The Influence of Hospital Culture and Policies on Do-Not-Resuscitate Decision-Making at the End of Life

June 2, 2016

11:30 am

LHTS Campus

Room 340

Gay Becker Room

Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at UCSF in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology program. She completed her PhD in Medical Sociology at the University of Cambridge at King’s College as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a General Internal Medicine Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow and Palliative Care Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her current research is focused on understanding how institutions might foster cultures that encourage palliative care and resist the tide of overly aggressive care at the end of life and the interaction between these ethical conflicts and physician moral distress, burnout, and declines in empathy