Medical Ethical Challenges in Europe:Lessons to be Learned from one Another

Start:

Thu, 10 Dec 2015, 10:00

End:

Thu, 10 Dec 2015, 04:00

Website:

http://www.frontierscriticalcare.nl/

Venue:

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Organising committee:

Prof. dr. Armand R.J. Girbes, Netherlands

Dr. med. Andrej Michalsen, MPH, Germany

Support House of Europe:

Madeleine Infeldt Cecilia Thorfinn

Endorsed by:

- ESICM (request will be sent later, informal positive response)

- NVIC

Target audience:

physicians, nurses, journalists, lawyers, politicians, citizens, patients, healthcare insurance companies representatives, healthcare authorities, pharmaceutical companies representatives Official language: English

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09.15	Reception and coffee
10.00	Welcome and introduction: Andrej Michalsen
10.10	Medical ethical challenges I: Working in one boundless Europe?
	Chair: Noortje Swart and Willem Wansink
	Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, the Dutch experience since 1984. - Gerbert van Loenen
	The hidden differences – a German-European perspective - Andrej Michalsen
	Expensive drugs in Europe: is the sky the limit? - Marcel Levi
	The right to die – Physicians as accomplices? - Erwin Kompanje
	General discussion with audience
11.20	Break
11.45	Changes in economics, changes in care? Where ethics and finance cross.
	- Didier Dreyfuss
12.05	Medical ethical challenges II: Lessons to be learned from different countries
	Chair and discussion leader: Armand Girbes
	- Brian Marsh Ireland
	- Didier Dreyfuss France
	- Andrej Michalsen Germany
	- Jozef Kesecioglu Netherlands and ESICM
	- Erwin Kompanje Netherlands
13.00	Lunch break and networking
14.00	Keynote lecture: Drawing challenging lessons from different EU countries - Vytenis Andriukaitis (TBC)
14.20	Medical ethical challenges III: End-of-Life care
	Chair: Beatriz Dominguez-Gil Gonzalez and Andrej Michalsen
	End of life decisions in Europe: the role of language - Armand Girbes
	The treatment of patients at the end of their life – differences throughout Europe? - Jozef Kesecioglu
	End of life care – when does it start? - Andrej Michalsen
15.05	Medical ethical challenges IV: Organ donation: do we make the right choices?
	- discussion leader: Armand Girbes
	- A short technical explanatory introduction in 5 minutes: Armand Girbes
15.10	Organ donation in Europe
	- Beatriz Dominguez-Gil Gonzalez
15.25	Discussion
	- Panel: Jozef Kesecioglu, Andrej Michalsen, Brian Marsh, Didier Dreyfuss, Beatriz Dominguez-Gil Gonzalez
16.00	Final words: Armand Girbes & Andrej Michalsen