Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues in Minnesota End-of-Life Care

I am pleased with the symposium that I organized today:  Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues in Minnesota End-of-Life Care.  



The 200 participants and I were lucky to have such expert, energetic, and delightful presenters on topics such as POLST, surrogate decisions, guardianship. the unbefriended, medical futility, and aid-in-dying.  Those presenters included:

• Bud Hammes, Ph.D., Director, Medical Humanities and Respecting Choices Gundersen Lutheran Health System; Chair, National POLST Paradigm Task Force; Vice President, International Society of Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care


• Edward Ratner, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota; Medical Director, Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice


• Marshall Kapp, JD, M.P.H., Florida State


• Stanley Terman, Ph.D., M.D., Medical and Executive Director, Caring Advocates


• Barbara Noah, JD, Western New England University


• Maxine Harrington, JD, Texas Wesleyan School of Law


• Adam Candeub, JD, Michigan State University College of Law


• Stanley Terman, Ph.D., M.D., Medical and Executive Director, Caring Advocates


• Honorable Jay Quam, JD, Presiding Judge, Hennepin County Probate/Mental Health Court


• Robert McLeod, JD, Partner, Lindquist & Vennum


• Andrea Palumbo, JD, Gores Law Office


• Anita Raymond, M.S.W., LISW, CMC, Volunteers of America of Minnesota


• Rebecca Volpe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Penn State College of Medicine; Director, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, Penn State Hershey Medical Center


• Victor Sandler, M.D., Medical Director, Fairview Home Care & Hospice; Co-Chair, Bioethics Committee, University of Minnesota Medical Center


• Kathleen Meyerle, JD, Legal Department, Mayo Clinic


• Suzy Scheller, JD, Scheller Legal Solutions LLC.


• Kathryn Tucker, JD, Director of Legal Affairs, Compassion & Choices; Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola Law School/Los Angeles