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Mayo Clinic MCE: Geriatric Ethics

By Elder Law Prof Blog
January 11, 2006

The Mayo Clinic will hold a three-day MCE program on geriatric ethics Feb. 8-10.  Here’s a sample of the programs, from just the first day:

7:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. Welcome/Introduction to Audience Response System
Course Directors
8:30 a.m. The Challenges of Aging: The Context of Geriatric Ethics
Paul S. Mueller,M.D.
9:15 a.m. The Challenge of Disposable Elders: The Devaluing of Wisdom
in Contemporary American Culture
C. Christopher Hook, M.D.
10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:30 a.m. The Challenge of an Aging Population: Justice in Geriatric Ethics
Kevin C. Fleming, M.D.
Noon Refreshment Break/Box Lunch
12:30 p.m. The Challenge of Preserving Autonomy When Facing Death:
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Robert D. Orr,M.D.
1:30 p.m. The Challenge of Feeding and Caring: Ethical Dilemmas Related
to Artificial Hydration and Nutrition and Other Life-Sustaining
Treatments
Michael P. Bannon, M.D.
3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break
3:30 p.m. The Challenge of Helping and Not Harming: The Rule of Double
Effect Palliative Care
Dan Sulmasy,M.D.
8:15 a.m. Welcome/Introduction to Audience Response System
Course Directors
8:30 a.m. The Challenges of Aging: The Context of Geriatric Ethics
Paul S. Mueller,M.D.
9:15 a.m. The Challenge of Disposable Elders: The Devaluing of Wisdom
in Contemporary American Culture
C. Christopher Hook, M.D.
10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:30 a.m. The Challenge of an Aging Population: Justice in Geriatric Ethics
Kevin C. Fleming, M.D.
Noon Refreshment Break/Box Lunch
12:30 p.m. The Challenge of Preserving Autonomy When Facing Death:
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Robert D. Orr,M.D.
1:30 p.m. The Challenge of Feeding and Caring: Ethical Dilemmas Related
to Artificial Hydration and Nutrition and Other Life-Sustaining
Treatments
Michael P. Bannon, M.D.
3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break
3:30 p.m. The Challenge of Helping and Not Harming: The Rule of Double
Effect Palliative Care
Dan Sulmasy,M.D.

Details and registration information are available at http://www.mayo.edu/pmts/mc4000-mc4099/mc4077-01.pdf

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