Programs improving care of dying receive grants
Programs improving care of dying receive grants
The New York City-based Project on Death in America, a division of the Open Society Institute, recently announced funding totaling 1 million dollars for eight new faculty scholars.
Winners of the grants must demonstrate innovative programs in clinical care, research, education, and advocacy to improve care of the dying. Over the last five years, Project on Death in America has appointed 58 faculty scholars in 36 medical schools, two U.S. nursing schools, and four Canadian nursing schools.
The scholars define and strengthen popular and professional understandings of what constitutes good care at the end of life and encourage a wider commitment to caring for dying people, according to Susan Block, MD, director of the faculty scholars program.
Project grant recipients include:
• Palo Alto, CA-based Stanford University’s continuing education programs on end-of-life care to educate African-American physicians;
• Chicago-based Loyola University Medical Center’s program to improve the care of the dying in the Roman Catholic community;
• Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s program to critically evaluate the quality of care provided to children with terminal cancer.
Grant recipients receive fellowships of up to $150,000 for two years for projects aimed at improving end-of-life care. The next deadline for applications to Project on Death in America’s faculty scholars program is January 6, 2000.
[Editor’s note: For more information regarding the faculty scholars program, contact the Project on Death in America at the Open Society Institute, 400 W. 59th St., New York, NY 10019. Telephone: (212) 548-0150. Fax: (212) 548-4613. Web: http://www.soros.org/ death.html.]
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission Meeting. Sept. 16-17, 1999, Arlington, VA. Contact: National Bioethics Advisory Commis sion, 6100 Executive Blvd., Suite 5B01, Rockville, MD 20892-7508. Web: http://bioethics.gov/.
• American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Annual Meeting. Sept. 16-18, 1999, Cambridge, MA. Contact: conference director Lisa Bears. Phone: (617) 262-4990, ext. 12. E-mail: [email protected].
• National Conference on Organization Ethics and Health Care. Sept. 25-26, 1999, Charlottesville, VA. Sponsored by Center for Biomedical Ethics and Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at University of Virginia. Phone: (804) 982-4227. E-mail: mvr2j@ virginia.edu. Web: http://hsc.virginia.edu/ medicine/inter-dis/bio-ethics/conf.html.
• Medicine’s Integrity in the Face of Change: The Examination of the Provider’s Role as Health Care is Reformed. Oct. 15-17, 1999. The third annual Michigan State Medical Society Mackinac Island Conference. Sponsored by Michigan State Medical Society. Contact: David Fox at (517) 336-5731. E-mail: [email protected].
• American Society of Bioethics and Human ities Annual Meeting. Oct. 28-31, 1999. Philadel phia. Contact: American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), 4700 W. Lake Ave., Glenview, IL 60025-1485. Phone: (847) 375-4745. Fax: (847) 375-3777. Web: http://www. asbh.org.
• Genetics and Ethics Conference. Oct. 29-30, 1999, St. Louis. Contact: professor Gerard Magill, PhD, center director and department chair, Saint Louis University Center for Health Care Ethics, 1402 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63104. Phone: (314) 577-8195. Fax: (314) 268-5150. E-mail: [email protected].
• Expanding the Boundaries of Ethics: The Canadian Bioethics Society 11th Annual Conference. Oct. 28-31, 1999, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Speakers will be members of the board of the International Association of Bioethics. A post-conference will be held on October 31, and attendees will have a choice of attending a workshop on "Ethics, Health Care and the Allocation of Resources at the End of Life" or a workshop on "The Ethics of Health Research Using Qualitative Methods." The research workshop will be hosted by the National Council on Ethics in Human Research. For more information: Web: http:// www.ualberta.ca/~cbs1999 or call (780) 492-6676. E-mail: [email protected].
• International Conference on Applied Ethics. Dec. 28-30, 1999, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Keynote speakers: Peter Singer, Bonnie Steinbock, and Jenny Teichman. A call for papers is being issued for the following topics:
1. The ethics of life and death, including (but not limited to): abortion, euthanasia, surrogate motherhood, human cloning, genetic engineering, and capital punishment.
2. Sexual ethics, including (but not limited to): pornography, homosexuality, premarital and extramarital sex, and sexual perversion.
3. Environmental ethics and animal rights.
Contact: Hon-Lam Li, e-mail: honlamli@cuhk. edu.hk, or Kai-Yee Wong, e-mail: wongg31k@ cuhk.edu.hk. Phone: (852) 2609-7144; (852) 2609-7145; or (852) 2609-7136. Fax: (852) 2603-5323. Web site for updates on the conference is:http:// www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~phidept/.
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