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Anticipating Uncertainty & Irrevocable Decisions: Ethical Challenges Implementing Genomic Sequencing in Care of Critically Ill Children

January 24, 2022 - 12:00 pm

Danton Char, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine (Pediatric), and of Medical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine.

For its many anticipated predictive benefits, early implementation of genomic sequencing (GS) in the care of critically ill children shows clinicians’ perceptions of the near-term utility of GS to be facilitating earlier declarations of futility, withdrawal of therapeutic interventions, and rationing of scarce resources (including organs for transplantation). These unanticipated uses of genomic sequencing are straining trust with families. How should such uses be discussed, and are genomic sequencing data robust enough to support these uses?

Seminar on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics

Monday January 24, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

To register for this online presentation and receive the Zoom link, please contact: Janee Frankel: janee.frankel@nyspi.columbia.edu or Alfa Garcia at Alfa.Garcia@nyspi.columbia.edu

Center for Research on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic, and Behavioral Genetics