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MEDIA CONTACTS: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu or
Stacia Smith
561-297-2971, ssmith@fau.edu
FAU to Co-sponsor Conference on Ethics in Healthcare
BOCA RATON, FL (April 7, 2005) - The Florida Bioethics Network's annual spring conference, "Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions," will take place Friday, April 8 from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. The conference will take place in the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. The conference, co-sponsored by Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Nova Southeastern University, Barry University and The Children's Trust, will address many areas of health ethics. Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist" columnist for The New York Times Magazine, will give the keynote address.
The conference will feature sessions on the Terri Schiavo case, ethics and pediatrics, end-of-life care, hospital administration, genetic screening, ethics education, and ethics and dentistry. Presenters include physicians, administrators, legal scholars, educators, ethicists and others. The conference is designed for nurses, physicians, social workers, lawyers, clergy, psychologists, health administrators and others interested in clinical ethics. The conference is approved for continuing education credits.
The conference fee is $185 in advance or $235 at the door. For Florida Bioethics Networks members, the fee is $160 in advance and $200 at the door. To register, visit www.ethics.miami.edu or email ethics@miami.edu.
For more information on the Florida Bioethics Network and other ethics events in south Florida, contact Robin N. Fiore, Adelaide Snyder Professor of Ethics and associate professor of philosophy at FAU, at rfiore@fau.edu.
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