Lantos, Brushwood Receive Pellegrino Medals at HEAL Conference
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Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics Bioethics Center Certificate Program
Children’s Mercy Hospital Bioethics Center is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics. The nine-month course will begin and ends with an intensive three-day weekend on site in Kansas City. For the rest of the year, students and faculty discuss assigned readings on-line and in periodic conference calls and webinars. The program is designed to help students understand common pediatric bioethical issues, including the role of ethics committees, practical techniques in ethics consultation, futility and moral distress, end-of-life decisions, pediatric palliative care, research ethics, biobanking and genetics, enhancement, issues in adolescent medicine, and immunization controversies. The focus is exclusively on pediatrics. A syllabus and application are available at www.childrensmercy.org/cmbc/. For additional questions, please contact Bioethics Center Director, John Lantos, MD – jlantos@cmh.edu.
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"A Saudi Family Making End-of-Life Decisions in the PICU"
Pediatrics Ethics Rounds
Sayeed S, Padela A, Naim MY, Lantos, JD.
Pediatrics, 2012 Apr;129(4):764-8. Epub 2012 Mar 5
"Pediatricians and Vaccine-Hesitant Parents: A Roundtable Discussion"
Featuring Chris Harrison, MD, Director, Infectious Disease Research Lab,
Children's Mercy Hospital, and John Lantos, MD, Director,
Children's Mercy Bioethics Center "How parents tell their kids WHY they are getting the HPV vaccine"
KCTV-5 interview with John Lantos, MD
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ABOUT OUR BIOETHICS CENTER We have developed some tools for clinicians and teachers to help analyze ethical issues that arise in pediatrics.
For each of the topic areas on the right, we offer a brief introduction to the ethical issues, a power point presentation to use in your teaching, interviews with leading figures in the field about those issues, and an annotated list of references.
We give links to full-text reference material that is in the public domain. For other reference material, we give links to the abstracts.
If you have an issue that you'd like us to address, or feedback on the materials we've developed, please contact us. All of the original materials can be used without permission. Please give us credit, though, and send colleagues our way.