CHSM Program Archive
	Friday, March 31, 2006
	Medicine In The Middle Polarized politics. Polarized religion. Health care ethics.
	Speakers:
	Mark Meaney, Ph.D. Director, Department of Health Care Ethics, Regis University View presentation View presentation          Mark Yarborough, Ph.D. Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Health Sciences Center View presentation View presentation
	When:
	Friday, March 31, 2006 Registration  7:15 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast and Networking  7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Program and Q&A with Speakers  8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
	Where:
	Summit Events Center just East of I-225 at the Southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Sable Blvd. Map and directions
	Medicine In The Middle Polarized politics. Polarized religion. Health care ethics.
	Once upon a time, health care ethics was the realm of the health care provider and a patient. When things got dicey, the patient’s family, a pastor and a bio-ethicist might be called, too. But, thanks in part to issues like the Terri Schiavo case and stem cell research, things have changed. Colorado, for one, now has laws about how to make end-of-life decisions. Religions have ideas about them, too. And providers and scientists often find themselves tugged between legal precedent, political pressures, religious guidelines and their own notions of what’s best for the patient as well as the community at large. Drs. Meaney and Yarborough will outline what religions have to say about it, and review the knotty moral issues and the state’s new role in making ethical medical care and research decisions.
	Mark E. Meaney, Ph.D. Dr. Meaney’s work has focused on both the clinical and organizational sides of health care ethics, particularly on Advance Care Planning, emerging medical technologies, organizational ethics and corporate compliance, morally managing medical mistakes, medical information privacy and human subjects research ethics. A long-time consultant, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institut fur Philosophie at Philipps Universitat in Marburg, Germany, has written numerous scholarly and popular articles, and authored two books, A Guide to Professional Development in Compliance and Capital as Organic Unity. With board and executive positions at five public and quasi-public professional organizations, he is currently director and associate professor of Regis University’s Department of Health Care Ethics.
	Mark Yarborough, Ph.D. Now director of The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Dr. Yarborough’s many scholarly publications address a wide range of bioethical issues. Among them: artificial feeding at the end of life, genetic counseling, human subjects research, insurance underwriting, and the role of profit in medicine. He has lectured on bioethics to numerous professional organizations and groups, served on several hospital ethics committees and medical genetics advisory committees, and has worked extensively in designing and implementing ethics curricula for health professionals and health professions students.