Futile, Non-Beneficial, and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment: Pivotal Strategies for Avoiding and Resolving Conflict

May 15, 2024

Bioethics Grand Rounds are sponsored by the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Certificate Program in Medical Ethics, offered in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Regional Ethics program.

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Speaker: Thaddeus Pope, JD
Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Thaddeus Mason Pope is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He maintains a special focus on patient rights, healthcare decision making, and end-of-life options.

A Hastings Center Fellow and former Fulbright Scholar and Brocher Foundation Researcher, Pope is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. While he serves in a range of consulting capacities, Pope has been particularly influential through his extensive, high-impact scholarship.

Ranked among the Top 20 most-cited health law scholars in the United States, Professor Pope has nearly 300 publications in leading medical journals, bioethics journals, and law reviews. He coauthors the definitive, biannually-updated reference book The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, coauthors Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate Widely Available Option for Hastening Death, and he runs the Medical Futility Blog (with over five million page-views