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Friday, April 15, 2011 - PHC Annual Health Ethics Conference

Segal Graduate School of Business, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC

The conference follows PHC's 4-day Ethics Seminar on April 11-14

Details to follow

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Risky Choices - Risky Behaviours
Providence Health Care Annual Ethics Conference
April 23, 2010, SFU Harbour Centre

Risky situations that can cause moral distress:
• Eating/feeding despite aspiration risk
• Leaving the hospital against medical advice
• Consuming addictive substances and
• Refusing long-term care placement

In this interactive conference we discussed:
• Should health care providers "respect" patients' and residents' decisions to engage in risky behaviours?
• In the age of patient autonomy, should professionals advance patients' clinical interests against their wishes?
• Individual and social contributors to such "risky" behaviours?
• What are various barriers in promoting patient safety?

Speakers and Panel Members:

• Shafik Dharamsi, PhD; Martha Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC; Anita Ho, PhD; Annemarie Kaan, MCN, RN; David Unger, MD, CCFP(C), FCFP, Dip. Sports Medicine; Colleen Varcoe, PhD, RN; Chris Bernard, MDiv; A. J. Burak, BSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP; Lori d’Agincourt-Canning, MSc, MA, PhD; Cheryl Jolliffe, MSW, RSW; Patricia Rodney, RN, MSN, PhD; Suja Srikameswaran, PhD, R. Psych; J. Galt Wilson, MD, MSc, FCFP

CME Accreditation: 5.5 Mainpro-M1 and Section 1 Study Credits