February 24, 2027 Webinar Information

Paper vs. Patient: When Advance Directives Clash with Clinical Reality

Webinar Description

Interpreting how to apply prior expressed wishes for life-sustaining treatment in an advance directive of a patient who is imminently dying.

Panelists

The panelists for the webinar are Kyle Chapman, MD, Associate Professor and Program Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. West Virginia University School of Medicine; Stacie Honaker, Esq., the Risk Manager and Privacy Officer for the WVU Health Sciences Center and ex-officio member of the WVNEC Advisory Committee; Daniel Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, West Virginia University, and Alvin H. Moss, MD, Professor of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, and Executive Director of WVNEC. They will discuss the multiple clinical, ethical and legal issues in the case. Please attend, chat in your questions and comments, and learn answers to your questions and those of others.

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of the session, participants should be able to:

• Explain the legal status of special directives or limitations on an advance directive;
• Discuss the frequent role of ethics committees in resolving conflict over whether to apply advance directives to a patient’s current treatment; and
• Describe when a clinician is not legally obligated to respect advance directives.