I have taught widely in bioethics: during graduate school, at the undergraduate level; during fellowship and as a professor/clinical ethicist, across the undergraduate and graduate medical levels, as well as across discipines in a diverse health system. In addition to the inherent merits of education as a form of service, I find teaching to have tremendous value as a core activity of a clinical ethics consultation service, as well as an opportunity to reflect on foundational topics in bioethics and thereby deepen and improve my scholarship. I was grateful to receive the Julia Annas Graduate Teaching Award from the GTA Advisory Committee at the University of Arizona Department of Philosophy as a commendation for my commitment to pedagogy. Below, you can find a selected list of audiences and topics. For information on non-bioethics courses and seminars I have taught in the past, please email me.
Medical Students (Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; UCLA-David Geffen School of Medicine): Advance Care Planning; Brain Death; Decision-Making Capacity; Informed Consent; Making Decisions with and for Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Nursing Masters Students (UCLA): the Ethics of End-of-Life Care
D.NP. Candidates (UCLA): Informed Consent and Decision-Making Capacity
Nurse Residents (UCLA): Topics in Nursing Ethics
Family Medicine/Internal Medicine Residents (Geisinger Lewistown Hospital; UCLA): Conceptual Foundations in Medical Ethics; Informed Consent and Decision-Making Capacity
Pediatrics Residents, Pediatrics Fellows, and Pediatric Neurology Fellows (UCLA): Topics in Pediatric Ethics
Critical Care Medicine Fellows (Geisinger Medical Center): Ethics in the ICU
Anesthesiology (Geisinger Medical Center): Authorization without Informed Consent
Clinical Nutrition: Clinical Adherence and the Ethics of Motivation
Hospital Medicine (Geisinger Medical Center; Geisinger Lewistown Hospital): Decision-Making Capacity; Tools for Advancing Patient-Centered Care
Palliative Medicine (Geisinger Health System; UCLA Health): Advancing Patient-Centered Care, Empathy in Medicine
Hospital Ethics Committees (UCLA-Westwood; Geisinger-Central Region; Geisinger-Western Region; Geisinger-Scranton; Geisinger-Wyoming Valley): Advice in Clinical Ethics Consultation, Case Discussions in Clinical Ethics, the Ethics of Postmortem Sperm Retrieval
SNF Directors (UCLA-SNF Collaborative): Decision-Making Capacity