CANCELLED

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Hospital-Based Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response

Schedule:
Sunday, June 8 (pre-conference)

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (tentative)

Location:

Tucson Convention Center

Description:

In an influenza pandemic, the demand for health care services is anticipated to exceed the capacity of health care institutions both to treat influenza patients and to sustain other health care services. Institutions will be stressed by personnel shortages that result from workers becoming ill or staying home to care for family or out of fear of infection. Health care institutions may need to isolate infected patients and may need to institute quarantine for potentially exposed patients and staff. With resources scarce, heightened risk imposed on health care workers, and the pressing need to contain the spread of a pandemic virus, health care leaders and professionals will be faced with extraordinary ethical challenges centered on responsibilities, rationing, and restrictions. With a variety of tools and through a series of activities, this workshop will address ethical challenges in pandemic influenza planning and response including tough decisions that may need to be made about reporting for duty, mandatory vaccination of health care workers, quarantine, and triage and rationing of scarce resources, as well as steps that can be taken to ensure that decision making is transparent and informed by stakeholder concerns and values.

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

If you wish to register for the Symposium and a Pre-Conference Workshop , go to Online Registration, and during the registration process you will be directed to an Options page where you will be able to choose Pre-Conference sessions.

If you wish to register for  the Pre-Conference only, go to Online Registration and when asked to select a conference rate choose Pre-Conference Only.  Continue with the registration process.

If you have already registered for the Symposium and wish to register for the Pre-Conference as well, please follow the directions above for Pre-Conference Only registrants.

A minimum pre-registered class size of 20 is required for each workshop to go forward. A full registration refund will be granted if minimum size is not met for a class.