End-of-Life Doulas and Medical Aid in Dying: A Bedside Practice Perspective
Recorded: March 2021
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Webinar Guest Speakers:
Dr. Lonny Shavelson, MD – Chair of the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying
Webinar Moderator:
Kris Kington-Barker – INELDA Doula
In response to many member’s requests for a Medical Aid in Dying webinar, Dr. Lonny Shavelson will join host Kris Kington-Barker on March 31st from 7:00 – 8:30 pm EST for our monthly INELDA members’ only webinar. The discussion will focus on good clinical/bedside practices and the role for end of life doulas. There will also be a Q&A period following the discussion.
Lonny Shavelson, M.D. founded the Bay Area End of Life Options in 2016, which closed to new patients in August of 2020. Before that, he was an emergency department doctor for 29 years. Then he spent seven years as a primary care physician in a clinic for immigrants and refugees. Since the activation of California’s End of Life Option Act in 2016, Dr. Shavelson has been a leader in advancing the clinical application of the law, including direct patient care, consulting, research, and teaching.
Dr. Shavelson has been deeply interested in issues about end-of-life care for more than twenty-five years. He wrote the 1994 book, A Chosen Death, and was one of five authors of the 1997 proposed guidelines, “Physician-Hastened Death,” by the Bay Area Network of Ethics. He is now Chair of the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying and was a leader in organizing the first National Clinicians Conference on Medical Aid in Dying, held at UC Berkeley in February 2020.
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