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U.VA. HOSTS CONFERENCE ON HEALTH CARE ETHICS

The University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics will offer a five-day course for medical professionals and administrators titled Developing Health Care Ethics Programs. The goal of the conference is to provide participants with tools to establish or expand a healthcare ethics program at their institution. Participants will choose to concentrate in organization, research or traditional clinical ethics.

The course will touch on today's most challenging issues in health care ethics through daily case analysis, group discussion, seminars and clinical rounds. Topics covered will include: end of life decision-making, informed consent, ethics in neonatal intensive care, patient confidentiality, issues in health care law and the practical aspects of managing an institutional ethics program.

Program faculty will examine issues from a number of perspectives. Speakers will include staff from U.Va. School of Medicine; Darden Graduate School of Business Administration; Department of Religious Studies; Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy; and the Center for Biomedical Ethics, as well as from ethics programs at other health care organizations.

The program will take place April 24-28, in the Jordan Hall Conference Center at U.Va. Health System. For more information, contact Ann Mills at the U.Va. Center for Biomedical Ethics at (804) 982-3978 or visit the Center's Web site at http://hsc.virginia.edu/bioethics/.

February 24, 2000