Laura Miller-Smith, MD

Laura Miller-Smith, MD, is a pediatric intensivist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and is a an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Missouri in Kansas City. She completed the Pediatric Bioethics Certificate Program at Children's Mercy Center for Bioethics, and currently serves as Chairperson of the Hospital Ethics Committee. She additionally serves on the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Ethics Committee. Specific interests include organ donation, issues surrounding the determination of death, and technology dependence in critically ill children.

Ásdís Finnsdóttir Wagner, DO

John Lantos, MD

John Lantos, MD, is a general pediatrician and bioethicist. He has served as President of both the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics. He has also held many leadership positions in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was a member of President Clinton's health reform task force in 1993 and a consultant to President Bush's Bioethics Council.

He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and many books, including The Lazarus Case, Neonatal Bioethics, and Do We Still Need Doctors?

He is currently Director of a Pediatric Bioethics Center and Children's Mercy Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at University of Missouri in Kansas City.

The only book that addresses bioethical issues that are specific to the pediatric critical care setting

Addresses the root causes of moral distress in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Helps doctors and nurses think about end-of-life decisions for children

1. Intro and overview of a clinical ethics framework for decisions in pediatric critical care.- 2. The epidemiology of life-threatening illness in childhood.- 3. End-of-life discussions in the PICU.- 4. Medical Futility.- 5. Children as Organ Donors.- 6. Controversies about Brain Death.- 7. Moral Distress.- 8. Resource allocation in the PICU.