A Festschrift in Honor of Bill Meadow: Part 3 of 3
Channel: MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Date: 2016-03-28

Speakers in Part 3 Include:

Nancy Dishno: Neonatal Intensive Care nurse at University of Chicago Hospitals. She has been a colleague and mentor of Bill’s for 30 years and taught him everything he knows about NICU nursing.

Cass Sunstein: the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University; Founder and Director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Dr. Sunstein was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012, and before that, was the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago where he first met Bill. They began as squash and tennis partners, and grew into collaborators on work exploring how data can be used to define standards of medical care.

Joanne Lagatta; Assistant Professor, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus. In her research, Dr. Lagatta analyzes data on outcomes of infants with chronic lung disease, with a particular focus on how best plan to the transition to home for infants with medical needs who are preparing to leave the NICU. She did her Residency and Fellowship in Neonatology under Bill’s mentorship, and they are now collaborating on a number of projects exploring resource allocation in the NICU during and after hospitalization.

John Lantos: Director of Pediatric Bioethics, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Lantos spent 21 years at the University of Chicago, most recently as Professor of Pediatrics and also held the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City Missouri