The Cruzan Case 25 Years Later: Its Legacy & Its Future

The University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law is presenting its 24th Annual Medical Ethics Update: "The Cruzan Case 25 Years Later: Its Legacy & Its Future" on Friday, March 27, 2015.  



Keynote Address: 

• “When Doctors Can’t or Don’t Say No” - Barron Lerner, MD, PhD

Other Lectures and Panels:

• End-of-life decisionmaking


• Palliative care and communication at the end-of-life


• Breakthrough Drugs/Break the bank prices


• Addressing conflict with families at the end-of-life


• Legislation that interferes with the doctor-patient relationship


• When is futile care futile?


• Advance directives – problems and prospects


• Conflict resolution in health care


• End-of-life care in individuals with severe persistent mental illness


• HIPAA – collaboration between clinicians and law enforcement in threat management and crisis intervention

Online registration here.  More information here.