Dennis A. Robbins Ph.D., M.P.H.
2210 E SHEA BLVD.
Tel: (602) 368-6455 Email: DennisRobbins@cox.net
Website: DennisRobbins.com
Dennis A. Robbins is a nationally recognized health care thought leader with over three
decades of experience in health care. His Ph.D. from Boston College is
complemented by postdoctoral MPH training in ethics and health law as a
National Fund for Medical Education Fellow in the Kennedy Interfaculty Program
at Harvard and as a Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow in the Division of Health Law and Policy . Dr. Robbins' extensive
work on the interface of ethics with quality, liability, payment systems, new
technologies, health law, integrative medicine and health policy is complemented
by an eclectic blend of academic and business experience. He serves or has
served as an advisor for major national organizations, associations, law firms,
hospital systems, medical equipment/technology manufacturers, health care trade
associations, insurers and government. He has
been an advisor to the President’s Commission on Ethical Issues in Biomedicine,
Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and the White House Educational Advisory
Committee on Complementary and Alternative
Dr. Robbins has authored/published seven books and over
350 articles, chapters and reviews in healthcare ethics, and has served as a
columnist and national advisor for several healthcare journals. He writes a
column on ethics for the Journal of Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality. He
was honored by Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine as among the top ten
“keenest thinkers” in managed care. His work has been repeatedly acclaimed in
other national media.
EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Harvard University Schools of
Boston, MA
Visiting Scholar & Research Fellow in Ethics 79-80
Focus
on Health care ethics/health services administration interface
Taught
PT Boston University’s Health Policy Program/Northeastern Univ Nursing Program
Involved
with Harvard Hong Kong Self Help Treatment Program, Community Health
Improvement Program and Hospice Programs
Boston College Doctor
of Philosophy in Philosophy - June 1974
Chestnut Hill, MA
with high distinction
University of Oklahoma Master
of Arts - June 1972
Norman, OK (Major: Philosophy)
University of North Texas Bachelor
of Arts - June 1970
Denton, TX (Major: Philosophy)
University of Mississippi Law School Several
Law School Courses 1981-1983
NON-ACADEMIC WORK
EXPERIENCE
Integrated Decisions, Ethics, Alternatives President 1983 - Present
and Solutions (IDEAS)
The Policy Group, LLC
Co-Founder 2004-Present
Duties: Develop strategic initiatives to position a company to achieve adequate and timely reimbursement. Assist clients to create valuable relationships with payers, business, and government. Offer customized solutions to secure relationships with national Payers, supporting key introductions with influential thought leaders, change agents, and centers of influence. Help clients to expand existing markets and identify new markets, demonstrating the effectiveness value of products and technology. Help accelerate client endeavors in reimbursement strategy both pre-and post- approval, help identify and solve issues before they can become problems, cultivate coding change applications and reimbursement, target strategic alliances of behalf of clients, cultivate strategic relationships with payers and centers of influence, assist clients with high level networking, provide introductions to strategic partners and policymakers, serve as barometers to anticipate political trends and change and influence national policy development.
Time Inc. District Sales Manager 1964-1968
Duties: Responsible for Time Life Books innovative sales experiment in states of VA. W. Va. MD. DC, and PA. Formerly assistant manager in Dallas office and Manager in PA Developed marketing and attrition strategies and materials for nascent Time Life Books program. Coordinated findings with HQ in NY
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Pepperdine University
Graduate School of Public Policy
Arizona State University
Adjunct Professor, Carey School of Business 2005- and Acting Chair Health and Human
Services 2006- Board of Spa Management
Program in Exercise and Wellness,
2008 Faculty Dept Exercise and Wellness
Duties:
Teach Ethics and Health Law, CAM Courses and Native American Chinese
Portland, OR
Loyola University Medical Center Adjunct Associate Professor 1994 – 2000
Maywood, IL
Duties: Teach Courses (Selectives) to fourth year
medical students. Taught in first year ethics sequence. Participated in and/or
offered various ethics grand rounds
Wayne State University and Affiliated
Hospitals Adjunct
Assistant Professor in Internal
Duties: Taught Medical Ethics, participated in grand
rounds and medical and surgical reports. Clinical Ethicist for the VA Medical
Center and Director of Medical Ethics for MICU, SICU, CCU, Pulmonary and Oncology Units at Sinai
Hospital
Salve Regina College Associate
Professor and Director of
Newport,
RI Graduate
Program-Health Administration 83 - 85
Duties: Directed program in Health Administration,
including budgeting, hiring, counseling and curriculum design. Taught courses in Ethics, Health Law, Health
Policy, Health Finance, Health Economics and Health Care Services
Administration. Close collaboration with School of Nursing
University of Mississippi Associate
Professor 1981- 1983
Oxford, MS
Duties: Part of
Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Studies and Department of Health
Services Administration. Taught courses in Legislation and Policy, Ethics,
Health Services and Health Law. Also
served as section editor for the Journal of Emergency Nursing (1979-82) and Associate
Editor for MacNews Update - A computer software review publication (1979-1982).
Harvard University National
Fund for Medical Education Fellow and Research Fellow in Medical Ethics in the
Kennedy Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics. Assisted Francis Glessner Lee
Professor Wm. J. Curran Law
University of North Carolina Assistant
Professor
Wilmington, NC
Duties: Taught in the Department of Philosophy and
Religion courses in Ethics and Biomedical Ethics. Designed conferences and community education programs.
1975 – 1979. Also taught extension courses for Chapman College
Northeastern University
Taught
ethics and Medical ethics related
courses 1980-81
Boston, MA
Chestnut Hill,
MA
University of Oklahoma Teaching
Assistant 1971-72
Norman, OK
TECNHOLOGY_SPECIFIC
CONSULTATION
RS Medical, Coverage, Payment, Research and Networking Liaison
Meretek Diagnostics Government Relations and Reimbursement liaison
BD Reimbursement liaison
CardioMag (Non Magnetic Device to Observe Flow Patterns of the Heart for early identification of Silent Heart Attack
Cardiobeat Non Invasive blue tooth impedance carrdiography product)
Zyto bio-interactive technology product
4D Anatomy Vittural dissection and virtual surgery platform
Close interactions with CIGNA HQ, Aetna, Kaiser, CMS, Homeland Secrity and Biodefense, United Health Care, PPOs, , NIH, AMA, CPT, the RUC, Multiplan, Blue Cross National Assn and Several Major Blue Cross Plans including Wellpoint and a wide range of other first and third party payors,
INTEGRATIVE/TRADITIONAL MEDICINE EXPERIENCE
Board Member, The Red Road to Native American Wellness
Foundation MO
Spa Management Program Faculty and Board Member at ASU
White House Complementary and Alternative
Board of Directors Zyto Corp, A Bioenergetics Company based
in Utah, 2006-08
Head of Scientific Advisory Board Xito and later Zyto Corp
2005-6
President and Professor of Natural
Collaborative NCCAM grant development with Univ of OR Med
Center
Chair Advisory Board in Chinese
Advisor to American Assn of Oriental
Advisory Board Wellness Institute of the Warm Mineral
Springs, Northport FL 2000-2001
ETHICS
AND HEALTH LAW-SPECIFIC TRAINING/CONSULTATION
YEAR LONG POSTDOCTORAL ETHICS
FELLOWSHIP
Fellow in Kennedy
Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics through the Division of Legal
Other Fellowships include Hogg Fellowship at UT Galveston and an NEH Fellowship at University of Kentucky
FORMAL COURSEWORK IN LAW AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
·
Human
Rights in Health (Harvard School Public Health)
·
Law and
·
Law
and Public Policy (Harvard School Public Health)
· Torts I
· Torts II
· Health Law
·
Law and Political Process
·
Products
Liability
·
Law
and Government
· Jurisprudence
FORMAL COURSEWORK IN
ETHICS
· Ph.D. in Philosophy
·
Year-long
Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Ethics at Harvard
·
Coursework
in School of Public Health and School of
·
Ethics
in Geriatrics
·
Foundations
of Decision Theory and Cost Benefit Analysis
·
Uncertainty
in Psychiatry
· Inducing Social Change
· Health Regulation and Policy
ETHICS
CONTENT ADVISOR FOR NATIONAL PROGRAMS
· National Managed Healthcare Congress
· The Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
· The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians
· Mosby
· Medical Media Associates
· Medical Education Resources International
· Case Management Society of America
· McGraw-Hill
· Hill-Rom
· Bimark
· Blue Cross
·
Medical Auditors
ETHICS/ HEALTH LAW INTERFACE EXPERIENCE
LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT (ACTIVE DEVELOPING/INFLUENCING ETHICS-SPECIFIC LEGISLATION)
· Maine
· Massachusetts
· Rhode Island
·
West Virginia
·
Kentucky
· North Carolina
· New Jersey
· New York
· The Presidents Commission on Ethical Issues in Biomedicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
EXPERT WITNESS/ADVISOR
·
Expert
on ethical issues in managed care
·
Expert
witness on ethical issues in medicine (Washington DC, Northern and Southern
Cal, Vermont, Kentucky, Illinois)
·
Advisor
to prominent law firms and hospital systems of end of life decision making and
conflict resolution policy development
· Involved in developing U.S. Supreme Ct Brief on case to be heard February 2000 involving fiduciary duty and direct financial incentives
·
Served as a consultant or advisor to such risk management
and health organizations as: HCA, AMI, Southern Medical Association, American
Society of Law and
· Worked closely with Wm. J. Curran, the editor of "Health Law Notes" at the New England Medical Journal.
AWARDS, GRANTS, &
ADVISORY BOARDS
Advisor to 4DAnatomy
Zyto Corp (Head Scientific Advisory Board and later Board
of Directors Member)
Genomics company (GNM) advisory Board Member
Health Care Dimensions Advisory Board (501C3)
National Managed Healthcare Congress Advisory Board
Medicare Advantage Congress Advisory Board
Editorial Board Member and columnist. J Pt Safety and
Quality Healthcare
Editorial Board, Managed Healthcare and Managed Healthcare
Executive
American Board of QA and UR Physicians Journal Advisory
Board
Advisor and Consultant to Cardiobeat, cardiology technology
startup
NMHCC Disease Management Advisory Board.
Bimark/Novartis Managed Care 2000 Advisory/Editorial
Board
CME Advisory Board for Certification Exam for American
Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians and the National
Board of Medical Examiners 1998
Editorial Board, Home Health Care Management and Practice
1996
Associate Editor MacNews Update, 1983-1986
Advisory Board, Medical Education Resources International
1982-1984
Grant from Michigan Department of Aging 1983
Grant from Michigan Department of Health 1983
Secured funding for Minister of Health and other visiting
dignitaries from Soviet Far East from Johnson and Johnson, AMA, pharmaceutical
companies and DME suppliers 1990 and 1991
Legal and Ethical Controversies in Long Term Care
Conference Windsor ONT 1986
Hogg Foundation Fellowship University of Texas Galveston
1980
National Fund for Medical Education Fellowship (1 of 3
nationally) 1980
Fellow in Kennedy Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics
AAAS/NSF Chautauqua Award 1977
Full Teaching Fellowship Boston College University
National Endowment for the Humanities Award in Ethics and
Allied Health Professions 1981
North Carolina Humanities Council Grant for Conference on
Ethical Issues in Biomedicine, 76
National Fund for Medical Education Fellowship 1979
Research Fellowship in Medical Ethics, Harvard 1980
Visiting Scholar, Harvard 1979
National Advisory Board Committee for National Endowment
for the Humanities 1979-1980
Section Editor in Medical Ethics Journal of Emergency
Nursing 1980-1983
SELECTED
KEYNOTES
National Managed Healthcare
Congresses (several)
JCAHO National Long Term Care and
Assisted Living Meeting
JCAHO National Home Care and
Hospice
Healthcare Financial Management
Assn
American Board of QA and UR
Physicians (several)
National Medical Auditors Assn
American Hospital Assn
Case Management Society of America
National Society for Medical
Auditors
Indiana Managed Care Task Force
Mosby Case Management National
Meeting
National Managed Health Care
Congresses
National Managed Care Disease
Management Congress
Texas Case Mgt Assn TRACM
National Community Behavioral
Health Conference
International Managed Care
Congress
National Blue Cross Medical
Directors’ Meeting
Blue Cross 17 state Meeting for
Medical Directors CEOs and Board Members
URAC
Parke Davis Medical Directors’
Retreat
Several National American Board Of
Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Meetings
International Managed Healthcare
Congress
NMHCC CEO Summit
The New York Homecare Strategic
Alliance Conference
Case Management Assn. National
Conference
American Assn. of Homes and
Services for the Aging
Battle Creek Health Care Systems
and VA Medical Center
Magadan USSR-Ministry of Health
Magadan Soviet Far East
Bilibina, Chukotka, Arctic Circle USSR
Northern California Hospital Assn
Kentucky Hospital Assn
New England Society of Hospital
Social Work Directors
West Virginia Health Care
Association
New England Region Society for
Hospital Social Work Directors
N J Citizens Bioethics Advisory
Committee & Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center
Illinois Health Care Assn
Maine Department Social
Services Mental Health and Mental
Retardation and Adult Protective Services Divisions Conference for Maine
Probate Judges Court Reporters & state based guardians
Michigan
Non Profit Homes Assn.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
·
BOOKS
Robbins, Dennis A. Putting Healthcare Promises into
Practice: Strategies and Innovations for Better Managing Care Delmar Publishers, 2000
Robbins, Dennis A . Managed Care On Trial: Recapturing
Trust, Integrity and Accountability in Healthcare McGraw Hill June 1998
Robbins, Dennis A.
Integrating Managed Care and Ethics: Transforming Challenges Into
Positive Outcomes McGraw Hill March
1998
Robbins, Dennis A. Ethical
and Legal Issues in Home Care and Long
Term Care: Challenges and Solutions
Gaithersburg MD Aspen Systems 1996
Robbins, Dennis A. Legal & Ethical Issues in Cancer
Care, Springfield: Charles Thomas, August 1983.
Robbins, Dennis A.
ed. w Allen Dyer, M.D., Ph.D. Ethical Dimensions of Clinical
Robbins, Dennis A. Ethical Issues in Biomedicine and
Related Areas edited conference proceedings 1978
• CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
Robbins, Dennis A. and Douglas Emery “Fiscal Arrogance and Capitation: Are there Ethical and Economic Antidotes? in: Global Fees for Episodes of Care: New Approaches to Health Care Finance Douglas W. Emery editor McGraw Hill Sept 1998
Robbins Dennis.A. and Mangum R. “Ethics and the New Synergy
of Rehabilitation” The Joint American Hospital Assn/ American Rehabilitation
Assn Proceedings AHA Publishing 1995
Robbins, Dennis A “Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding
Care of Patients of Diminished Competence” Alzheimers Disease and Dementia
Plenum Press , 1987.
Robbins, Dennis A. “Legal and Ethical Issues in Terminal
Illness Care for Patients, Families
Caregivers and Institutions” in Loss and Anticipatory Grief (ed.
Therese Rando ) D.C. Heath . 1986.
Robbins, Dennis A. “Examining Rights of the Terminally Ill
Incompetent Patient: Legal and
Ethical Considerations,” with John
Blum, J.D., S.M., in Ethical Dimensions of Clinical
Robbins, Dennis A “Uncertainty: An Unresolved Problem in Clinical
Blum, J. and Robbins, Dennis A. “Institutional and
Personnel Licensure in Hospice” in Hospice Policy and Public Programs
ed. by Paul Torrens Chicago: AHA
1984
Robbins, Dennis A. “A Prototype For Identifying And
Adjudicating Ethical Conflict: The Robbins Model for Decision-Making”, in
Grief, Dying and Bereavement: Clinical Interventions for Care Givers by
Therese Rando, Ph.D., Research Press,
Champaign, IL., 1984 pp 420-30
• ARTICLES IN
JOURNALS:
Employing Electrotherapeutic
Pain Management in A Home care Practice by C Gresham Bayne M.D. and Dennis
Robbins Ph.D, MPH AAHCP Frontiers April
2010
Robbins, Dennis
A. ,Bill Carroll “Innovations in
Electrotherapy” Case in Point April May
2010
Robbins, Dennis
A. Ask the Expert Case In Point March
2010
Robbins, Dennis A, and Tom Wilson Ph,
Brill, J and
Robbins Dennis A. “The Moral Hazard Undermining Health Care”, J. Patient
Safety and Quality Healthcare Jan/ Feb 2006
Robbins, Dennis
A, “Healthcare Cost and Quality”
J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Sept/Oct 2006
Robbins, Dennis A “Recapture the Power of Ethics” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare July/Aug 2006
Robbins, Dennis A and Joel Brill, Part D and “Consumerism, Patient Safety and Quality” Healthcare Aug 2006 w/Brill
Robbins, Dennis A and Joel V. Brill, MD “Assessing the Price of Paying for Performance” w/Brill Managed Healthcare Executive 2006
Robbins, Dennis A, and Joel Brill MD “Medication Therapy Management:
Challenge and Opportunity” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Jan/Feb
2006
Robbins, Dennis A, Mark Pilley MD,Joel Brill MD Integrity, Disparity and Payment, J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare March/April 2006
Joel Brill and Robbins Dennis A “Specialty Pharmaceuticals: Tip of the Ethical Iceberg” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare May/ June 2006 “
Robbins, Dennis A. Blending Ethics and Empowerment with Consumer Driven Healthcare Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare May June 2005
Robbins, Dennis A “Healthy Advice from the 4th Century BC” Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Nov 2005
Robbins, Dennis A and Joel V. Brill, MD ““Part D and Health Care Literacy: It’s Not As Easy as 1, 2, 3” Managed Healthcare Executive Fall 2005
Robbins, Dennis
A, “” Healthy Advice from the 4th Century BC” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Nov/Dec
2005
Robbins, Dennis A.
“Ethics: From Toothless Barking to Problem Solving Tool”, Journal of Patient
Safety and Quality Healthcare February
2005
Robbins, Dennis A” Towards an Ethics of Helping and
Healing” Continuing Care November/December 2000
Robbins, Dennis A “Weaving Wellness Into Mainstream Medicine ” Managed Healthcare August 2000
Robbins, Dennis A “Taking the High Road” Continuing Care
July/August 2000 pp 22-26 (cover story)
Robbins, Dennis A “Judging the Future: Supreme Court’s
Decision in Herdrich v Pegram Could Shape Managed Care in the 21st
Century”, Continuing Care March 2000
Robbins, Dennis A “The Herdrich Care: A Potpourri of Ethical Issues before the US Supreme Ct” ,Continuing Care, February 2000.
Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting Care Above Profit: Revisiting Advocacy, Denial of Payment and Compromised Care” Continuing Care April 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting
Promises into Practice Continuing
Care September 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. “Avoiding the
Appearance of Wrongdoing” Managed Healthcare October 1999
Robbins, Dennis A.” Venturing
Through the Thicket of Legal Liability: An Update on Goodrich V Aetna” Managed Healthcare August 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics,
Innovation, and Fitness? C’mon!”, Managed Healthcare May 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting Care Above Profit: Revisiting
Advocacy, Denial of Payment and Compromised Care” Continuing Care April 1999
(cover story)
Robbins, Dennis A. “The Silent
PPO” Managed Healthcare June 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. “Legal Issues:
News article Karen Johnson and Goodrich” Managed Healthcare, March 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. “Hippocrates:
Friend or Foe of Managed Care? Managed Healthcare” 1999
Robbins, Dennis A. "American
Healthcare at the Crossroads" Managed Healthcare, January 1999
Robbins, Dennis A The Cost of Ambiguity: Emphasizing the Need
for Clarification and Conssitency in Health Plans Continuing Care April
1999
Robbins, Dennis A. "Does
Managed Care Care? Managed Care On Trial", Health Care Review May 1998
Robbins, Dennis A. "Ethical
Issues in Care: Unpacking Hidden and Aberrant Agendas" Homecare March
1996
Robbins,
Dennis A. “Putting Healthcare Promises into Practice September 1999 Continuing
Care pp 14-18
Robbins,
Dennis A “Ethical Issues in Physician
Capitation” (Letter) New England Journal of
Robbins,
Dennis A “Managed Care in Transition:
Transforming Adversity into Opportunity”, Managed Healthcare, December
1998
Robbins,
Dennis A “Does Managed Care Care? Managed
Care On Trial”, Health Care Review May 1998
Robbins,
Dennis A “Ethical Issues in Homecare” Home Health Management and Practice Jan
1998
Robbins,
Dennis A “Managing Information Technologies: Ethical Concerns” The Remington
Report ,November 1996
Robbins,
Dennis A "Ethics and Managed Home Care: Unpacking Hidden and Aberrant
Agendas" Homecare March 1996
Robbins, Dennis A “Managed Care and Patient Rights'-Feature
Article Home Health care Business Report 1996
Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics and Managed Care: A
Contradiction?” Homecare March 1996
Robbins, Dennis A. “The DeGrella Case: New Implications and
Opportunities for Healthy Reform in
Kentucky”: Kentucky Hospitals Fall 1993 pp. 14-18
Robbins, Dennis A. “The Edge of Life: Advance Directives
Protocols and the Patient Self Determination Act” Kentucky Hospitals Winter 1992
Robbins, Dennis A. “Do Advance Directives Have more Rights
than Patients Kentucky Hospitals),
Winter 1992
Robbins, Dennis A Are Rights Wrong?” Kentucky Hospitals
January 1991
Robbins, Dennis A. “The Integrated Policy” Invited article HCA
Risk Management Review (Hospital Corporation of
Robbins, Dennis A. “Do EMT's Have A Duty To Resuscitate?” Kentucky
Hospitals Spring 1989
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Policies to Integrate Clinical and
Administrative Ethics” Michigan Hospitals December 1988 pp.19-24
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Do EMT's Have A Duty To Resuscitate?” Kentucky
Hospitals Spring 1989 pp. 14-17.
Robbins, Dennis A.. “New Policies for Withholding/
Withdrawing Life Supports” Provider -Fall Issue 1988
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Patients Wishes and Clinical Ethics” Kentucky
Hospitals Fall 1988”
Robbins, Dennis A.. “New Perspectives on DNR” Kentucky Hospitals Winter 1988
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Autonomy and Authority: New Directions
in Substitute Decision Making” Kentucky Hospitals, Volume 2. Issue
4, Special Legislative Issue, Fall 1985 ,pp. 10-13
Robbins, Dennis A.. w/Lora
Robbins, M.S., L.S. H.S.A. “Dealing With Older Persons’ Fear of Medical
Environments” Kentucky Hospitals, JU 1986
Robbins, Dennis A. “Agonizing over Ethical Dilemmas or
Developing Administrative Policies
to Provide Guidance: It's Your Choice!”,
Robbins, Dennis A.. Feature Article - “Update: The Removal of Feeding Supports in Long-Term
Facilities,” Journal of Long-Term Care Administration Spring, 1985, pp. 3-7
Robbins, Dennis A.. “ w/ T. Gidley, LL.B “Must We
Resuscitate Every Patient?, Journal of Emergency Nursing June 1984
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Legal and Ethical Considerations in
Emergency Care” J Emergency Services December 1984
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Must Emergency Departments Save Every
Life?”, Journal of the RI Medical
Society December 1984
Robbins, Dennis A.. “The Convoluted Scope of Emergency
Care,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, January 1984
Robbins, Dennis A., “Reevaluating Talk of “Rights” in
Medical Care”, Journal of Emergency Nursing,, January 83
Robbins, Dennis A. “Uncertainty & Ethics: Implications for the Provision of Care,” Journal
of Emergency Nursing, June 83
Robbins, Dennis A. “Pain Control: Information, Palliation or Toxification?,” Journal
of Emergency Nursing, January-February 1982
Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics and the Emergency
Department Nurse,” Journal of
Emergency Nursing, May-June 1982 p.
100-103
Robbins, Dennis A. “Reduced Federal Monies: Conflicts in Ethics and Policy,” Journal
of Emergency Nursing, July-August 1982
Robbins, Dennis A. ““Ethical Questions Surrounding Neighborhood Emergency Centers': Balancing
Access With Quality,” Journal of
Emergency Nursing, September-October 1982
Robbins, Dennis A. w/John Blum J.D, Regulation: Current
Laws Hold Key to Hospice Licensure Hospitals December 1, 1982
Robbins, Dennis A. w/ M.Hanson
R.N. &. P.Weiss M.D. “Ethical Issue of
Emergency Care,”, Journal of Emergency Nursing, June 1981
Robbins, Dennis A. “Cost Containment and Terminal
Care: An Essay Into The Ethics Of
Appropriateness,” Journal of Long-Term Care Administration,
December 1981
Robbins, Dennis A.. and Blum J. “Court Intervention &
the Diminution of Patients' Rights”,
Robbins, Dennis A. “Dumping the Dope of Overdosed Patients,
Journal of Emergency Nursing November/December 1981
Robbins, Dennis A. “Smoking, Nursing Professionalism and
Ethics,” Journal of Emergency
Nursing,, March 1981
Robbins, Dennis A.. “Hospice Licensure and Regulation, The Omega Report, February1980
Robbins, Dennis
A. w/ John Blum “Developing a Model Geriatrics Patients' Bill
of Rights” Patients' Rights Digest, M 80
Robbins, Dennis A. “A Contemporary Dilemma in Regulation and
Ethics” Omega Report, February., 1980
ARTICLES
WRITTEN ABOUT MY WORK IN NATIONAL JOURNALS
Two interviews in Medical Economics 2006 on Pilling Splitting and Ethics and Ethics and Medical Education
Listed
as among top ten thinkers in Managed Care Nationally October 1999 in Managed
Health Care Executive Magazine
National Worker Comp Magazine by David Caine on Legal and Ethical Issues in Capitation and Managed Care 1999
“Interview on New Perspectives on Do Not Resuscitate, Hospital
Ethics, American Hospital Assn. May
1988 (by Don Phillips, editor)
“Ethical Decisions via Rounds and Consults, Hospital
Ethics, American Hospital Assn. September/October 1986 (by Don Phillips,
editor)
“The Integrated Policy” Hospital Ethics, American
Hospital Assn. September/October 1987
CONSULTATIONS
I have offered a wide range of grand rounds, consultations
with administrative and clinical staff, developed educational programs, offered
seminars and/or developed policies and procedures in the following settings
A. With National Health Care Organizations
Zyto Corporation
Becton Dickenson (BD)
American Medical Assn
Silver Sneakers
Meretek Diagnostics (Div of Otsuka
Pharmaceuticals)
Cardiobeat
URAC, Washington, DC
The Case Management Society of
America
The Center for Case Management
Outcomes and Accountability
The Dental Network of America
National Managed Healthcare
Congress
The Joint Commission for the
Accreditation of Health Care Assns. Worked with Managed Care, Managed
Behavioral Health Care Divisions Networks, PPOs and Future Initiatives at the
JCAHO
QHR/JCAHO as coordinator for ISQUA
International Congress as well as Joint Commission International
Glaxo Pharmaceuticals- Future
Trends in Healthcare - Retreat Pebble Beach CA Jan 1997
The American Board of Quality Assurance
and Utilization Review Physicians Tampa re Quality Assessment, Future Trends,
Liability Issues, The Cost Quality Interface re programs in Atlanta, Tampa, San
Francisco, Chicago, Mesa, AZ, New Orleans, and Baltimore
Hill Rom National LTC Meetings
The American Medical Assn.
The American Hospital Assn.
The
American Rehabilitation Assn.
The
National Hospice Assn.
The
American College of Healthcare Executives
National
Guardianship Association
National
Health Council
National
Adult Protective Services Conference
The
American Society on Aging
The
American Public Health Assn
The
American Gerontological Society
The
American College of Cardiology Administrators
The
American Association of Managed Care
(AAMCRA)
The
Swedish Cancer Society
The Am
Board of Quality Assurance and Risk Management Physicians
Hospital
Corporation of America
B. With State Health Care
Organizations/Associations
The
Arkansas Cost Containment Commission
The
California Hospital Assn.
AMI
Hospitals of California
The
Arizona Baptist Hospital System
The
Kentucky Baptist Hospital System
NJ
Citizens Bioethics Advisory Commission
Mercy
Health Services of Michigan
The
Kentucky Hospital Assn.
Michigan
Ethics Resource Network
The
Mississippi Hospital Assn.
The MS
College of Long Term Care Adm.
IL
Assn. of Homes and Housing for the Aged
Indiana
Assn. of Homes and Housing for the Aged
Princeton
Insurance Company of New Jersey
Princeton
Insurance Company in Maryland
The
Michigan Non Profit Homes Assn.
Ontario
Assn. of Homes & Housing for the Aged
Maine
Assn. of Homes and Housing for the Aged
Ohio Assn. of Homes and Housing for the Aged
The
South Dakota Health Care Assn.
The
West Virginia Health Care Assn.
NY
Assn. of Homes and Housing for the Aged
The
New York Homecare Assn.
C. At Teaching Hospitals
Northwestern
University (IL)
Loyola
University (IL)
Massachusetts
General Hospital (MA)
New
Bedford Hospital (MI)
Saratoga
Hospital (CA.)
The
Hospital Center at Orange (NJ)
Hopewell
Hospital (VA.)
HCA
Bluegrass Hospital (KY)
Pontiac
General Hospital (MI)
Pontiac
Osteopathic Hospital (MI)
St .
Mary's Hospital (MI)
Arnot
Ogden Hospital (NY)
Binghamton
Hospital (NY)
University
of Chicago (IL)
Sinai
Hospital (MI)
Banner
Health System (AZ)
Univ.
of AZ Med School (AZ)
Grace
Hospital (MI)
Harper
Hospital (MI)
Oakwood
Hospital (MI)
Wm.
Beaumont Hospital (MI)
South
Central Kentucky Regional Hospital (KY)
Bon
Secours Hospital (MI)
New
England Society Hospital Social Workers
Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
State
of Maine Dept. of Adult Protective Services
American
Educational Institute (MI)
Health
Care Satelitte Network (NJ)
Hospital
Satelitte Network (CA)
Muhlenberg
Regional Medical Center (NJ)
The
Hospital Center at Orange (NJ)
Baystate
Medical Center (MA)
W. Va
Health care Assn.
Humana
Hospital (AK)
Valley
View Medical Center (AZ)
Villa
View (CA)
Catholic
Health System of Long Island (NY)
Manatee
Memorial Hospital (FL)
Arizona
Baptist Hospital
Wausau
Hospital Center (WI)
Rhode
Island Hospital
Lawrence
Memorial Hospital (CT)
Providence
Hospital (MI)
Henry
Ford Hospital (MI)
University
of Michigan Hospital (MI)
VA Medical Centers in IL,MI, KY, SD, W. VA.
Los
Gatos Hospital (CA.)
The
Academy of Family Physicians
The
Maine Society of Hospital Social Workers
The
American Board of Quality Assurance and Risk Management Physicians
Illinois
College of Family Practice
Mississippi
Hospital Assn.
Mississippi
Health Care Assn.
West
Virginia Academy of Family Practice
New
England Forum for Death Education
Int'l Workgroup on Dying, Death, &
Bereavement
D. At Medical Schools
Harvard
Medical School
University
of Arizona
Vanderbilt
Medical School
University
of Mississippi Medical School
Marshall
Medical School (W VA.)
University
of California at Berkeley
University
of Louisville Medical School
University
of Kentucky Medical School
Midwestern
University (IL)
New
Jersey College of
Rutgers
University School of
University
of SD School of
Tufts
Medical School
Boston
University Medical School
Brown
University Medical School
Texas
A and M Medical School
Southwestern
Medical School
University
of Chicago Medical School
Wayne
State Medical School
Northwestern
University Medical School
Loyola
Medical School
University
of Michigan Medical School
E. At Rural Hospitals, Long Term Care Facilities,
Home Health Organizations et al Not Already Listed
National
Assn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Prime
Inc.
Assn
of Managed Care Pharmacists
The
Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys
The
New York Home Care Assn
The Chicago Bar Assn.: Health lawyers Division
Tabor
Hills Healthcare Facility (LTC)
The
Jewish Home for the Aged (MI)
The
Princeton Insurance Company
Tri‑Cities
Medical Center (CA.)
San
Dimas Hospital (CA.)
Glendora
Hospital (CA.)
Holmdel
Hospital (NJ)
Bayshore
Hospital (NJ)
Desert
Hills LTC (AZ)
Washington
Guardianship Assn.
University
of California‑Davis
Texas
Adult Protective Services
Maine
Adult Protective Services
Maine
Probate Judges and Court Reporters
National Speaking Tours 1985-1987
·
Who’s in Charge of the Hopelessly Ill Patient?
January 8, 1985 NYC
January 9, 1985 Baltimore
January 16, 1985 Ann
Arbor
January 17, 1985 Pittsburgh
April 3, 1985
Boston
April 4, 1985 Syracuse
April 12, 1985 Philadelphia
April 13, 1985 Washington
DC
April 19, 1985 Ft.
Lauderdale
April 20, 1985 Chicago
April 26, 1985 Atlanta
April 27, 1985 Cleveland
·
Standards Liability, and Informed Consent: Developing
Policies for Removal of Life Supports
June 9, 1986 Syracuse
June 10,1986 Toronto,
ONT CAN
June 24, 1986
Hartford, CT
June 26, 1986 Dearborn, MI
June 27, 1986 Cleveland
OH
July10, 1986 Milwaukee,
WI
July 11, 1986 St.
Louis, MO
July 25, 1986 Philadelphia,
PA
August 14, 1986 Cincinnati,
OH
August 15, 1986 Washington
DC
August 28, 1986 Atlanta,
GA
August 29 1986 Miami,
FL
September 5, 1986 Minneapolis,
MN
September 10, 1986
September 11, 1986 San
Francisco, CA
September 12, 1986 Seattle,
WA
November 5, 1986 Portland,
OR
November 6, 1986 Vancouver,
Canada
November 7, 1986 Calgary
November 12, 1986 Boston,
MA
November 13, 1986 Toronto
November 14, 1986 Albany
NY
December 1, 1986
Honolulu
December 9, 1986
December 10, 1986 Houston
December 11, 1986 Kansas
City
December 15, 1986 Pittsburgh
December 16, 1986 Raleigh
December 17, 1986 Tampa
January 26, 1987
“Pulling the
Plug”
January 16, 1987 Las
Vegas
January 19, 1987 San
Francisco CA
January 30, 1987
Phoenix AZ
January 26, 1987
Washington DC
January 27, 1987 Jacksonville
FL
February 9, 1987 Boston
MA
February 16, 1987 Ann
Arbor, MI
February 17, 1987 Chicago,
IL
February 23, 1987
Toronto Canada
February 24, 1987 Philadelphia
PA
May 7, 1987 NYC
May 8, 1987
May 9, 1987
May 11, 1987
May 26, 1987
June 18, 1987
June 19,1987
July 9, 1987
July 10, 1987
July 16, 1987 Philadelphia
July 17,1987
July 23, 1987 Hyannis
July 24, 1987 Bangor
·
Integrating Clinical and Administrative Ethics
September 9, 1987 Philadelphia
September 10, 1987 Chicago
September 14, 1987 Boston
September 17, 1987 Columbus
September 18, 1987 NYC
September 19, 1987 Toronto
October 1, 1987 Uppsala
College NJ
October 13, 1987 Cincinnati
October 14, 1987 New
Orleans
October 19, 1987 Kansas
City
October 20, 1987 Phoenix
October 26, 1987 Pittsburgh
January 25, 1988 Philadelphia
January 26, 1988
NYC
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND MOST RECENT KEYNOTES
Innovations in Pain Management and
Home Care: Treating the Sickest Sick with M Frabotta and Bill Carroll “Case
Management Society of America’s Annual National Meeting
Understanding Electrotherapy with
Elaine Key R.N. Arkansas Work Com Spring Fling Meetings
End of Life Decision Making :
Tracing the Legal Legacy Body Positive
Regional Conference
“The Native American/Chinese
“Ethics and Leadership”
“Ethics and Biotechnology Drugs”
Panel with Mark Leib M.D. J.D and Wayne Lednar M.D. Ph.D. American Assn of
Managed Care Pharmacists. Nashville October 2005
“Tracing the Legal and Ethical Legacy from
Quinlan to Schiavo” Chicago American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization
Review Physicians September 2005
“Ethics, Evidence and Consumer
Driven Health Care” with Joel Brill M.D. FACG
Boston SRI Diesase Management Symposium
August 2005
“Ethics and Evidence Based
Ethics and Genomics AAMPC,
Scottsdale March 2005
4 national web casts on Ethics and
Biotech drugs with Bill Shergy M.D. (sponsored by PRIME Inc.
“Ethics Safety and
Biotechnology” National Assn Clinical
Pharmacist Meeting April 2005, Denver
Keynote: “The E Factor: Ethics,
Leadership and Bioterrorism” NMHCC National Meeting Spring 2004
Keynote “Ethics and Payment
Systems” National Assn of Medical Auditors Meeting San Diego 2003
“Ethics and Managed Care” Banner
Health Systems Desert Samaritan Hospitals
Spring 2003
Keynote: Weaving Wellness Into the
Mainstream: New Horizons and Opportunities April 6, 2002 Orlando, National
College of Oriental
Keynote: “Putting Healthcare
Promises into Practice” District IX Blue Cross Plans Phoenix
March 2000
Keynote: “Using Ethics to Solve
the Cost/Care Puzzle”
Keynote: “ American Healthcare at
the Crossroads: Transforming Adversity into Opportunity”
Mosby
Keynote:“ Ethical Issues In
Managed Mental Healthcare” National Community Behavioral Health Conference
Keynote: “ Putting Promises into
Practice” National Managed Health Care Congress, Atlanta GA., March 1999
Keynote: “Managed Care Litigation
and Its Impact on Disease Management” National Managed Care Disease Management
Congress,
Keynote: “Managed Care on Trial”
International Managed Care Congress Las Vegas, NV December 1998
Keynote: “ Integrating Managed
care and Ethics” National Blue Cross Medical Directors’ Meeting Indian Wells,
CA November 1998”
Keynote: JCAHO National Home Care
and Hospice Meeting “Managing Change
While Safeguarding Quality”
Keynote:”Navigating Treacherous
Ethical Waters” Case Management Society of
Keynote: “Managed Care on
Trial”
Keynote: “Navigating Change: Ethical and Legal
Challenges” JCAHO National Long Term Care and Assisted Living Meeting, Chicago,
IL April 1998
Medical Directors Retreat
“Integrating Managed Care and Ethics” Parke Davis Medical Directors’
Retreat
Keynote:
Exploring Ethical Challengers in Home Care” Colorado Home Care Assn, Denver,
CO September 1998
Keynote: “Ethical Issues
Associated with Direct Financial Incentives and Capitated Care” American Board
Of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Meetings, Tampa, FL.
March 27, 28, 1998
1998 Grand Rounds on Managed Care
and Ethics for Healthcare Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Providence Hospital,
Southfield Michigan, Loyola Medical Center, Maywood IL. and
HMC “Physicians Reclaiming the
Practice of
Keynote: “Leadership and Liability
in Managed Care” International Managed
Healthcare Congress
“Managed Care and End of Life
Decision Making” with Paul Armstrong JD and Mark Hiepler JD, American Board Of
Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Meetings New Orleans,
LA November 7, 8 1997
Ethical Challenges in Long Term
Care ” JCAHO National Long Term Care and Assisted Living Meeting April 1997 Chicago, IL
“Case Management: Polling the
Leaders and Experts” American Board Of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review
Physicians Meeting Tampa, FL April 27, 1997
American Board Of Quality
Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Meeting,
“Integrating Safety, Cost and
Quality American Board Of Quality
Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Meeting
“Rexamining Fiduciary
Duties”, IPA Assn of American,
Keynote shared by Arnold Relman
MD, “Ethics and the New Economics” National Managed Healthcare Congress
West,
Keynote: “The Case Manager Caught
in the Middle”, Mosby MCMC National Conference Nashville TN, October 1997
Keynote: “Integrating Clinical and
Administrative Ethics” NMHCC CEO Summit Los Angeles, CA. Jan 28, 29 1997
Director of National Medical
Directors Summit NMHCC Washington DC, April 1997
Keynote:“Eliminating
Misconceptions about Legal Liability” American Board Of Quality Assurance and
Utilization Review Physicians Meetings, Tampa FL February 28, 1997
“ New Perspectives on End of Life
Decision Making” Geriatric Nurses Meeting at Opryland Nashville TN August 1997
Keynote: “Ethics and the
Information Superhighway” Healthcare
Financial Management Assn ANI with Arthur Miller, Arnold Relman, Emily
Friedman, Carl Hitchener San Diego, CA. Spring, 1997
2 day program for newly entering
CFOs into Healthcare, Buffalo New York Spring, 1997
“Ethical
Issues on the Long Term Care/Managed Care Interface”, The American College of
Health Care Administrators Annual Conference New Orleans, LA. April 1996
Keynote: “Money, Partnering and
Advocacy: Exploring Ethical Issues in Capitated Care” NMHCC Meetings New York
City, NY April 1996
Keynote: National Managed
Healthcare Congress with Tom Anton J.D. Chicago, IL June 12, 1996
“Ethics
and Managed Home Care”The
“Unpacking Hidden Agendas in Managed Care”' Personal Health
management Conference San Diego
“The Case Manager Caught in the Middle” Case Management
Assn. National Conference Orlando September 1996
“Ethics, Homecare and the New Economics” Home Care Assn. of
“The Physician Caught in the Middle”
“Ethics and Long Term care (panelist)” American Health Care
Association Honolulu, September 1996
“Ethics and Managed
Care: Implications for Long Term Care” American Assn. of Homes and Services for
the Aging San Antonio November 1995
“ Ethical Issues surrounding Health Care Reform” American
Health Care Assn. --Las Vegas October 1994
Battle Creek Health Care Systems and VA Medical Center--
Multiple lectures October through January
(6 full days) 1994-1995
“Medical Risk Management and the New Economics:
Implications for End of Life Decision Making”
“Legal and Ethical Issues in Managed Care; Reassessing
Roles and Responsibilities”,
“Self Determination DNR and Medical Futility: Developing
Policies, Procedures and Continuity” Tabor Hills Healthcare Naperville IL
September 1995
“Emerging Ethical
issues on the Managed Care/ Long Term Care Interface”, Illinois Healthcare Network Springfield,
IL, August 1995
. “Economic Profiling, Gatekeeping and Rationing:
Challenges to Clinical Care” AMA Financing and Practice Services, Inc. Chicago,
August 1995
“Ethical Issues in Economic Profiling”, American Board of Quality Assurance and
Utilization Review Physicians, Chicago, August 1995
“The Emerging Ethics Committee in Long Term Care” with R.
Mangum J.D. Managing Partner, Mangum Smietanka and Johnson, American College of
Health Care Executives March 31,1995
“ Ethical Issues in Reengineering” w/Bill Arnold, Exec VP
Franciscan Health Care System and former CEO of Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto,
CA American College of Health Care Executives April 2, 1995
“Ethical issues in Managed Care” Northwestern University
Medical Center Dept. of Otolaryngology, April 1996
“The Physician Caught in the Middle” American Academy of
Family Physicians, Charleston WVA April 1996
“The Physician Caught in the Middle: Ethical Issues in
Managed Care” Loyola University Medical
Center Grand Rounds March 1996
“Who Decides: Critical Healthcare Decisions for the Family”
Providence Hospital Medical Center Southfield Michigan Three programs on Ethics
and Medical Risk Management
·
“ Update on Issues
Surrounding Withholding/ Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Procedures” March
1994
·
“Conflict Resolution
and Ethics” April 1994
·
“Medical Risk
Management, Documentation and Decision Making” May 1994
HCA/ Bluegrass Hospital Frankfort Ky Three days of consultation rounds and policy
development on withholding/withdrawing life prolonging medical procedures
“Ethics and Health care Reform” American
“Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Health Care Reform”
National Assn. of Rehabilitation Facilities Annual Meeting,
“Caring for the Patient of Diminishing Capacity”, Illinois
Assn. of Homes for the Aged, Peoria IL August 1993
“ Ethics Issues Involving End of Life Decision Making”
Illinois College of Family Practice Meetings Little Co of Mary Hospital
September 1993
“Health Care Reform:
What’s on the Horizon?” Glaxo Pharmaceutical Company Regional Meetings September 1993
“Integrating Clinical and Administrative Ethics”
“Sociology, Ethics and Politics”
“Integrating Clinical & Administrative Ethics”
“Advance Directives and the HMO : “Possibilities and
Polemics” AAMCRA American Managed Care
“ Ethics, Cost
Containment, and Health Care Reform”, St. Mary's Hospital
“ Cost Containment
Ethics and Controversy ”
“Conflict Resolution and Self Determination” Joint Grand
Rounds Ob-Gyn, Surgery and
“Clinical Casuistry and Self Determination”
“Advance Directives: Policies and Procedures” SE KY Area
Health Education Center: Cynthiana, KY January 14,1992
*South-central Kentucky Rural Hospital Group, 5 one day programs on Advance
directives seminars and consultation at five rural Kentucky Hospitals January 1992
coupled with five evening programs
“Policies & Procedures Surrounding Advance Directives
and Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Procedures” North Oakland
Medical Center Surgery Grand Rounds Pontiac MI, March 1992
“Advance Directives and Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Procedures” St.
Mary's Hospital's Grand Rounds
“The Patient Self
Determination Act” Kentucky Hospital Assn. KY for Member Hospital CEO's London,
KY, October 17,1991
“The Patient Self Determination Act”
“Policy Implications of the Self Determination Act”
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Battle Creek MI September 21,1991
“Bioethics: Conflict
& Controversy” w/Paul Armstrong, J.D., Western Baptist Regional Medical
Center Paducah KY, January 14, 1991.
Bioethics: Conflict & Controversy” w/Paul Armstrong,
J.D., Kentucky Hospital Assn Programs
for
“Ethics and Technology: Scarcity and Technocracy” Magadan
“The American Health
Care System” Bilibina, Chukotka, Arctic
Circle
“Controversies in HIV Infection: Legal, Ethical and Medical
Questions” June 6, 1990 Wm Beaumont Hospital Southfield MI
“New Ethical Perspectives Surrounding Clinical Decision
Making”
“Legal and Ethical Controversies Surrounding Consent and
Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Procedures”. Veterans
Administration Medical Center Grand Rounds, Huntington W VA December 8, 1989
“Ethics in
“ Ethics and End of Life Decision Making”, National Health
Council National Health Forum,
“Ethics and Medical
Decision Making”
“Ethical and Legal
Issues in Caring for AIDS Patients” Several lectures through National Institute
of Mental Health AIDS Training Programs for Health Care Professionals through a
grant at Wayne State University Detroit, MI. 1988,89
“Patient Autonomy :Medical Issues” National Adult
Protective Services Conference Workshops Oct. 24-28
“The Integrated
Policy: A Model for Problem Prevention” California Hospital Monterey, CA
Assn., December 3,
1988
“Withholding/Withdrawing Medical Procedures”
“ Integrating Clinical and Administrative Ethics”
“Who’s in Charge? Ethical Controversies at the End of Life”
University of
“ Integrating Clinical and Administrative Concerns in Long
Term Care” South Dakota Health Care Assn. June 7, 1988
“New Perspectives in Caring for the Terminally Ill: Legal
and Ethical Concerns” Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sioux Falls, SD
June 6, 1988
“ Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical
Procedures”Humanities Grand Rounds University of Kentucky Medical Center May 9,
1988
“Tracing the Legal
Legacy” Case Management Rounds Detroit Receiving Hospital 5/10/88
“The Integrated Policy” and “ Making Triage Decisions in
Critical Care Settings: Clinical Ethical Dilemmas” Michigan Ethics Resource
Network Institutional Ethics Committees
Education and Evaluation Meetings sponsored by the Medical Ethics
Resource Network in conjunction with the Society of Health and Human Values,
Midwest Region Annual Spring Meeting, April 29,30,1988
“Patient Autonomy :Medical Issues” National Adult
Protective Services Conference
San Antonio, TX October 24, 1988
“Ethics Consultation
and Ethics Committees for Public Guardians”, National Guardianship Conference
“,
“Technology,
Excellence & Ethics”
“New Directions in Clinical Ethics” Bon Secours Hospital,
Southeastern Michigan Chaplains Assn. May 12, 1988
“Medical Ethics Update” Baptist Regional Medical Center,
Corbin KY July 11, 1988
“Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Procedures
“ Grand Rounds Harper Hospital May 16, 1988.
“Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Procedures
“ Grand Rounds
“Integrating Ethics with Health Policy”
“Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Procedures in Long
Term Care Facilities” w /P.Armstrong, Karen Quinlan’s Attorney and creator of
Amicus Brief in U.S. Supreme Ct case in Re Nancy Cruzan, American Association
of Homes for the Aged Annual Meeting , New York, September 1987
“Legal and Ethical Concerns in Caring for the Dying and
Terminally Ill”Veterans Administration Regional Medical Educational Center
November 12, 1987
“Legal and Ethical Concerns in Caring for the Dying and
Terminally Ill Patient”,
“Legal and Ethical Concerns in Caring for the Dying and
Terminally Ill Patient University of
“Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making” with
“Ethics and Aging” American Society of Aging,
“Current Issues in Clinical Ethics and Health Law” Monthly
Medical Meeting November 1987
“New Directions in Substitute Decision Making”
“ Integrating Clinical & Administrative Ethics”
American Medical International California Hospitals Regional Meetings
“Autonomy & Decision Making”
“New Directions in Withholding/ Withdrawing Life Prolonging
Medical Procedures”
“Ethics: Policies, Procedures and Protocols”, Wright Patterson Air Force Base Hospital All day
Program, January 30,1987
“Perspectives in
Clinical Ethics”
“ Ethics, Conflict Resolution and End of Life Decision
Making”, New England Society of Hospital Social Work Directors Annual Meeting Nashua
NH November 8,1987
“Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making” West
Virginia Health Care Association” , w/Legal Counsel Attorney General's
office Charleston,WV December 6,1987
“Corporate Ethics and Administrative Dilemmas”, American
Society on Aging National Conference Ethics in An Aging Society: Hard Times and
Hard Choices,
“ Ethical Issues Surrounding Surrogate and Substitute
Decision Making” New England Region Society for Hospital Social Work Directors
Annual Conference, Nashua New Hampshire Fall, 1987
“New Directions in Medical Ethics” Grand Rounds,
“Who’s in Charge” Grand Rounds ,
“Ethics, Policies and Conflict Resolution”
“Legal and Ethical
Concerns Regarding the Right to Die”, Humana-Alaska -Medical Staff Grand
Rounds, September November,1987
“ Developing Coherent and Consistent Policies Dealing With
Ethical Issues”
“Current Issues in Clinical Ethics and Health Law”
“Liability, Policy, & Process” Commonwealth of Mass
Long Term Care Hospitals,
“Who’s in Charge of the Hopelessly Ill Patient” a series of
6 all day sessions for
Michigan
District 14 Medical Centers Lectures through the REMC Program ,
“Balancing Patient Wishes & Legal Liability : A Model
Approach” , N J
“ Liability and Standards: Legal and Ethical
Considerations” American Educational Institute Seminars
1987 season Recurrent Videotapes in several locations in AZ, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Hawaii, NM, UT,
CA, NV, and WY
“Legal and Ethical
Issues in Health Care”
“ Legal and Ethical
Issues in Long Term Care” with Paul Armstrong
J.D.(Karen Ann Quinlan's legal
counsel), American Assn. of Homes for the Aged 25th Anniversary Exposition
Session, NYC,
September 28, 1986
“Medical Ethics Update” American Assn. of Medical Colleges
New Orleans LA 1986
“Ethical Issues in Financing Long Term Care” (Panel)
American Assn. of Homes for the Aged 25th Anniversary Exposition Session,
NYC, September 30, 1986
“Durable Powers of Attorney and the Living Will” Citizens
for Better Care Meetings,
“Ethical and Legal Issues in Long Term Care”,
“Legal and Ethical
Issues in Caring For Patients of Diminished Competence” Second Annual National
Alzheimer’s Disease Conference,
“Ethical Issues in
Gerontological Nursing” Mercy Health Systems, Farmington, MI May 24, 1986
“Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Procedures”
Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, CT March 10, 1986.
“Surrogate and Substitute Decision Making: Legal and
Ethical Issues” Grand Rounds, Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA, March 8,
1986
“ Integrated Consent and Withholding/Withdrawing Life
Prolonging Procedures Tri-Cities Hospital Oceanside, CA January 6, 1986 (all day program)
“ Standards,
Liability and Consent” Grand Rounds and all day program,
“Integrating Clinical and Administrative Concerns”
“Reimbursement and Ethics” (panelist) American Assn. of Homes and Housing for the
Aged on
“Who’s In Charge of
the Hopelessly Ill Patient?”
*“Pulmonary Ethics Rounds” Sinai Hospital of Detroit, May
12, 1987
*“SICU Ethics Rounds” Sinai Hospital of Detroit, May 16,
1987
*“MICU Ethics Rounds”, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, May 17,
1987
*(Pulmonary, MICU, SICU, and CCU Rounds usually offered monthly by me for the
entire year)
“ Who’s in Charge? Second Annual Seminar of Hospice
Care for Allied Health Professionals and Caregivers Keynote Speaker
“Who’s in Charge” Bayshore Hospital Holmdel NJ May 1985
“Who’s in Charge”
“New Perspectives in
Medical Ethics”
“New Perspectives in Medical Ethics” Grand Rounds, Los
Gatos Hospital, Los Gatos CA
August 1985
“Ethics and
Geriatrics”
“The Hopelessly Ill &Dying Patient: Legal and Ethical
Issues” Aging w Representative Hollister & Jay Rosen MI Office of Medical
Affairs, LeVine Institute on Detroit MI September, 1985.
“Legal and Ethical
Controversies in
“Who’s in Charge?”
Grand Rounds, King’s Daughters Memorial Hospital, Frankfort, KY
May 15, 1986.
“Who's in Charge of the Hopelessly Ill and Dying Patient:
Legal Ethical and Religious Concerns”
“New Perspectives on
Surrogate and Substitute Decision Making for Public Wards” Maine Department Social Services Mental Health and Mental Retardation and
Adult Protective Services
Divisions Conference for Maine Probate Judges Court Reporters & state based
guardians (all the Maine probate courts were closed that day for my seminar
aimed at creating consistency across jurisdictions.
“Ethical Considerations in Long Term Care”,
“Resolving Ethical Dilemmas” Emergency Nurses Assn. Scientific Assembly NYC,
September 8, 1985
“Legal Ethical and Administrative Issues” Rhode Island
Hospital Assn. Haricomp Newport RI May 23,1985
“Problems
Surrounding Medical Decision Making: Diminished Competence, DNR’s Durable
Powers of Attorney” Kentucky Hospital Assn. Fall Conference (2 lectures)
September 26 and 27th, 1985, Cumberland Falls, KY
”Gerontology: Initiatives, Insights, and Innovations in
Health Care Delivery Michigan Department on Aging and Dept. of Public Health
“Who’s in Charge of the Hopelessly Ill Patient? Office of
Medical Affairs ,State of
“New Directions in Clinical Ethics”, The
“Developing Ethical Institutional Policies that Can Stand
up in Court” Michigan Non-Profit Homes Assn., The Ohio Association of
Philanthropic Homes and Housing for the Aged, Indiana Homes for the Aged , the
Ontario Assn. of Homes for the Aged and
the LeVine Institute on Aging Legal and Ethical Controversies in Long Term Care
Conference” conference organizer
Windsor, Ontario ,June 6-8,1985 and Keynote on Ethics in Long Term Care
September19,1985
“Ethical Responsibilities for Public Health Officers”
(Panelist) American Public Health Assn.
Washington DC November, 1984
“Who’s
in Charge?” Massachusetts Association of Health Care Providers Annual Meeting
November 4, 1984
“Imperatives
for the 80’s and Ethical Implications” Rhode Island Hospital Providence TI
December 9, 1984
“Ethics
and Uncertainty”
“
Legal and Ethical Issues in Caring for the Terminally Ill” ,
“Who’s
in Charge of the Hopelessly Ill Patient”
Grand Rounds St. Lukes Hospital
,New Bedford Mass February 2, 1984
“Who’s
in Charge ?”
Who’s
in Charge” Massachusetts Association of Health Care Providers Annual Meeting
November 4, 1984
“Imperatives for the 80’s and Ethical
Implications” Rhode Island Hospital Providence TI December 9, 1984
“Ethics
and Uncertainty”
“
Legal and Ethical Issues in Caring for the Terminally Ill” ,
“Who’s
in Charge?”
“Informed
Consent and Ethics” University of Kentucky National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Institute on Ethics, Lexington KY July 14, 1983
“
New Perspectives in Medical Ethics and Health Law” WPRI TV Channel 12
Providence RI 2/9/84
“Medical
Ethics Issues” WHJJ Radio
“Medical
Ethics and Legal Considerations in Long Term Care, Mississippi Assn. for Health
care Administrators Gulfport MS. February 2, 1983
“Who’s
in Charge” Los Gatos Hospital Los Gatos,
CA. January 2, 1983
“Who’s
in Charge”
APHA “Ethical Responsibilities for Public Health Officers”
Panel Washington, November 1984
New England Forum for Death Education “ Ethics and
Anticipatory Grief”,
Providence R.I, March 84
“Who's in Charge of the Hopelessly Ill Patient
“Medical Ethics and Legal Considerations in Long Term Care”
“Technology and Business in Academic Environments”
“Hospice Accreditation and Licensure” w John. Blum J.D.,
American Public Health Assn. October 82
“Ethics and Reimbursement”
“Technology
and Business in Academic Environments” Tougaloo College Tougaloo MS
“Ethics
in Family Practice” University of
“Ethical
Issues in Research and Experimentation” University of
“The
Medical Ethics/Health Law Interface”, American Assn. of Law Librarians Atlanta
GA Spring 1982
“The Ethics/Energy Interface” The University
Of Mississippi Forum, April 1982
“Ethics and Healthcare”
“Smoking
Policy in the US and Ethics” University of California-Berkeley School of Public
Health November1981
American Association of Law Librarians “ Exploring the
Medical Ethics/Health Law Interface”
“Smoking Policy & Ethics” University of California
Berkeley School of Public Health Berkeley, January 1981
American Public Health Assn. Meetings Los Angeles CA.,
Presentation on Bioethics Forum on “Priorities / Allocations on the Health
Energy Interface” November 1-5, 1981
“Caring
for the Terminally Ill/Hopelessly Ill Patient”
“Re-
examining Baby Doe” First Annual Eunice Shriver lecture in Biomedical Ethics
and Human Reproduction (Panelist with
Original Film Group) March 1981
“Ethical Issues in Palliative Care” The
International Work Group on Dying, Death and Bereavement and the Swedish
Medical Society Stockholm, Sweden July 1981
“Ethical Dimensions in Home Health Care” The
Massachusetts Assn. for Home Health Bedford Mass, May 1981
“Who's In Charge: Legal and Ethical Dimensions?”
“Caring for
Hopelessly Ill Pt”
“ Ethics and Hospice Care” National Hospice Assn. Eastern Division Program
“Caring for the Terminally- Hopelessly Ill Patient”
First Annual Eunice Shriver Lecture in Biomedical Ethics
and Human Reproduction at the Boston
Public Library March 1981(panelist)
“Ethics and Palliative Care” The International Work Group
on Dying Death and Bereavement & Swedish Cancer Society at Stockholm and
Dalaro Sweden. June 1981
“Uncertainty and Ethics” University of Texas Galveston
Medical School presentation special session
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on ethics
1981
“New Directions in Ethics” Harvard Dental
School Annual Ethics Lecture Spring Semester 1981
“Priorities and Allocation of the Health/
Energy Interface” American Public Health Assn. Meetings
“Ethics
and Hospice Care” National Hospice Assn. Boston MA Spring, 1981
“Bioethics
and Policy”,
“
Legal and Ethical Issues in Caring for the Hopelessly Ill Patient”
“Ethics
and the Terminally Ill Patient”
“Current
Concerns in Law and Ethics” The American Pharmaceutical Assn. Washington, DC
Fall 1980
“Ethics and the Health Care System” International Work
Group Asilomar California October1980
“Who’s in Charge of
The Hopelessly Patient? “ St. Lukes
Hospital Grand Rounds New Bedford MA
“Who’s in Charge of
the Terminally Ill Patient?”
“Justice and Health Care”
“Ethics and Terminal Illness” Mass General Hospital Forum,
“Ethics and Prioritizing” C.W.` Post University, Long
Island NY
“Medical Decision Making and Ethics”, the North Carolina
Philosophical Society, Chapel Hill, NC
SPEAKERS BUREAUS
I have been
active with Glaxo’s speakers bureau for many years, also Novartis, Burrough’s
Wellcome, Medical Media Associates, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Merck, Great Speakers,
Speakers on Healthcare and Leading Authorities.
INTERNATIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Exchange Student in Ecuador- Good language facility in
Spanish
Senior Advisor to the Minister of Health Magadan Chukotka
Regions of Soviet Far East 90,91
Countries
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