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Organ Donation After Cardiac Death: Policies, Practices and Ethical Dilemmas in New York

Date: June 8, 2009 to June 8, 2009 
Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker(s): Kathleen E. Powderly, CNM, PhD; Elaine R. Berg, MPA, FACHE; Tia Powell, MD; Robert Truog, MD

Sponsored by: NYAM and the Metropolitan Ethics Network

Location: The New York Academy of Medicine

Speakers will discuss the issue of organ donation after cardiac death, a method of procuring organs from donors who meet the cardiopulmonary criteria for death rather than the traditional brain death approach. Included in the discussion, panelists will discuss the history of defining death as it relates to organ donation, the state and local need for organs for patients awaiting transplants, the approach to donation after cardiac death in New York State, and the ethical issues raised by this controversial practice.

Schedule of Events:
  • 4:00 PM&emdash;Welcome and Introductions
    Kathleen E. Powderly, CNM, PhD, Acting Director, Division of Humanities & Medicine SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Acting Director, Division of Humanities & Medicine,SUNY Downstate Medical Center
      "Historical Overview of Transplantation" including a discussion of the creation of the concept of brain death as a social construct to justify organ procurement and the transition to the inclusion of cardiac criteria.
  • 4:30 PM
    Elaine R. Berg, MPA, FACHE, President and CEO, New York Organ Donor Network
      "The National and State Need for Donation of Organs" including epidemiological data on the demand for organs, and the national and local incidence of donation after cardiac death.
  • 5:00 PM
    Tia Powell, MD, Director, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics
      "New York's Approach to Organ Donation after Cardiac Death" a discussion of the policies and recommendations developed by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.
  • 5:30 PM
    Robert Truog, MD Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Ethics, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism & Ethical Practice; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
      "Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donation–Is it Time to Abandon the Dead Donor Rule?"
  • 6:15 PM&emdash;Discussion
  • 7:00 PM Reception

 

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