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Howard
Brody Introduction to the Panelists and Moderator (pdf) To download
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Detailed Biography: Howard Brody completed his M.D. and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Michigan State University, and a residency in family practice at the University of Virginia. He divides his time roughly in half between the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State, which he joined in 1980, and the Department of Family Practice, where he maintains a part-time clinical practice and am involved with the teaching of medical students and residents. He served as Director of the Center between 1985 and 2000. The Center is committed to supporting reflective practice in health care and in science, by bringing to these fields the resources of ethics and the humanities. Brody served as a consultant to the Clinton Health Care Task Force in 1993, and as a visiting scholar with the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in 1993-94. Brody's current research interests include: medical ethics in primary care, especially the physician-patient relationship, and the impact of managed care on this relationship; the placebo response and the ethics of using placebos, as well as the mind-body relationship in health and illness more generally; and health care reform. He recently co-authored a book called The Placebo Response, intended for a general audience on this subject. Other books focus on power as a central concept with medical ethics (The Healer's Power, 1992); narrative in medical ethics, and the use of literature as a tool in medical ethics and philosophy of medicine (Stories of Sickness, 1987); and Ethical Decisions in Medicine, 1981. Brody co-authored
the Final Report of the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying
(1997) with Elsa Shartsis and Deborah Cummings. This publication
reports on the work of the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying
with recommendations to the state of Michigan on the subject. It
includes a history of the commission and its procedures, reports
on the points of consensus and opposition in the assisted suicide
debate. It also includes statements from other organizations involved
in the debate, a bibliography of documents, and a listing of individuals
testifying andsubmitting documents. The Commission included members
from medicine, retired people, religion, attorneys, civil libertarians
& others.
Detailed Biography: Michael J. Garland is professor and vice-chairman, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and the director of educational policy in the Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health Sciences University, where he has served on the faculty since 1978. He also holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Community Health Care Systems and Mental Health Nursing of the School of Nursing. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and letters from St. Louis University and a master's degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame. He earned a doctorate in religious studies from the University of Strasbourg in France, where he focused on the theory of responsibility in ethics. Dr. Garland has been active in the field of biomedical ethics since 1973 when he joined the Health Policy Program at the University of California, San Francisco. He has published widely in the field of biomedical ethics with particular focus on ethical issues in the allocation of health care resources, social ethics education in health professions' curricula, ethics in human experimentation, ethical issues in withholding treatment from the terminally ill, and the community's role in guiding ethical choices in health policy. He co-founded Oregon Health Decisions in 1983 to foster public participation in the development of state health policy. The organization has played a continuing role in maintaining public involvement in critical policy choices affecting the Oregon Health Plan.
Detailed Biography: M. Therese Lysaught, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Sudies at the University of Dayton. She received her Ph.D. in theology and ethics from Duke University and spent two years conducting research in biomedical ethics at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics in Chicago as an Associate for Religion, Culture and Health Care Ethics. Dr. Lysaught is currently a member of the theologians working group on the principle of cooperation at the Catholic Health Association, on the editorial advisory board for Christian Bioethics, and the co-chair of the Liturgy and Ethics Interest Group for the Society of Christian Ethics. Her articles on bioethics, theology and bioethics, and liturgy and ethics have appeared in a variety of places, including the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Health Progress, Commonweal, The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and Lammers' and Verhey's On Moral Medicine. Lysaught also serves on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health.
Detailed Biography: E. Haavi Morreim,
Ph.D., is a Professor in the College of Medicine, University of
Tennessee, in the Department of Human Values and Ethics. She also
has a joint appointment as Professor in the Division of Health Services
and Policy Research, Department of Preventive Medicine. For seventeen
years at the University of Tennessee, and for the four previous
years at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, she has
done clinical teaching and consulting in medical ethics. Although
her research spans a variety of topics, it particularly focuses
on the ethical and legal implications of medicine's changing economics.
She is author of around a hundred publications in journals of law,
medicine, and ethics, including the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, California Law Review,
Hastings Center Report, and the Wall Street Journal. Her book, Balancing
Act: the New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics, first appeared
in 1991 and was republished in paperback by Georgetown University
Press in 1995. Her new book, Holding Health Care Accountable:
Law and the New Medical Marketplace, will be published by Oxford
in 2001. Dr. Morreim is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's
Who of American Women.
Detailed Biography: Charles Sabatino, J.D. is a founding member and Vice President, Board of Directors, of Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD). He is the Assistant Director of the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly. Since 1984, he has been responsible for the Commission's research, project development, consultation, and education in areas of health law, long-term care, surrogate decision-making, and legal services delivery for the elderly, including professional ethics. Mr. Sabatino is also a part-time adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches Law and Aging. He has written extensively about issues surrounding elder law, such as health-care decision making, including the Lawyer's Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning; an ABA/AMA/AARP joint booklet, Shape Your Health Care Future with Health Care Advance Directives; an educational video, In Your Hands: The Tools for Personal Autonomy. He is also lead author of the American Bar Association Legal Guide for Older Americans (NY: Random House/Times Books, 1998). He is currently a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national funding initiative, Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care. In recent years, he has spoken before state and national organizations on a range of law and aging topics. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine study committee that produced the January 1995 IOM evaluation of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program entitled, Real People, Real Problems. He is a fellow and board member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), a board member of the National Elder Law Foundation (NELF); and a member of the NELF elder law certification exam committee. He received his A.B. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the Virginia and D.C. bars.
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