COVID Ethics Series Podcast

If we demand informed consent for individuals, why don't we demand it for all of society? In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Brian Patrick Green about technology and societal informed consent. Brian Patrick Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and teaches AI ethics in Santa Clara University's Graduate School of Engineering. His work focuses on AI and ethics, technology ethics in corporations, the ethics of space exploration and use, the ethics of technological manipulation of humans, the ethics of mitigation of and adaptation towards risky emerging technologies, and various aspects of the impact of technology and engineering on human life and society, including the relationship of technology and religion (particularly the Catholic Church). Green is the author of the book Space Ethics and co-author of Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Jamie Carlin Watson, clinical ethicist for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics. Watson is the author of several books, including: A History and Philosophy of Expertise: The Nature and Limits of Authority (Bloomsbury, 2022), Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury 2020), and Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics, edited with Laura K. Guidry-Grimes (Springer, 2018). https://jamiecarlinwatson.weebly.com/

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Philip Alberti, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) senior director of health equity research and policy, and founding director of the Center for Health Justice. Dr. Alberti's work is fueled by the belief that solutions to health injustice exist within communities themselves, and that the path to better health goes beyond medical care to working alongside partners across multiple sectors that impact our everyday lives. Dr. Alberti's most recent publication is "A Population Health Impact Pyramid for Health Care" (Milbank Quarterly, 2023 Apr;101(S1):770-794.)

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Frederic W. Hafferty, professor of medical education at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the author of “Into the Valley: Death and the Socialization of Medical Students” (Yale University Press); “The Changing Medical Profession: An International Perspective” (Oxford University Press), with John McKinlay; “Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Field of Inquiry” (Springer) with Brian Castellani, “The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professions Education” (Dartmouth College Press) with Joseph O'Donnell, “Understanding Professionalism” (Lange) with Wendy Levinson, Katherine Lucy, and Shiphra Ginsburg and “Place and Health as Complex Systems: A Case study and Empirical Test “ (Springer) with Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter and Michael Ball.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Joel Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Bioethics Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Reynolds is especially concerned with the meaning of disability, the issue of ableism, and how philosophical inquiry into each might improve the lives of disabled people and the justness of practices in medicine, science, politics, and law.Joel Reynolds can be found at https://joelreynolds.me/Works mentioned:Binkley, C. E., Reynolds, J. M., & Shuman, A. (2022). From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm - Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. The New England journal of medicine, 387(14), 1325–1328. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMms2207408Reynolds, J. M. Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(12):E1181-1187. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1181Reynolds, J. M., & Wieseler, C. (Eds.). (2022). The Disability Bioethics Reader. Taylor & Francis Group.Reynolds, J. M. (2022). The life worth living: disability, pain, and morality. U of Minnesota Press.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles Binkley, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, the director of Bioethics for the health network's Central Region, and also an associate professor of Surgery at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine on his recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, “From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm – Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery,” which contends that more data and an empirical framework involving algorithms would aid doctors, who must seek out more input than just their sole observation of the patient in deciding whether a surgical intervention is “worth it.”1. Binkley CE, Reynolds JM, Shuman A. From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm — Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2022;387(14):1325-1328. doi:10.1056/NEJMms2207408

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Eli Adashi. Dr. Adashi served as the Fifth Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, and is presently a tenured Professor of Medical Science with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Since 2008, Adashi has undertaken to focus on matters of policy at the nexus of medicine, law, ethics, and social justice.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to bioethicist, Dr. Nancy Berlinger. Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY. Her current research focuses on ethical and societal challenges arising from population aging; the bioethics of migration, and responding to and learning from the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Rui Nunes, professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. Professor Nunes is also the president and founder of the Portuguese Association of Bioethics and is a member of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. His most recent book is "Healthcare as a Universal Human Right: Sustainability in Global Health" (Taylor & Francis, 2022).

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Scott Schweikart, JD, MBE, Senior Research Associate at the American Medical Association and legal editor of the AMA's Journal of Ethics. They discuss AMA's COVID-19 Ethics Guidance website (https://www.ama-assn.org/topics/covid-19-ethics-guidance) in addition to issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy, physicians as models of good health behavior, and our society's current distrust of science and medicine.

In Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community, a panel of experts discusses respect for individual conscience and decision making and how to balance this with the health needs of communities. Considerations of conscientious objection, vaccine hesitancy, and the role of philosophical and religious concerns in requesting exemptions are to be discussed.Recorded on February 10, 2022.Panelists:-Jason T. Eberl, PhD, Director; Professor, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University-Paul Cummins, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Bioethics Clarkson University-Kirk Johnson, MDiv, DMH, Assistant Professor, Justice Studies Montclair State University

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Cindy Smalletz on her work in narrative medicine, and how narrative medicine has impacted her practice of Occupational Therapy.Cindy Smalletz, MS, MS, MA is Program Director for the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Most recently, she completed an MS in Occupational Therapy and plans to further bring together narrative medicine with clinical care, burnout prevention, and education, with the hopes of changing healthcare around the world through improving advocacy, education, communication and action.Learn more about the narrative medicine events discussed in this podcast episode at https://narrativemedicine.blog/.

As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, we turn to the stories and depictions – narrative and graphic – behind COVID with the hope of gaining a better understanding of its impact and how we may move forward ethically. Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about narrative and graphic medicine in the time of COVID.Panelists:Cindy Smalletz, MS, OTR/L, Program Director, Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterMatthew Noe, MLIS, Lead Collection & Knowledge Management Librarian, Countway Library, Harvard Medical SchoolAllison Zuckerberg, Medical Student, Hackensack Meridian School of MedicineRecorded on November 17, 2021.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Kirk A Johnson on the impact COVID has had on American understanding of systemic racism, as well as the factors that influence vaccine hesitancy and mistrust in people of color. Dr. Kirk A Johnson a Professor at Montclair State University who teaches courses in Justice Studies, Medical Humanities, Bioethics, Global Issues, and Religion. He received his Masters of Divinity (MDiv) from Drew Theological School and his Doctorate in Medical Humanities (DMH) from Drew University. His recent books are "The Anti-Racism Resource Guide Volume One: Supporting Black Businesses and Economics" (Peculiar Capital, 2020) and “Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).This episode was recorded on 8/30/2021.

The questions relating to medical equipment disposal and decommissioning are many and varied. In this episode, host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Jennifer Orth about her work as the lead of Re-MERGE, Reprocessing Medical Equipment: Rotarian Research Group for the Environment, through the International Rotary Fellowship of Healthcare Professionals. Jennifer is a Biochemistry and Philosophy double major in Seton Hall University's pre-medical program with a strong interest in bioethics and the medical humanities.

In this episode, Host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Sherry Greenberg, Associate Professor at Seton Hall University College of Nursing and nurse practitioner faculty consultant on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community initiative.

Dr. Bryan Pilkington in conversation with Mark Fuller Sewell, MD, a specialty care physician board certified in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology.

Featuring Emma Goldberg, author of "Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic" and writer for The New York Times; Nick Cozzarelli, medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; and Alex Tannenbaum, medical student at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

COVID Ethics Series Podcast host Dr. Bryan Pilkington sits down with Dr. Maryanne Giuliante, Advanced Practice Provider Manager for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Westchester Regional Network in West Harrison, NY, and a triple board certified as a bioethicist, an Adult Nurse Practitioner, and an Advanced Nurse Executive. In this episode, Dr. Giuliante speaks of her experience as a COVID patient during the early days of the pandemic and addresses bioethical questions, such as vaccine hesitancy, through her experience as COVID patient, healthcare provider, and bioethicist.

Host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Father Colin Kay, Vice President for Mission and Ministry at Seton Hall University, on the concept of "Social UNdistancing," spirituality and community health during COVID, religious exemptions, and more.

In Expertise in the Time of COVID: Who has it? Who should have it?, a panel of experts discusses the roles that authority, information literacy, and reasoning in situations of uncertainty have in responding ethically to a pandemic. In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel about the importance of expertise and how it has played out in the time of COVID. Panelists, including Chelsea Barrett (Seton Hall Libraries), Jennifer Oliva (Seton Hall University Law School), Kayhan Parsi (Loyola University), and Peter Wicks (Elm Institute), will discuss the role of expertise from their disciplines.Panelists:Chelsea Barrett, MBA, MI - Seton Hall University LibrariesJennifer Oliva, JD - Seton Hall LawKayhan Parsi, JD, PhD - Loyola University, ChicagoPeter Wicks, PhD - Elm Institutehttps://library.shu.edu/COVIDEthics/expertise

On Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well with Dr. Lydia Dugdale was recorded live on Thursday, April 29. The event's co-sponsors were the Center for Catholic Studies, the IHS Library, with IHS Bioethics. The event was moderated by Dr. Bryan Pilkington.Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Associate Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), on the preparation for death.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Denice Ochola, MPH, a Contact Tracer with NYC Health + Hospitals.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Tade Ayeni, the Director of Diversity and Equity at Hackensack School of Medicine.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington discusses ethical issues associated with COVID-19 challenge trials with Seton Hall Law Professor Carl Coleman.

Voting for Health: The Entwined Paths of Healthcare and PoliticsRecorded October 29, 2020 at 4:00pm EST.COVID-19 impacts not only the health of members of our communities and calls out for political and public policy responses, but it also highlights unjust structural features in healthcare and inequalities embedded within the very processes intended to inform politics and public policy. In this session, Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about the relationship between heath, healthcare, and politics.Panelists:Dr. Michael Gusmano, Hastings Center, RutgersDr. Ramona Guthrie, Seton HallDr. Meryl Picard, Seton HallDr. Florian Thomas, Hackensack Meridian HealthMore information: https://library.shu.edu/COVIDEthics/voting

COVID-19 has impacted societies in various ways and laid bare failures of institutions in many sectors to plan for challenging eventualities. In this session, Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about how the ethical norm – the duty to plan – which is well entrenched in the field of bioethics, is taken up in other sectors. Panelists, including Dr. Joseph Nyre, Mr. Robert Garrett, Prof. Charles Grantham, and Prof. Molly Patterson will discuss what they see as ethical issues on the horizons in various sectors, including education, health, sports, and public policy. More information: https://library.shu.edu/COVIDEthics/DutytoPlan

COVID-19 has impacted children in various ways and divergent accounts of its impact have led to confusion, as well as differing policy recommendations and practices. In “Children: Educating Safely in the Time of COVID,” Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about the impact that COVID can have on children, their safety, and their education.Panelists:Marie Foley, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.L., Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, Seton Hall UniversityDaniel Brian Nichols, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Seton Hall UniversityAmy DeBaets, PhD, ThM, MDiv, MA, ​Manager, Bioethics​, ​Hackensack University Medical CenterTara Ragone, J.D., School of Law, Seton Hall University​Matthew J Graziano, Ph.D.​, ​Professional Psychology and Family Therapy​, Seton Hall University​

As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, plans and precautions for returning to semblances of normalcy vary. In “Community Ethics During COVID: Student Voices,” Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about what we owe to others in our community during this time.Panelists:Shawna Cooper-Gibson (SHU)Judith Lothian (CON)Julia Nicholls (SHU)Jennifer Orth (SHU)Erica Braun (SOM)

As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, plans and precautions for returning to semblances of normalcy vary. In “Unmasking Ethical Foundations in the Time of COVID: What We Owe to Each Other,” Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about the pledges, oaths, and codes of ethics that underlie individual, professional, and community responses to the pandemic.PanelistsThomas Cavanaugh, PhD, Professor, University of San FranciscoSherry A. Greenberg, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAANP, FAAN, Associate Professor, Seton Hall University College of NursingNalin Johri, Ph.D., MPH, Acting Program Director and Assistant Professor, Master of Healthcare Administration ProgramLinda Siracusa, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Sciences, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine