Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law

Activities

On May 21, 2013, Professor Kapp will be speaking during Lunch and Learn Senior Days on "Making Medical Decisions: What Are the Patient's Rights and Responsibilities?" from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM at the Fort Braden Community Center located at 16387 Blountstown Highway, Tallahassee, FL 32310. Lunch and Learn Senior Days is sponsored by the Leon County Senior Outreach program and include exhibitors, health screenings, and lunch for $6.
On April 16, 2013, National Healthcare Decisions Day, the Center and Big Bend Hospice held a showing of the film, "Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject," at the College of Medicine. To view the flyer, please click here: Consider the Conversation.pdf. Students from the College of Law Health Law Association distributed information about end-of life care during the event. See below.

On April 13, 2013 from 11:30-1:30pm, Professor Kapp moderated a two hour panel on "Helping Patients and Families Plan for Difficult Medical Choices: Death Panels or Good Medical Practice?" at the FSU College of Medicine. For more information, including panelists, please see the Flyer.pdf.

On April 11, 2013, Professor Kapp was a panelist during the Lively Technical Center Health Education Department Advisory Committee's 3rd Bi-Annual Scholarship Fundraiser, "Implications of the Affordable Care Act." For more information, please view the flyer: Lively Technical Center 3 annual flyer.pdf.
On April 8, 2013, the Center, the Division of Health Affairs, and the Masters of Public Health program sponsored guest speaker Patrick Geraghty, CEO of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida during a symposium entitled: "The Health Insurance Indsutry Response to the Affordable Care Act." To view the announcement, please click here: Health Insurance Symposium.pdf. The video may be found here: lectures.med.fsu.edu/tcs/. Photos are below.

On March 29, 2013, Professor Kapp and Reverend Candace McKibben of Big Bend Hospice were interviewed by ABC News Channel 27 WTXL about the upcoming showing at the College of Medicine on April 16 of the documentary, "Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject." To watch the video and read the article, please click here: Big Bend Hospice and the FSU College of Medicine to screen award winning documentary. To view the flyer with details about the event, please click here: Consider the Conversation.pdf.
On February 28, 2013, Professor Kapp contributed as a panelist at the Bloomberg Government Briefing entitled, "Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Enrollment, Education and Taxes." For more information, please visit tax-implications-of-aca-fl-eorg.eventbrite.com/.
On February 26, 2013, the Health Law Society, AIRR, and PILSA co-hosted a speaking event about the intersections between the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) and immigration. FSU's Dr. Rodriguez and FSU Law's Professors Annino and Kapp discussed how undocumented immigrants fall through the cracks, even under AHCA. The discussion will also explore how some hospitals in Florida and Arizona have started repatriating undocumented immigrants who require expensive, long term health care back to their countries of origin, sometimes against their will.
On February 4, 2013, the Center and the Florida Bioethics Network (FBN) sponsored a conference, Health Care Reform: Legal and Ethical Questions About Where We Go from Here. Photos are below.

Jill Quadagno, PhD

Jeffrey H. Khan, JD (at podium),

Mark B. Seidenfeld, JD, MA, Morris Miller, Esq.

Ken Brummel-Smith, MD

Patricia Born, PhD

Paulo Annino, JD, PhD

Joyce Chastain, SPHR

Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD

On January 22, 2013, at noon Professor Kapp and Dr. Van Durme spoke on the Affordable Care Act sponsored by the COM Florida Rural Health Association, Geriatrics Interest Group, American Medical Students Association, and HALO. View the flyer: ACA Flyer.pdf. Photos are below.

On January 10, 2013, Professor Kapp and Dr. Les Beitsch held a brown bag lunch discussion on "Firearms Regulations as a Public Health Issue: Lessons from the Newtown Tragedy." Several faculty and students attended, and the event was covered by WCTV. To read the coverage by WCTV, you may click here. To watch video of the discussion, please click here. Photos are below.

On November 13, 2012, Professor Kapp spoke on the “Baker Act: Involuntary Civil Commitment in Florida” at a meeting jointly sponsored by the Health and Law Organization (HALO) and the Psychiatry Student Interest Group (PSIG). View Flyer [pdf]. See photos below.

On November 8-9, 2012, the Health Law Institute at Hamline University and the Hamline Law Review presented a Symposium, "Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues in Minnesota End-of-Life Care." Professor Kapp presented on POLST. This symposium examined problems arising at the intersection of law and end-of-life medicine. Regional and national experts explored issues and topics such as: legal and medical issues concerning the use of POLST orders, especially in Minnesota; institutional and community responses to medical futility disputes; and decision-making for “unbefriended” patients without surrogates.

Professor Kapp taught a series of classes from October 3, 2012 - November 7, 2012 on Current Legal and Ethical Controversies in American Health Care sponsored by the FSU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and held at Westminster Oaks. Photos are below. For more information on the topic discussed, please visit www.campusce.net/fsu/course/course.aspx.

Professor Kapp spoke on "The AHCA and how it will effect the Medical Practice in the Coming Years" at the Leadership Development Seminar hosted by the Seminole County Medical Society and the Orange County Medical Society in Orlando, FL on September 29, 2012. He is seen below with Dean Deborah German of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.

September 20, 2012: Dr. Stuart Bagatell and Monsignor Gabriel Ghanoum presented at Mercy Hospital during Grand Rounds on "Enhancing a Moment of Grace: Clarifying Advanced Directives." The presentation took place from Noon-2pm at the 6th Floor Conference Center. Two CMEs were offered for physicians and 2 CEUs for nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and dieticians.
Professor Kapp was a guest on Capital Report, 88.9 FM WFSU-Tallahassee on September 14, 2012, at 6:30 PM & 9 P.M. The topic was Florida Amendment One.
Professor Kapp facilitated a discussion, "Medical-Legal Implications of the Recent Shooting Incident in Colorado," with Kathy Lee, M.D., on August 17, 2012. Therapist's duty to warn and/or control, mental health treatment and confidentiality, competency to stand trial, insanity defense, and gun violence as a public health issue, were discussed.

On August 8, 2012, Ken Brummel-Smith, MD, Tracy Christner, Stuart Bagatell, MD, and Professor Kapp presented a workshop, “Implementing the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Paradigm in Florida Long-Term Care” at the Pioneer Network’s August, 2012 Conference, “Building a Bridge to a New Culture of Aging,” held in Jacksonville, FL. For more information, please visit: www.pioneernetwork.net/events/2012Conference.
On July 6, 2012 Professor Kapp held a briefing and discussion on the Affordable Care Act. To listen to his radio or TV interviews, or to read print media, please visit the News section of this website at admin.med.fsu.edu/index.cfm. Photos from the forum are below

During the April 14, 2012 Alumni Reunion the Center held a continuing medical education (CME) course entitled "Avoiding and Reacting to Medical Errors: Legal and Ethical Issues". Professor Kapp moderated a panel which included Donald Hinkle, JD, Keith Ingram, MD, Linda Keen, RN, JD, Jacqueline Lloyd, MD and Michael Nair-Collins, PhD. Photos are below.

On February 14, 2012 during the 8th Annual Research Fair, Brittany Lamb, M2, displayed and discussed findings from a project conducted with College of Law student Sara Catherine Spillers entitled "Is the POLST Model Desirable for Florida?"
On February 9, 2012 during Grand Rounds, the Center hosted a presentation by Douglas Wojcieszak, Founder & Spokesperson, The Sorry Works! Coalition entitled "Admitting Medical Errors and Apologizing for them". This presentation took place in the COM Auditorium at Noon.
The Public Interest Law Center partnered with the FSU College of Medicine for a clinic to pair law students with medical students to solve complex problems for people who need health care and legal help.
Center Associate, Visiting Professor Wendi Adelson of the FSU College of Law, who directs the FSU Medical-Legal Partnership, at a meeting of the FSU Association of Latino Medical Students on November 9, 2011 on "Immigration, Law and Medicine."
The Health Law Society hosted Professor Kapp on Thursday, November 3, 2011 in Room 103 at the College of Law from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. Professor Kapp will be speaking on current issues in health care and law. Food will be provided to all attendees.
Professor Kapp was a panelist for "The Future of Scholarly Publishing: A Symposim" on Friday, October 28, 2011 from 9-12pm at the Strozier Scholar Commons Reading Room. You may view the brochure here.
Professor Kapp presented "The Future of CV Medicine: A Sociological Perspective" on October 15, 2011 in Dayton, OH. This event was sponsored by The Heart Institute of Dayton, GoodSamaritan Hospital. Professor Kapp's presentation my be viewed here.
During the FSU College of Medicine's Grand Rounds at Noon on September 1, 2011, in the COM Auditorium, Brittany Lamb, M2, presented "Is the POLST Model Desirable for Florida?" based on a summer research project Ms. Lamb and FSU College of Law student Sarah Catherine Spillers, conducted under the mentorship of the Center and Professor Kapp.

Professor Marshall Kapp presented with Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D. (Chair, and Professor, Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee), Stuart Bagatell, M.D. (Affiliated Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Miami at Florida Atlantic University, Internal Medicine Residency, JFK Medical Center, Atlantis), and Tracy Christner, B.S. (Executive Director, Project GRACE, Clearwater) at a workshop, "Beyond Advance Directives: Implementing the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Paradigm in Florida", on August 24, 2011 at the Florida Conference on Aging in St. Pete Beach, FL.