Bioethics Conversation
December 3, 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Join us at The Warehouse Coffee Shop on Thursday, December 3 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. for the third in a series of conversations on bioethical issues. This is the final conversation this fall and is titled, “Ventilators, Feeding Tubes, and Our Medical War Against Death: Counsel From A “Battle-Tested, Christian Ethicist.” Lisa Anderson-Shaw, DrPH, MSN who is Director of Clinical Ethics Consult Service and Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Illinois Medical Center (UIMC), Chicago, will be the featured guest speaker.
As director of the Ethics Consult Service at the UIMC, Dr. Lisa Anderson-Shaw provides ethical consultation to health care professionals, patients and students. She also serves as an assistant clinical professor at the UIC School of Nursing. Dr. Anderson-Shaw is a visiting professor at the UIC School of Medicine, Concordia University, DePaul University and Loyola University where she teaches in the areas of ethics and health care policy. In her work as an ethicist, Ms. Anderson-Shaw is a member of the ethics committee and provides ethical consultation to MacNeal Health Systems in Berwyn and to RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale. She is currently doing research related to the identification of ethical issues in routine ambulatory care settings, ethics consultation in the emergency department, and the concept of a “donor advocate” related to living organ donation. Dr. Anderson-Shaw is particularly interested in the integration of faith and health care, especially as it is related to beginning of life and end of life issues. Shaw holds degrees from SIU-Edwardsville (BSN), Indiana University (MSN), Loyola University of Chicago (MA) and the University of Illinois (DrPH). She is a native of Petersburg, Ill, and currently worships with the Christian Church of Clarendon Hills, along with her husband and children.
This LCU discussion is sponsored by Dr. Robert C. Kurka, the class members of LCU Course TH 720/PC 720 and the Issachar Institute. The Issachar Institute is a three-year-old organization that seeks to promote Biblical worldview thinking on the LCU campus, throughout our Christian Church Fellowship and in the larger evangelical world.
Lincoln Christian University is celebrating its 65th year of providing higher education The University’s three schools – the Seminary , the School of Undergraduate Studies and the School of Adult and Graduate Studies share a mission to nurture and equip Christians with a Biblical worldview to serve and lead in the church and the world.