Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum

06/11/2025

Did you attend the 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference? What was your top take-away from the conference?

06/06/2025

2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference is about to come to a close. We’ve had a fantastic two days of networking and outstanding education. 

06/06/2025

2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference is about to come to a close. We’ve had a fantastic two days of networking and outstanding education. 

06/05/2025

The 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference starts today! We hope to see YOU there!

05/30/2025

Last few days to register!

05/11/2025

The 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference is less that a month away! We are excited to present this roster of experts who will speak on Empowering Choices: Ethical Dimensions of Patient Autonomy, Advance Directives, and Surrogate Decision-Making.

Credits Offered: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit'": 14.25

For more information, visit: https://www.coloradoethicsforum.org/projects. Don't wait to register while regular rates are available!

Where: Lowry Conference Center, 1061 Akron Way, Denver
When: June 5-6, 2025

05/04/2025

🎤 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Rich D’Ambrosio, JD

Rich D’Ambrosio, JD, Regional Chief Legal Officer for Advent Health’s Rocky Mountain Region, is a featured speaker at this year's Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference. With decades of legal and ethics experience in healthcare—including leadership roles at Centura, Cheyenne Regional, and Exempla—Mr. D’Ambrosio brings deep insight to the complex intersection of law, ethics, and care.

His session, Ethical Issues in Proxy/Surrogate Decision-Making, will explore how to conduct a proxy decision-maker appointment process and participants will learn how to effectively communicate with family members and patients about the process and procedures in both proxy and surrogate decision-makers.

Where/When:
📍 Lowry Conference Center, Denver, 1061 Akron Way, Denver
📅 June 5–6, 2025

🎓Up to 14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ hours are available.

Student scholarship and group discounts available!

🔗 Don't wait, register today: https://www.coloradoethicsforum.org/projects

05/03/2025

Speaker Spotlight - 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference - Dr. Dan Matlock

🎥 Now Available: Exclusive Interview with Dr. Dan Matlock!
Join us for a compelling conversation with Dr. Dan Matlock, nationally recognized expert in shared decision-making and advance care planning. In this short video, he previews his upcoming session at the 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference.

📅 Conference Dates: June 5–6, 2025
📍 Location: Lowry Conference Center, Denver, CO

🎓 Student Scholarship Available!

Dr. Matlock offers powerful insight into how clinicians can better support ethical and person-centered decision-making—don’t miss this chance to learn from one of the leading voices in the field.

📺 Watch now and register today!
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04/26/2025

Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference

Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Hillary Lum, MD, PhD
Session: Approaching Advance Care Planning in the Context of Dementia

Advance care planning is essential — but how do we adapt it meaningfully for individuals living with dementia?

Join Dr. Hillary Lum, geriatrician, palliative medicine physician, and Medical Director of the GUIDE program at CU Medicine, as she shares compassionate, practical strategies to tailor care planning for persons with dementia and their families of choice.

👉This session will focus on applying and adapting advance care planning approaches to meet the care planning needs of persons with dementia and their families of choice. In this session, you will:
🔹 Describe advance care planning approaches for a general population
🔹 Outline key adaptations for persons living with dementia, including assessment of capacity and considerations for supportive decision making
🔹 Practice eliciting values and preferences, including in the context of dementia

Dr. Lum’s work focuses on improving dementia care, caregiver support, and early detection through research and collaboration with the Colorado Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Action Coalition.

🎓Up to 14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ hours are available.
📅 CHEF 2025 Annual Conference | June 5–6, 2025 | Denver, CO
Lowry Conference Center, 1061 Akron Way, Denver, CO

🔗 Register today: https://www.coloradoethicsforum.org/projects

04/24/2025

📣 Speaker Spotlight: Elizabeth A. Moran, JD

Join nationally recognized disability rights advocate Elizabeth Moran, Executive Director of The Arc of Colorado, as she leads a powerful session on Colorado’s new Supported Decision-Making (SDM) law.

✅ Understand less-restrictive alternatives to guardianship
✅ Learn SDM best practices + review a real case study
✅ Leave with 5 practical tools to support autonomy and dignity of choice

This session is ideal for social workers, clinicians, chaplains, attorneys, and healthcare professionals navigating complex ethical decisions around capacity and consent.

🎓Up to 14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ hours are available.
🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/gAfAgX46
🗓️ June 5–6, 2025 | Denver, CO
📍 2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum
Lowry Conference Center, 1061 Akron Way, Denver, CO 80230

Learn more about Elizabeth Moran, JD and the other speakers and sessions! Visit the CHEF website at: https://www.coloradoethicsforum.org/2024-conference-agenda

04/24/2025