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Clinical Ethics Consultant
New York, New York
Howard J. Finger, DO, is clinical ethics consultant at Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center and at Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility in New York City. He served as co-chairperson of the New York City Health + Hospitals Bioethics Council from 2019 to 2022, and he currently serves on the board of diectors of the Empire State Bioethics Consortium and as a memeber of the AMDA Ethics Subcommittee. In conjunction with the Bioethics Council, he developed an Algorithm for the Unbefriended to assist interdisciplinary care teams in making end-of-life treatment decisions when patients lack both decisional capacity and surrogates, which he applied at Coler. He was lead author of three articles on the subject, the latest of which, “An Interdisciplinary Ethics Panel Approach to End-of-life Decision-Making for Unbefriended Nursing Home Residents,” was published in the 2022 summer issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET