Felicia Cohn

Director of Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine

     

University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
Educational Affairs
Medical Education Building 802
Irvine, CA 92697-4089
Phone:  949-824-9158    Fax: 949-824-2485
Email: fcohn@uci.edu

EDUCATION
        
Ph.D. Religious Ethics (Bioethics), Religious Studies Department, University of Virginia, 1996.
Dissertation:  "Dialogue in Medicine:  Martin Buber and the Physician-Patient Relationship."

M.A. Religious Ethics (Bioethics) Univesity of Virginia Religious Studies Department, 1991.

B.A. American Government, with Distinction.  Philosophy Minor, University of Virginia, 1989.  Thesis:  "Student Activism at the University of Virginia."


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE—EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Director of Medical Ethics and Associate Adjunct Professor,             2001-
University of California-Irvine College of Medicine     

Program Officer, Board on Children, Youth and Families                1999-2001
Institute of Medicine/National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing        2000-

Adjunct Professor,  The George Washington University Medical Center        1999-
•    Teach bioethics courses 
•    Serve on the hospital’s Ethics Committee

Senior Scientist, Director of the Program in Bioethics,                 1996-1999   
Assistant Research Professor,     
The George Washington University Medical Center, Center to Improve Care of the Dying and Department of Health Care Sciences
                                   
    Instructor, University of Virginia                            1998-1999
    Clinical Ethics Masters Program, Northern Virginia Extension Center. 
                                                       
    Instructor, University of Richmond Religion Department                1993
    REL 265:  "Religion and Moral Decisions." 
                                               
    Graduate Instructor, University of Virginia Religious Studies Department    1992
    RELG 265:  "Theology, Ethics, and Medicine."   
   
    Teaching Assistant,                                      1989-1995
    University of Virginia Religious Studies Department and Medical School
•    GSAS 515:  "Basic Clinical Ethics"
•    RELG 265:  "Theology, Ethics and Medicine"
•    RELG 230:  "Religious Ethics and Moral Problems"
•    REL 578:  "Theodicy, Ethics and Genetics"
•    REL 401: "Moral Choice in Public Policy"
•    REL 171:  "Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas" 
   
    Research Assistant, University of Virginia                        1991-1997

    Head Resident, University of Virginia Residence Life Office            1990-1996
         
                                                
    CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
   
    Ethics Committee Member,                                2001-
    The University of California, Irvine Medical Center
   
    Ethics Committee Member,                             1996-2001
    The George Washington University Medical Center
   
    Ethics Consultation Service Consultant,                         1990-1993
    University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
   
    Clinical Intern,                                     1990
    Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
   
    CONSULTATION ACTIVITIES
   
    Family Violence Prevention Fund                                    2002-
   
    US Department of Defense                                                  2002
   
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention                    2000

Volunteers of America                                                             1998-2001

American Academy of Physician Assistants                    1997-2000
   
    Patient Self Determination/Advanced Directives Advisory Study Group,     1995-1997

    Maryland Juvenile Justice Advisory Commission                1985


EDITORSHIPS/JOURNALS SERVICE

Journal of Continuting Education in the Health Professions, Consulting Editor   2001-

    American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Columnist              1999-
   
    Religious Studies Review, Area Networker for Bioethics                  1997-1999
   
    BioLaw Reporter, Editorial Assistant                          1989-1996

NATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

    American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
        Program Committee                                  2002-
        Founder/Co-Chair, Religion, Spirituality, and Bioethics Affinity Group 1999-

National Institutes of Health,
    OAT Data and Safety Monitoring Board                          1999-
    STICH Data and Safety Monitoring Board                      2001-   
   
    DC Health Policy Council Member-at Large                       1998-2001
   
    Society for Health and Human Values
        Student Interest Group Member-at-Large                    1995-1996
    Program Committee                                                                1997
   
    ACADEMIC HONORS
•    Academy of Medicine of the District of Columbia, 2000-present
•    Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Outcomes, and Human Values, George Washington University, 1997-present
•    Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 1997-present
•    Who’s Who Among Professional Women (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
•    Academic Enhancement Program Fellowship of UVA (1995-1996)
•    Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Finalist (1995)
•    Dupont Fellowship, University of Virginia (1994-1995)    
•    Davidson National Foundation Distinguished Scholar (1985-1987)
•    GEICO Scholarship (1987-1989)
•    Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society
•    Golden Key National Honor Society
•    Raven Society, University of Virginia
•    Raven Award for Excellence in Service and Contribution to the University of Virginia, 1996
•    Melissa Holland Award for Contribution to the Residence Life Program, UVa, 1996
•    Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society


PUBLICATIONS


JOURNALS--Peer Reviewed:

Felicia Cohn, He Died of Gallstones, Hastings Center Report 33:1 (Jan.-Feb. 2003) 14-16.

Felicia Cohn, Desiree Lie, Mediating the Gap between the White Coat Ceremony and the Ethics and Professionalism Curriculum, Academic Medicine 77  (November 2002) 1168.

Desiree Lie, Felicia Cohn, Lloyd Rucker, Using Literature as the Framework for a New Course: From Art to Science: Can the Spirit Catch you too?  Academic Medicine, 77 (November 2002) 1170.

Felicia Cohn, Existential Medicine:  Martin Buber and Physician-Patient Relationships, The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 21:3 (Summer 2001) 170-181.

Richard D. Krugman, Felicia Cohn, Time to End Health Professional Neglect of Cycle of Violence, Lancet, 358 9280 (August 11, 2001) 434.

Joanne Lynn, Kier Olsen DeVries, Hal R. Arkes, Marguerite Stevens, Felicia Cohn, Pat Murphy, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Mary Beth Hamel, Neal V. Dawson, Joel Tsevat, “Ineffectiveness of the SUPPORT Intervention:  Review of the Explanations,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 48:5 (May 2000) S214-S221.

Joanne Lynn, Hal R. Arkes, Marguerite Stevens, Felicia Cohn, Barbara Koenig, Ellen Fox, Neal V. Dawson, Russell S. Phillips, Mary Beth Hamel, Joel Tsevat, “Rethinking Fundamental Assumptions:  SUPPORT’s Implications for Future Reform,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 48:5 (May 2000) S206-S213.

Olle Jane Z. Saler, Gerri Frager, Marcia Levetown, Felicia Cohn, Michael Lipson,  for the  National Consensus Conference on Medical Education for Care near the End of Life, “Incorporating Palliative Care into Pediatric Education: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities,” Pediatrics 105:3 (March 2000) 575-584.

Felicia Cohn, “The Ethics of End-of-Life Care for Prison Inmates,” Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27:3 (Fall 1999) 252-259.

Anne Wilkinson, Joanne Lynn, Felicia Cohn, “Capitated, Risk-Bearing Managed Care Systems Could Improve End of Life Care,”  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 46 (March 1998), 322-330.   

Anne Wilkinson, Joanne Lynn, Felicia Cohn, Stanley B. Jones, “End of Life in Managed Care:  Achieving Excellence Through MediCaring,” Managed Care: Making It Work for Older People; Conference Proceedings, Gerontological Society of America and National Academy on an Aging Society, 40-55.

Joanne Lynn, Frank Harrell, Jr., Felicia Cohn, Doug Wagner, Alfred F. Connors, Jr.,  “Prognoses of Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients on the Days before Death:  Implications for Patient Care and Public Policy” New Horizons 5 (February 1997) 56-61.

Joanne Lynn, Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Felicia Cohn, Mary Beth Hamel, Neal Dawson, Albert Wu, “Defining the “Terminally Ill”:  Insights from SUPPORT, Dusquesne Law Review 35 (Fall 1996), 311-336.

Joanne Lynn, Felicia Cohn, Joel Smith, Brief of the American Geriatrics Society as Amicus Curiae in Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 45 (April 1997), 489-499.
               

JOURNALS -- INVITED PAPERS

Felicia Cohn and Alberto Manetta, A Teachable Moment:  Research Ethics Revisited, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 188:1 (January 2003) 2.

Felicia Cohn, Patenting Life: A View from the Constitution and Beyond, Whittier Law Review, 24:2 (Winter 2002) 397-405.

Felicia Cohn, “Valuing Evaluation,” Federal Probation (September 2002) 10-13.

Felicia Cohn, “Re-inventing Anatomy:  The Impact of Plastination On How We See the Human Body,” (letter to the editor) Clinical Anatomy 15:6 (2002) 443-444.

Margaret Ratcliff and Felicia Cohn, “Hospice with GRACE:  Reforming Care for Terminally Ill Inmates,” Corrections Today (February 2000) 64-67.

Susie Q. Lew, Felicia Cohn, Lewis M. Cohen, and Paul L. Kimmel, “Ethical Issues in Aging and Renal Disease,” Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy 7:1 (January 2000) 63-69.

Felicia Cohn, “Physician-Assisted Suicide:  Rethinking the Role of the Psychiatrist,”Primary Psychiatry (September 1999) 78, 89-90.

Felicia Cohn, “Rehabilitation and End-of-Life Care,”  Ethics Roundtable, ASHA (Fall 1998) 64.

Felicia Cohn, Kurtis Elward, “A National Survey  on Ethics Education in Family Medicine Residency Programs,” The Maryland Family Doctor, (Fall 1997) 13-14.

Felicia Cohn, Joan Harrold, Joanne Lynn, “Improving End-of-Life Care as a Matter for Medical Education” Chronicle for Higher Education XLIII (May 30, 1997) A56.

Felicia Cohn, “Physician-Assisted Suicide:  A Better Prescription,” HMSBeagle 7 (May 2, 1997), http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1997/07/people/op_ed.htm.

"Mapping the Human Genome and Charting the Course of Ethics," BioLaw: A Legal and Ethical Reporter on Medicine, Health Care, and Bioengineering, (December 1991), S:675-680.

"Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening Debate: Ethical Issues,"  BioLaw: A Legal and Ethical Reporter on Medicine, Health Care, and Bioengineering, (July 1990), U:1740-1745.


BOOKS:

Felicia Cohn, Marla E. Salmon, John D. Stobo, Confronting Chronic Neglect:  The Education and Training of Health Professionals on Family Violence (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001).

Center to Improve Care of they Dying (contributing author), The Sourcebook on Dying (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Center to Improve Care of the Dying (contributing author and editor) The Handbook for Mortals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Felicia Cohn, Janet Forlini, Joanne Lynn, Wendy Fox-Grage, Marla Rothouse, Dick Merritt, State Initiatives in End-0f-Life Care:  Policy Guide for State Legislators, Washington, DC:  National Conference of State Legislators, 1998.

Felicia Cohn, Janet Forlini, Joanne Lynn, The Advocates’ Guide to Better End-of-Life Care:  Physician-Assisted Suicide and Other Important Issues, Washington, DC:  Americans for Better Care of the Dying, 1997.


CHAPTERS:

Felicia Cohn, Chapter 4:  Introduction to Bioethics, The Handbook for Adult Primary Care Practitioner, Pam Meredith, ed., Philadelphia, PA:  Harcourt Health, forthcoming.

Felicia Cohn and Joanne Lynn, Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Legalizing PAS, in Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin, The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, (Baltimore, MD:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) 238-260.

Felicia Cohn, Joanne Lynn, “A Duty to Care,”in John Hardwig, A Duty to Die, (New York: Routledge Press, 2000) 145-154.


BOOK REVIEWS:

Felicia Cohn, Review of Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel P. Salmasy, eds., Methods in Medical Ethics (Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2001) in Religious Studies Review (forthcoming 2003).

Felicia Cohn, Review of M.L. Tina Stevens, Bioethics in America:  Origins and Cultural Politics (Baltimore, MD:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) in Religious Studies Review 29:2 (April, 2003).

Felicia Cohn, Review of John Lantos, The Lazarus Case:  Life and Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) in Religious Studies Review 29:2 (April, 2003).

Aaron Mackler , Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics (The Louis Finklestein Institute:  2000), American Journal of Bioethics 1:3 (Summer 2001) 67-68.

Committee on Medical Ethics, Episcopal Diocese of Washington,  Toward a Good Christian Death:  Crucial Treatment Choices (Harrisburg, PA:  Morehouse Publishing, 1999) Religious Studies Review 27:2 (April 2001) 157.

Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers, eds., Physician-Assisted Suicide:  Expanding the Debate (New York:  Routledge, 1998) Jounal of Health Politics, Policy and Law  25:2 (April 2000) 380-392.

Kay Toombs, David Barnard, Ron Carson, Chronic Illness:  From Experience to Policy (Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press, 1995)  Religious Studies Review 24:4 (October 1998) 398.

Robert Weir, ed., Physician-Assisted Suicide (Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press, 1997) Religious Studies Review 24:4 (October 1998) 398.

Martin A. Strosberg and Daniel Teres, Gatekeeping in the Intensive Care Unit (Chicago, IL:  Health Administration Press)  The Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging, 4(1) (Spring/Summer 1998) 39-40.

Alastair Campbell, Health as Liberation:  Medicine, Theology, and the Quest for Justice (Cleveland, OH:  The Pilgram Press, 1995)  Religious Studies Review, July 1997.

Howard Brody, The Healer's Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992) BioLaw: A Legal and Ethical Reporter on Medicine, Health Care, and Bioengineering,  (December 1992), U:2548.


POSTERS:

Felicia Cohn, “Integration Ethics Education:  A Process Approach, Western Group on Educational Affairs,” March 2003.

J Lynn, Z Zhong, MA Bailey, N Christakis, R Califf, ME Hamel, M Chin, R Kheirbek, A Galanos, N Desbiens, F Cohn, J Teno for the SUPPORT Investigators, Abstract:  “Effect of National Hospice Organization Guidelines on Hospice Eligibility and Survival in Congestive Heart Failure,” SGIM, April 1998.

Christina Pulchalski and Felicia Cohn, “Living with Dying:  A Course for George Washington University Medical Students,”  National Institute for Health Care Research, “Spirituality, Cross-Cultural Issues, and End of Life Care:  Curricular Development, March 1998, and American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting 1997.   

Kurt Elward and Felicia Cohn “Prevalence of Advance Directives and Living Wills in Medicare Beneficiaries, and Characteristics of the Implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act:  Opportunities for Improvment,” Society for Health and Human Values/Society for Bioethics Consultation Joint Conference, October 1996.


PEER REVIEW

Journal of Clinical Ethics 
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Lancet
MIT Press
New England Journal of Medicine 
Oxford University Press


PRESENTATIONS   

The Ethics of Keeping it Safe, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, July 2003.

End-of-life Care: Ethical Issues, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, CA, May 2003.

From Advance Directives to Advance Care Planning, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, CA, May 2003.

Ethical Implications of Genetic Technology, University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology, Irvine, CA, April 2003.

Broken Bones and Broken Homes:  Family Violence and Patient Safety, National Healthcare Standards Campaign, Family Violence Prevention Fund, San Francisco, CA, April 2003. 

When Personal Values and Professional Obligations Conflict:  Dilemmas Experienced by Medical Students, Western Group on Educational Affairs, Reno, NV, March 2003. 

Complementary and Alternative Medicine:  Ethics and Informed Consent, 4th Tamkin Symposium: Integrative Medicine: The Science and Art of Healing Relationships, Irvine, CA, November, 2002.

Violence in the Home and the Heart:  What Bioethicists Need to Know about Family Violence, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, MD, October 2002.

Spirituality and Medical Education, Religion Spirituality and Bioethics Affinity Group,
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, MD October 2002.

“He Almost Died of Gallstones:  The Ethics of Medical Error,” SAFER California Healthcare 1st Annual Patient Safety Summit, Irvine, CA September 2002.

“The Ethics of Patient Safety,” SAFER California Healthcare 1st Annual Patient Safety Summit, Irvine, CA September 2002.

“Making Ethics Useful in Clinical Practice,” University of California, Irvine Medical Center Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology Grand Rounds, Irvine, CA, July 2002.

“End-of-Life Care and Advance Directives,” Adult Forum, St. Marks Presbyterian Church, Irvine, CA, May 2002.

“Strengthening Professional Health Education on Domestic Violence:  Strategies and Opportunities for Collaboration,”   National Health Care Standards Campaign, Family Violence Prevention Fund, Clearwater, FL, May 2002.

“Real Life Stranger than Fiction, Or Is It?”  Engineering Food, Engineering People:  Ethics and the Biotech Revolution, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, April 2002.

“Confronting Chronic Neglect:  The Institute of Medicine on Health Professionals and Family Violence, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, April 2002.

“Patenting Life:  A View from Beyond the Constitution,” Whittier Law School’s 21st Annual Health Law Symposium:  Human Genetics:  Legal, Medical, and Ethical Perspectives, Costa Mesa, CA, April 2002.

“Anatomy of Anatomy,” University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, January 2002.

“Confronting Chronic Neglect,” University of California, Irvine Medical Center Department of  Medicine Grand Rounds, Irvine, CA, October 2001.

“A Case of Chronic Neglect:  The Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence,”  2001, abstracts accepted (presentations by members of the Institue of Medicine’s Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence):  
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Public Health  Association
American Psychological Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
6th International Family Violence Conference.

“Bioethics and Advance Care Planning,”  Palliative Care Symposium, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, September 2000.

“Physician-Assisted Suicide:  A Debate” (with Faye Girsh, Executive Director, Hemlock Society), University of Southern Connecticut, October 1999;Kansas State University, October 2000; Temple University, November 2000; Rutgers University, January 2001;  Nassau Community College, March 2001.

“End-of-Life Care:  The Ethical Perspective,”  End-of-Life Care:  A Program for Change, Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, PA, September 1999.

“Supervision, Service and Release: Exploring Best Practices for Elderly Inmates (panel),” Elderly Inmates:  Issues and Solutions, The Heritage Foundation and National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, Washington, DC, April 1999.

“Raising the Issues of Care for the Aging Population,” Has Death Become and Option?, Fort Wayne Medical Education Program and Tri-State Ethics Consortium, Fort Wayne, IN, April 1999.

“Bioethics and Professional Code Development,” SHAV’s 41st Annual Conference, Speech, Language, and Hearing Association of Virginia,  Williamsburg, VA March, 1999.

“Care at the End of Life: Ethical Issues,” 43rd Annual Northern Virginia Nurses Institute, Oncology Nursing Society and George Mason University Department of Nursing, Fairfax, VA, March 1999.

“Martin Buber’s Communitarian Spirit,” 1999 Communitarian Summit, Communitarian Network, Crystal City, VA, February 1999.

“Law of Life and the Role of Medicine,” Cosmos Club, Washington, DC, February 1999.

“Ethical Issues for Aging America,” Keynote Address, 1st Annual Medical Surgical Nursing Symposium:  Aging America…Are We Ready?, Frederick Memorial Healthcare System and Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD, December 1998.   
       
“Why Bother?  The Ethics of End-of-Life Care for Prison Inmates,”  First National Conference on Death and Dying in Prisons and Jails, The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and The Project on Death in America, projects of The Open Society Institute, New York, NY, November 1998.*
           
“What You Should Know,”  Memorial Society of Virginia, Arlington, VA, October 1998. 

“Bioethics:  Understanding Care at the End of Life,”  “Facing Fears”  St. Francis Center 1998 Illness, Loss, and Grief Conference, Washington, DC, October 1998.

“Medical Education on End-of-Life Care:  New and Ongoing Initiatives,” Institute for Health Care Improvement Collaborative on End-of-Life Care World Congress, St. Louis, MO, July 1998.

“Improving Care of the Dying:  The Mission and Goals of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying,” Health Transformation Team of the District of Columbia Health Policy Council, Washington, DC, June 1998.

“Confronting the Seven Deadly Myths:  Improving End-of-life Care,”  The Hermitage Retirement Community, Richmond,VA, May 1998.
       
“Non-Heartbeating Organ Donation:  Preparation Prior to Family Consent,” NewsNight Maryland, Maryland Public Television, May 1998.

“Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation:  History and the Need for Standards,”  Metropolitan Washington Bioethics Network, May 1998.
           
“Innovative Interventions at the End of Life,”  The Ethics Committe of Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA, April 1998

“Improving End-of-Life Care,” Shore Memorial Hospital, Eastern Shore, VA, April 1998

“The Limits on Technology,” Panel Discussion, Close Up Foundation, Washington, DC, March 1998.

“Medical Practices Then and Now:  Roundtable Discussion,”  Moliere and the Medical Profession:  An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Rosslyn, VA, February 1998.

“End-of-Life Care:  Addressing Barriers,” Goodwin House, Falls Church, VA, February, 1998.   

“Opportunities to Improve Care of the Dying Patient,” and “How to Have an End-of-Life Discussion with Your Patient,”  Approaches to the Critically Ill Patient, St. Mary’s Hospital, Grand Junction, CO, January 1998.

“Dying to Learn:  Impact of Managed Care on End-of-life Decisions.” Winchester Medical Center, Winchester, VA, November 1997.

“End-of-life care: Present Status and Future Vision,”  Creativity and Aging:  Exploring Human Potential, The Gerontological Society of America, Cincinnati, OH, November, 1997.*

“Developing a New Code of Ethics,”  American Academy of Physician Assistants, Novermber 1997.

“Seizing the Agenda:  Improving End-of-Life Care,” The Hospice Team:  Building on a Tradition of Excellence, National Hospice Organization/National Council of Hospice Professionals/National Hospice Foundation, October 1997.*

“Physician-Assisted Suicide—Who Owns Your Right to Die?,”  Prince William Committee of 100, Manassas, VA, Sepember 1997. 

“What the Public Needs to Know About End-of-Life Care,”  The Lions Club of Rockville, Rockville, MD, July 1997.

“Breaking Bad News Regarding Diseases with Different Etiologies:  An Essential Component of Health Professions Education,” The Other 74%  Non-Cancer Life-Threatening Diseases and Their End-of-Life Care Components, The American Institute of Life-Threatening Illness and Loss (with the American Medical Association Medical Education Group and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons Department of Psychiatry), July 1997.*

“Physician-Assisted Death:  Progress or Peril?”  Quest for the Future, Arizona Association of Homes and Housing for the Aging, June 1997.

“Learning from the Numbers:  Bioethics and Physician-Assisted Suicide,”  Ninth Annual Bioethics Summer Retreat, June 1997.*

“Creating a Culture of Care for the Terminally Ill,” The Ethics of Supportive Care at the End of Life, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education Department of Biomedical Ethics, May 1997.

“Public Policy Plenary Session:  Physician-Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Care,”  Perspectives on Quality: Opportunities in Geriatric Health Care, American Geriatrics Society and American Federation for Aging Research Annual Meeting, May 1997.

Testimony on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society:  “Assisted Suicide:  Legal, Medical, Ethical and Social Issues” (in favor of the Physician-Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997, HR 1003), U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and Environment, March 6, 1997.

“Physician-Assisted Suicide:  Is There A Better Prescription?”, Bioethics Symposium, Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, March 1997.

“Disability and the Grace of God,”  The Big Event:  Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Spirit, National Presbyterian Church, February 1997.

“A Right to Die and Physician-Assisted Suicide,”  The National Coalition on Disability and Aging, Washington, D.C., January 1997.

“The Right to Die,” Undergraduate Student Legal Aid Office, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, November 1996.

“Introducing Martin Buber to Bioethics:  Existentialism and the Physician-Patient Relationship,”  Society for Health and Human Values/Society for Bioethics Consultation Joint Conference, Residency and Physician Interest Groups, October 1996.*

"Advance Directives:  An Ethical Perspective," Advance Directive Focus Study Group Meeting, Virginia Health Quality Center, Richmond, VA, November 1995.*

"Narrative Ethics Under Construction" Workshop Moderator, Society for Health and Human Values Annual Meeting, October 1995.

"Jewish Ethics in a Secular Society," Response to Rabbi Norman Solomon's "Jewish Ethics in the Context of Jewish-Christian Relations." Charlottesville, VA, April 1991.




RESEARCH SUPPORT

03-1083 Spiritus (PI)                             6/1/2003 – 5/31/2004
California HealthCare Foundation/California Endowment        $100,000
The Orange County Project:  Commitment to Integrated Health Care The goals of this planning grant are to identify the frequent and unfunded users of emergency healthcare services and develop an intervention strategy to address their healthcare needs for which an implementation grant will be sought.
Role:  Co-Investigator 15%

HS11512-02 (P20) Hilbourne (PI)                    9/30/01—9/29/04
AHRQ to University of California, Los Angeles for the University of California    $600,000
Developmental Center for Evaluation and Research in Patient Safety (DCERPS)
SAFER California Healthcare: The Strategic Alliance for Error Reduction
With this developmental center grant the University of California medical campuses will develop a Center for Evaluation and Research in Patient Safety Grant to conduct research, develop training programs for health care professionals, and provide public education on patient safety.   
Role:  Leadership Board Member

RO1 HS10251-O1A1  Schneiderman (PI)                2/01/02--8/31/03
AHRQ to University of California, San Diego           
Subcontract from UCSD Medical Center                 $83,706
Impact of Ethics Consultation in the Intensive Care Unit
This study examines the benefit of conducting ethics consultations in situations in which a patient's care raises ethical questions in the Medical Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Role:  Site PI

Contract 200-1999-00081 Institute of Medicine            09/01/99--05/31/02
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention               $836,000
Assessing the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence
In response to a Congressional mandate to study the training needs of health professionals in addressing family violence, the IOM established a committee of experts to study the existing training curricula and training needs.
Role: Study Director

RO1 1 H97 HA 00149-03 Ratcliff (PI)                09/30/99--09/30/03
HRSA SPNS to Volunteers of America                $1,188,000
Subcontract to Center to Improve Care of the Dying            $33,000
GRACE (Guiding Response Action for Corrections at End-of-Life) Project in Jails
This study will develop and demonstrate an intervention program for HIV+ jail inmates transitioning to prison, halfway houses, or out of the criminal justice system.
Role: Subcontract PI, Evaluation Coordinator, and Advisory Board Member.

Grant #038866 Ratcliff (PI)                        03/01/00--03/31/02
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Volunteers of America     $251,696
Subcontract to Center to Improve Care of the Dying            $11,000
GRACE—Guiding Responsive Action for Corrections at End-of-Life for Prison Inmates
This study developed standards for and implemented end-of-life care programs for prison inmates in three state prison settings.
Role:  Subcontract PI, Evaluation Coordinator, and Advisory Board Member

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
American Geriatrics Society
American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics
Hastings Center
International Association of Bioethics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics