The following are presentations, mainly in bioethics, which I have prepared for local and statewide audiences since 1999, including Eastern Maine Medical Center, the University of Maine, and other community settings.
I consider community outreach a crucial component of my faculty position at a land grant university. I also think it is an important part of my ethics work at the largest hospital in central and northern Maine.
“What is the Good in Bioethics?”, 4th Annual Camden Philosophical Society conference, Camden, ME, 5/24/10.
“Ethical Issues in the Care of Breastfeeding Mothers”, Breastfeeding Through Life Challenges, Wells Conference Center, Orono, ME, 5/14/2010
“Ethical Issues in Advance Health Care Planning”, Clifford Eames Center, Bangor, Maine, 5/5/10.
“What Factors Delay Timely Provider/Patient End-of-Life Care Discussion?”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/5/10
“Waxing and Waning Decision Making Capacity”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/10/2010
“Medicine 2.0: The use of Social Networking Sites in the Hospital: Part 2″, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/15/10
“Medicine 2.0: The use of Social Networking Sites in the Hospital: Part 1″, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/15/09
“Ethical Issues in Hospice Volunteering”, Hospice of Eastern Maine, 10/10/09
“Cultural Diversity and Clinical Ethics: Focus on Native Americans in Maine”, with Pamella Hand, RN, MBA, Clinical Ethics in Maine Conference, Bangor, ME, 9/21/09
“Bioethics in Rural Settings”, Clinical Ethics in Maine Conference, Bangor, ME, 9/21/09
“Organ Donation and Brain Death”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/15/09
“Quick Tools for Addressing Ethical Dilemmas”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/21/09
“When Patients Make Bad Choices”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/12/09
“Ethics At The End of Life”, Hospice of Eastern Maine, 1/24/09
“The Limits of Surrogate Decision Making”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/12/09
“Firing a Patient”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/14/08
“Bioethics: History, and Current issues”, Rotary Club of Bangor, 10/10/08
“Futility and Social Justice”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/14/08.
“When an Adolescent Jehovah’s Witness Refuses to be Transfused”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/19/08.
“The Global Outsourcing of Medical Care” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/9/08.
“Ethics in Psychiatric Care”, Acadia Hospital, 11/ 28/07.
“The New Ethics Advisory Committee at EMMC: Structure, Function, Mission and Goals”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, November 14, 2007 and 11/29/07.
“Bioethics in a Rural Setting”, Clinical Ethics in Maine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, 10/11/07.
“Justice in Allocating Blood Products”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/12/07.
“Patient Survival vs. Meaningful Recovery”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/9/07.
“Drug samples: Medical, Ethical and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/14/07.
“Some Ethical Issues in the Assisted Living Setting”, Phillips-Strickland House, Bangor, ME, 2/22/07.
“Alternative/Complementary/Integrative Medicine: the Health Care Provider’s Responsibilities”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/10/07.
“Ethical of Addiction Research and Treatment”, Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, Bangor, ME, 1/5/07.
“Neuro-ethics: Current Issues”, Neurology Associates of Eastern Maine, Bangor, ME, 1/12/07.
“Bioethics for the Neurologist”, Neurology Associates of Eastern Maine, Bangor, ME, 12/3/06.
“The New AMA Code of Ethics: the End of Therapeutic Privilege?” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/8/06.
“Responding Ethically to the Difficult Patient: Medical, Ethical and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/13/06.
“The Ethics of Pandemic Preparedness”, Maine Center for Public Health, Portland, ME, 6/10/06.
“Pandemic Preparedness: Medical, Ethical and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/8/06.
“Informed Consent in Pediatric Care: Medical, Ethical and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/11/06.
“Trust, Method, and Moral Progress in Feminist Bioethics”, Invited Colloquium, Colby College, Waterville, ME, 11/17/05.
“The Composition, Roles and Functions of Hospital Ethics Committees: A Cross-Institutional Analysis,” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/10/05.
“Genetic Enhancement: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/14/05.
“Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project”, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, University of Maine, 10/3/05.
Keynote address, “Enhancing Ethical Reflection: Concepts of Health for the Geriatric Patient”, Aging in Maine: Cultural and Practical Implications, 15th Annual Rural Geriatric Conference, Bar Harbor, ME, 6/2/05.
“New Tools for Enhancing Ethical Reflection”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/11/05.
“Staying Sane in a Faculty Position”, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maine, 4/19/05.
“Bioethics in the Classroom, at the Bedside”, Health Professions Club, University of Maine, 4/14/05.
“Patient Responsibilities and Physician Rights: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/12/05.
“‘Why did you love drugs more than me?’: Dis/Trust Among Imprisoned Mothers, their Children, and the State”, Women in the Curriculum Luncheon Series, University of Maine 12/7/04.
“Neurological Enhancement: Medical and Ethical Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/10/04.
“Ethics and Good Business,” College of Business, Public Policy and Health, University of Maine, 10/5/04.
“Voluntary Stopping of Nutrition and Hydration,” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/8/04.
“Medical Ethics and End of Life Care: Interpreting Pope John Paul II’s recent remarks on life-sustaining treatment and the vegetative state”, address to On-Call Clergy, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/27/04.
“Should Primary Care Physicians Seek Advance Directive for Healthy Patients?” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/12/04.
“Germline Gene Therapy: Society vs. the Individual”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/9/04.
“Partial DNR Orders: Medical, Ethical and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/14/04.
“The Ethics of Treating Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury”, The Rehab Center at Brewer, Brewer, ME 1/6/04.
“Pharmacological Paralysis and Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: Ethical and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center,11/12/03.
“When the Physician Questions Patient Drug Abuse or Diversion: Legal and Ethical Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/10/03.
“Health Care: Is it a Right or a Privilege?” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/14/03.
“Are We Medical Care Providers or Are We Forensic Investigators?”, 9th Annual Child Welfare Conference, Bangor Civic Center, 4/30/03.
“Kant and Neo-Kantians on Trust in Moral Theory”, Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Maine, 2/20/03.
“DNR Status and Aggressive Care: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/8/03.
“Nonheartbeating Organ Donation: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Concerns”,
Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/13/02.
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Feminist Ethics”, Women in the Curriculum Lecture Series, University of Maine, 11/12/02.
“When is ‘Dead’?: The Ethics and Politics of Declaring Death in the U.S.” Marxist-Socialist Luncheon Series, University of Maine, 10/3/02.
“The Line Between Palliative Sedation and Euthanasia: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/5/02.
“The Ethics of Rationing Health Care: Is it Time for the Single Payer System?” Eastern Maine Medical Center, 5/8/02.
“Decision Making Capacity: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 3/13/02.
“Brain Death Criteria: Medical, Legal and Ethical Concerns”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 1/9/02.
“Stem Cells: Research and Ethics”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 11/14/01.
“The Impact of Islam upon Truth Telling in a Western Society”, Eastern Maine Medical Center, 9/19/01.
“Trust and Feminist Theory”, Northeast Florida Gender Studies Consortium, 10/12/99.
“The Legal and Moral Significance of Proposed Changes to Florida’s End-of-Life Statutes”, Baptist/St. Vincent’s Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, 3/10/99.
