7th Annual Human Dignity and Health Science Conference
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The Integritas Institute for Ethics, The John Paul II Newman Center and The Hektoen Institute for Medicine and benefactors of the Institute present
Medical Technology, Hope and Futility...Ethical Decisions and Care at the End of Life
At the University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago Room, Student Center West
828 S. Wolcott
Chicago, IL
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tentative Schedule
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Networking with a Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Welcoming remarks Reverend Patrick Marshall Executive Director of John Paul II Newman Center |
| Welcoming remarks Interim Chancellor Eric A. Gislason of University of Illinois at Chicago |
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| Conference Opening Comments Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I Archbishop of Chicagto |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Ethical Issues at the End of Life Reverend Tadeusz Pachloczyk, Ph.D. |
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Hospital Ethics Board Case Study Panel Moderator John Brehany, Ph.D. Lisa Anderson-Shaw, Ph.D., MA, MSN John Hardt, Ph.D. Kelly Michelson, MD Kathleen J. Neely |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. | Ethical Choices at the End of Life Kevin O'Rourke,OP, JCD |
| 11:40 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Ethical Care at the End of Life Eugene F. Diamond, MD |
| 12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch compliments of the Integritas Institute for Ethics |
| 12:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Topic over lunch - The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging Jay Olshansky, Ph.D.. |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Topic over lunch - The Ethics of Futility John Brehany, Ph.D, STL |
| 1:30 p.m.- 2:45 p.m. | Practitioner Case Study Panel- Care at the End of Life Mrak Grach Virginia L. Burton, Ph.D., RN Michael Preodor, MD, FACP Anthony J. Perry Jim Manzardo, STB |