Ethics Consulting

I work with individuals and institutions in the following ways:

• Address an emergent ethical issue
• Help build a new, sustainable clinical ethics program
• Strategic planning in institutional ethics
• Reinvigorate an existing ethics program
• Train ethics committee members
• Basic or advanced ethics education
• Develop cross-institution ethics capacity
• Targeted education in specific issues:
  • Decision-making capacity
  • Surrogate decision-making
  • End of life
  • Goals of care
  • Team communication
  • Preventative ethics
  • Organ procurement
  • Informed consent
  • Maintaining boundaries
  • Professionalism
  • Moral resilience
  • Moral distress
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Ethics in scarce resource management
  • Maintaining confidentiality
  • Rural bioethics
  • Equity
  • Non-beneficial treatment

Qualifications and experience:

• Certified healthcare ethics consultant (HEC-C)
• PhD in philosophy (focus on ethics)
• 15+ years experience in clinical ethics consulting
• 15+ years experience teaching bioethics at university level
• Active research in bioethics and medical humanities

Contact me at jessicamillermaine@gmail.com with questions, or to schedule a free 25 minute Zoom exploratory session.