9:50 | Recognizing Bias | Gretchen Case, PhD, UofU Health |
| 10-10:30 | Doing the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number? Easier than it Sounds: Challenges in Crisis Standards of Care | Mark Shah, MD, Intermountain Healthcare |
| 10:40-11:10 | Legal Issues in Health Care Ethics | Kim Childs, JD, Intermountain Healthcare |
| 11:10-Noon | Case Discussion Panel and Wrap-up |
SPEAKER BIOS
Jamie Seale, APRN
U of U Health
Jamie Seale is a Nurse Practitioner in Intermountain Healthcare’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit and a member of the Rainbow Kids Palliative Care team. She has over 21 years of experience in the care of critically ill neonates in a level IV NICU, Level III NICU, and also in a delivery center. She joined the pediatric palliative care team in May 2016 and subsequently became a VitalTalk trained faculty educator. She has a passion for excellent neonatal and pediatric palliative care.
Brent Kious, MD, PhD
U of U Health
Dr. Kious's current research encompasses theoretical work in bioethics and scientific research related to the epidemiology and treatment of depression. His research in bioethics is focused on the role of values in medicine, and in particular, on the role of suffering in the legalization of medical aid-in-dying. He was selected as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in bioethics in 2020. His scientific work focuses on developing novel interventions for the treatment of major depressive disorder. These interventions are inspired by epidemiological research related to the effects of altitude on the risk of major depressive disorder and suicide.
Gretchen Case, PhD, MA
U of U Health
Dr. Case is the Director of the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities and an Associate Professor (lecturer) in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She received a BA in Speech Communication and History and an MA in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in Performance Studies from UC, Berkeley.
Dr. Case's research and teaching interests are in the medical humanities (aka healthcare humanities): the many ways in which the arts and humanities intersect with the medical arts and sciences. Her scholarly projects often combine communication, performance, disability theory, cultures of medicine, oral history, and ethnography. Dr. Case also has more than ten years of experience as a public historian, specializing in histories of science and medicine.
In addition to teaching at the School of Medicine, Dr. Case has taught in the Department of Theatre at the University and is a facilitator for the Physicians’ Literature and Medicine reading group. She has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and contributed significantly to projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Mark Shaw, MD
Intermountain Healthcare
Dr. Mark Shah has been a practicing emergency physician since finishing residency at the University of New Mexico in 2003. He has worked with Utah Emergency Physicians since 2006; staffing emergency departments for Intermountain Healthcare in the Salt Lake area. Mark has been involved in disaster medicine since 2001. He was the medical director for the New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) and oversaw the care of thousands of people after Hurricanes Francis, Katrina, and Rita. Mark helped develop, and is currently a medical officer for the Utah DMAT, with whom he deployed to assist Texas after Hurricane Harvey. Other disaster deployments have included the earthquake in Haiti and a typhoon in the Philippines. Mark develops policy with the Utah Hospital Association and the Utah Department of Health, and chairs the Utah Crisis Standards of Care Working Group. He is also the medical director for Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele Healthcare Coalition. He teaches extensively in the area of disaster medicine and is adjunctive faculty with the University of Utah. He is the Medical Director of Emergency Management for Intermountain Healthcare.
Kim Childs, JD
Intermountain Healthcare
Kimberly Child is in-house counsel for Intermountain Healthcare. She began her career as a Pediatric ICU nurse at Primary Children’s Hospital, after which she traveled across the country filling emergency staffing needs at major hospitals in New York. After attending law school, interning with the U of U Office of General Counsel and FDA Office of Chief Counsel, and clerking for Justice Jill Parrish at the Utah Supreme Court, she joined the law firm of Ray Quinney & Nebeker where her practice involved a broad range of healthcare issues. As in-house counsel for Intermountain, she advises on issues related to risk management, bioethics, safety and security, healthcare regulatory requirements, and early resolution of medical malpractice cases.
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (S.J. Quinney College of Law, Flynn Faculty Workshop Room, Level 6)
Ethics Consultation & Ethics Committees Training (Pilot)
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
| 8am | Breakfast; collect your name tags & materials | |
| 8:30-8:40 | Welcome! | Gretchen Case, PhD, MA |
| 8:40-9:10 | Informed Consent/Capacity | Jeffrey Botkin, MD, MPH |
| 9:10-9:40 | End of Life/Conflicts with Families and Others | Peggy Battin, PhD, MFA |
| 9:40-9:50 | BREAK | |
| 9:50-11:30 | Tensions between Legal & Risk & Ethics: What’s Practical? | Teneille Brown, JD, Jim Ruble, PharmD, JD, & Scott Smith, JD |
| 10:30-10:40 | BREAK | |
| 11:40-11:00 | Navigating the Rapids of Clinical Ethics Consultation: Intake, Recommendations, and Documentation | Armand H. Matheny Antommaria MD, PhD |
| 11:00-Noon | Discussion of Complex and Complicated Cases | Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, MD, PhD, leads discussion with Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities faculty and participants |
| 12:00-12:20 | Recap and Reflect: Guided Writing to Take Training Forward / sharing ideas with participants | Susan Sample, PhD, MFA |
| 11:10-Noon | Wrap Up and Resources | Gretchen Case, PhD, MA |
| 12:30-1:30pm | LUNCH |
SPEAKER BIOS
Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, MD, PhD, FAAP
University of Cincinnatti Department of Pediatrics
Director, Ethics Center, Lee Ault Carter Chair of Pediatric Ethics, Cincinnatti Children Hospital, Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine, Associate Professor
Gretchen A. Case, PhD, MA
U of U Health
Chief, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Jeffrey R. Botkin, MD, MPH
U of U Health
Past Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, Associate Vice President for Research Integrity with oversight responsibilities for the IRB and human subjects protection program at the University of Utah
Margaret P. Battin, PhD, MFA
U of U
Professor S.J. Quinney College of Law and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities
Teneille R. Brown, JD
U of U
Professor S.J. Quinney College of Law and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities
James H. Ruble, PharmD, JD
U of U Health
Associate Professor, Pharmacotherapy, Adjunct Associate Professor, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Adjunct Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, past Chair and member of UHealth ethics committee
Scott Smith, JD
U of U
Associate General Counsel
Susan J. Sample, PhD, MFA
U of U Health
Assistant Professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Internal Medicine, Writer-in-Residence at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and Associate Instructor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the College of Humanities
Additional Planners
Cheyenne Brown, MS, BSN, RN, TCRN, CEN
Intermountain Healthcare
Performance Improvement Coordinator–Trauma Services
Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS
U of U Health/Intermountain Healthcare
Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah, based clinically at the Shock Trauma ICU at Intermountain Medical Center
Linda Carr-Lee Faix, PhC, MA
U of U Health
Academic Program Manager, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities
Leslie P. Francis, JD, PhD
U of U
Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy, Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development in the College of Law, Director, the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences in the S.J Quinney College of Law, and Adjunct Professor Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities.
Brent Kious, MD, PhD
U of U Health
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities
Paige Patterson, MD
U of U
Assistant Professor, Palliative Care, Internal Medicine
James Tabery, PhD
U of U
Associate Professor Philosophy, Adjunct Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities
Natalia Washington, PhD
U of U