Health Ethics Symposium 2020

ABOUT

In contemporary health care practice, situations occur when health care professionals feel that they are unable to pursue actions that they perceive to be "good" or "right" resulting in moral distress. This symposium will focus on the phenomenon of moral distress and how we can support each other when such situations arise.

KEYNOTE PRESENTERS

Wendy Austin, PhD & Daniel Garros, MD
Co-Investigators of a CIHR funded study on moral distress in paediatric intensive care teams, dramatized in the film, Just Keep Breathing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Health Care Practitioners, Scholars, Researchers, Students, Clinical Ethics Committee Members and Ethicists, Health Care Administrators and Managers, Spiritual Care Providers, Social Workers, Caregivers, Patients and Families, and General Public.