Community Medicine Seminar Series

"Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: An Ethical Perspective on Advanced Alzheimer's Disease and the Persistent Vegetative State"

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. †
Professor of Bioethics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 • 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Keller Auditorium (CG099)
University of Connecticut Health Center

For lunch, please RSVP by April 21, 2005 to Theo Ungewitter at 860.679.5495.

About the Speaker

Stephen G. Post, PhDStephen G. Post is Professor, Department of Bioethics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Becket Institute at St. Hugh's College, Oxford University. Post is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition (Macmillan Reference, 2004). He is President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, founded in 2001 with a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and devoted to high-level scientific research on unselfish love. Post received his Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School (1983), where he was an elected university fellow, a member of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, and a preceptor in the Pritzker School of Medicine. Post is the author of more than 150 articles in peer-review journals across the sciences, religion and ethics. His work on love spans three decades focusing on Cognitive Disabilities and Dementia, Family Caregivers and the Ethics of the Family, and Altruism and Compassionate Love in the Context of Scientific Research, Philosophy, Religion, Ethics, and the Professions. His research has been supported by 15 private foundations and several major government entities.

† - Dr. Post is a candidate for the Joseph M. Healey Endowed Chair in the Medical Humanities, Law & Bioethics

About the Educational Activity

Target Audience

Physicians and Other Health Professionals, Medical and Dental Students, Faculty

Objectives

At the end of this presentation, participants will:

  1. understand the emergence of PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) at the Rainbow Childrens’ Hospital, University of Hospitals of Cleveland;
  2. be able to describe the ethics of PEG use; and
  3. be knowledgeable about cases involving terminal Alzheimer’s and/or the “persistent vegetative state.”

Accreditation

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians accredits The University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 hours per session in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Conflict of Interest

All faculty participating in Continuing Medical Education activities sponsored by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of
their presentations. Dr. Stephen Post does not have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of his presentation, nor will the speaker address any unlabeled use for a drug in this presentation.

Sponsors

University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Continuing Education, Department of Community Medicine and supported in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.