Risky Choices - Risky Behaviours
Providence Health Care Annual Ethics Conference
April 23, 2010 (9:00am - 4:30pm)

The Providence Health Care Annual Ethics Conference will take place from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (Registration & Breakfast start at 8:15 am) on Friday April 23rd at SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC.

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 will discuss:
• 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: (click on name to view full bio)

• Shafik Dharamsi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Lead Faculty, Community Liaison for Integrating Study & Services (CLISS), Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine,  and Associate Director, Center for International Health, University of British Columbia (UBC)

• Martha Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

• Anita Ho, PhD, Ethicist & Director, Ethics Services, PHC; Assistant Professor, Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC

• Annemarie Kaan, MCN, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Heart Failure & Heart Transplantation, Acute and Chronic Heart Failure Program, St. Paul’s Hospital, PHC

• David Unger, MD, CCFP(C), FCFP, Dip. Sports Medicine; Clinical Associate, Centre for Excellence for HIV/AIDs, St. Paul’s Hospital; Ethicist, PHC

• Colleen Varcoe, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia School of Nursing

Panel Members:

• Chris Bernard, MDiv, Professional Practice Leader, Chair, Site Coordinators, Pastoral Care Services, Providence Health Care (PHC)

• A. J. Burak, BSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Deputy Registrar, College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia

• Lori d’Agincourt-Canning, MSc, MA, PhD, Ethicist & Director, Clinical Ethics Service, BC Children’s and Women’s Health Centre

• Cheryl Jolliffe, MSW, RSW, Professional Practice Leader, Social Work, PHC

• Patricia Rodney, RN, MSN, PhD, Associate Professor & Undergraduate Program Coordinator, School of Nursing; Faculty Associate, Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC; President, Canadian Bioethics Society

• Suja Srikameswaran, PhD, R. Psych, Professional Practice Leader, Psychology, PHC; Clinical Associate Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, UBC

• J. Galt Wilson, MD, MSc, FCFP, Deputy Registrar (Clinical Performance), College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia

Fee is $100 - free for PHC staff/physicians.  Seating is limited.
CME Accreditation: 5.5 Mainpro-M1 and Section 1 Study Credits

Click here to download program and here to download registration form or contact June Monthatawil at 604-806-9952/fax at 604-806-9071, or email: jmonthatawil@providencehealth.bc.ca

The conference follows PHC's 4-day ethics seminar on April 19 - 22, 2010.

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PAST CONFERENCES:

Moral Courage: Living Your Values with Integrity
April 3, 2009 (8am - 3pm)
SFU at Harbour Centre

As health care providers we are committed to providing beneficial care and treating all with fairness, compassion, and respect. However, living these values is challenging in a world of scarce resources and competing interests. Moral courage is an acceptance of such a challenge. It signals a commitment to moral principles, and a willingness to stand firm on those principles.

Please join your colleagues and spend the day with the following three individuals, whose work exemplifies the commitment to do what is right in the face of difficult decisions.

Dr. Ruth Purtilo, Ph.D., FAPTA - Chair of Ethics Initiative, and Professor of Ethics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA; Marsh Professor at Large, University of Vermont, Burlington.

Dr. Julio S. G. Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP - Professor of Medicine, Chair in AIDS Research and Head of Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia; Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Providence Health Care; National Co-Director, Canadian HIV Trials Network; President, International AIDS Society (IAS).

Dr. Nuala Kenny, O.C., M.D., FRCPC - Professor, Departments of Bioethics & Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.