Legal and Medical Presentations
"Judicial Logic in Paradigm Cases"
HealthOne Swedish Hospital (for the Clinical Ethics Consultancy LLC), Denver, 2008
"Lawthics: Law as Congealed Ethics"
HealthOne Swedish Hospital (for the Clinical Ethics Consultancy LLC), Denver, 2008
"Ethical Decision Making: Application to Nursing"
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, 2008
"Interprofessional Orientation,"
For doctoral programs and Child Health Associates, UCDHSC (with Jason McCarl MD), Denver, 2008
"Sources of Law & Basic Court Procedures"
UCDHSC Forensic Psychiatry Program, Denver, 2008
"How Advance Care Directives Work in Practice"
University of Colorado School of Law (with attorney Susan Buchanan), Boulder, 2008
"Ethics Day,"
Led class discussion, Kent Denver School, Englewood, Colorado, 2008
"Ethics in the Health Professions,"
Co-Facilitator, UCDHSC (for doctoral programs and Child Health Associates, ten classes annually), Denver, 2000 - 2008
"Perspectives on the Terry Schiavo Case"
UCDHSC Medical School (panel discussion), Denver, 2007
"Informed Consent for Second-Year Residents after a Surgical Rotation"
UCDHSC (with William Pfeiffer MD & Richard Martinez MD), Denver, 2007
"Paradigmatic End of Life Cases"
UCDHSC Forensic Psychiatry Program, Denver, 2007
"Lawthics: Law as Congealed Ethics"
Health Law Section of the CBA, Denver, 2007
"Legislative Developments: End of Life Decision Making"
UCDHSC Ethics Committee (monthly education presentation), Denver, 2006
"Perspectives on Schiavo"
UCDHSC Medical School (panel discussion), Denver, 2006
"Legislative Developments"
UCDHSC Ethics Committee, Denver, 2006
"Please Help Me Die: Ethics, Law and Assisted Suicide"
UCDHSC Hospital-Wide Ethics Rounds (with David Bekelman MD), Denver, 2006
"Emergency Exception to Informed Consent"
UCDHSC Ethics Committee, Denver, 2006
"Should an Infant Always be Revived, and Who Decides?"
Denver Community Bioethics Committee (panel discussion), Denver, 2005
"Genes, Memes, or Laws Supreme?"
Fourth National Forum on Perinatal-Neonatal Ethics Issues, Colorado Springs, 2005
"Advance Directives and Informed Consent"
CBA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) (with Dan Johnson MD), University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, 2005
"Medical Decision Making for the Mentally III Patient"
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, CBA CLE (with Richard Martinez MD), Denver, 2005
"Lawthics: Law as Congealed Ethics"
Boulder Community Hospital Ethics Committee, Boulder, 2004
"How are courts likely to react to genetic information?"
In "Biomedical Basics," University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, 2004
"Perspectives on the Terry Schiavo Case"
UCDHSC Medical School (panel discussion), Denver, 2004
"Lawthics: Law as Congealed Ethics"
Denver Community Bioethics Committee, Denver, 2004
"Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Making"
UCDHSC, Denver, 2004
"Lawthics: Law as Congealed Ethics"
Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum, Denver, 2004
"Informed Consent"
UCDHSC Grand Rounds, Denver, 2003
"Conscientious Objection and Religious Refusal"
UCDHSC Dept. of Psychiatry, Denver, 2004
"Genes, Memes, or Laws Supreme — Genetics in the Courts"
UCDHSC Dept. of Psychiatry, Denver, 2003
"Death and Dying"
UCDHSC Dept. of Psychiatry, Denver, 2003
"Morality, Law and the Standard of Care"
UCDHSC Dept. of Psychiatry (with attorney Greg Smith), Denver, 2003
"Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Making"
UCDHSC, Denver, 2003
"Informed Consent for Second-Year Residents after a Surgical Rotation"
UCDHSC (with William Pfeiffer MD & Richard Martinez MD), Denver, 2003
"Faiths in Health Care"
Denver Community Bioethics Committee (panel discussion on the import of different faith traditions as regards medical care), Denver, 2003
"Advance Directives and Assisted Decision-Making"
HealthOne Ethics Committee (with Mark Yarborough PhD), Denver, 2002
"Informed Consent"
UCDHSC Grand Rounds, Denver, 2002
"Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Making"
UCDHSC Grand Rounds, Denver, 2002
"Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Making"
UCDHSC Dept. Psychiatry (with Richard Martinez MD), Denver, 2002
"Informed Consent for Second-Year Residents after a Surgical Rotation"
UCDHSC (with William Pfeiffer MD & Richard Martinez MD), Denver, 2000
"Legal Dilemmas in Advance Directives"
The University Club, Denver, 1999
"Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Making"
UCDHSC (with John Armstrong MD), Denver, 1999
"Wrongful Birth: A Trial"
A mock trial on genetics and the law, written and presented at The Given Institute, University of Colorado, Aspen, Colorado, 1998
"Advance Directives"
UCDHSC, Denver (1998)
"How are courts likely to react to genetic information?"
Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Genome Roundtable, Denver, 1995
"Ethics, Genetics and the Future of Our Community"
University of Denver, Denver, 1995
"Physicians' Conscience Clause"
Mercy Medical Center, Denver, 1995
"Law and Ethics"
St. Joseph's Hospital, Residency Program, Denver, 1994
"Mental Incapacity"
Mercy Medical Center, Family Medicine Residency (panel discussion), Denver, 1994
"Advance Care Directives"
A public forum at Rose Medical Center (with Fred Abrams MD), Denver, 1994
"Conscientious Objection and Religious Refusal"
Medical Ethics Committee & Consult Service, Mercy Medical Center, Denver, 1994
"Advance Care Directives"
House Staff Education, Medical Ethics Committee & Consult Service, Mercy Medical Center, Denver, 1993
Other Legal Presentations
"Access under the ADA"
Consultant and expert witness for Kaplan & Nichols, Superior Court, Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1997
"Stair Geometry and Human Ergonomics"
Consultant and expert witness for Smittkamp & Walters LLC, District Court, Boulder, 1995 - 1996
"Preservation and ADA Access Consultant"
Molly Brown House, Historic Denver Inc. (with Jim Prochaska PE), Denver, 1995
"Historic Buildings Compliance with the ADA"
Kramlich Andersen LLC, Denver, 1994
"Commercial Property Compliance with the ADA"
Kramlich Andersen LLC, Denver, 1994
"Art Gallery Access and the ADA"
LODO Art District Council, Denver, 1994
"Bankruptcy and Divorce"
Real Law radio show with Dan Caplis, Denver, 1994
Social and Civic Presentations
"We Can Survive the Nuclear Age" (60 presentation & organizing meetings) and/or "If You Love This Planet" (movie and discussions)
Rochester Metro, 1983 - 1984
"Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Peace?"
Call-in radio show on WHAM (with Prof. Nicholas Zumbulyadis), Rochester, 1984
"The Day After 'The Day After'"
Debate at Fairport H.S., Fairport, NY, 1983
"The Utility of Nuclear Weapons"
Greece Baptist Church (debate with Dr. John Bank), Rochester, 1983
"The Utility of Nuclear Weapons"
The Harley School (debate with Prof. John Mueller), Rochester, 1983
"The Morality of Nuclear Weapons"
St. Louis Catholic Church, Rochester, 1983