CENTER DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
January 2024 brings exciting news for the Center and our collaborators, marking the beginning of a clinical ethics consultation program. A formal program offering consultations with a dedicated ethicist to clinicians, patients, and family members has been a Center goal for many years, and was made possible through a groundbreaking partnership with the Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Education, U of U Health (University Hospital), Intermountain Healthcare (Canyons Region and Primary Children’s Hospital), the Department of Pediatrics, and the College of Humanities (Dept. of Philosophy) at the U.
Eleanor Gilmore-Szott arrives this month as the director of the program. She is returning to the U, where she completed her PhD in the Dept. of Philosophy, by way of a Clinical Ethics Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Gilmore-Szott shared some thoughts on why this new program is such an important step.
![[field.image-button-alternative-text]](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/media/images/2023/Eleanor-Gilmore-Szott-lrg.png "ELEANOR GILMORE-SZOTT, PHD, HEC-C")
“There’s an opportunity for this program to have a significant impact on a region of the country that has not previously benefitted from a formal clinical ethics program, that is now used in many major academic medical centers. These programs rely on specialization and expertise to support patients, families, and clinicians when ethical issues arise in the healthcare setting. I’ve seen the positive impact of a robust ethics consult service. I know where our program can go and it’s exciting to be at the beginning of making that happen.
“It is especially exciting to develop a program that is affiliated with a center that thinks about medicine from so many different perspectives. Medical and health humanities is so valuable to healthcare today—it's in the name—humanness of healthcare is key right now. Being a clinical ethicist [and] having this wealth of other resources to draw from, other ways of thinking, is really encouraging. Just looking at the faculty affiliated with the Center: Wow, everybody's doing such cool things.
“I'm very much interested in collaborating on education about clinical ethics and the practice of medicine and other clinical specialties. I am interested in working with the Philosophy department as they get additional programs related to clinical ethics up and running, and think it will be really exciting to get a clinical ethics perspective built into a lot of health sciences education.
“I'm thrilled to be back in Utah. I think it's one of the most beautiful places on the planet. My partner and I have moved so many times, but driving up to Salt Lake City through Moab, I thought: Right. We're in the right place.”
Be on the lookout for educational opportunities to hear from Dr. Gilmore-Szott and join me in welcoming her back to the amazing hiking, skiing, and food that she missed while away from Utah. Even if it means shoveling snow for the first time in years!
![[field.image-button-alternative-text]](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/media/images/2023/GCase%20headshot%202023.jpeg "GRETCHEN CASE")
SPRING LECTURES
2023-24 GREEN MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
![[field.image-button-alternative-text]](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/media/images/2024/CHLA-Sabrina-Derrington-sm.png "SABRINA DERRINGTON, MD, MA, HEC-C, FAAP")
In collaboration with Primary Children's Hospital (PCH) & U of U SFESOM - Department of Pediatrics
and acknowledges the Medical Staff Office at PCH for their support of the lecture
2023-24 COWAN-MAYDEN MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
April 10-12, 2024
SERIES EVENTS
- *While Dr. Ray is in town she will also join us for our LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE discussion of her book: Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health
- INTERNAL MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS: “How Social and Clinical Inequities Create Patients”
- ETHICS EXPLORED: "More Than Just a Number: Using Our Stories to Navigate Anti-Black Racism and Poor Health"
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co-sponsored with the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (EHSL) &
in collaboration with the U of U SFESOM - Department of Internal Medicine
LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION GROUP
This informal group is facilitated by expert faculty and meets monthly to discuss books and other texts that address health and healthcare.
2nd Wednesdays, 6-7:30pm
Virtual
1.5 credits CME
details
JANUARY 10
Book: A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermancence
by Mary Pipher
NATIONAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH
FEBRUARY 7*
Book: Libertie: A Novel
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
*February's discussion will be the 1st week due to the Valentine's Day conflict on the 2nd week
MARCH 13
Book: What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by Stephanie Foo
APRIL 10
Book: Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health (Bioethics for Social Justice)
by Keisha Ray, PhD (our 2023-24 Cowan-Mayden Memorial Lecturer)
*Dr. Ray will join us for the discussion!
ETHICS EXPLORED DISCUSSION SERIES
Informal, multidisciplinary discussions about current issues in healthcare ethics
1.5 credits CME
details
MIKE REMBIS, PHD
GENETICS HOT TOPICS:
Disability & Healthcare
"Telling Stories"
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Noon-1pm
Virtual
SABRINA DERRINGTON, MD, MA, HEC-C, FAAP
“The Arc of Hope: Existential Questions in Serious Illness”
Thursday, February 22, 2024
5:30-7pm
Hybrid
*Part of the 2023-24 Green Memorial Lecture Series
KEISHA RAY, PhD
"More Than Just a Number: Using Our Stories to Navigate Anti-Black Racism and Poor Health"
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5:30-7pm
Hybrid
*Part of the 2023-24 Cowan-Mayden Memorial Lecture Series
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JANUARY
JANUARY 10
LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE (virtual)
Book: A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
by Mary Pipher
Facilitator: Susan Sample, PhD, MFA
CME offered
JANUARY 24
ETHICS EXPLORED (virtual)
Genetics Hot Topics
DISABILITY & HEALTHCARE
MIKE REMBIS, PhD, SUNY - University at Buffalo
"Telling Stories"
CME offered
JANUARY 29
GIG SEMINAR (in-person) | flyer
JAMES TABERY, PhD, Department of Philosophy
"A Century of Sterilization: The Evolving Rationale for Non-Consensually Sterilizing People with Disabilities in Utah"
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics (EIHG)
Gesteland-White Auditorium
Beverages and pizza to follow
FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY 1
HEALTHCARE STORIES (in-person)
"PROMISE"
Live performance at Kingsbury Hall
FEBRUARY 7*
LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE (virtual)
Book: Libertie: A Novel
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Facilitator: Rachel Borup, PhD
CME offered
*will be the 1st week due to the Valentine’s Day conflict on the 2nd week
MARCH
MARCH 13
LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE (virtual)
Book:What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by Stephanie Foo
Facilitator: Mark Matheson, DPhil
CME offered
APRIL
APRIL 10
LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE (hybrid)
Book: Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health (Bioethics for Social Justice)
by Keisha Ray
Facilitator:Gretchen Case, PhD, MA
CME offered
FACULTY NEWS
Jim Ruble, DPharm, JD
In December 2023, Jim Ruble, PharmD, JD, was appointed to the role of Executive Associate Dean for Professional Education in the College of Pharmacy. He will also be promoted to Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Pharmacotherapy, effective July 2024.
Sarah Bernstein, MD, MHA
Dr. Bernstein's article, Prognostic Discordance Among Parents and Physicians Caring for Infants with Neurologic Conditions, appears in the Journal of Pediatrics and has received reviews both positive and emphasizing the importance of the research.
Peggy Battin, PhD, MFA
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is engaged in an oral history project, Moral Histories, recording some 15 of the early “founding figures” in bioethics in extended interviews conducted by a professional oral historian. Peggy Battin is one of them - here is her story.