WJC09 Session 1 - PAD/PAS: A Glimpse into the Views of U.S. Clergy

Description:

Overview:
Views that shape end of life care vary across individuals with faith, culture, and life experiences contributing to each perspective. Understanding parish clergy’s views on Physician Aid in Dying (PAD) and Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) can provide insights for partnerships between parish clergy and chaplains as they both come along side persons near the end of life. This area of care and ministry is on the current landscape in four American states and on the frontier for other states.

Learning Objectives:

• To explore Physician-Aid in Dying/Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAD/PAS) from a U.S. Clergy perspective and the associated ethical controversies
• To examine the use of questionnaires in qualitative research

Reading:
Balboni, M. J., Sullivan, A., Smith, P. T., Zaidi, D., Mitchell, C., Tulsky, J. A., ... & Balboni, T. A. (2018). The views of clergy regarding ethical controversies in care at the end of life. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 55(1), 65-74.

Presenters:
Rev. Marilyn J. D. Barnes MS MA MPH BCC, is a Vice President of Mission and Spiritual Care in the Advocate Aurora Health Care System in Illinois. She previously served as a Senior Staff Chaplain at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. She is a 2018 Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow graduate. Her research interests include the use of simulation in chaplaincy training and education, the impact of spiritual/religious coping on the association between discrimination and stress among midlife women, and the experiences of health care chaplains of color.

Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPH, is the Executive Director of Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship and convener of the Pediatrics Spiritual Care Research Network. She previously served for five years in various roles at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Her research interests include the role of religion in surrogate decision-making and in coping with caregiving for children with complex medical needs. She completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019.

Rev. Shelley Varner-Perez MDiv MPH BCC CPH, is Senior Program Manager and Chaplain-Researcher at Indiana University (IU) Health, Indianapolis, as well as an Affiliated Research Scientist in the Center for Aging Research with the Regenstrief Institute. She previously served nine years as a chaplain at VA Portland Health Care System in Portland, Oregon. She completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019 at the conclusion of a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology. Her research interests include spiritual care with family surrogate decision-makers and staff support following code blue events, as well as using art to engage those who are non-religious/unaffiliated.

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