loading . . . Thaddeus Pope - Publications & Presentations in 2025 Here is a summary of my publications and presentations in 2025.
Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, Mitchell
Hamline School of Law, reports the following publications: Medicare Mandates for Shared Decision Making
with Patient Decision Aids: Linking Payment to Preference, 35(1) ANNALS OF
HEALTH LAW & LIFE SCIENCES 143-188 (2025) ● Deep and Continuous Palliative
Sedation without Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: An International Review,
35(1) INDIANA INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW 67-152 (2025) (with
Richard Liu and April Xiaoyi Xu) ● New VSED Advance Directive: Improved
Documentation Avoids Late-Stage Dementia, 53 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE &
ETHICS (forthcoming 2025) (with Lisa Brodoff, Erin Mae Glass, Robb Miller, Paul
Menzel) ● Brain Death Contestation: A Scoping Review of its Incidence and
Management, CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (forthcoming 2025) (with SCCM Contestation
of Pediatric Brain Death Task Force) ● Advance Directives: Ten Strategies to
Assure Value Congruent Treatment, 25 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS (forthcoming
2025) ● Advance Notifications Are Required (e-letter comment on Advance
Notification for Conscientious Refusal in Rural Health Care,
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.240328, ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE (September 1,
2025) ● Legal Aspects in Palliative and End of Life Care in the United States,
In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA (August 2025) ● Medical Aid
in Dying: Clinical Considerations, In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate,
Waltham, MA. (August 2025) (with Lonny Shavelson and Margaret Battin) ● THE
RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING (Wolters Kluwer Law &
Business 2025) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara) (2nd semi-annual
update) ● Stopping ECMO with Indefinite ICU Survival, CHEST (forthcoming 2025)
(with Bill Allen and Alex Supady) ● Procuring Organs from Unrepresented
Patients - Amend the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, 25(9) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
BIOETHICS 57-59 (2025) ● Compliance with Brain Death Determination Laws, the
UDDA, and the Dead Donor Rule, 25(9) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 103-105
(2025) ● Overall Effects and Masking of Important Differences in Risk
Factors—Reply, JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE (2025) (with James Downar and Bregje
Onwuteaka-Philipsen), doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0619 ● Sorry, Not Sorry:
Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued, 25(5)
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 33-35 (2025) (with James Downar, Stefanie Green,
David Hoffman) ● Palliative Care: Medically Futile and Potentially
Inappropriate Therapies of Questionable Benefit, In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed),
UpToDate, Waltham, MA (2025) (with John Lantos and Laura Miller-Smith) ●
Extra-ICU Unsurvivability: Impermissible to Unilaterally Withdraw ECMO, 167(5)
CHEST e171-e172 (2025) ● THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE
DECISIONMAKING (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2025) (with Alan Meisel &
Kathy L. Cerminara) (1st semi-annual update) ● Themes in the Management of Pediatric
Brain Death Contestation: Exploratory Qualitative Work From Multidisciplinary
Health Professionals in the United States
26 PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (2025) (with SCCM Contestation of
Pediatric Brain Death Task Force), doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003744 ● Assisted
Dying in the United States, in LAW AND ASSISTED DYING RESEARCH HANDBOOK ch.10
(Edward Elgar 2025) ● Law and Shared Decision Making - Recent Developments, in
OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF SHARED DECISION MAKING ch. 67 (2025) (with Valerie Gutmann Koch
& Nadine Montgomery Allam) ● Responding to Conscience-Based Barriers to
Medical Aid in Dying: A Survey of Colorado Physicians, 40 JOURNAL OF GENERAL
INTERNAL MEDICINE 486 (2025) ● International Comparison of Underlying Disease
among Recipients of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), 185(2) JAMA INTERNAL
MEDICINE 235-237 (2025) (with Brandon Heidinger, Colleen Webber, Kenneth
Chambaere, Eliana Close, Luc Deliens, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Agnes van der
Heide, Ben White, James Downar) ● Medical Futility Blog,
https://medicalfutility.blogspot.com (daily blogging).
Professor Pope reports the following
presentations: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): Primer for
Social Workers, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, New York, New York (December 11, 2025) ●
7th Annual Ernest and Sarah Krug Lecture in Biomedical Ethics: Voluntarily
Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED), OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE Rochester, Michigan (November 12, 2025) ● Avoiding Life with
Advanced Dementia – Medical, Legal, and Ethical Analysis of Feeding Options,
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE,
Portland, Oregon (October 22-25, 2025) ● Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics
and Public Health - Discussion Group, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS &
HUMANITIES (ASBH) 27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Portland, Oregon (October 22-25,
2025) ● Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics and Public Health, AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF BIOETHICS & HUMANITIES (ASBH) 27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Portland,
Oregon (October 22-25, 2025) ● Top Ten Legal Developments in Bioethics and
Public Health, CENTRAL VALLEY REGIONAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE, Clovis, California
(October 17, 2025) ●
Strategies for Resolving Care Conflicts in
the ICU & Beyond, CENTRAL VALLEY REGIONAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE, Clovis,
California (October 17, 2025) ● VSED Advance Directives for Dementia: Are They
Legal and Implementable? Is There a Middle Ground, CENTRAL VALLEY REGIONAL
BIOETHICS CONFERENCE, Clovis, California (October 17, 2025) ● VSED: When May
Clinicians Support Patients or Surrogates Who Hasten Death by Voluntarily
Stopping Eating and Drinking, CLEVELAND CLINIC, Cleveland, Ohio (September 30,
2025) ● Dead Donor Rule Disregarded: Four Pervasive Derelictions (Brain Death,
DCD, NRP, and PMI), CLEVELAND CLINIC, Cleveland, Ohio (September 29, 2025) ● New
York Medical Aid in Dying Safeguards Mitigate Elder Abuse Risk, WESTCHESTER
COUNTY ELDER ABUSE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM, White Plains, New York (August 18,
2025) ● VSED Advance Directives for Dementia: Are They Legal &
Implementable? Is There a Middle Ground? UNIVERSITY OF IOWA NATIONAL NURSING
HOME SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL SERVICE LISTSERV MEMBERS (June 24, 2025) ● VSED for
UK Clinical Ethicists, UK CLINICAL ETHICS NETWORK (UKCEN) ANNUAL MEETING,
Oxford, England (June 13, 2025) ● Resistance Is Futile? Resolving Radical
Disagreements about Medical Treatment between Patients and Doctors, ST. CROSS
COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (June 12, 2025) ● Law, Healthcare, and the Aging
Brain and Body, PETRIE-FLOM CENTER FOR HEALTH LAW POLICY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND
BIOETHICS AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL 2025 CONFERENCE, Boston, Massachusetts (June 9,
2025) ● Fundamentals of Informed Consent Law in Pennsylvania, COVERYS MEDIQ
(May 30, 2025) ● Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients in Pennsylvania,
COVERYS MEDIQ (May 30, 2025) ● Strategies for Resolving Conflicts over Futile
and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment, SUTTER HEALTH (May 21, 2025) ● Care of
Unrepresented Older Adults: Updating the AGS Ethics Committee Position
Statement, AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING, Chicago,
Illinois (May 8-10, 2025) (with Rachel Brenner, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig,
Joe Dixon) ● Tenth Annual Barbara Swartz Lecture: Medical Aid in Dying in New
York, END OF LIFE CHOICES NEW YORK (May 1, 2025) ● VSED Advance Directives for
Dementia: Are They Legal and Implementable? Is There a Middle Ground? SOCIAL
WORK HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE NETWORK 2025 SWHPN ANNUAL FORUM (April 28,
2025) ● The Intricate Landscape of Medical Aid in Dying: Preparing for Changes
in Policy and Practice, MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE,
Bloomington, Minnesota (April 8, 2025) ● VSED: Top 10 Things Minnesota Clinicians
Must Know When Patients or Surrogates Decide to Stop Eating and Drinking,
MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE, Bloomington, Minnesota
(April 7, 2025) ● Reducing Liability Risk with Informed Consent, COVERYS MED-IQ
(March 27, 2025) ● Future of Clinical Ethics - Healthcare Ethics Consortium
2025 Annual Conference, EMORY UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR ETHICS, Atlanta, Georgia
(March 24-25, 2025) ● Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking, GERIPAL
PODCAST (March 20, 2025) ● Brain Death Conflicts: Current and Persistent Legal
and Ethical Controversies Regarding Death by Neurological Criteria, SOCIETY OF
CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (SCCM) CRITICAL CARE CONGRESS, Orlando, Florida
(February 24, 2025) ● Futile, Potentially Inappropriate, and Therapeutically
Obstinate Interventions: Legal Dispute Resolution Pathways and Strategies when
Surrogates Persist in Requesting Non-Beneficial Treatment, SOCIETY OF CRITICAL
CARE MEDICINE (SCCM) CRITICAL CARE CONGRESS, Orlando, Florida (February 23,
2025) ● Not So Uniform: A Brief Legal History of the UDDA and Current
Controversies in BD/DNC, SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE (SCCM) CRITICAL CARE
CONGRESS, Orlando, Florida (February 23, 2025) ● How We Live and Die: Stories,
Values, and Communities, ROGER MUDD CENTER FOR ETHICS, WASHINGTON & LEE
UNIVERSITY, Lexington, Virginia (February 11, 2025) ● Law & Economics
Workshop, WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, Lexington, Virginia
(February 12, 2025) ● Bridge to Nowhere - Can ECMO Be Withdrawn over
Patient/Family Objections?, SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS ANNUAL MEETING, Los
Angeles, California (January 24-26, 2025).
Professor Pope reports the following professional
activities: Fellows Council, THE HASTINGS CENTER ● Pediatric Taskforce on
Contestation of Brain Death Toolkit, SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE ● Ethics
Consult Service, ACADEMY OF AID IN DYING MEDICINE ● Scientific Committee, FIFTH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON END-OF-LIFE LAW, ETHICS, AND POLICY (ICEL5) ●
Scientific Committee, INTERNATIONAL SHARED DECISION-MAKING CONFERENCE
(ISDM2026) ● Editorial Boards and Peer Review for foremost medical journals. http://dlvr.it/TNDj4m
