The 9th Annual Berkowitz Family Foundation lecture program – Bearing Witness to Suffering: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Transforming Critical Care Medicine – will feature guest speakers Emily Damuth, MD, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cooper University Health Care and Anthony L. Rostain, MD, MA, Chief and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Cooper University Health Care.
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Monday, November 15, 2021
4 p.m. – Reception (refreshments provided)
5 p.m. – Lecture (masks required)
Dr. Damuth and Dr. Rostain will explore the challenges to humanistic medicine we are facing in this time of COVID focusing on the moral dilemmas and emotional consequences of separating patients from their families during hospitalization. The lecture will highlight ways in which our responses to the pandemic have refocused critical care medicine on fundamental values of humanism, interpersonal connection, coping, and resilience.
RSVP required.
Space is limited. Click here to RSVP by Monday, November 8, 2021.