Moral Considerations in the Delivery of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Wisdom from Ethics for Practice

WAMDA cordially invites you to attend a lecture on Moral Considerations in the Delivery of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Wisdom from Ethics for Practice
With Peter A. DePergola II, PhDc, MTS!

5:30 Registration

6:00 Dinner begins

6:30 Presentation on Moral Considerations in the Delivery of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Wisdom from Ethics for Practice Q&A until 8pm

2CEU’s

Overview: The aim of this interactive presentation is to engage participants in personal and professional reflection around three primary areas:
1) The socio-moral significance and symbolic value of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (ANH)
2) The medico-moral aims of ANH
3) The best practices for working with patients/families who are deliberating about whether ANH is clinically and morally appropriate.

Prof. Peter A. DePergola II, PhDc, MTS, is Clinical Ethicist in Residence and Chair of the Ethics Consultation Service at Baystate Health (BH) (Springfield, MA, USA), where he consults with patients, families, and healthcare professionals as they navigate moral decisions surrounding life and death. He serves simultaneously as Chair of the Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment in Research and Scholarly Activities Committee (on behalf of the Institutional Review Board) at BH, and sits as an expert member on its Organ Donation and Allocation Committee. In July 2013, Peter became the first full-time bioethicist in the 130-plus year history of BH, where he has since developed innovative organizational policy related to public health pandemics, resource scarcity, and end-of-life care. Peter holds academic faculty appointments as Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics and Medical Humanities in the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the College of Our Lady of the Elms (Chicopee, MA, USA), and as Clinical Instructor in Biomedical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Tufts
University School of Medicine (Boston, MA, USA). He is a member of several professional and academic societies.

RSVP Contact: Nicole Knee at [email protected] or 413-794-8897

Cost: WAMDA Members: $20, non-members: $25. Students and interns: $10

Checks payable to WAMDA c/o Nicole Knee 195 Pleasant St. East Longmeadow, MA 01028