Center for Health Policy & Ethics FOCUS, Creighton 
    University Medical Center

Center for Health Policy & Ethics Newsletter - Omaha, Nebraska
 

Spring 2007

Director's Report

Mission-driven Initiatives “Spring” Up at CHPE
    by Amy Haddad, PhD

Inside This Issue

Anne Lamott to Present 18th Annual Women and Health Lecture
    by Amy Haddad, PhD
CHPE and Boys Town National Research Hospital Partnership on Literature and Medicine Seminar
    by Amy Haddad, PhD
CHPE Co-Sponsors Global Health Expert at Inaugural Menolascino Lecture
    by Helen Shew
CHPE Director Wins 2007 Pellegrino Medal
    by Marybeth Goddard
Educating for Moral Action Wins Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award
    by Chris Jorgensen
End-of-Life Care in Pediatrics
    by Archana Chatterjee, MD
Hagel Health Care Commission Report
    by Richard O'Brien, MD
Health Inequalities: A Multidimensional Initiative Focus on Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status
    by John Stone, MD, PhD
Nursing and Health Care Ethics: A Legacy and a Vision
    by Winifred Ellenchild Pinch, EdD
Welie Weighs in on Nebraska Humane Care Amendment
    by Jos Welie, PhD

Transitions

New Faces: Introducing Christine "Chris" Jorgensen--CHPE's New Technical Specialist"
    by Marybeth Goddard

Faculty Activities

Recent Publications by CHPE Faculty, Associates, and Affiliates

Past Issues of Focus
 

SPRING EVENTS

Roundtables

Welfare, Medicine, and Sexuality: A Historian’s Approach
April 5 (3:30 - 4:30 pm)
Britta McEwen, PhD, History

Tackling Both Universal Access and Cost Control – The Oregon Health Assessment Project
April 11 (3:30 - 4:30 pm)
John A. Benson, Jr., MD,
Professor of Medicine,
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 

FOCUS Editor, Amy Haddad, PhD; Associate Editor, Richard L. O’Brien, MD; Design & Layout, Chris Jorgensen, MS