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Jan
24
2019

ECMO: Clinical Innovation, Uncertainty and Ethics - Kathy Johnson Neely

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When: Thursday, January 24, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor - Searle room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program

presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Kathy Johnson Neely, MD, MA
Medical Director, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Medical Ethics Program
Attending Physician, Palliative Medicine
Northwestern Medicine, Central Region
Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

ECMO: Clinical Innovation, Uncertainty and Ethics

The deployment of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is rapidly expanding; in its wake, there are extraordinary “saves” alongside ethical uneasiness. Some of the uneasiness is prompted by everyday intensive care medicine – for example, obtaining adequate consent in the context of time-constrained emergencies; determining adequate duration of time-limited trials of a high-burden intervention; and establishing the locus of authority within a shared medical-decision making partnership. Some of the uneasiness relates to innovation with ECMO, the uncertainty of clinic outcomes for the ECMO-rescued patient, and circumstances in which ECMO patients finding themselves on a “bridge to nowhere.” This talk will describe the beginnings of ethical discourse about ECMO, in clinical literature and at NMH.

Feb
7
2019

Changing the Status Quo: Conflicts of Interests and Combatting Big Pharma’s Hold.... - Michael Oldani

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When: Thursday, February 7, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor - Searle room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Michael Oldani, PhD, MS
Director of Interprofessional Practice and Education
Associate Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration
School of Pharmacy, Concordia University Wisconsin

Changing the Status Quo: Conflicts of Interests and Combatting Big Pharma’s Hold on the Culture of Prescribing

This lecture focuses on how the pharmaceutical industry continues to use sales tactics and technologies developed in the 1990s to impact prescription writing. In particular, the Sunshine Act as well as kickback and fraud laws will be reviewed so current and future prescribers have a clear understanding of the risks involved for patients (and themselves) when choosing to have close ties with Big Pharma. The format will be case-based, didactic and interactive.

Feb
14
2019

Ether Day and The Discovery of Anesthesia in 1846 - Robert Dorfman

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When: Thursday, February 14, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor - Searle room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Robert G. Dorfman, MSc
Medical Student, 4th year
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Ether Day and The Discovery of Anesthesia in 1846

This talk will focus on the discovery of anesthesia and how that changed the practice of surgery and medicine altogether. Although anesthesia meant that surgical patients in effect became silenced, the discovery of anesthesia can ultimately be hailed as one of the greatest achievements in medical history, and has made safe surgery possible for patients.

 




Feb
21
2019

Illness in Film - A Montgomery Lecture with Robert Hirschtick

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When: Thursday, February 21, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor - Searle room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Robert Hirschtick, MD
General Internist, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Faculty member, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Illness in Film
This talk will explore language in medicine and the use of disease in film for dramatic purposes.

 

Mar
7
2019

Lethal Injection in the United States - Jenna K. Nikolaides

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When: Thursday, March 7, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor - Searle room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Jenna K. Nikolaides, MD, MA, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry
Rush University Medical Center

Lethal Injection in the United States

This talk will examine a brief history of lethal injection as a means of capital punishment in the United States. The injection of pharmaceutical agents to cause death was originally brought up as a possible mode of execution in the US as far back as the 1880s, but wasn’t embraced as a practice until the 1970s due to social and political forces. Despite the principles articulated in physician oaths, and the objections of medical professional associations, physicians have been involved in the development of pharmaceutical protocols and, in some cases, even the administration of lethal injection. A form of capital punishment that was once believed to be a humane alternative to previous methods of execution, lethal injection has been recently thrust into chaos due to foreign policies, the actions of pharmaceutical companies, legal objections, and a few high profiled “botched” executions, forcing states to change the agents used in lethal injection protocols or to stop the practice entirely. Very little medical research looking at the efficacy of the practice has been done, but a few attempts have been made by physicians seeking to evaluate what is pharmacologically occurring during executions. Hopefully, the talk will cause listeners to reflect on the current state of capital punishment in the United States.

Objectives:
1. To become familiar with the evolution of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment in the US and the role physicians have played in that evolution.
2. To review the pharmacological agents that have historically and are currently being used.
3. To understand the international, economic, policy and medical challenges to the practice.