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Faculty News - Spring and Summer 2009

See also Faculty News from Fall 2008

July 2009

Amy Haddad, PhD

Presentation

Presented Legacy project to Nebraska Nurse Executives at Alegent Health

Service

Hosted annual meeting of Jesuit Bioethics Consortium at Center for Health Policy and Ethics.

Richard O'Brien, MD

Presentations

Panelist on Mike Johanns Health Care Reform Forum, 7/3/09

Guest lecture: Helene Lohman’s Health Policy Class—health system comparisons and reform options, 7/20/09

KLIN interview (20 min) on health care reform activities, 7/23/09

Health care reform panel for “Consider This,” taped 7/23/09 for airing on NETV, KYNE-TV and the Knowledge Network

Jos Welie, PhD

Presentation

Presented at conference: Can We Think God Demented? Reflections on Cognitive Impairment and the Imago Dei. 4th International Colloquium: “Human Life with Cognitive Impairment: Caring and Giving Hope in a World of Change, International Association of Catholic Bioethicists, Cologne, Germany, July 12-16, 2009 [submitted presentation].

Publication

July 2009 issue of Dental Clinics of North America contains the paper, co-authored with former CHPE SVF Jim Rule, entitled “The Access To Care Dilemma: Symptom of a Systemic Condition (vol 53,3 pp 421-433).

June 2009

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Service

Appointed the Chair of the Credentialing Council in the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

Amy Haddad, PhD

Presentation

Presented keynote address at the CASTL Institute Leadership Conference at Creighton University.

Jos Welie, PhD

Presentation

Presented at conference: Who have we become. A faculty perspective on internal structural issues. 4th national conference on the Commitment to Justice in Higher Education. Fairfield University, June 21, 2009 [invited presentation].

May 2009

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Presentations

On May 5, Dr. Chapple presented “Informed Consent: A Balance of Power?” for the Ethics Education series at CUMC.

On May 11, Dr. Chapple presented in a Nurses’ Week Teleconference for the Veterans Administration Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System.

Richard O'Brien, MD

Presentations

Presenter and panelist on Health care reform forum at Metro community college, 5/14/09

Public Health Journal Club—Life Support During Public Health Emergency, Annals, 2009;150(2):132-38, 5/19/09.

Christy Rentmeester, PhD

Presentation

Presented “Healthcare Inequalities, Trans-generational Trauma, and Children” to Philosophical Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry, 16-17 May 2009, San Francisco, California (podium presentation).

Jos Welie, PhD

Service

Dr. Welie reviewed articles for “Theological Studies” and “Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.”

April 2009

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Service

On April 14-15, Dr. Chapple attended the board meeting of the Association for Death Education and Counseling in Dallas, TX.

Presentations

On April 16, Dr. Chapple presented two sessions at the ADEC national conference.
"Pricy or Priceless? Codifying Value in the American Rescue Paradigm"
"What Does Religious Coping Have to do with Rescue at the End of Life"

Richard O'Brien, MD

Presentations

On April 1, Dr. O’Brien participated in a Cover the Uninsured Week panel discussion of health care reform.

On April 4, Dr. O’Brien participated in the Mental Health Disparities conference.

On April 17, Dr. O’Brien participated in a Lee Terry Town Hall panel discussion on health care reform.

On April 20, Dr. O’Brien presented the Nebraska Medical Association recommendations for health care reform to the Omaha Medical Humanities Group.

On April 23, Dr. O’Brien presented the keynote address on Federal Efforts and Proposals for Health Care Reform to the Nebraska State Education Association-Retired.

Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, EdD

Presentation

On April 8, Dr. Pinch presented “Infertility Issues and the Family and the Impact of a Neonate’s Admission to the NICU: Adaptation and Coping” to the University of Nebraska College of Nursing, Graduate Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program. .

Christy Rentmeester, PhD

Presentations

On April 4, Dr. Rentmeester presented at the Addressing Health Disparities: Focus on Mental Health Conference, “Mental Health, Healthcare Inequalities, and Public Health: Transgenerational Trauma and Justice”.

On April 23-25, Dr. Rentmeester presented at the Spring ASBH Meeting, “Taking Healthcare Inequalities Seriously: Trans-generational Trauma in Art and Literature to Books to Bedside: Translational Work in the Medical Humanities hosted by the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in Chicago.

John Stone, MD, PhD

Presentation

Dr. Stone taught a pharmacy class at the University of Montana. Topic: "Ethical Issues in Relationships between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Biomedicine: Discussion of Marcia Angell's Review and Commentary in the New York Review of Books." Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.

March 2009

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Publication

On March 1, "Bereavement like Magic," Dr. Chapple’s review of Ann Patchett's book The Magician's Assistant, was published in the current issue of the journal, Death Studies.

Presentation

On March 18, Dr. Chapple presented "Pricey or Priceless? Codifying Value in the American Rescue Paradigm" in an all-Creighton panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Richard O'Brien, MD

Presentation

On March 30, Dr. O’Brien described the NMA reform proposal to the Nebraska Hospital Association’s Board of Directors.

 

Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, EdD

Recognition

Dr. Pinch and Dr. Haddad were nominated by the Iota Tau Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International for the Mary Tolle Wright Award for Excellence in Leadership for her and Dr. Haddad’s publication, Nursing and Health Care Ethics: A Legacy and A Vision.

Publication

Dr. Pinch’s article, “Honoring American Nurse Ethicists”, was published in Nursing Ethics.

Christy Rentmeester, PhD

Service

On March 2, Dr. Rentmeester co-facilitated an education session on goals, purposes, and limitations of clinical ethics consultation for Case Consultation and Education Subcommittees of CUMC Ethics Committee.

Publication

On March 16, Dr. Rentmeester’s article “Treatment of mentally ill key to health care reform” was published in the Omaha World-Herald, Midlands Voices Section.

Jos Welie, PhD

Presentation

On March 5, Dr. Welie presented a lecture on end-of-life care ethics to the participants in the 2009 LEAD (Nebraska Education/Action Development) Program during their two-day “Social Issues” symposium at Creighton.

February 2009

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Presentation

On February 18, Dr. Chapple gave a talk for Metro Community College entitled, "Could She Be Dying? Intensive Care as an American Ritual."

Amy Haddad, PhD

Press

Dr. Haddad contributed to an article in Commonweal entitled "Undue Burden? The Vatican & Artificial Nutrition & Hydration" which was collaboratively authored by the directors of the Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs.Article link: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2440

Dr. Haddad was quoted in an article entitled "Ethicists debate doctors who keep it personal" in the February 2, 2009 edition of USA Today. Article link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-02-02-doctors_N.htm

Richard O'Brien, MD

Presentation

On February 10, Dr. O’Brien gave a presentation to Youth Leadership Omaha about health care, its problems and possible ways to reform it.

Service

On February 11, Dr. O’Brien testified in favor of LB 656 (NMA health care reform proposal) before the Health and Human Services Committee of the Nebraska Legislature.

Christy Rentmeester, PhD

Presentation

On February 9, Dr. Rentmeester presented a Surgery Grand Rounds, “Navigating Cross-Cultural Encounters in Surgical Practice.”

Service

Dr. Rentmeester was appointed to the Board of Directors, Omaha Chamber Music Society.

Jos Welie, PhD

Presentations

Dr. Welie led a one-hour session on CPR during a day-long seminar on health and human services for Youth Leadership Omaha at Creighton on February 10, 2009.

He participated in an international expert conference on “Social Responsibility in Health Professions”. The conference is organized by the University of British Columbia and will be held in Vancouver, Canada, February 23-25, 2009.

 

January 2009

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Service

Dr. Chapple testified against Lethal Injection before the Judiciary Committee of the Nebraska Unicameral on January 30, 2009.

 

Amy Haddad, PhD

 

Project

On January 7-8, 2009, Dr. Haddad coordinated with Faculty Associate Dr. Gail Jensen, Faculty Affiliate Dr. Linda Gabriel, and Tracy Chapman, Kathryn Huggett and Mary Ann Danielson (as part of the work of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Affective Development and Student Learning Institutional Leadership Programs) the first meeting of the “Shaping the Life of the Mind for Practice Project” participants at Mahoney State Park for two days in early January. Sixteen faculty members from across the Creighton campus representing as many disciplines from the Arts and Sciences and the professional schools will work in dyads to explore practical reasoning and judgment in the courses they teach and develop best practices gleaned from both sides of practice. The end product will be an edited book.

 

Richard O'Brien, MD

Presentations

Dr. O'Brien participated in panel on leadership at the UNMC Administrative Colloquium on January 15 2009.

He presented “Health Care Reform in Nebraska—Challenges and Controversies” to the Nebraska Health Care Association, Lincoln on January 28, 2009.

He testified before the Judiciary Committee of the Unicameral on LB 36; a Bill to introduce lethal injection for executing the death penalty in Nebraska on January 29, 2009.

He made a presentation on “Health Care Reform in Nebraska—Challenges and Controversies” on January 29, 2009.

Press

Dr. O'Brien co-authored, with John Benson, an op-ed piece in the Omaha World Herald entitled, “Health Care Fix is Long Overdue” published on January 9, 2009.

 

Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, EdD

Press

Dr. Pinch was quoted in an article entitled "Fertility ethics questions multiply" in the January 31, 2009 edition of the Omaha World-Herald.

 

Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, EdD and Amy Haddad, PhD

Award

Nursing and Health Care Ethics: A Legacy and A Vision, edited by Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, EdD and Amy Haddad, PhD, has received a 2008 Publications Award of Excellence from the Washington, DC, Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). The STC is the largest individual membership organization in the world dedicated to promoting technical communication.

See http://chpe.creighton.edu/publications/books.htm for more information about the book.

 

Christy Rentmeester, PhD

Presentation

Dr. Rentmeester offered a lecture and discussion offering for the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) students on January 21, 2009.

Service

Dr. Rentmeester co-Initiated the Public Health Journal Club with Dr. John Stone; the regularly scheduled series launched on January 20, 2009

She coordinated the Graduate Medical Education Public Health Curriculum, launched in January, 2009.

She coordinated a meeting of HIIG’s Health Professions Teaching Sub-group, January 26, 2009.

She was an invited participant on the Unnatural Causes Subcommittee of Creighton University Partnership in Health, Douglas County Health Department, and the Nebraska Office of Minority Health, January 2009.