2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Empowering Choices: Ethical Dimensions of Patient Autonomy, Advance Directives, and Surrogate Decision-Making

The 2025 CHEF annual conference, Empowering Choices: Ethical Dimensions of Patient Autonomy, Advance Directives, and Surrogate Decision-Making will offer healthcare professionals and ethics consultants tools for navigating complex ethical issues in supporting patient decision-making.  The conference will include both traditional presentations and interactive workshops focused on ethical issues in advance care planning, patient-centered decision aids, capacity assessments, and surrogate decision-making.  Experts in the field will provide tools for promoting equitable and inclusive decision-making in a wide variety of contexts from hospitals to clinics, from care from pediatric care to adult care.

14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM are approved for this program.

The 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum annual conference will explore the following:

Objectives:

a.    Participants will develop effective, ethical communication strategies for supporting patients in their treatment decisions.

b.    Participants will deepen their understanding of ethical issues that arise in the process of advance care planning.

c.     Participants will enhance their understanding of ethical issues in surrogate decision-making.

d.    Participants will expand their knowledge of ethical and legal issues in existing and proposed Colorado legislation on advance care planning and surrogate decision-making

e.    Participants will improve their understanding of ethical issues surrounding patient decision-making about mental and behavioral health treatment in Colorado

f.      Participants will acquire skills for conducting ethics consultations regarding patient and surrogate decision-making.

g.    Participants will identify gaps in their knowledge about how to support equitable and inclusive healthcare decision-making.

Join us for our two-day conference, filled with outstanding education and networking you’ve come to expect from CHEF conferences. Breakfast and lunch each day, is included in your registration. Information on educational content will be available soon. Mark your calendars!

CHEF is committed to promoting ethical practice and collaboration by providing education and resources for clinicians, ethicists, educators, administrators, community members, and all who have an interest in the ethical dimensions of healthcare.

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Registration Process:

• You may register as an INDIVIDUAL, STUDENT, RETIREE, OR AS A GROUP. You have the option of selecting the “Full Conference” or a “One Day” registration.

• For registrations by invoice, requests should be directed to the CONFERENCE OFFICE. You will be sent a link to the form to register by invoice. Once registered you will receive an invoice for the registrations. All invoices must be paid in full by May 25, 2025.

• If you’re registering a Group please scroll down for that process.

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IMPORTANT: All completed registrations will receive an email confirmation. If you do not receive an email confirmation, you are not registered. Please contact the conference office if you do not receive a confirmation of your registration.