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Pediatric Bioethics Conference

Agenda

Note: The schedule is subject to change. Please check back regularly for updates as sessions are finalized.

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The Thin Ethical Line: When Professional Boundaries and Personal Interests Collide

Friday, July 27, 2012

8 a.m.
Sign-in and Continental Breakfast 

Morning session 

8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Benjamin Wilfond, MD
Biography (PDF)

8:45 a.m.
Challenging the Professionalism Movement
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Biography (PDF)

9:30 a.m.
Doctors as Political Advocates: A Case Study
Norman Fost, MD, MPH
Biography (PDF)

10 a.m.
Break 

10:30 a.m.
A Conversation about Boundaries in Medicine
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH, Moderator
Norman Fost, Kellie Lang, John Lantos, Lainie Friedman Ross, Robert Truog
Biographies: Diekema, Lang, Lantos, Truog (PDF)

12 p.m.
Panel and Questions
Norman Fost, Kellie Lang, John Lantos, Lainie Friedman Ross, Robert Truog

12:30 p.m.
Lunch 

1 p.m.
Poster Viewing with Authors Present 

Afternoon session 

1:30 p.m.
From Friends to “Friending”: The Impact of Social Networking on Physician-Patient Boundaries
Jennifer Kesselheim, MD, MBE, MEd
Biography (PDF)

2 p.m.
Regaining a Trusted Relationship in the Time of Twitter: Doctors and Patients in the Blogosphere
Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE
Biography (PDF)

2:30 p.m.
Can Doctors and Patients Be “Friends”?
John Lantos, MD

3 p.m.
Break 

3:30 p.m.
Panel and Questions
Jennifer Kesselheim, John Lantos, Wendy Sue Swanson

4 p.m.
Physician, Patient, Parent: Where Exactly Is the Line?
Douglas Opel, MD, MPH
Biography (PDF)

4:30 p.m.
Adjourn 

Saturday, July 28, 2012

7:45 a.m.
Sign-in and Continental Breakfast 

8:15 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH

8:30 a.m.
Conscientious Objection in Pediatrics: To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate?
Mark Wicclair, PhD
Biography (PDF)

9:15 a.m.
Transforming Moral Distress into Healing: Personal and Institutional Strategies
Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN
Biography (PDF)

9:45 a.m.
Break 

10 a.m.
Youth Boxing, Parental Refusals of Immunization and Standing on Principle: The Case for Principled Compromise in Pediatric Practice
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH

10:30 a.m.
Panel and Questions
Douglas Diekema, Mithya Lewis-Newby, Cynda Rushton, Mark Wicclair
Biography: Lewis-Newby (PDF)

11 a.m.
Presentations of Submitted Papers 

12:30 p.m.
Concluding Comments and Adjourn