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Covid-19: Ethical Issues in the Management of COVID-19

Webinar
Covid-19: Ethical Issues in the Management of COVID-19
Thursday, June 25, 2020  | 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Program Fee:
This program is free
Register through the Network for Public Health Law 

Description:
Speakers in this program will address thorny ethical issues that have arisen in the context of scare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges presented by the absence of uniform statewide ethics guidelines. The 2015 Ventilator Guidelines of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law will be addressed, and the various contested grounds for making triage decisions including age, disabilities and long-term survival. Immunities for providers and triage committee members will also be discussed, and the limits of such immunities.

Speakers:
Alan Brudner, Esq., Chair, New York City Bar Association Bioethical Issues Committee, Partner, Litigation and Investigations, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP; former Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LL.B., Professor Emerita the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center: Consultant for Ethics, NYC H+H; Faculty Affiliate, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone.
Joseph  J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P., The E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics & Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College; Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics & the Law, Yale Law Schoo.l
Brendan Parent, Esq., Moderator, NYSBA Health Law Section Ethical Issues Committee Chair;
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine.

Sponsoring Committees:
Bioethical Issues, Alan Jeffrey Brudner, Chair
Health Law, Brian T. McGovern, Chair
Immigration and Nationality Law, Victoria F. Neilson, Chair
Science and Law, Aileen Nielsen & Marta Delsignore, Co-Chair

Sponsoring Organizations:
The Network for Public Health Law
New York State Bar Association Health Law Section, Public Health Law Committee
University of Rochester Medical Center Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center (FLGEC)
Collaborative for Palliative Care

 


Where
New York City Bar Association 42 West 44th St New York, NY 10036 UNITED STATES

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