National Healthcare Decisions Day - Ethics in Death and Dying

Together we will:

1)     Explore bioethical principles that may guide end-of-life decisions, including advance care planning.

2)     Describe opportunities and challenges providing end-of-life care in accordance with patients’ communicated wishes or in the absence of expressed/communicated wishes.

3)     Clarify the roles of the patient, healthcare proxy, and medical providers in determining care at the end of life.

4)     Identify key resources in the community and within medical institutions to help navigate questions about care at the end of life.

Presenters -

Beth N. Peshkin, MS, Professor of Oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Faculty Member at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown 

Alvin Reaves, III, MD, Medical Director, Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, US Acute Care Solutions; Chair, Bioethics Committee, Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center

FREE Continuing Education (Ethics) credits (2 hours) for social workers and counselors.