Creighton University - Center for Health Policy & Ethics

Faculty News - Fall 2007

DECEMBER 2007

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD
Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Presentation

  • On November 28-December 2, 2007, Dr. Chapple attended the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C. where she presented a paper, "Rescue, Stabilization and Transformation: The American Hospital's Ritual of Intensification."

    • Service

  • On December 3, 2007, Dr. Chapple attended the Douglas County Pandemic Influenza Policy Committee meeting and participated in "Putting the Pieces Together," a tabletop planning exercise.

    • Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Service

  • On December 3, 2007, Dr. Haddad attended the Douglas County Pandemic Influenza Policy Committee meeting.

    • Richard O'Brien, MD

    Richard O'Brien, MD

    Service

  • On December 9-12, 2007, Dr. O'Brien participated in the National Congress on the Un and Underinsured in Washington, DC.

    • Christy Rentmeester, PhD

    Christy Rentmeester, PhD

    Service

  • Dr. Rentmeester has been invited to be a consultant about health information security and privacy issues to the E-Health Council, a work group of the Health Information Security and Privacy Committee, State of Nebraska.

    • Jos Welie, PhD

    Jos Welie, PhD

    Service

  • Dr. Welie served on the editorial board for the first edition of the Dental Ethics Manual, produced by the FDI World Dental Federation, The Manual was modeled after the existing Medical Ethics Manual, produced by the World Medical Association, and was written by the same ethicist, Dr. John Williams, though with a different editorial board to assist him. The Dental Ethics Manual is now available on-line (http://www.fdiworldental.org/resources/4_6ethics-manual.html).
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    Publications

  • Dr. Welie's review of the book Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine and Moral Anthropology (edited by Taylor and Dell'Oro; Georgetown UP 2006), appeared in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2007, 28:341-347.

    • NOVEMBER 2007

    Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Presentation

  • On November 12, 2007, Dr. Haddad presented "Ethics and Professional Practice" at the Sixth Annual Women’s Health in the 21st Century Conference.
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    Richard O'Brien, MD

    Richard O'Brien, MD

    Presentations

  • On November 7, 2007, Dr. O'Brien made a presentation on "Health System Reform: The Need and Possible Ways Forward" for Health Insurance Underwriters in Lincoln, Nebraska. 
  • On November 16-17, 2007, Dr. O'Brien made two presentations, Why the Health Care System is Broken – The path to meltdown and The Nebraska Medical Association Health Care Reform Task Force, to the Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society (MOMS) Health Care Reform Summit.

    • Christy Rentmeester, PhD

    Christy Rentmeester, PhD

    Presentation

  • On November 29, 2007, Dr. Rentmeester and Dr. John Stone (CHPE)were invited by the Minority Health Sciences Student Association to lead case discussions during a noon session on World AIDS Day.
    • John Stone, MD, PhD
    John Stone, MD, PhD

    Conferences

  • On November 29, 2007, Dr. Stone and Dr. Christy Rentmeester (CHPE) were invited by the Minority Health Sciences Student Association to lead case discussions during a noon session on World AIDS Day.

    • Jos Welie, PhD

    Jos Welie, PhD

    Presentations

  • On November 9, 2007, Dr. Welie gave a lecture on the Humane Care Amendment at a Health Care Conference organized by the Nebraska Coalition of Health Care Providers and Institutions at the Georgetown Club in Omaha.
  • On November 28, 2007, Dr. Welie is scheduled to give a lecture on the Humane Care Amendment at Geriatric Psychiatry Grand Rounds at UNMC.

    • OCTOBER 2007

    Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD
    Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

    Presentation

  • On October 1, 2007, Dr. Chapple participated in a panel discussion on ethical dilemmas in geriatric trauma at Trauma Symposium 2007.

    • Service

  • Dr. Chapple serves as the President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and conducted its Mid-Year Board Meeting in Chicago on October 20-21.

    • Beth Furlong, PhD, JD, RN

    Beth Furlong, PhD, JD, RN (Faculty Associate)

    Service

  • Beth Furlong, PhD, JD, RN, Faculty Associate of the Center for Health Policy & Ethics and an associate professor of nursing at Creighton University, has been named to the Director’s Council of Public Representatives at the National Institutes of Health. The council brings important matters of public interest forward for discussion and advises and assists the director in increasing public participation in NIH activities and public understanding of the organization.
  • See Creighton Press Release: Creighton Nursing Professor Named to NIH Council
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    Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Presentation

  • On October 15, 2007, Dr. Haddad presented "Are there Ethical Consequences when Undertaking the Scholarship of Teaching?" at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Meeting.

    • Richard O'Brien, MD

    Richard O'Brien, MD

    Presentation

  • On October 26, 2007, Dr. O'Brien made a presentation to the Sioux City Ethics Consortium: "Fiduciary duties and the virtuous physician."

    • Christy Rentmeester, PhD

    Christy Rentmeester, PhD

    Presentation

  • On October 19, 2007, Dr. Rentmeester presented "Legalism, Countertransference, and Clinical Moral Perception" at the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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    Service

  • Dr. Rentmeester led the ASBH Affinity Group on Mental Health Ethics and Policy at ASBH Annual Meeting on October 20, 2007 in Washington, DC.

    • SEPTEMBER 2007

    Dr. Amy Haddad's poems appear in Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, published by The Kent State University Press.

    Amy Haddad, PhD, RN

    Publications

  • Dr. Haddad has contributed two poems, "What If They Said" and
    "Stereotactic Biopsy," to the anthology Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies.

    Edited by Sayantani Das Gupta and Marsha Hurst, Stories of Illness and Healing is the "first collection to place the voices of women experiencing illness alongside analytical writing from prominent scholars in the field of narrative medicine. The collection includes a variety of women’s illness narratives—poetry, essays, short fiction, short drama, analyses, and transcribed oral testimonies—as well as traditional analytic essays about themes and issues raised by the narratives. Stories of Illness and Healing bridges the artificial divide between women’s lives and scholarship in gender, health, and medicine."

    For more information, please visit The Kent State University Press site at http://upress.kent.edu/books/DasGupta_S.htm.

    See Creighton University Press Release: Haddad Shares Personal Stories in New Anthology on Women and Healing

    See also the Omaha World-Herald article: From Nurse to Patient to Poet

    • Richard O'Brien, MD

    Richard O'Brien, MD

    Service

  • Dr. O'Brien serves as the co-chairman of the Nebraska Medical Association Health Care Reform Task Force. At the Nebraska Medical Association's annual meeting on September 9, Dr. O'Brien presented an outline of a proposal to increase access to, improve the quality of, and control the cost of health care.

    See the Omaha World-Herald article about Dr. O'Brien's report:
    http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10126911

    • An image from Fragile Beginnings, a photo exhibit by Dr. Roberta E. Sonnino

    An image from Fragile Beginnings, a photo exhibit by Dr. Roberta E. Sonnino.

    Roberta Sonnino, MD (Faculty Associate)

    Exhibition

  • A photography exhibit featuring the work of Dr. Sonnino, MD, Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Creighton School of Medicine and Faculty Associate, CHPE, will open on September 29. The exhibit entitled "Fragile Beginnings," is sponsored by the Nebraska March of Dimes Foundation. This opening will launch a series of exhibits that will take place in conjunction with March of Dimes events across the state, including CUMC.
    • John Stone, MD, PhD
    John Stone, MD, PhD

    Conferences

  • On September 14, Dr. Stone presented Ethics in Healthcare: Ethics Committees at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings, Nebraska.

    • Jos Welie, PhD

    Jos Welie, PhD

    Presentations

  • On September 12-15, Dr. Welie attended and presented at the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics in Zurich, Switzerland.

    • AUGUST 2007

    John Stone, MD, PhD
    John Stone, MD, PhD

    Conferences

  • Dr. John Stone attended the Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Minority Health Association in Lincoln on August 27-28.

    • Jos Welie, PhD

    Jos Welie, PhD

    Presentations

  • On August 30, Dr. Welie gave the keynote lecture at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Student Dental Association in Ft. Lauderdale.
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