PAINS-KC offers a strong patient voice to help inform research and the development of patient-centered pain policy and educational programming and to help raise awareness of chronic pain in the KC metro area.
Our Conversation Starter Questions are designed to help you begin thinking of a few of the common topics for your upcoming discussions with loved ones.
Our workplace programs are a benefit to employees who inevitably find themselves caring for both elderly parents at the same time of other generations of family.
Follow our event calendar for ongoing lectures discussing the latest topics in healthcare from patient-centered medicine to affordable care to end-of-life planning.
Our monthly live lectures on Facebook connect you to healthcare experts and authors discussing healthcare policy and how to support a loved ones end-of-life preferences.
Join us each year at our Annual Dinner and Symposium as our speakers explore patient centered healthcare solutions and enhancements in end-of-life planning.
Case studies provide a roadmap for decision-making in future cases, help drive the development of new analysis and thought about complex medical and moral dilemmas.
These resources and interviews help you navigate the complex healthcare system for living wills, durable powers of attorney and concerns about care outside of hospital.
Center for Practical BioethicsElder abuse can be difficult to talk about or even contemplate. It is unnerving to understand that some older people are mistreated to the degree that they die of neglect, through intentional or unintentional lack of appropriate care.
Ethics Committee WorkshopThe Kansas City Regional Hospital Ethics Committee Consortium hosted a skills development workshop for ethics committee members. This workshop included a landmark case study presentation, emphasizing important details for ethics committees, and conflict resolution skills development training. Center for Practical ...
Proud of our CEO John Carney honored by the Black Health Care Coalition as a Health Hero, pictured here with BHCC President Melissa Robinson. @Robinson4kc@JCarney53https://t.co/071spImgNg
Flanigan Lecture 2018At the Flanigan Lecture on August 7, 2018, Dr. Steven Miles questions, given what we know now, ought parents allow kids to play collision sports Center for Practical Bioethics added 46 new photos — in Overland Park, Kansas.
@PracBioethics staff were blown away by “Wishes for the World.” Created by #Hallmark artists Marn Jensen & Andy Newcom, the exhibit depicts works of art illustrating the #wisdom of older adults drawn from dozens of interviews. #OlderAdults https://t.co/ad4QNHLs9A
Board on Health Sciences Policy : Health and Medicine DivisionCongrats to Richard Payne, MD! His appointment to the Health Sciences Policy Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will bring an ethical perspective to the Board’s activities to encourage and sustain basic biomedical and clinical research… ...
Fostering Civil Discourse - and Humor - in a Partisan EraBy Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMinFifteen years ago in the aftermath of 9/11, I was invited to respond as an Ethics panelist to a new, self-published book, The Fundamentals of Extremism (Blaker, et al., New Boston Books, Inc., 2003). The authors ...
Ethics, Morality and Genomic Science: Can We Play God the Way God Plays God?Richard Payne, MDThe wisdom of humans tinkering with nature has been challenged throughout the ages based on a common storyline: humans unwisely tamper with nature with disastrous consequences for the creator when we cross a line previously reserved for the ...
Gun Violence: Prevention by Paying AttentionTarris Rosell, DMin, PhDIn a time of heightened anxiety about gun ownership and gun violence, the theme of this blog may already have some “Second Amendment People” reaching for their Glocks in self-defense. Or those impassioned for increased regulation of ...
Lifetime Achievement in BioethicsCenter for Practical Bioethics Founding Executive Myra Christopher Honored by American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Forty years ago, a young Johnson County, Kansas, homemaker stood by her mother’s grave and promised to spend the rest of her life working to ...