Walter S. Davis, MD, Publications
Hamric AB, Davis WS, Childress MD. Moral Distress in Health Care Professionals; What is it and what can we do about it? The Pharos, pp. 17-23, Winter, 2006

Mills, AE, Tereskerz, P, Davis WS. Is Evaluating the Ethics Consultation on the Basis of Cost a Good Idea?. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Vol 14, No 1, Winter 2005.

Davis WS, Ross A. Making Wishes Known: The Role of Acquired Speech and Language Impairments in Clinical Ethics. Journal of Clinical Ethics. 14(3):164-72, 2003.

Davis WS. Ethical Conflicts in the Vocational Rehabilitation of Stroke Survivors. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation. 9(2): 57-60, Summer, 2002

Davis WS. Book Review: The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 24(4), 2002

Davis WS. Debating a gray matter: A case of assessing a patient for disability. Medical Crossfire. 4(7), 2002

Davis, WS, Moreno, JD. Decisional Capacity and Consent for Research in the Cognitively Impaired Older Adult. Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, 2002

Kahler DM, Davis WS. Ethics in Practice: Inability to Obtain Formal Informed Consent in the Face of a Standard Surgical Indication. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 83-A(1): 143-144, Jan 2001

Davis, WS. Disability and Bioethics: Removing Barriers to Understanding and Setting the Agenda for a New Conversation. American Journal of Bioethics. 2001

Davis, WS. 'A Bioethicist's Perspectives on Catastrophic Injury'. Catastrophic Injury Handbook. edited by KA Anchor. Nashville: American Board of Disability Analysts. 2001

Davis, WS. 'Dantrolene'. Clinical Evaluation and Management of Spasticity. DA Gelber and DR Jeffery, editors. Totowa,NJ: Humana Press Inc.(Humana Press, Inc.), 2001

Makhoul RG, Davis WS, Mikat EM, McCann RL, Hagen PO. Responsiveness of vein bypass grafts to stimulation with norepinephrine and 5-hydroxytryptamine. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 6(1): 32-8, Jul 1987

Makhoul RG, Davis WS, Mikat EM, Hagen P-O. Decreased sensitivity to norepinephrine in vein by-pass grafts. Current Surgery. 44(1): 46-48, 1987

Book Chapters
Davis WS, Fletcher JC. ‘The Decision to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment When the Patient Is Incapacitated'. Introduction to Clinical Ethics. Edited by JC Fletcher et al. University Publishing Group, 2005.

Davis WS, The Patient's Perspective in the ACGME Systems-Based Competency, in Mills AE, Chen DT, Werhane PH, Wynia MK (eds). Professionalism in Tomorrow's Healthcare System, pp. 227-239. University Publishing Group, Inc., Hagerstown, Maryland, 2005.

Davis WS, Moreno JD. Decisional Capacity and Consent for Research in the Cognitively Impaired Older Adult. Chapter 2. Ethics, Law and Aging Review. Vol. 8, Springer Publishing Company, 2002

Davis WS. A Bioethicist's Perspectives on Catastrophic Injury. Catastrophic Injury Handbook. edited by KA Anchor. Nashville: American Board of Disability Analysts. 2001

Davis WS. Dantrolene. Clinical Evaluation and Management of Spasticity. DA Gelber and DR Jeffery, editors. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press Inc.(Humana Press, Inc.), 2001

Presentations and Invited Lectures
Ethics in Disability and Rehab, presentation at PM&R Residency Program didactic lecture series, July 2006.

Decisional Capacity & Competence, presentation at PM&R Residency Program didactic lecture series, July 2006.

Keynote Speaker, Making the Tough Decisions in Healthcare Ethics, national bioethics conference, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, June, 2006.

Moral Distress, Medical Center Hour presentation, February 2006.

Clinical Assessment Tool for Decisional Capacity, learner assessment I created an  OSCE station and pilot-tested with 4th-year medical students as part of a larger clinical skills ssessment project.

Decisional Capacity, presentation at PM&R Residency program didactic lecture series, August 2005.

Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment, presentation at PM&R Residency program didactic lecture series, August 2005.

The Ethics of Impairment, Disability & Rehabilitation, presentation at PM&R Residency program didactic lecture series, August 2005.

The Ethics of Severe and Chronic Neurological Disability - Schiavo and Beyond, presentation for the PM&R Grand Rounds lecture series, to faculty, residents, medical students, UVa-HealthSouth Rehab Hospital therapy staff, and other healthcare professionals,  August, 2005.

Prescribing a Prosthesis: Who is a Candidate? - presentation at PM&R Residency program didactic lecture series, July 2005.

Cells to Society course, small-group leader, UVa School of Medicine, first-year medical students, January 2005.

Ethical Issues in Pediatrics Research, presentation for the PM&R Grand Rounds lecture series, to faculty, residents, medical students, UVa-HealthSouth Rehab Hospital therapy staff, and other healthcare professionals,  March, 2005.

Conversation in Ethics, presented at Fauquier Hospital to physicians, nurses, students, social workers and administrators. Invited by the Fauquier Hospital Bioethics Committee, November, 2005.

Futile Care: Decisions, Decisions, presentation and panel discussion at the Lewis-Gale Medical Center Bioethics Committee Continuing Medical Education, March, 2005.

The Americans with Disabilities Act, presentation for PM&R Grand Rounds, to faculty, residents, medical students, and UVa-HealthSouth Rehab Hospital therapists and other healthcare professionals, 8/23/2004.

Informed Consent, presentation at PM&R Residency Program didactic lecture series, August 2004.

Prescribing a Prosthesis: Who is a Candidate? - presentation at PM&R Residency Program didactic lecture series, July 2004.

Current Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research, presentation for Pediatrics Grand Rounds Lecture Series, February, to faculty, residents, fellows, therapists and other healthcare professionals, 2004.

Bioethics, presentation for PM&R Grand Rounds lecture series, January, 2004.

Law and Ethics of Human Research, assisted course instructor, Paul Lombardo, with preparation of course syllabus for this law school seminar presented at UVa law school,  September, 2003.

Prostate Cancer, Vulnerable Patients, and the Problem of Making Informed Decisions, presented with Kerry Kilbridge at Medical Center Hour, March 2003.

Informed Consent, presentation for Developing Healthcare Ethics Programs, March, 2003. This program is conducted yearly, and is now called Developing Skills in Healthcare Ethics programs, a CME course. I am now the Course Director, I create the curriculum, provide 2-3 large lecture presentations, organize break-out sections, obtain speakers.

Issues of Moral Distress in Doctors and Nurses, presented to the UVa Bioethics Society, undergraduates from all disciplines, October, 2003

Moral Distress and Fact Finding; A Case Report, presented at the Ethics in Healthcare Institutions conference at UVa, November 2002.

Conflicts of Interest, moderator for paper session, fifth annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 2002.

Current Trends in Clinical Ethics, presentation at Roanoke.

Functional Issues in Amputation, for University of Virginia Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Rounds  presentation, 3/15/01.

Power Relationships in Medicine, yearly lecture for the Practice of Medicine Course.

Ethical Issues in Being a Medical Student, yearly lecture for the Practice of Medicine Course.

Medicine and the Law, yearly lecture for Practice of Medicine Course II.

Ethics in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, presentation for PM&R Grand Rounds, to faculty, residents, medical students, and UVa-HealthSouth Rehab Hospital Therapists and other healthcare professionals, 11/15/2001.

Clinical Ethics, for UVA Health System Chaplain Residency Didactic Program, 5/21/01.

Issues in Clinical Ethics: Rehabilitation Medicine, for 'Developing Healthcare Ethics Programs' - 3/5/01-3/9/01, Charlottesville, VA

Comfort/Conflict/Compromise: The Spirituality of the Caregiver, with Ann Hamric and Richard Haines, for 'Spirituality in Healthcare: A Training Program for Professionals - 5/11/01, Charlottesville, VA

Functional Issues in Amputation, for Universityof Virginia Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Rounds - 3/15/01

Ethics of Biomedicine Research, for American College of Cardiology - Virginia Chapter, 12th Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, 4/27/01

Adding Insult to Injury?: Disability and Ethics in the Care of the Elderly Trauma Patient, for 'A Not-So-Kind-Or-Gentle World: Ethical Issues in Disability and Aging,' 6/29-30/01 Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Moral Distress: What It Is and What You Can Do About It, Workshop presentation with A.B. Hamric et al., 2001 American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN, October, 2001

Americans with Disabilities Act, presentation for PM&R Grand Rounds, to faculty, residents, medical students, and UVa-HealthSouth Rehab Hospital therapists and other healthcare professionals, 03/23/2000.

Restructuring a Course in Ethics and Professionalism in a Problem-Based, Technology-Enhanced Medical School Curriculum, presented at Eighth Annual Meeting, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, February, 1999.