I give talks on the ethical challenges that arise at the intersection of psychiatry, healthcare systems, and clinical practice. I regularly speak with clinicians, trainees, and healthcare leaders on topics related to decision-making, psychiatric care, and the ethics of complex health systems. If you're interested in booking me, please send me a message.
Shared Decision-Making in Complex Care
What shared decision-making looks like when patients lack capacity, face structural constraints, or experience psychiatric illness. This talk explores the limits and possibilities of collaborative decision-making in real-world practice.
Shared Decision-Making in Complex Care
What shared decision-making looks like when patients lack capacity, face structural constraints, or experience psychiatric illness. This talk explores the limits and possibilities of collaborative decision-making in real-world practice.
Medicine, Power, and Social Life
A big-picture look at how healthcare systems shape ethical decision-making beyond the bedside. This talk explores how institutional structures influence concepts like autonomy, risk, and responsibility in clinical care.
Coercion in Psychiatric Care
From overt force to subtle influence, this talk examines the many forms of coercion in psychiatric services and the ethical challenges they raise for clinicians and institutions.
A big-picture look at how healthcare systems shape ethical decision-making beyond the bedside. This talk explores how institutional structures influence concepts like autonomy, risk, and responsibility in clinical care.
Coercion in Psychiatric Care
From overt force to subtle influence, this talk examines the many forms of coercion in psychiatric services and the ethical challenges they raise for clinicians and institutions.
A Brief History of Mental Health Institutions
An overview of how psychiatric institutions and policies have evolved—and what that history reveals about power, care, and social control in modern mental health systems.
An overview of how psychiatric institutions and policies have evolved—and what that history reveals about power, care, and social control in modern mental health systems.
Selected Talks
- The Ethics of Autonomy: Navigating Influence, Capacity, and Care — University of Arizona / Southern Arizona Psychological Association
- Everyday Ethics on the Frontline: Capacity, Consent, Coercion — UCLA School of Social Welfare
- What Can I Do to Help? Capacity Assessments in Practice — American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference
- What Healthcare Ethics Consultants Should Know About Inequity — American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference