Faculty and Staff Speaking Engagements

Faculty and staff often give presentations at local, regional and national meetings. Below is list of upcoming and past speaking engagements.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Love, Justice, and Humility: Reflections on Bioethics

August 2, 2008 | Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH

Plenary Address, American Scientific Affiliation National Conference

Past Speaking Engagements

Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH

Making Medical Decisions on Behalf of Children

June 6, 2008

Leadership Excellence and Management Solutions for Neonatal, Obstetric, and Pediatric Nursing, Las Vegas, NV

Avoiding Subtle Violations of Patient Confidentiality

June 6, 2008

Leadership Excellence and Management Solutions for Neonatal, Obstetric, and Pediatric Nursing, Las Vegas, NV

The Ashley Case Revisited: Reflections on Ethics, Disability, and Medicine

May 9, 2008

Justus F Lehman Symposium Keynote Address, University of Washington

Children First?: Is there a social obligation to provide health care to all children?

May 5, 2008

Bioethics Interest Group, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting

Pillow Baby: Growth and Puberty Attenuation in Children with Profound Developmental Disability

May 4, 2008

Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Moderator of Joint Topic Symposium

Parental Refusals of Childhood Vaccinations

April 17, 2008

Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds, University of Pittsburgh

Ashley Revisited: Reflections on Bioethics

April 17, 2008

Medearis Lecture in Pediatrics/Grand Rounds, University of Pittsburgh

Ashley Revisited: Reflections on Bioethics

March 14, 2008

23rd Endowed Drummond Lecture, Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University

Love Justice & Humility: A Bioethicist Meets the Pillow Angel

January 18, 2008

The January Series of Calvin College; Grand Rapids, Michigan

Love Justice & Humility: A Bioethicist Meets the Pillow Angel

January 16, 2008

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Understanding Differences in Conflicts over Medical Care for Children

November 9, 2007

Milwaukee Children’s Hospital; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Ashley Case Revisited: Reflections on Health Care Decision-making for Children

November 8, 2007

Sixth Annual Paul S. Pierson MD Memorial Lecture in Bioethics

Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Immunizations: Issues Facing Pediatricians in 2008: Panel

October 30, 2007

American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition
San Francisco, CA

Immunizations: Issues Facing Pediatricians in 2008

October 30, 2007

Making Medical Decisions on Behalf of Children: Reflections on the Ashley Case

Gifts, Bribes, or Necessity: Managing Conflicts of Interest at the Organizational and Individual Level

October 29, 2007

American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition, San Francisco

Ashley Revisited: Is Growth Attenuation Ever Justified in a Profoundly Disabled Child?

October 19, 2007

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.

The Ashley Treatment: What Medical Care May Parents Demand for their Disabled Children?: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects.

August 31-September 2, 2007

Protestant Academy Arnoldshain, Frankfurt, Germany

Faculty

August 6-10, 2007

University of Washington Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics

Understanding Differences in Conflicts Surrounding Medical Care of Children

July 14, 2007

3rd Annual Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics Current Controversies Conference

Quality Craftsmanship: Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care

June 26, 2007

Rural Hospital Association Summer Workshop, Chelan, Washington

Children and Health Care Decisions: When Ethical and Legal Duties Lead to Legal Liability.

June 26, 2007

Washington State Hospital Association 31st Annual Rural Hospital Summer Workshop, Chelan

Understanding Differences in Conflicts over Medical Care

June 14, 2007

Course Planning Committee and Participant, Third Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Seattle, WA

Ethical and Policy Implications of Limiting Growth in Profoundly Disabled Children: A Conversation about the Children's Hospital Case

May 16, 2007

Conference planner and participant, UW Law School

Pediatric Research Ethics Consultation: Would This Research Be Approved at Your Institution?

May 6, 2007

Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Toronto

Medical Decision Making for Children: Parents, Providers, and the State

April 19, 2007

Washington State Foster Care Assessment Program, Seattle

Managing Bites & Stings in Children and Ethical Issues in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

April 17, 2007

Washington American College of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Eyes Wide Open: The Good Physician Meets the Pharmaceutical Industry

February 21, 2007

Pediatric Grand Rounds, University of Alabama — Birmingham

Enhancement Technologies in Pediatrics Medicine and Humanities Consultation

January 22, 2007

Texas A&M School of Medicine, College Station, Texas

Maureen C. Kelley, PhD

Freedom as Development: Rethinking the Human Rights Approach to Children

May 26, 2008

Bearing and Rearing Children: The Ethics of Procreation and Parenthood Conference presentation sponsored by the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Note room change: Metropolitan Park West Room 845

Rethinking Vulnerability in At-Risk Children in the Context of HIV/AIDS

June 1, 2007

University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia.

Rethinking Dual-Use: The Ethics of Biodefense Research

March 1, 2007

Presented jointly with Allen Buchanan, Conference on Bioethics and Biodefense, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University.

Freedom as Development

February 15, 2007

University of Maryland, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.

Moral Compromise

February 1, 2007

Department of Philosophy, SUNY-Albany.

Autonomy's Blindspots: Insights from Child Development and Global Health

January 30, 2007

Davidson College, Department of Philosophy.

Infant-feeding and HIV in Southern Africa: A multi-level ethical dilemma

January 22, 2007

Fletcher F, Ndeble P, and Kelley M, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. (Poster presentation.)

Douglas J. Opel, MD

Bioethics Quality of Care

April 23, 2008

UWMC Medical Ethics Brown Bag Lunch Series, Plaza Café Conference Rooms A and B, 11:30-12:30,

Ethical Dilemmas as Sentinel Events: A Case Study in Applying a Quality Improvement Technique to Ethics Consults

October 21, 2007

American Society of Bioethics and Humanities 9th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Truthfulness in the Physician-Patient Relationship

May 22, 2007

Pediatric Resident Noon Conference, University of Washington,

The Ethics of Quality Improvement: Provider Obligations and the Role of External Oversight

May 6, 2007

Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Toronto

Ethical Dilemmas Involving Hospitalized Foster Care Children: Can We Improve the Quality of Their Care?

April 30, 2007

Washington State Foster Care Assessment Program, Seattle

Ethical Dilemmas as Sentinel Events: What Ethics Committees Can Learn From the Quality Improvement Movement

April 25, 2007

Department of Pediatrics Fellows’ Research Day, University of Washington

Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD

When Parents Request Medical Care That Providers Resist: Ethics and Law in Futility Disputes (moderator)

May 5, 2008

Pediatric Academic Society Meeting, Honululu, HI

Genetic research will alter the ethical issues related to clinical genetic testing in children

May 1, 2008

Translating “ELSI”: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics Conference, Cleveland, Ohio

Growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities: Best Interests, Parental Decision-making, and Community Impact

April 10, 2008

4th year medical student course in Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine

Show Me the Money: Financial Considerations and Ethical Implications in Responding to Parental Requests for Medical Interventions in Children with Profound Disabilities

April 9, 2008

The David Green Memorial Lecture, Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah

Show Me the Money: Financial Considerations and Ethical Implications in Responding to Parental Requests for Medical Interventions in Children with Profound Disabilities

March 6, 2008

Pediatric Grand rounds, University of California at Davis

When Does No not Mean No?: Withdrawing Patients in Clinical Research

February 4, 2008

UWMC Medical Ethics Brown Bag Lunch Series, Plaza Café Conference Rooms A and B, 11:30-12:30,

Ethical Issues in Growth Attenuation: Conducting Analytical Ethics Scholarship

August 9, 2007

2nd Annual Research Staff Symposium, Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Show Me the Money: Financial Considerations in Responding to Parental Wishes

July 14, 2007

Navigating conflicts when parents and providers disagree about health care, 3rd Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics.

Navigating Conflicts When Parents and Providers Disagree About Medical Care

June 14, 2007

WAMI Visiting Professor Presentation, Yakima, Wash.

Disclosing Incidental Findings in Pediatrics

May 2, 2007

Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research: From Imaging to Genomics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Navigating Conflicts When Parents and Providers Disagree About Medical Care

April 10-11, 2007

WAMI Visiting Professor Presentation, Spokane, Wash.

Ethics Issues in Conducting Outcomes Research in Children

March 9, 2007

National Study of Costs and Outcomes in Trauma in Pediatrics Conference
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Washington, DC