Can Death Determined by Neurologic Criteria Be Salvaged? Alternatives and Implications, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 23rd ANNUAL MEETING, Portland, Oregon (October 28, 2022).
Brain Death Controversies, PEDIATRIX NATIONAL MEDICAL GROUP MEDICAL DIRECTORS MEETING (September 20, 2022).
Controversies in Brain Death, BROWARD HEALTH, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (June 22, 2022).
Brain Death: Must Clinicians Obtain Consent to Perform Testing for Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria? 45th ANNUAL HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Phoenix, Arizona (June 1-3, 2022).
Brain Death Controversies, INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, New York, New York (May 12, 2022).
Brain Death Is Integral to the UDDA, UNIFORM LAW COMMISSION DRAFTING COMMITTEE ON THE UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT (April 21, 2022).
Observer, UNIFORM LAW COMMISSION DRAFTING COMMITTEE ON THE UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT (July 2021 - July 2022).
Consent for Death Determination Testing, DEFINITION AND DETERMINATION OF DEATH PROJECT - CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, CANADIAN CRITICAL CARE SOCIETY (March 1, 2022).
Who Is Alive and Who Is Dead? Growing Uncertainty and Reasons for Amending the Uniform Determination of Death Act, MITCHELL HAMLINE FELLOWS SERIES (February 1, 2022).
Moving Toward Better Quality and Uniformity in Brain Death Determination: Ethical and Legal Considerations, ORGAN DONATION ALLIANCE (December 16, 2021).
Who Is Alive and Who Is Dead? Growing Uncertainty, Growing Variability, and Why Is New Jersey So Different KENT PLACE SCHOOL, Summit, New Jersey (November 4, 2021).
Potential and Problems in the Evolving Legal Framework for Brain Death, NEUROCRITICAL CARE SOCIETY 19th ANNUAL MEETING, Chicago, Illinois (October 29, 2021).
Legal Foundations, INTERNATIONAL DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FORUM, Montreal, Quebec (October 14-15, 2021).
New Legal Standards for Determining Death, ORGAN DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION ALLIANCE - NATIONAL DONOR MANAGEMENT SUMMIT (September 1-2, 2021).
Non-Therapeutic Pre-Mortem Interventions for Organ Donation, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA CONFERENCE ON ORGAN DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION (June 17-18, 2021).
Brain Death: Legal Constructs and Complications, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY BRAIN DEATH CONFERENCE (March 24-25, 2021).
Death and the Brain: Time to Re-Examine the Legal Definition of Death, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA CENTRE FOR HEALTH LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICS (February 25, 2020).
Observer, UNIFORM LAW COMMISSION STUDY COMMITTEE ON THE UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT (Nov. 2020 - July 2021).
Current Ethical and Legal Issues in Brain Death in Our Pluralistic World, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 22nd ANNUAL MEETING, Baltimore, Maryland (October 15-18, 2020).
Brain Death: Fundamental Principles and Growing Ethical Challenges, OMAHA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ETHICS GRAND ROUNDS, Omaha, Nebraska (October 9, 2020).
Proposal to Revise the UDDA to Address Medicolegal Controversies in Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria, UNIFORM LAW COMMISSION HEALTHCARE LAW COMMITTEE (April 3, 2020) (with Ariane Lewis, Matthew Kirschen, and Richard Bonnie).
Brain Death Bioethics: Fundamental Principles and Emerging Issues, EIGHTH ANNUAL GREAT LAKES PALLIATIVE CARE CONFERENCE, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (May 3, 2019) (invited plenary).
Brain Death Is Broken: Status Shift and Implications, EMORY HEALTHCARE ETHICS CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE, Atlanta, Georgia (March 21, 2019) (invited keynote).
Brain Death and the Law – Hard Cases and Legal Challenges, THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (ICEL3), Ghent, Belgium (March 7-9, 2019).
Brain Death Bioethics, MAYO CLINIC, Rochester, Minnesota (December 13, 2018).
Roundtable on Jahi McMath and Other Controversial Brain Death Cases, VIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BRAIN DEATH AND DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Havana, Cuba (December 4-7, 2018) (chairperson, moderator).
Brain Death Uncertainty: Growing Challenges to Its Legal Status, VIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BRAIN DEATH AND DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Havana, Cuba (December 4-7, 2018) (opening plenary).
Brain Death Uncertainty: Growing Challenges to Its Legal Status, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN DIEGO BIOMEDICAL ETHICS SEMINAR SERIES, San Diego, California (November 19, 2018).
Brain Death: New Challenges, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (October 29, 2018).
Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 20TH ANNUAL MEETING, Anaheim, California (October 18-21, 2018).
Brain Death Challenges Facing Children's Hospitals, CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS CHIEF LEGAL OFFICERS MEETING, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 4, 2018).
When Is the Patient Dead? When May Clinicians Stop Treating Dead Patients? Growing Challenges to the Status of Brain Death and Strategies for Clinical Ethics Consultants, INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ETHICS SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Oxford, England (June 19, 2018).
Brain Death and the Law: Hard Cases and Legal Challenges, DEFINING DEATH: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION AND THE 50-YEAR LEGACY OF THE HARVARD REPORT ON BRAIN DEATH, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts (April 11-13, 2018).
One Patient, or Two? Brain Death and the Pregnant Patient, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 19TH ANNUAL MEETING, Kansas City, Missouri (October 21, 2017).
Brain Death: New Challenges, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE October 17, 2017).
The End of Death: Growing Challenges to the Legal Status of Brain Death, SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END OF LIFE, LAW, ETHICS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE, Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 15-17, 2017).
Changing Legal Status of Brain Death in California, CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER, Los Angeles, California (December 21, 2016).
When Is Your Patient Dead? When May You Stop Treating Dead Patients? KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES, Kansas City, Missouri (November 8, 2016).
Brain Death, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BIOETHICS PROSEMINAR, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October 18, 2016).
When Is Your Patient Dead? When May You Stop Treating Dead Patients? The Changing Legal Status of Brain Death, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO (September 29, 2016).
Brain Death: Expanding Duties to Accommodate Objections, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATION (ICCEC), Washington, DC (May 20, 2016).
Jahi McMath and the California End of Life Options Act, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (March 3, 2016) (guest lecture webinar).
Brain Death: Expanding Family Objections and Recommended Clinician Responses, MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (June 2, 2015).
Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Clinicians' Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Objections and Continue Physiological Support --at the 2015 Annual Conference Law, Religion, and American Healthcare, PETRIE-FLOM CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND BIOETHICS, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts (May 8-9, 2015).
Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Clinicians' Legal Duties to Accommodate Objections and Continue Physiological Support, RYAN BIOETHICIST IN RESIDENCE - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Springfield, Illinois (April 15, 2015).
Brain Death: Clinician Duties to Accommodate Objections and "Treat" the Dead, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, Minneapolis, Minnesota (February 13, 2015).
What Is Reasonable Accommodation and Are We Doing It? - at the "Brain Death": Facilitating Family/Hospital Dialogue about Death by Neurological Criteria, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY BIOETHICS INSTITUTE & SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIOETHICS COMMITTEE CONSORTIUM (SCBCC), Los Angeles, California (January 18, 2015).
Definition of Death, NEISWANGER INSTITUTE FOR BIOETHICS AND HEALTH POLICY (February 27, 2014) (guest class speaker).
Jahi Mcmath and Medical Futility: California Law on Therapeutic Obstinacy and Non-beneficial Treatment, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & SCHOOL OF LAW, Los Angeles, California (February 25, 2014).
Brain Death and Futility, ARIZONA BIOETHICS NETWORK Webinar (June 19, 2014).
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