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th Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life 26 Annual Summer Conference Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE June 20–22, 2019 on the campus of Trinity International University Deerfield, IL USA Preconference Institutes: June 17–20, 2019 CONFERENCE: JUNE 20–22, 2019 Postconference Seminar: June 24–26, 2019 In Partnership with: Charlotte Lozier Institute Sponsored by: Joni & Friends International Disability Center American Association of Pro-life OB|GYNS Christian Legal Society Alliance Defending Freedom The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics American College of Pediatricians Christian Medical & Dental Associations Bioethics Defense Fund Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics1 Americans United for Life Nurses Christian Fellowship Center for Transformational Churches The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture THANK YOU Thanks to you and many others, we are celebrating another year of advancing Christian bioethics. Because you care, we are able to sustain focus on the unique dignity of every human being, and the joy of flourishing as people made in God’s image. Our strategic priorities this year concentrate on two arenas. First, influencing young thinkers as they become the next generation of leaders in the academy, healthcare, and the church. Second, equipping pastors to help guide their congregations in making wise decisions about medicine, science, and technology. Your faithful generosity keeps us going. Whether it’s providing a scholarship to bring a future doctor or nurse to the summer conference, underwriting a free workshop for pastors, funding other key initiatives, or supporting our operations, you make a difference. Gracias. Merci beaucoup. Danke sehr. 감사합니다. And many more thanks! The Staff of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity th Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life 26 Annual Summer Conference WELCOME TO OUR 26TH CONFERENCE! “Christian belief can prepare humans to disregards the many dimensions of a deeper understanding of our humanity, confront the realities of suffering and person’s life as they face death: physical, in its frail and weakened state. Even— dying with true compassion and a God- emotional, relational, financial, and perhaps especially—in that vulnerability, given dignity without killing the sufferer.” spiritual needs. It paints a grim picture we may find that we most truly live. -John Kilner, Arlene Miller, and Edmund Pellegrino, 1996 of life as mere bodily existence, blind to “When I was dying, I found that I was the larger reality and possibilities. flourishing.” Welcome to our 2019 conference on -Allen Verhey, 2013 Letter Welcome As Christians, we live in the larger Taking Care: Perspectives for the reality. Death is not the final defeat End of Life. of our humanity, even though we On behalf of our partners, sponsoring organizations, and exhibitors, welcome! Whether we choose to think about long for resurrection and through it We are glad you are here. Even before it or not, we are each subject to a the perfection of our bodies. We see you registered, we were praying for you. universal reality: we will die. How we larger possibilities. While many readily Be stimulated, encouraged, challenged, die is a different matter. An increasingly agree that our identity impels us to renewed. Make new friends. Rejoice in dominant claim is the right to control live differently, does it lead us to die reconnecting with old ones. Take care, the timing and manner of one’s differently? How can we die well? How own death. Not surprisingly, media do we face our own suffering? and live well, to the glory of God. devotion to the narrative of attractive We are also called to take care for young patients with terminal cancer others. Can we do so in a secular expands the attraction and support for context? Can we suffer with those at the physician-assisted suicide. margins? Paige Comstock Cunningham, JD, PhD An exclusive focus on alleviating Executive Director Whether we are the patient, physician, physical pain can distort historical The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity nurse, pastor, or family member, giving notions of patient care. Hastening a Trinity International University and receiving care is a path toward patient’s death via terminal sedation TABLE OF CONTENTS Conference Schedule. ..................................................... 2–3 Annual Summer Conference History ........................................... 4 Plenary Speaker Biographies & Abstracts ....................................5–7 Preconference Workshop Descriptions & Biographies .......................... 9 Pastors Workshop & Course Lecturers .........................................12 Professors of Record .........................................................13 Conference Workshop Descriptions & Biographies .........................14–17 Parallel Paper & Poster Session Schedule ......................................19 Parallel Paper & Poster Abstracts. 20–29 Continuing Medical Education ...............................................31 Partner and Sponsor Directory ........................................... 36–37 Exhibitor Information ........................................................38 Advisory Board Directory. 39 Campus Map ................................................................40 1 th Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life 26 Annual Summer Conference SCHEDULE MONDAY, JUNE 17 THURSDAY, CONT’D FRIDAY, CONT’D 9:00am– Intensive Bioethics Institute 9:00am– Intensive Bioethics Institute 9:30am Break | Hinkson Hall 5:30pm (BE5100)* | Rodine Building 12:00pm (BE5100)* | Rodine Building (Exhibitor Hall Open) Advanced Bioethics Institute Advanced Bioethics Institute 10:00am Sponsored Workshops (BE6500)* | Rodine Building (BE6500)* | Rodine Building Rodine Building 9:00am– Undergraduate Bioethics Rights of Conscience for Healthcare Conference Schedule Conference TUESDAY, JUNE 18 4:30pm Institute / Bioethics for Professionals Alliance Defending Freedom 9:00am– Intensive Bioethics Institute Professionals (BE476x)* 5:30pm (BE5100)* | Rodine Building Rodine Building Bioethics, Autonomy, and Clashes of Values Advanced Bioethics Institute 10:00am– Pastors Workshop American Association of Pro-life (BE6500)* | Rodine Building 4:00pm Rodine Building Obstetricians & Gynecologists Co-sponsored by: Center for Fatal Flaws: Turning Back the WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 Transformational Churches Legalization of Assisted Suicide 8:30am– Preconference Workshop* 4:45pm Bioethics National Conference Americans United for Life 5:30pm Rodine Building Course (BE477x/BE5900)* Whither Futility? Seeking a New Conscientious Practice in Healthcare: A. T. Olson Chapel Vocabulary for Difficult End-of-Life Ethical, Clinical, and Legal Issues Decisions 5:30pm Registration | Rodine Building Steven Aden, JD Christian Legal Society (Exhibitor Hall Open) Lauris Kaldjian, MD, PhD Dinner available for purchase in Organ Procurement Strategies: Co-Sponsored by: Americans Protecting the Sacredness of Donor United for Life Hawkins Dining Hall, Waybright Center and Recipient 8:30am– Contemporary Issues in Pellegrino Center for Clinical 5:30pm Bioethics (BE7700a) * 7:00pm Conference Welcome Bioethics Rodine Building A. T. Olson Chapel 11:30am Lunch & Informal Networking Undergraduate Bioethics 7:15pm Opening Plenary Session Lunch available for purchase in Institute / Bioethics for A. T. Olson Chapel Hawkins Dining Hall, Waybright Professionals (BE476x)* Reclaiming the Lost Art of Dying Center Rodine Building Lydia S. Dugdale, MD, MAR Yale School of Medicine 1:00pm Parallel Paper Sessions 9:00am– Intensive Bioethics Institute Rodine Building 5:30pm (BE5100)* | Rodine Building 8:00pm Plenary | A. T. Olson Chapel Biblical and Theological ‘Givens’ 2:10pm Break | Hinkson Hall Advanced Bioethics Institute for Responsible Christian Thinking (Exhibitor Hall Open) (BE6500)* | Rodine Building About Death D. A. Carson, PhD 2:30pm Plenary | Rodine Building THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Trinity Evangelical Divinity PAS and Aid in Dying: Lessons from School the Netherlands 8:30am– Preconference Workshop* Theo A. Boer, PhD 3:30pm Rodine Building FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Protestant Theological Suffering, Pain, Opioids, and University Compassionate Care for Patients: 7:45am– Prayer | Faculty Lounge Controversies and Hope 8:15am A. T. Olson Chapel 3:30pm CBHD Members Meeting Ryan Nash, MD, MA A. T. Olson Chapel Nicole Shirilla, MD, MEd 8:30am Plenary | A. T. Olson Chapel Co-Sponsored by: The Ohio Empirical Perspectives on Care at 6:00pm Dinner & Movie Screening State University Center for the End of Life Melton Hall Bioethics Tracy A. Balboni, MD, MPH Three Identical Strangers Harvard Medical School Sponsored by: The Tennessee 8:30am– Contemporary Issues in Center for Bioethics & Culture 3:30pm Bioethics (BE7700a) * 9:30am Welcome Gathering for New (Prior Registration Required) Rodine Building Attendees | Faculty Lounge A. T. Olson Chapel 2 th Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life 26 Annual Summer Conference SATURDAY, JUNE 22 SATURDAY, CONT’D 7:45am– Prayer | Faculty Lounge 2:30pm Plenary | A. T. Olson Chapel 8:15am A. T. Olson Chapel Eyes to See, Ears to Hear: Seeking Shalom for Those Dying at the 8:30am Plenary | A. T. Olson Chapel Margins Care Taking in Secular Bioethics Patrick T. Smith, PhD Jon C. Tilburt, MD, MPH Duke Divinity School Mayo Clinic Schedule Conference 3:30pm Plenary | A. T. Olson Chapel 9:30am Break | Hinkson Hall Dignity and Life on the Line: (Exhibitor Hall Open) Ending Well John F. Kilner, PhD 10:00am Sponsored Workshops