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ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE JEAN TRUMPLER ABBOTT, MD, MH

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Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Health Sciences Center, Aurora CO Professor Emerita, Department of Emergency Medicine, CU School of Medicine University Hospital Ethics Committee, member since 1995. Coordinator, UH Ethics Consultation service (1998-present)

EDUCATION College: Bryn Mawr College, 1969, BA, Magna cum laude, political science. Medical School: University of Pennsylvania, MD, 1973. Internship: San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton, CA, 1973-74. Master of Humanities University of Colorado, Denver, 2003; philosophy & bioethics PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT HISTORY University of Colorado: Appointment 1985; promotion to Professor as of July 2005, “retired”

from FT faculty appointment, July 2008, retired from direct ED clinical service, June 2013.

ED Staff Physician: Tuba City Regional Indian Health Service Hospital: 1999 – 2013. Physician, Himalayan Rescue Association, Manang Clinic, Nepal; Spring 2000. Community Emergency Medicine 1975 - 1985: Boise ID, Lewiston ME, Duluth MN,

Boulder/Longmont/Loveland/Wheatridge CO. HONORS Magna Cum Laude: Bryn Mawr College, 1969 Outstanding Teaching Award: Central Maine Medical Center FP Residency; 1984-1985 UCHSC, Clinician of the Year: Denver Affiliated Residency in Emergency Medicine, 1989 Robert C. Jorden Master Teacher Award; Class of 1993, Denver Affiliated Residency in EM. Appreciation Award, Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine, September, 2000. Pfizer National Humanism in Medicine nominee from University of Colorado School of

Medicine, 2001. Excellence in Teaching Award, Medical School Class of 2006 for 2003-4 academic year; May,

2004. Veritas Award, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, UCHSC, May, 2004. Lifetime Achievement Award in Emergency Medicine Education, Denver Health Emergency

Medicine Residency, June, 2008. Peak Performers Award 2010 from Rocky Mountain Hospitalists, October, 2010

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2012 SAEM Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Award, presented May 2012.

Fellow, American Board of Emergency Medicine (now lifetime) 1982-present Educating Physicians in End-of-Life Care (EPEC) Program Trainer 2001-present

Master Trainer, EPEC-EM 2006-present NATIONAL COMMITTEES SAEM Ethics Committee Member (three terms) 1999-2004 SAEM Ethics Committee Member 2010- 2015

- Coordinator for ongoing project or updating 12-module curriculum in ethics and professionalism for EM residencies. Posted electronically, July 2012. Revisions, intermittent. Coordinator again for 2013-2014 committee.

Modules as Primary Author: Introduction; Module 4.3: Difficult Patient Situations; Module 7: Ethical Theory; Module 8.1-3: Professional Responsibilities (Codes, professional/personal conflicts/ cultural issues).

SUMMARY OF NATIONAL & REGIONAL LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS: ACEP Scientific Assembly: multiple Ob-Gyn Topics, 198-90, 1991, 1993,1995-2005. End-of-Life Issues in Emergency Medicine. Copper Conference in Emergency Medicine, Feb

2005. Emergency Contraception: Myths and Mandates: University of New Mexico Grand Rounds,

invited lecturer, April, 2005. Postpartum Emergencies, Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy, Palliative Care in EM; National Kaiser

Emergency Medicine Conference, October 2005. Domestic Violence: The Emergency Department Regulations and Response, Panel Member, 1.5

hour presentation, Colorado Regional Conference on the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence, UC Denver, December 2008.

Multiple workshops on ethics dilemmas and case discussions for CU Family Medicine, Internal

Medicine, Renal Disease Review Courses in past 3 years. Topics including decision making, end-of-life dilemmas, rationing, chronic disease dilemmas, triage and disaster ethics.

Family Medicine Review Course, Estes Park, June 2010 & December 2010: Ethical Dilemmas in Family Medicine; End-of-Life Dilemmas 2011 (twice); Difficult Patient Interactions, 2012 (pending).

National Association of Clinical Toxicology (NACCT) Meetings: Moderator and discussant:

“Forensic Toxicologist as an Advocate for Care” Denver September 2010.

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Moderator: “Compassionate Care or Death Panel: The Dilemma of Futile Treatment in the ED”

with J Hoffman, A Derse; ACEP Scientific Assembly, San Francisco, October 2011. CU 48th Annual Internal Medicine Program: 2 hour workshop: Challenges in Decision Making:

Doctors, Patients, Surrogates, July 2012. VAH Ethics Grand Rounds: Surrogate Decision Making; Expert Panel, September 2012. Boulder Community Hospital Grand Rounds: How do medical decisions get made? Ethical and

Legal Perspectives, with Sarah Meshak, Esq. December 2012. Medical Staff Grand Rounds, Glenwood, CO: Does your patient have decision-making capacity?

December, 2012 (and meeting with ethics committee). CU-Boulder: Senior Seminar in Medicine: Ethical Issues in Modern Health Care: 2 hours,

Spring semester 2013, spring 2014, spring 2015, spring 2016. St. Joseph’s Surgery Grand Rounds: DNR Orders in the OR, December, 2012. Ethics Consultation Review and Continuing Education: 15 hour course given at Boulder

Community Hospital for ethics consultants, Fall 2012. EPEC-EM Trainers’ Conference (Educating Physicians in End-of-Life Care): Faculty, 2-day

conference, September 2012.

Family Medicine Review Course, Estes Park, June 2012 and November 2012: “The Difficult Patient,” 75 minutes workshop x 2.

Tyler Family Medicine Review Course, Texas, February 2013: Challenges in Decision Making:

Doctors, Patients, Surrogates Ob-Gyn Review Course, Vail, February 2013: Ethical Dilemmas in Office Practice. 2

workshops. Poudre Valley Hospital Grand Rounds: Challenges in Decision Making: Doctors, Patients,

Surrogates, April 2013. Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum: 2-day conference, May 2013. Presenter on:

o Recent Literature (with Deb Roybal, Regis) o “Hotspotter” initiatives (with Kayte Fulton, Kaiser) o “Unrepresented patients” (with Deb Bennett-Woods, Regis)

University of Naropa Presentation for Clinical Pastoral Care Class: Clinical bioethics in the

acute care hospital. April 2013.

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Glenwood Springs Valley View Hospital, Grand Rounds: EOL Dilemmas: Peg Tubes, ET tubes, Lines and Limits, May 2013.

SAEM May Annual Assembly, May 2013: panelist for two national Ethics Committee didactic

presentations:

o “Challenging the Physician-Patient Relationship: negotiating deception, manipulation, and medical mistakes, An Introduction to the National Ethics Curriculum in EM" (creation of which I oversaw for the past 2 years).

o Navigating the AMA Discharge – Case Studies, With Mark Clark, et al. o

CU Family Medicine Review Course, Dealing with patients who demand therapies: To give or not to give? Workshop x 2, June & November 2013.

EPEC-EM Trainers’ Conference (Educating Physicians in End-of-Life Care): Faculty, 2-day

conference, September 2013. EMS Education Day, Edwards CO: Ethical Quandaries in Prehospital End-of-Life Care,

November 2013. Rose Bioethics Annual Conference: The Burden of Surrogate Decision-Making, November,

2013. BCH Grand Rounds, What is “Appropriate Care” in an age of Technology? April 2014. Glenwood Springs, Grand Rounds, April 2014: “Against Medical Advice: When Patients Want to Call the Shots.”

CHEF conference, May 2014:

3-hour workshop on basic Ethics Consultation skills (with Jennifer Ballentine). 1 hour lecture: “What’s New” in the Literature.

UCH Trauma Conference, “Ethical Issues for Pre-hospital Professionals” Colorado Springs,

August 2014. CU Retired Faculty Association: “Living and Dying Well,” October 2014. Glenwood Springs, Grand Rounds, October 2014: “End of Life Dilemmas for Practicing

Physicians.” Hospice Volunteers Symposium (with Jennifer Ballentine, Samantha Barrows): Ethical

Challenges for Hospice Volunteers, October 2014. CU Family Practice Review, Estes Park, November 2014; “Ethics in Palliative Care.” – 2

workshops.

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North American Congress of Clinical Toxicologists: “Ethics and the Poisoned Patient”, October 2014.

“Difficult Encounters: When Physicians and Patients disagree”, Vail Ob-Gyn Conference, February 2015. “AMA Discharges,” Rocky Mountain Emergency Medicine Conference, Feb 2015. ‘To transplant or not: getting a liver after a suicide attempt?” Ethics Bites – a CU Anschutz campus Forum: January 2015. CHEF (Colorado Healthcare Ethics forum) conference, 2015, April:

“What’s New in the literature” (with K Fulton) “Beyond Advance Directives.” (with C Holden)

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, May 2015.

“Ethics in the News” (review of recent ethics literature pertinent to EM, with Dr. Colleen Bhalla) “Is patient satisfaction the same as patient-centered care?” (coordinated debate)

“Grassroots initiatives to encourage end-of-life discussions.” Invited Workshop, American Board of Internal Medicine Forum, Park City, August 2015. (with Bud Hammes) Advance Care Planning and the Conversation Project Model: all day meetings with Rocky Mountain Health Plan, Grand Junction CO, September 2015. What makes Ethics Consult Services Tick? Summit Medical Center Ethics Committee, September, 2015. “Physician Assisted Death: A Debate”, 11th annual Palliative Care Conference, CU Anschutz campus, October 2015. “More about the MOST: Guidelines for the conversation.” Boulder Community Health Rounds, with K Mooney, October 2015. Roadways for Collaborating with the Healthcare System, workshop for Reimagining death and dying: Changing the way we Care, Naropa conference, January 2016. “Cultivating a network of care: becoming part of the solution.” CIVHC Healthy Transitions Conference, January 2016, with C. Holden. What makes Ethics Consult Services Tick? Centura Castle Rock Ethics Committee, March 29, 2016. CHEF (Colorado Healthcare Ethics forum) conference, 2016, April:

“What’s New in the literature” (with K Fulton)

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“Advance Care Planning and the Growing Problems of Dementia” (with C Holden) “What are “Best Practices” for Unrepresented Patients?” (with J Glover, Deb B-W)

“Hospice Issues,” panel given twice for Colorado Medical Directors Association 22nd Annual

Conference, with Don Murphy, Robert Howe, April 2016. Caring for the “Unrepresented Patient”: Strategies to Avoid Moral Distress and Substandard

Care, panel with Deb Bennett-Woods, Thaddeus Pope; International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation, Washington DC, May 2016.

A Case of Attempted Suicide in Huntington’s Disease: Ethical and Moral Considerations (with K Furfari). International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation, Washington DC, May 2016.

CURRENT LOCAL AND REGIONAL SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION:

Creator and currently on steering committee, Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency Ethics and Professionalism curriculum: 3-year, 10 hours/year. (2003-present)

Steering Committee member and instructor: CU IPE Interdisciplinary ethics curriculum for professional students (medical, nursing, pharmacy, PT, PA) 2000-2015.

Multiple grand rounds on ethics and professionalism for UH Departments: Cardiology, Surgery, Orthopedics, Neurology, Internal Medicine.

Grand Rounds Lectures for Community Hospitals on ethics topics: Longmont, Boulder, Aurora South, Swedish, VA Hospitals.

Ethics Consultation Retreat: Organizer and lead for annual course for UCH area hospital ethics consultation services. Most recent:

o February 2016: co-coordinator and presenter, UCH system, 24 consultants. o February 2015: 7 hours, (80 attendees) case review and consultant education o April 2014: 7 hours. (78 attendees): my presentations included:

A debate: Is Patient Satisfaction the same as “patient centered care” (con)

Cases that keep us up at night: small group discussion of complex cases. o April 2013: 4 hours, sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and

University of Colorado Hospital (50 attendees) o Ongoing organization and coordination, speaking x 10 years before this

Member, Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Committee, UCH, representing Ethics Committee, 2013-present.

Member UCH Care Coordination Committee, representing Ethics committee, 2014-present.

CHEF (Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum), 2010-present. o Annual Conference Planning Committee for 2014. (representing Center) o Planning Committee, 2015, lecture presentations 2014, 2015.

Ethics Committee member, Boulder Community Hospital, 2012-present. o “Ethical Framework for Difficult Discharges” subcommittee 2014-5.

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o Working with physician groups on ACP and link to EMR Internal hospital ethics/emergency medicine projects in past few years:

o Guidelines for extremely low birthweight infants, 2004-6. o Advance directives implementation project, 2009-2012. o Peri-operative DNAR Protocol project, 2010-2011. o UCH worksheet for Decision Making Capacity (completed 2011) o ED Care Coordination project (for complex patients) – 2007-present. o Sickle Cell guidelines for EM management, 2012-2014. o Chronic Pain guidelines task force, 2012 – present. o Palliative care pathway for ED management, 2012.

Ethics Affiliates Organizer: quarterly meeting of Ethics Committee colleagues from TCH, Kaiser, VAH, NJH and UH:

o Plus current monthly meetings for an “unrepresented patient” guidelines initiative white paper (completed). (2010-present)

o In submission to Colorado Medicine: Gaps in Healthcare Decision Making for Unrepresented Adults in Colorado: Abbott J, Bennett-Woods D, Glover J.

o Presentations to legislature, stakeholder groups re. above. HB 16-1101, signed into Colorado law, May 18, 2016.

Project on Complex Discharges at UCH (derived from repeated consults) –preliminary analysis of scope of problem, possible solutions. (2013-ongoing)

Concept Paper: Ethical Framework for Highly Lethal Emerging Infectious Disease: lead in task force for Children’s Hospital of CO, Denver Health, and University of Colorado Hospital, October 2014.

The Conversation Project in Boulder County: initiative to foster values discussion in relation to healthcare choices, particularly at the end of life: ongoing initiative, starting January 2013, co-founder and lead presenter.

Member, TRU Hospice Ethics Committee, Jan 2016 – present. “Being Mortal” Book Discussion co-leader, 6-week class Spring 2015, Fall 2015, in

Boulder.

Recent CU Campus and DHEMR Teaching At UCD-HSC Medical and Professional Schools:

MS III ICC 7002: Spirituality Panel, December 2012. PRMD Ethics Course, facilitator curriculum (with Fulton), August 2012. ICC “Informed Consent” MSIV lecture & small group, February 2013, 2014, 2015

(pending). PRMD Ethics Course, facilitator curriculum (with Fulton), February, 2013. PRMD 5000 ID Ethics course, Small group facilitator, 5 x 2-hour sessions, spring, 2013. PRMD 5000 ID Ethics course, Small group facilitator, 5 x 2-hour sessions, fall, 2013. Delivering Bad News, IDPT 7002, MSIII, December 2013 Nursing Clinical Seminar: Does your patient have decision-making capacity? 2013 &

February 2014.

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CU “Women Succeeding” annual symposium for CU; panel member: “Lean In” discussion and small group exercises. March 2014.

IM didactic curriculum: o Discussions at monthly outcomes conferences: Decision-Making Capacity,

December 2012. o Truthtelling and Confidentiality: Case-based presentation, March, 2014. o Pharmaceutical Gifts: April & May 2014.

Advance Directives and EOL module (with IM Faculty: Youngwerth, Lum) – 2 ½ hour small group MS III session ending each IM block every 6 weeks. (2014-present)

Small group facilitator ICC sessions 2014: o MS Orientation, August o Cadaver as first patient, September o Professionalism challenges, October o Delivering Bad News, MSIII, December 2014 (2 sessions).

Palliative Care Fellowship Curriculum: Decision Making Capacity, (annual – 2012, 2013, 2014).

Microbiology Grad Students invited seminar: “Ethics and Ebola” with Jackie Glover. Nov 18, 2014.

Small group facilitator ICC sessions 2015: o MS Orientation, August o Cadaver as first patient, September o Professionalism challenges, October o Delivering Bad News & Family Meetings, MSIII, December 2015 (2 sessions).

ICC Session March 2016 – Lecture re. “Shared Decision-Making” and small group facilitator; MS IV students.

SOM & UCH Faculty, Staff Rounds:

Psychiatry Grand Rounds: panelist, Eating Disorder as an Incurable Disease. November, 2012.

Neurology Resident Teaching Lecture: Decision-Making Capacity and Advance Directives, January 2013.

Palliative Care Ethics in the MICU; Pulmonary Medicine Fellows, March 2013. UCH Ethics Grand Rounds:

o Ethical dilemmas: choosing between rocks and hard places. October 2012. o The Ethics of Pain Management: A Clinician’s Perspective, March 2013. o Patients who want to leave AMA: December 2013 o The Flip Side of AMA: When Patient Want to Call the Shots, February, 2014. o Duty and Challenges: Ebola and Healthcare Workers. UCH Ethics Grand Rounds,

November 2014. o Beyond Written Advance Directives: Having Conversations, January 2015. o Gaps in Healthcare Decisions for Unrepresented Patients, Dec 2015, with Dr.

Jackie Glover. MICU nurses rounds: Why don’t we honor Advance Directives when families

disagree?” April, 2013.

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Ob-Gyn Grand Rounds: New Ethical Quandaries for the Practicing Gynecologist, January 2014.

St. Joseph’s Surgery Grand Rounds, “Assessing and Communicating Futile Care,” February 2014.

CU SOM MS IV: Tabletop Exercise in Disaster Care (ethics team leader), February 2014, 3 hours.

Mentor for senior Neuro resident: ethics problems for neurologists, February, 2014. MICU staff: Duty to care, Conscientious Objection, and Boundaries, October, 2014. Ethics Bites (Ethics Forum at UCH): To Transplant or not to transplant: getting a liver

after attempting suicide? Jan 2015. Decision Making Capacity: Palliative Care Fellows rounds, August 2015.

Ethics and Professionalism Curriculum Lectures or Case Discussions, DHH Emergency Medicine Residency (I co-coordinate and wrote this curriculum):

LARC – Longevity and Retention Committee for EM Faculty, member of organizing group. 2012-present; now a women resident & faculty occasional evening meeting through present.

“Difficult Conversations: the Supervisor Role” EM III retreat (with Paterson) January 2013

Ethics and Professionalism Curriculum: Professionalism and its Boundaries: DHEMR Resident curriculum, February 2013.

EM II Retreat: Conflict Resolution, coordinator and discussant (with Druck, Anderson, Paterson, McVaney), March, 2013.

EM IV Retreat: September 2013 EM III retreat: January 2014 EM II retreat: March 2014. Truthtelling and Confidentiality: EM curriculum lecture, April 2014. “Last Lecture” given to DHEMR Grand Rounds, May 2014. DHEMR Ethics Curriculum:

o Conscientious objection (emergency contraception) & Professionalism education session. January 2015.

o Difficult Patients on Confidentiality: March 2015. o End of Life Challenges for EM, 2 ½ hour lecture & small group, & coordinator, Dec

2015. Mentoring:

Matt Wilson, Palliative Care Fellow: 1-month clinical ethics elective (half-time), February, 2014.

Cliff Hampton, senior Neuro resident: mentor for talk on ethics problems for neurologists, February, 2014.

Kayte Fulton, Masters in Bioethics program, Creighton: mentor for course practicum on complex discharges, April – June, 2014.

Work with “Hotspotters” students under Roberta Capp, summer 2014. Jesse Loar: EM IV resident: advising for Palliative Care elective and residency lecture.

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Sheri Kittelson: Palliative Care fellow: mentoring in AAHPM submission re. complex PC decision-making assessment, September 2015.

Cara Bergamo: EM IV: Palliative Care M&M, January 2016. Anita Kumar-Gill: Palliative Care fellow: mentor and supervisor: Severe and Enduring

Anorexia Nervosa, February 2016. PUBLICATIONS (recent highlights): PEER REVIEW JOURNALS Furfari K, Zehnder N, Abbott J. A case of attempted suicide in Huntington’s disease: ethical

and moral considerations. J Clin Ethics, March 2016. Clark M, Abbott J. Ethics Seminar: A “Best Practice” Approach to Navigating the AMA

Discharge. Acad Emerg Med. 2014: 21: 1050-7. Vinton DT, Capp R, Rooks SP, Abbott JT, Ginde AA. National study of frequent users of the

emergency department: characteristics and opportunities for intervention. Emerg Med J 2014; Jan 28 (epub).

Abbott J, Stone S. Are we ready for palliative medicine? Ann Emerg Med 2013; 61: 372.

(Letter to editor.) Abbott J. A Celebration of Being “The Attending.” Acad Emerg Med 2012; 19: E1114-5. Boatright D, Abbott J. Not your typical “frequent flyer”: overcoming mythology in caring for sickle cell disease patients. Commentary essay, AJOB, January 2013. Abbott J. Difficult Patients, Difficult Doctors: Can Consultants interrupt the Blame Game?,

American Journal of Bioethics. Am J Bioeth. 2012; 12(5):18-20. Zieski M, Abbott J. Ethics Seminars: The Hospice Patient in the ED: An Ethical Approach to

Understanding Barriers and Improving Care. Acad Emerg Med. 2011;18(11):1201-7.

Stone S, Lowenstein SR, McClung CD, Colwell CD, Abbott J. Paramedic knowledge, attitudes and training in end-of-life care. Journal of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2009 Nov-Dec;24(6):529-34.

Abbott J. Even “Frequent Fliers” Die. Ann Emerg Med. 2009 Dec; 54(6):840. Metz T, Abbott J. Uterine trauma in pregnancy following motor vehicle crashes with airbag

deployment: 30-case series. J Trauma. 2006 Sep;61(3):658-61. Bookman K, Abbott J. Ethics Seminars: withdrawal of treatments in the emergency

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department: when and how? Academic Emerg Med, 2006 Dec;13(12):1328-32. SAEM Ethics Committee, Schmidt TA, Abbott JT, et al. Ethics Seminars: The ethical debate on

practicing procedures on the newly dead. Academic Emerg Med 2004; 11: 962-6. Abbott JT, Feldhaus K, Houry D, et al. Emergency Contraception: What do our patients know?

Ann Emerg Med 2004; 43:376-81. SAEM Ethics Committee: Schmidt TA, Salo D, Hughes JA, Abbott JT, Geiderman JM, Johnson

CX, McClure KB, McKay MP, Razzak JA, Schears RM, Solomon RC. Confronting the Ethical Challenges to Informed Consent in Emergency Medicine Research. Acad Emerg Med. 2004 Oct;11(10):1082-9.

Larkin GL, Marco CA, Abbott JT. Emergency determination of decision-making capacity:

balancing autonomy and beneficence in the emergency department. Acad Emerg Med 2001; 8(3):282-4.

Houry D, Abbott JT. Ovarian Torsion: 15-Year Experience, Ann Emerg Med 2001; 38: 156-9. Houry D, Feldhaus KM, Abbott J. Mandatory reporting laws do not deter patients from seeking

medical care. Ann Emerg Med 1999; 34: 336-41; and response 2000: 35: 404. RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS, MONOGRAPHS, and INVITED EDITORIALS: Marylander G, Abbott J. The lawyer’s role in end-of-life planning—moving beyond advance

medical directives. Colorado Lawyer, July 2015. Abbott J. A story of repatriation. ABIM Foundation Forum anthology, Summer 2015. Bergamo C, Abbott J: Palliative Care, in Emergency Medicine Secrets, 3rd edition, submitted

September 2014. (EM resident)

EM-RAP: February 2014: End-of-life conversations for the Emergency Physician, with Rob Orman (25 min oral education session)..

SAEM Ethics Committee (national) coordinator for ongoing project or updating 12-module curriculum in ethics and professionalism for EM residencies. Posted electronically, July 2012.

Modules as Primary Author: Introduction; Module 4.3: Difficult Patient Situations; Module 7: Ethical Theory; Module 8.1-3: Professional Responsibilities (Codes, professional/personal conflicts/ cultural issues).

Abbott J. A case of confidentiality for an alcoholic patient. Ethics in Action, SAEM Newsletter, October 2012.

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Quarterly “Clinical Ethics Corner” in Center for Bioethics and Humanities newsletter: Fall,

Winter, 2012-2014. Mitchell G, Liu K, Abbott J. Huntington’s disease, do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and a

suicide attempt: an ethical dilemma. Ethics in Action, SAEM newsletter, submitted and accepted February 2012.

Abbott J. Non-Malignant Pain. Chapter in Palliative Care in the Emergency Department, Oxford Press, Paul DeSandre & Tammie Quest, eds. March 2013.

Paterson R, Abbott J. Spirituality, Grieving and Bereavement. Chapter in Palliative Care in the Emergency Department, Oxford Press, Paul DeSandre & Tammie Quest, eds. March 2013.

Barrett W, Abbott J. An ED Patient Refusing a PICC Line. Ethics in Action, SAEM newsletter, March 2011.

Abbott J, Stone S. End of Life Issues, chapter in Rosen’s textbook of Emergency Medicine, 8th

edition, 2012; previously 2008 (7th ed), 2005 (6th ed)

Abbott J, Tortorice P, Graham JM. Ethical Decision Making. Chapter in: O’Connell, et al, eds, Women’s Health Across the Lifespan: A Pharmacotherapeutic Approach. Published 2010. (new textbook for pharmacy)

Freedman J, Abbott J, Nordenholz K. Women in Academics: Part-time Work, in SAEM

Women’s Survival Guide, published by Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2007. Abbott JT. A tale of three women. (Invited faculty response to resident portfolio), Academic

Emerg Med; 13: 989-92; 2006. RECENT ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS Abbott J, Holden C. A Grassroots Advance Care Planning Experience: The Conversation Project

in Boulder County, descriptive poster presented at 10th Annual Palliative Care Research Days, UCH Campus, October, 2014.

Abbott J, Wright J, Madrid S. “Frequent Flyers:” Characteristics of Emergency Department

Patients with 6 or more Visits in a Single Year”– poster presentation, October 2011 at ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) Scientific Assembly.

Witzeman K, Abbott JT. HEP Ob-Gyn Ethics Curriculum (required clerkship rotation

curriculum in ethics) presented, Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology, national workshop, Jan 2008.

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Abbott J, Moriera M, Wolf S, Druck J. Ethics in Emergency Medicine: A Model Curriculum. Presented at 2007 CORD Conference, April 2007.

Stone S, Lowenstein SR, McClung CD, Colwell CD, Abbott J. Paramedic knowledge, attitudes

and training in end-of-life care. Presented SAEM national meeting, May 2007. LAY WRITING: Have YOU had the Conversation? Longmont Times-Call, April 2014. Decision-making across the spectrum of Memory Loss. Marketplace 50+, Boulder, Spring 2016. Land of Limbo. Human Touch, 2016. Advance care planning is important; do it now. Longmont Times Call: Letter to Editor: April 10, 2016. National Healthcare Decisions Day; Boulder Daily Camera guest commentary, April 15, 2016. CURRENT PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: Ethics consultation in the hospital setting. Complex patients: “difficult patients,” chronic disease, chronic pain, frequent ED utilizers, unrepresented patients. Multiple ethics/professionalism topics for professional students, residents and academic faculty. Interface between Emergency Medicine and end-of-life care. Ethics in Palliative Care. Advance Care planning. Ethics and Palliative Care.

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Recent Classes/CME taken: Iliff School of Theology: 4 credit course: Self-Care: Theological and Psychological Perspectives,

Fall, 2010 (work on motivational counseling, professionalism) Iliff School of Theology: 4 credit course: Tragedy and Theodicy, Spring 2011. Iliff School of Theology: 4 credit course: Death, Dying, Grieving & Bereavement, Summer,

2012. ASBH Annual Conference, Washington DC, October, 2012; 14 hours. Chronic Pain Symposium, UCHSC Campus, November, 2012, 4 hours. ACEP Reviewer, 2012: 3 hours. ASBH Annual Conference, Atlanta, October, 2013; 14 hours. SAEM Annual Meeting, May 2014, 14 hours & Ethics Committee work. UCH Trauma Conference, Colorado Springs, August 2014, 4 hours. North American Congress of Clinical Toxicologists: New Orleans, October 2014, 4 hours.

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Colorado Healthcare Ethics Annual Conference, May 2014: 11.25 hours. Rocky Mountain Emergency Medicine Conference, Breckenridge CO, February 2015: 4 hours. UCH Annual Ethics Consultation Retreat, February 2015, 6 hours. CHEF Conference, April 2015: 11 hours CHEF Conference, April 2016: 9 hours ICCEC Conference, May 2016: pending.

Outside Interests: Piano lessons, occasional performances for church. Bicycling and travel Chair, MacKenzie Lectureship Committee, 1st Congregational Church, Boulder CO. (Dr. Marcus

Borg, 2013 visiting lecturer, January 2013) Ministry of End Things, 1st Congregational Church, Boulder CO, 2016 - present. Community service in New Orleans; 8 reconstruction weeks 2010-2013, Staten Island, May

2014. Family, including granddaughter Emily, 13 year old, who lives next door. Camp Wapiyapi volunteer, 2011-June 2015. The Conversation Project in Boulder County: cofounder & active presenter: 2013-present,

involved in the organization’s 150 presentations to 4,000 people.