Every Thursday from 12:00pm-1:00pm
Weiboldt Hall 339 E. Chicago Avenue Room 421
October 16, 2008 - Quentin Young, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. Presentation Title: TBA
ONE DAY LEFT TO REGISTER!!!!
Date: Friday, October 10th, 2008
Time: 8:00am-12:00pm
Location: 250 E. Superior Street, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60611. Prentice Women’s Hospital. Lavin Bernick Flat Auditorium (Conference Room L)
Just a few years ago, the disclosure of adverse events was a controversial and highly debated topic in the healthcare industry. Recently, on both a local and national level, there has been an increase in the adoption of various disclosure programs. Please save the date as later this year, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University will be hosting national experts who have aided in the advancement of the disclosure of adverse events.
The keynote speaker will be Richard Boothman, Chief Risk Officer for the University of Michigan Health Systems.
Event Contact: Allan Doeksen, Project Coordinator 312-503-5525 Northwestern Center for Patient Safety a-doeksen@northwestern.edu There are no registration fees for this exciting conference. However, RSVP’s are required. Please contact PatientSafety@northwestern.edu if you are able to attend. For more information please visit http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/ihs/program-centers/cps/events.html
The History of African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: A Painful Legacy.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Medical Ethics Committee is pleased to announce their 2007-2008 series of programs to engage you, challenge you, and invite you to share your insights into patient care. This program will be offered on Thursday, October 16th, 2008
12:00pm to 1:00pm,
in PRITZKER AUDITORIUM Feinberg 3rd Floor
The History of African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: A Painful Legacy.
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH
Director, Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association
Executive Director, The Ethical Force Program®
Dr. Wynia is a physician, a specialist in infectious diseases, and the head of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Since 1997, he has also been the Executive Director of the Ethical Force program, which is a multi-stakeholder group – including patients, providers, purchasers and regulators – that aims to promote attention to ethical standards throughout the health care system. Through his work with the Ethical Force program, Dr. Wynia has been a pioneering advocate for the idea that the ethical climate of health care organizations can be measured and improved. Dr. Wynia's research and writing has focused on answering pointed questions of health care ethics, including examining physicians’ responses to market pressures in medicine (Do physicians mislead insurers to help their patients get coverage?); comparing physicians’ ethical codes and the policies of care delivery organizations (Do organizational policies make it easier or harder for doctors to live up to the Code of Medical Ethics?); and exploring professionalism and the role of professionals in society (Is it ever ethical for professionals to disobey regulations or the law?). Dr. Wynia’s groundbreaking and often controversial work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs and many other medical and ethics journals and he has been featured on ABC News Nightline, the BBC World Service, Marketplace, and other programs. In addition to his work with the AMA, Dr. Wynia is the Contributing Editor for Bioethics and Public Health at the American Journal of Bioethics, a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a past chair of the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association, and he cares for HIV-infected patients at the University of Chicago Hospitals where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Please forward this information to any appropriate staff. Contact Eileen Raia, Patient Representative Department, with any questions at 6-7452.
Kathy Neely
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee
k-neely@northwestern.edu Cynthia Barnard
Director, Quality Strategies
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
676 St Clair #700
Chicago IL 60611
voice 312.926.4822
fax 312.926.8734
cbarnard@nmh.org
For more information on Northwestern Memorial Hospital, please visit our website at http://www.nmh.org
Learning Objectives for the Medical Ethics Series:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1. Describe current issues in ethical decision making
2. Describe options and strategies available to health care professionals to support patients and the health care team in achieving ethical decisions
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