 | Thaddeus Pope Professor - Mitchell Hamline School of Law |
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01.03.2022-29.03.2022
Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids: It Is Time to Revolutionize Informed Consent, So Patients Can Understand Their Treatment Options
THREE MAIN OBJECTIVES
1. Identify two additional legal tools that can promote wider uptake of shared decision making with certified patient decision aids.
2. Outline both why and how policymakers can implement at least one of these tools.
3. Explain why the current doctrine of informed consent is inadequate to protect patient safety and patient rights.
Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He maintains a special focus on patient rights and healthcare decision making, especially at the end of life.
A Fellow of the Hastings Center and previously a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, Pope is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. While he serves in a range of consulting capacities, Pope has been particularly influential through his extensive, high-impact scholarship.
Ranked among the Top 20 most-cited health law scholars in the United States, Professor Pope has over 250 publications in leading medical journals, bioethics journals, and law reviews. He coauthors the definitive treatise The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, and he runs the Medical Futility Blog (with over five million page-views).
www.thaddeuspope.com
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