Ethics Case Conference: “Is the MOLST Valid? Is the Patient Refusing? Ethics Amidst Unclear Goals of Care”

With Daniel Kim, PhD, MPH & Christen Paradissis, PhD

Dr. Kim received a PhD in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago and an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale University. He was a 2021-22 fellow of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. His research examines ethical issues by attending to basic questions of self, community, and culture, specifically issues in clinical moral distress, end-of -life care, ethics education, health justice, and religion and medicine. His recent works have been published in the Hasting Center Report, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Religion and Health, Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, and Teaching and Learning in Medicine.

Dr. Paradissis is a clinical ethics fellow at the Alden March Bioethics Institute. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Utah in 2024. In addition to her doctoral work, Dr. Paradissis has served as a writing panel member for the American Nurses Association’s 2024 revision of the Code of Ethics, was a nursing ethics intern at the Cleveland Clinic in 2021 and practiced a registered nurse from 2016-2019. Dr. Paradissis’ research focuses on the ethics of trust, betrayal, and blame in tripartite relationships in the health care setting, as well as discerning the boundaries of professional practice. She is interested in thinking about the role health care institutions play in setting expectations of trust between nurses and patients, about how breakdowns in trust occur when nurses, patients, and institutions blame one another, and about what practices of blame between such parties are morally permissible.

Please join us! There will be plenty of time for questions afterwards!