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Meeting Minutes

Past Meeting Minutes

1. January
When War Meets the Operating Table: Navigating Conflicts in Military Medical Ethics
2. February
Bioethics Response to Recent Executive Orders
3. March
Medical Ethics, Education, and Reflection for Prison Health Care Providers: A Pilot Program
4. April
Beyond Behavior Contracts: Responding effectively to Disruptive Patient Behavior

1. January
Guardianship in New York State and Legal Standards of Medical Decision-Making for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
2. February
Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) and Thoraco-Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion (TA-NRP)
3. March
Are embryos properties or persons? Neither? Both? Something in between?
4. April
The Race to Reinvent CPR and a discussion of the ethical issues raised by ECPR
5. May
Proposed bill creating a legal cause of action for patients whose healthcare providers fail or refuse to adhere to, or accommodate, their healthcare decisions.
6. June
Unrepresented Patients: Who Are They and How Their Treatment Decisions Are Made
7. July
Initiation and Continuation for Cognitively Impaired Patients in the Greater Rochester Area
8. August
Advancing Health Care Equity: A Memory Care Unit in a Large New York City Public Nursing Home
9. September
Should He Have a Vasectomy?
10. October
The Ethics and Art of Chart Noting
11. November
Facing Dementia: Improving Bioethics Knowledge, Rethinking Approaches
12. December
Terminological Confusions Regarding Emergency Abortion Access in the Post-Dobbs Landscape

1. January
Joint Commission’s decision to remove the requirement for a clinical ethics process at hospitals across the nation
2. February
Changes to NYS mask mandate for healthcare facilities
3. March
Masking, and Updates in Literature on the Covid-19 Vaccine and Myocarditis
4. April
Changes, challenges, and opportunities in using the NYS MOLST
5. May
AI, Healthcare, and Ethics: An Exploratory Discussion
6. June
Who Decides Who Lives? Organ donation after controlled determination of circulatory death (cDCD)
7. July
Bioethical Issues in the New York State Legislature
8. August
Access to Opioid Therapy for Chronically Ill Patients
9. September
Complex Ethical Terrain of Representing and Advocating on Behalf of Marginalized or Oppressed Groups
10. October
Are There Limits to Neurodiversity?
11. November
Advancing Health Equity Through Language: Why Narratives Matter
12. December
Genomic Sequencing in Newborns

1. December
Involuntary Removal and Commitment of Homeless Patients with Chronic Mental Health Disorders
2. November
Moral Distress of Physicians when Treatable Symptom Distress is not Treated as a Result of Decisions Made by Patients and/or Family members
3. October
ESBC Mission/Letter to Governor Cuomo
4. September
Conundrum of Expanded Access vs. Clinical Trial for TPOPXX
5. August
Parental Refusal
6. July
Unbefriended Patient
7. June
Significance of Juneteenth for ESBC
8. May
The Relationship Between In-Patient Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC) and Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF)
9. April
ESBC’s Writing, Approving, and Publicizing Statements Relating to Current Events on our Website
10. February
Race and Ethnicity in the Allocation of Monoclonal Antibodies (Covid-19)
11. January
The Responsibilities of Healthcare Providers to the Unvaccinated

1. December
Medical Liability of Healthcare Providers in Light of the Omicron Variant and Attendant Surge in Cases
2. November
Ethical Questions Raised when Organizations Face Staffing Shortages in Acute and Post-Acute Care Facilities
3. October
Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate
4. September
Recent Legal Actions Related to the Denial of Religious Exemption Requests for Covid-19 Vaccinations
5. August
New York State Vaccine Mandates
6. July
Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Among Healthcare Providers and how ESBC Should Respond and/or Contribute to the Debate
7. June
Diversity and Institutional Power, the Importance of Electing a Board of Directors that is Representative of New York State and the Bioethics Community
8. May
Covid-19 Experience in India
9. April
Nuances of Medical Futility as Related to and Separate from Resuscitation
10. March
Governor Cuomo’s current and future Political Status, and what the implication may be for NY Health Politics and Policies in General and the ESBC Specifically
11. February
Possible Programs for Commemorative Celebration
12. January
Information on Vaccination Guidelines at Professional Institutions

1. December
Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation
2. December 2.0
Hesitancy Surrounding Covid-19 Vaccination
2. November
BENO: Bioethics Network of Ohio