Health care professionals across the country are invited to attend a Medical Ethics Symposium at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre main foyer with videocast to Cockburn Town Medical Centre under the theme “Informed Consent – Recommended Best Practices.” The event will be facilitated by Clinical Ethics Consultant, Professor Claire Horner, J.D., M.A.
The Symposium aims to support and educate healthcare professionals on best practices when soliciting informed consent, highlighting common challenges and pitfalls. The symposium will cover topics relating to the “when, how and why” of informed consent.
The event is open to all health care professionals in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Admission is free. Pre-registration is required for interested persons. Kindly submit your name, designation, organization/practice to TCI Hospital Education Manager, Jacqueline Moe-Cox via jcox@interhealthcanada.tcby September 7th, 2018.
Facilitator Background:
Professor Claire Horner, J.D., M.A.
Claire Horner is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine and a Clinical Ethicist at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. She earned a J.D. and M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Pittsburgh, and completed a two-year clinical ethics fellowship at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College. Her research interests include legal and ethical issues in reproductive ethics, particularly issues arising in embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, as well as Catholic health care ethics and clinical ethics consultation.
