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The 7th Annual Conference on
Contemporary Catholic Healthcare Ethics

October 9-10, 2008
at

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, Illinois

 

 

This conference, co-sponsored by The Catholic Health Association of the United States, the Illinois Catholic Health Association, and the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine will bring together a diverse body of scholars including moral theologians and health care ethicists to discuss the social, anthropological, and methodological foundations of Catholic health care ethics, applied conceptual resources to current problems, and confronted moral challenges on the horizon for Catholic health care providers.

 

The conference consisted of two components:

 

  • Plenary sessions that explored pressing issues of wide-ranging issues in Catholic healthcare ethics, and;

  • small group sessions in which participants discussed creative strategies to address contemporary, clinical challenges in healthcare.

 

This program was intended for executive leaders, mission leaders, pastoral care staff, nurses, members of ethics committees, clinicians, sponsors, and others in the Catholic health ministry.

 

Objectives: 

After participating in this conference, persons should be able to:

 

  • Discuss the theological, social and legal foundations pertinent to Catholic healthcare ethics in our contemporary context.

  • Analyze the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services and interpret their meaning for ethical issues arising in healthcare.

  • Identify and describe clinical, social and global concerns pertinent to the delivery of Catholic healthcare in our contemporary context.

 

Featured Plenary Speakers:

 

Carol Taylor, RN, MSN, PhD

Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University

 

Reverend Bryan Massingale, STD

Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Marquette University

 

M. Therese Lysaught, PhD

Associate Professor, Theology, Marquette University

 

Reverend Tom Nairn, PhD, OFM

Erica and Harry John Family Professor of Catholic Ethics, Catholic Theological Union

 

Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD

Sr. Assoc. Dean, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 

Joseph R. Swedish, FACHE

President & CEO, Trinity Health

 

Conference Co-Directors:

 

John Hardt, PhD and Fr. Kevin O'Rourke, OP, JCD, STM
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 

Conference brochures and complete schedule will be mailed in July.  Send us an email to be added to our mailing list: rhiller@lumc.edu

 


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