Friday, November 11 (1:30PM-7:00PM)
The Quadrangle Club, Second Floor
1155 E. 57 th Street

Saturday, November 12 (7:30AM-5:30PM)
University of Chicago Hospitals
5812 S. Ellis Avenue
Room P117

Conference Statement

This is the seventeenth annual conference on clinical medical ethics and patient care sponsored by the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. The Center's aim is to foster a network of clinical scholars worldwide who use clinical ethics to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes.

Acknowledgements

This conference remembers Dorothy Jean MacLean, who helped found the Center and was deeply committed to its work. D.J. MacLean believed that education was the best way to improve the world and throughout her life supported many leading educational institutions. The MacLean Center is grateful to have had the benefit of her friendship and encouragement for many years. The Conference organizers and participants wish to acknowledge and thank D.J. MacLean’s family, especially Barry and Mary Ann MacLean, co-chairs of the Center’s Advisory Board, for their continued enthusiasm and support of the Center and for their help in making this conference possible.

This conference also remembers Irving Harris, a dear friend who was dedicated to developing effective public policy informed by ethics. Irving’s vision supported the Center’s work in public policy and encouraged the development of a new combined Master’s Degree program in Ethics and Public Policy. We would like to acknowledge Joan Harris and the Irving Harris Foundation for their long and continuing support of the Center.

We also wish to acknowledge the following individuals for their ongoing support of the MacLean Center: Lindy Bergman, Kay and Matthew Bucksbaum, Janet and Craig Duchossois, Susan and Kevin Flynn, Ann Dudley and Stan Goldblatt, Keith and Rodney Goldstein, Connie and Dennis Keller and the Keller Family Foundation, Martha and John Mabie, The Oremus Family, Carole and Gordon Segal, Brenda and Earl Shapiro, Bryan Traubert and The Pritzker-Traubert Family Foundation, and Sarita Warshawsky.

Special Thanks

Dr. Siegler wishes to thank the Center’s outstanding faculty for their commitment to teaching and research excellence: John Lantos and Lainie Ross, Associate Directors of the Center; Daniel Brauner, Ann Dudley Goldblatt, Edward Laumann, Mary Mahowald, William Meadow, Assistant Directors; Caleb Alexander, Daniel Brudney, Marshall Chin, Farr Curlin, Chris Daugherty, Richard Epstein, Jinger Hoop, Robert Hsiung, Tracy Koogler, Stacy Lindau, David Meltzer, Kyle Nash, Robert Perlman, Richard Rosengarten, David Rubin, John Schumann, Jaideep Singh, Peter J. Smith, Carol Stocking, Alison Winter and Matthew Wynia.

Special thanks to Stacey Cathcart-Dailey, the Center's Administrator, and to Elizabeth Campbell, Megan Collins, David Fang-Yen, Elaine Horn, Fred Ketchum, Sonam Velani, Beth White, and Alix Weisfeld for their dedication and assistance in organizing this conference.