Creighton University - Center for Health Policy & Ethics

Faculty News - Spring 2012

See also Faculty News from Fall 2011

July 2012

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Scholarship

Chapple, H. S. (2012). Live Well Nebraska: “Plan now, before you're too ill.” Blog Post. Retrieved 07/06, 2012, from http://www.livewellnebraska.com/article/20120702/LIVEWELL09/120629709/-1#plan-now-before-you-re-too-ill.


Christy Rentmeester, PhD

Publication

Rentmeester, C. A., “Postcolonial Bioethics: A Lens for Considering Historical Roots of Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21(3):366-374, July 2012.


John Stone, MD, PhD

Presentation

“Healthcare Inequalities in the Elderly: Ethics and Quality Improvement,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, July 8, 2012.


June 2012

Beth Furlong, PhD, JD

Award

Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual Eleanor Roosevelt luncheon from a county partisan political party—June 2012.

Publication

Furlong, B. “My Cuban experience-A spiritual reflection.” New Wine, Holy Family church newsletter. Omaha, NE., Summer 2012.


Amy Haddad, PhD

Presentation

Formulating the Ethics Question, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 23 Integrated Ethics Conference, keynote speaker, Sioux Falls, SD, June 5, 2012.

May 2012

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Award

Received the Constance Smith-Peterson Graduate Memorial Award at the Creighton School of Nursing Pinning and Hooding Ceremony, May 12, 2012.

Presentation

Presented "End of Life Issues in Nebraska" to the Coalition to Protect Aging Adults, May 16, 2012, Omaha, NE.

Publication

Chapple, H. S. & Pettus, K. I. 2012. Does the Nation's Survival Depend on a New End of Life Conversation? Focus, Center for Health Policy & Ethics, Creighton University, Spring 2012.


Beth Furlong, PhD, JD

Presentation

A View of Cuba, Progressive Omaha, NE, May 12, 2012.

Publication

One Week’s Snapshot of Cuba, CHPE Focus Newsletter, Spring 2012.


Jos Welie, PhD

Presentation

Benefits and Challenges of On-Line Ethics Education: Experiences from four distance education degree programs at Creighton University [with Linda S. Scheirton, PhD], Inaugural Conference of the International Association for Ethics Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1-3, 2012.


April 2012

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

Presentation

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration in Nebraska, Nebraska Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2012 Annual Conference, Nebraska City, Nebraska, April 11, 2012


Beth Furlong, PhD, JD

Presentations

  • Community Engagement and Researchers, panel member, National Institute of Health (NIH) Network of Minority Research Investigators (NMRI) Conference, Bethesda, MD., April 2012.
  • A Snapshot View of Cuba, CHPE Roundtable, April 4, 2012.
  • A Public Health View of Cuba, Federally Employed Women, Omaha Chapter, April 26, 2012.
  • Amy Haddad, PhD

    Presentations

  • Online Ethics Education, 2012 Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Reid Hall, Paris, France, April 9-13, 2012.
  • Assessment of Student Learning, Academic Excellence and Assessment (AEA) grant presentation with Teresa Cochran, PhD, Creighton University, April 17, 2012.
  • John Stone, MD, PhD

    Presentation

    Ethics, Violence, and Health, Addressing Health Disparities: Focus On Violence Prevention, Creighton University, April 28, 2012.


    March 2012

    Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

    Presentations

  • "Reducing Uncertainty, Fostering Preparedness: A Review of One ICU," poster presentation, Sigma Theta Tau, Iota Tau Chapter Research Day, Omaha. March 4, 2012.
  • ALS in the Heartland Support Group Meeting, facilitator for discussion on end of life issues Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 2012.
  • Does the Nation's Survival Depend on a New End of Life (EOL) Conversation? [Presented with Katherine Pettus, PhD], Association for Death Education and Counseling, Atlanta, Georgia, March 29, 2012.
  • John Stone, MD, PhD

    Publication

    Marcos L, Rosales MR, Rödlach A, Stone JR. Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim and University Researchers: Partnering in Community Health Development. Practicing Anthropology. Winter 2012: 34(1): 37 – 40. Online at: http://sfaa.metapress.com/app/home/main.asp?referrer=default


    Jos Welie, PhD

    Presentation

    Nebraska LEAD Program, presentation, “Letting Go. Ethical reflections on medical care at the end of life.” Creighton University, March 1, 2012.


    February 2012

    Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD

    Presentation

    No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue, Creighton University Hot Topic Webinar Initiative, Omaha, Nebraska, February 20, 2012.


    Amy Haddad, PhD

    Publications

  • Haddad, A. (Ed) (2011) Narrative Symposium: Nursing students working in long-term care facilities. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Volume 1.3, 133-169. Link to journal:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/narrative_inquiry_in_bioethics/toc/nib.1.3.html

  • Haddad, A. (2011) Introduction: Learning from those working most intimately with the residents in long-term care. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Volume 1.3, 133-134.  

  • For some reaction to this issue, go to this link: In Their Own Words: CNAs Discuss Their Work in New Journal

  • Jos Welie, PhD

    Presentation

    Welie, Jos V.M. and Burke-Sullivan, E. Faculty Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education in the 21st Century. Poster presentation: 2nd Annual All Things Ignatian Day, February 2, 2012.


    January 2012

    Amy Haddad, PhD

    Presentation

    A. Haddad. “Ethical Principles and End-of-Life Discussions.” School of Medicine Pulmonary Grand Rounds. January 27, 2012.


    Jos Welie, PhD

    Publications

  • Welie, Jos VM, “Dental Ethics.” In: Chadwick, R. (Ed): Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition, volume 1. San Diego: Academic Press; 2012. pp. 762–770.
  • Welie, Jos VM, “Placebo Treatment.” In: Chadwick, R. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Second Edition, volume 3. San Diego: Academic Press; 2012.
  • Welie, Jos V.M. De patiënt wikt, maar de arts beschikt [The patient devises but the physician decides; in Dutch]. Ignis Webmagazine. January 2012. On-line at: http://www.igniswebmagazine.nl