Virtual

Dr Idris Baker
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Ty Olwen Hospice, Morriston Hospital, Swansea.

Idris Baker is a consultant in palliative medicine in Swansea. He grew up in Knighton and Bangor and trained mainly in Cambridge, London and Leicester. He has interests in the theoretical and applied ethics of end of life care which he has studied at Keele University. Before taking up his post in Swansea he was visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in New York, looking at questions of autonomy and proxy decision making. He currently has responsibilities in medical management, postgraduate training and education, and clinical ethics, but although he has read a couple of books he has learnt most of what he knows at patients’ bedsides. He teaches and speaks widely on palliative care and ethics on undergraduate and postgraduate courses and with other groups.

Dr Mary Miller
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Sobell House. Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University of Oxford. Director OxCERPC (Oxford Centre for education and research in palliative care).

Mary qualified from University College Cork, Ireland in 1988. Mary trained and worked in palliative medicine in Ireland, Sweden and the UK and has been a consultant in palliative medicine in Oxford since 1998. Mary has a strong interest in education; completing a Diploma in Learning and Teaching at Oxford University 2005, was Training Programme Director and Regional Specialty Advisor (2002 – 2008) and has led the Oxford Advanced Courses in Pain and Symptom Management since 2005. Mary is an elected member of the Education Committee of the Association of Palliative Medicine and joint lead of the postgraduate education special interest forum.

Since the inception of OxCERPC in 2017, Mary and the team are focusing on building an exciting portfolio of courses, building research readiness and reaching out to practitioners across the globe

Dr Helen Turnham
Associate Faculty Member, Faculty of Philosophy.

Helen is an NHS Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. She is dual-trained in both Anaesthesia and Paediatric Critical Care. She has previously worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Helen has an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from the Centre for Professional Ethics in Keele, for which she was awarded a distinction. Helen is the Clinical Lead for medical ethics in the Paediatric Critical Care unit at the John Radcliffe and she sits on the Oxford University Hospitals Clinical Ethics Advisory Group (CEAG) and the Child Health Ethics & Law Special Interest Group (CHELSIG) of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Helen's focus is on medical ethics and she is particularly interested in decision-making for children, consent for children to undertake medical interventions and the ethics of using innovative and compassionate use therapies for children.

Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova
Birmingham Medical School, Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law.

Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova is the Lead for Ethics and Law on the MBChB and Graduate Entry Course (GEC) programmes in Birmingham Medical School. She was appointed the Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law by the University of Birmingham in September 2021. Dr Wickins-Drazilova has over twenty years’ experience of teaching, scholarship and research in the field of applied ethics, particularly medical ethics and other areas of ethics applied to healthcare.

Professor Derek Willis
Medical Director Severn Hospice, Shrewsbury.

Derek Willis is Medical Director at Severn Hospice (Shropshire and Midwales) and an Honorary Chair at the University of Chester in Bioethics and Palliative Medicine. At present he is working in partnership with Robert Jones Agnes Hunt Hospital and Muscular Dystrophy UK to explore what palliative medicine provision should be for adult patients with Muscular Dystrophies? He has been part of a governmental review at the House of Lords concerning this.

Derek is both GP and Physician trained and has worked in New Zealand, the Midlands and the North East. He teaches Medical Ethics at three Universities and has a higher qualification as well as a research interest in the subject. He is academic rep on the WMCares research collaborative. He is currently Treasurer of the APM and is on their Ethics Committee.

09:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:20 Capacity, reason, and personhood: was Locke ageist? (Prof Derek Willis)
10:20 Break
10:30 Personhood in a medically complex childhood (Dr Helen Turnham)
11:30 Break
11:45 Can hamsters make autonomous choices? (Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova)
12:45 Lunch
13:15 Personhood at the end of life (Dr Idris Baker)
14:15 Panel Discussion (Dr Tim Harrison and Dr Mary Miller)
14:45 Wrap Up
15:00 End of Day

Aim:
The conference aims to build your knowledge and skills in the field of ethics and enable you to transfer your skills to clinical care
Objectives
By attending the conference you will:
• Have an opportunity to enjoy learning with your colleagues
• Develop your ability to apply knowledge gained to the management of clinical issues with ethical complexities in your practice
• Develop knowledge and skills to impact and support the decisions considered by your patients and those they love
• Be supported to bring your learning back to your organisation
• Have an opportunity to network with your peers

Key benefits include:
• A high standard of professional knowledge
• Excellent teaching
• Time for questions, discussion and building your networks
• Support to set educational goals for the coming year
• Superb value for money
• Experienced and enthusiastic administrative staff
• Focus on participants, not profit – any surplus ploughed back into education