Join us for a day of interactive discussion and expert presentations on difficult ethical issues in clinical practice.
What is the right thing to do?
What matters to the people we care for?
What matters to us as healthcare professionals?
What keeps you up at night?
Topics include:
- Ethical and legal aspects of withholding and withdrawing life sustaining therapy in Qld
- Consent issues and organ donation in Voluntary Assisted Dying
- Ethical issues in Adolescent Medicine
Event speakers:
- Dr Eliana Close, QUT – Legal academic and expert in End of Life Law and Voluntary Assisted Dying.
- Dr Sarah Martin, QCH – Emergency Physician and Clinical Ethicist, PhD candidate in Consent and Capacity in Adolescence
- Dr Leo Nunnink and Ms Tina Coco from Donate Life Australia
- And many more clinical panel members from Gold Coast Health Service!
A detailed program is to come.
*This is a catered event. Registration is essential.
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AGENDA
8.45 – 9.00: Opening comments and introduction
9.00 - 10.30: Withholding and withdrawing Life Sustaining Therapy: ethical and legal aspects in Queensland
Audience virtual link: Withholding and withdrawing Life Sustaining Therapy: ethical and legal aspects in Qld
10.30 – 11.00: Morning tea
11.00 – 12.30: Voluntary Assisted Dying: consent and the ethics of organ donation
Audience virtual link: Voluntary Assisted Dying: consent and the ethics of organ donation
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch
1.30 – 3.00: Ethical issues in the transition from Paediatric to Adult Medicine
Audience virtual link: Ethical issues in the transition from Paediatric to Adult Medicine
3.00 – 3.15: Closing remarks
Please note that audience members who want to attend all three sessions virtually will need to hang up their Teams meeting after each session and reconnect using the new link to next session.
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PARKING/TRANSPORT
- Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) has a commercial multi-storey parking facility with more than 2,200 under-cover car parks open 24 hours a day. The parking facility is operated by Point Parking. Information about parking can be found on the Point Parking website.
- Please be aware, parking at GCUH is limited. Please allow extra time to park – particularly during wet weather – or consider public transport options.
- There are a range of public transport options available. Visit the Translink website or contact 131 230 to plan your journey.
- There is an underground G:Link tram station below the main entrance of Gold Coast University Hospital.