Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Artificial Nutrition at the End of Life

Overview

Dr. Seres will discuss clinical ethics cases that he has confronted as the director of medical nutrition and professor of medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition and a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Ethics Committee.
 

Speakers:

David S. Seres, M.D., SCM, Director of Medical Nutrition, Professor of Medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University Medical Center

David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, is director of medical nutrition and professor of medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. Dr. Seres has been a physician nutrition specialist for 25 years. He directs the nutrition support service, the medical school nutrition curriculum, and one of the few clinical nutrition fellowships for physicians in the U.S. In 2014, he was honored with the prestigious Excellence in Nutrition Education Award from the American Society for Nutrition. Dr. Seres also is a clinical ethicist and a Columbia University/OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow.

Dr. Seres is currently a member of the Medical Advisory Board for Consumer Reports and has held numerous national leadership positions. He was chair of Physician Certification for the National Board of Nutrition Support Certification and chair of the Medical Practice Section for the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.). He is coauthor of multiple safety guidelines, chapters, editorials, and invited reviews, and appears frequently in the media advocating to consumers against dangerous foods, supplements, and nutritional practices. He just completed a new textbook on nutrition in the ICU.

Dr. Seres' research includes improving nutrition content in medical school curricula, the impact of feeding tube choice on patient outcomes and the indications for placing feeding tubes in patients placed in nursing homes, the risk of blood-stream infections in patients receiving intravenous nourishment, metabolic derangements in acute illness, and measuring body composition and caloric consumption in patients with cerebral palsy.
 

Moderator:

Barbra Rothschild, M.D., Lecturer, Bioethics; Columbia University

Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, M.D. is an internist with a research interest in human subjects research ethics and in community engagement. Her research interests, in part funded with support from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) ELSI program, have included early phase clinical trial research, the concept of ownership of biologic samples collected for research, and the notion of consent in human subjects research. In 2006 her involvement with community outreach regarding science, research, and ethics resulted in a year-long contract with NHGRI to develop a model community engagement plan around genetics. Dr. Rothschild taught medical ethics, healthcare financing, and research ethics in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001 to 2008. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y. studying the moral underpinnings of healthcare finance decision-making. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

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