Course Overview

This group of clinicians from Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospital discuss ethical and psychosocial issues in the management of COVID-19, including the allocation of scarce resources and managing psychological stress and trauma among health care workers.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to discuss ethical and psychosocial issues in the management of COVID-19, including the allocation of scarce resources and managing psychological stress and trauma among health care workers.

ACTIVITY PLANNERS AND FACULTY:

• J. Kevin Tucker, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Nephrology Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospital, Faculty Director, Accreditation and Maintenance of Certification, Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME)
• John Halporn, MD, Director, Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Maxine M. Klenicki, MSW, LICSW, Social Work Manager, Inpatient Medicine, Surgery, Addiction, and ED; Co-Chair Ethics Consultation Service, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
• Mary Thorndike, MD, Hospital Medicine Unit, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Co-chair of Ethics Committee, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School