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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4:30 p.m.
Adjourn

Saturday, July 28, 2011

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

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

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

11 a.m.
Presentations of Submitted Papers

12:30 p.m.
Concluding Comments and Adjourn