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Date: May 11, 2011
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Registration and light refreshments at 5:30 PM, case presentation and discussion at 6:00 PM
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Conversations with patients and their families about care options at the end of life are often difficult for even the most seasoned professionals, yet such conversations are essential to patient care and empowerment. With the Palliative Care Information Act, New York State seeks to ensure that each willing patient diagnosed with terminal illness receives the information they need about the care options available to them. Please join our panel to learn more about this groundbreaking legislation and its history, purpose, implementation, and the challenges it presents.
Presenters:
David C. Leven, JD
Executive Director of Compassion & Choices of New York
David Muller, MD
Dean for Medical Education
Associate Professor & Chair, Medical Education
Associate Professor Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mary Jo Fink, MD
Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine
College of Physicans & Surgeons, Columbia University
Moderator:
Marsha Hurst, PhD
Faculty
Columbia University, Program in Narrative Medicine
For more information, please contact ethicsnetwork@nyam.org.
About the Speaker(s)
Marsha Hurst, PhD is a member of the faculty of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on illness and disability narratives and on narratives of death, dying and caregiving in the masters degree program. At Columbia she is Co-Chair of the University Seminar on Narrative, Health, and Social Justice. Her research and advocacy interests are in women's health, aging, and end of life care. Hurst sits on the New York State Palliative Care Education and Training Council and is founding Vice President and member of the Board of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Medicare Rights Center (Westchester Programs), the Center for Aging in Place Support (CAPS) Health Advocacy Project, and the national women's health reform coalition, Raising Women's Voices. From 1998 through 2007 Hurst was the Director of the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence. She is co-editor with Sayantani DasGupta, MD, MPH of Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, an anthology of women’s illness narratives (Kent State University Press, 2007) and author of numerous articles.
David C. Leven, JD has been the Executive Director of Compassion & Choices of New York since 2002. Compassion & Choices works to improve care and expand choice at the end of life. It provides high quality counseling, support and advocacy services to the terminally ill and family members and to those planning for the end of life. Mr. Leven is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Syracuse University College of Law. Mr. Leven, who works on legislation designed to improve care at the end of life and to ensure that patients’ wishes are honored, played a leadership role in having legislation introduced and enacted in New York, in 2007, to improve pain and palliative care. The law allocated $4.5 million dollars to improve medical school and post medical school training. The Palliative Care Information Act of 2010, which requires that terminally ill patients be offered information and counseling on their palliative care and end-of-life options, was introduced in the New York State Legislature at the request of Mr. Leven who was instrumental in securing its enactment.
David Muller, MD co-founded and directed the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, now the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country. In May 2005 Dr. Muller was appointed Dean for Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Medical Education. His recent honors include the Founder’s Award, Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors, Departments of Medicine and Geriatrics, 2010, the AMA Pride in the Profession Award (2009), Department of Medicine’s Ruth Abramson Humanism in Medicine Award (2005) the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine (2005), induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (2004), and the Casita Maria Community Builder Award (2002). Dr. Muller is Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and is a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine.
Mary Jo Fink, MD completed her medical studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany followed by a Family Medicine Residency and Women’s Health Fellowship at SUNY Downstate, Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia in 2003, Mary Jo was a member of the faculty at SUNY Downstate and Albany Medical College where she mentored residents and students. Her clinical work has focused on the care of women and families, with particular focus on HIV+ women and underserved urban families. In her current role, Mary Jo attends on the in-patient service where end-of-life-care challenges confront patients and families.
Registration Information
Cost: General Registration: $25.00, Ethics Network Members: $20.00, NYAM Fellows and Members: $20.00, Students and Residents: $15.00
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