Hybrid session: hosted in-person at the Cicely Saunders Institute and virtually via Microsoft Teams

Abstract

There are differences between the US and UK in the intensity of end-of-life care, with the US particularly prone to a default of high intensity life-sustaining treatments that are sometimes potentially non-beneficial. In this seminar, Dr. Dzeng will discuss the results of a large-scale ethnographic study in the US and UK which elucidated the systemic and institutional factors that shape intensities of end-of-life care in hospitals. She will also discuss the impact of these systemic factors and patterns of end-of-life care on moral distress in American physicians.

About the Speaker

Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, MPhil is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London. She is a hospitalist physician, sociologist, and ethicist who draws from diverse qualitative research methods to understand and improve serious illness care.

About the Seminar Series 

The Cicely Saunders Institute Open Seminar Series events are free to attend.

The series aim is to optimise opportunities for local, national and international networking within palliative care and rehabilitation. We facilitate seminars to assist in improving practice, education and policy, and the integration of research and clinical endeavours.