Bioethics Interest Group Talk

Hosted by the NIH, “Nine Months Yet No Delivery in Sight: Doing Ethics on the Frontline of COVID 19” is presented virtually by Thomas Cunningham, Phd, MA, MS, on Monday, December 7^th from 2 to 3:30pm (CT). In this talk, Dr. Cunningham will describe his experiences as a clinical ethicist responding to the first wave of COVID-19 surges in my community and the second, current, phase of navigating prolonged disruption in the healthcare environment. He will focus on topics dear to medical ethics where he has personal experience: the ethics of care during surge; the messy business of developing and operationalizing ethically sufficient triage protocols; the effects of family clustering on surrogate decision making; compassionate approaches to hospital visitation during lockdown and subsequent phases of restricted liberties; and, anticipating the ethicists role in the future, with more rationing and less certainty on the horizon. Click HERE to access the Zoom link at the start time of the event.