Dr. Joe Zalot has grappled with some of the most difficult ethical questions when it comes to end of life care and extraordinary means of saving or extending human life.
On April 30, he will be in Anchorage for a free presentation that explores how healthcare providers and family members can navigate ethical conundrums regarding the merits of medical interventions such as respirators, intravenous feeding tubes, IV hydration, ventricular heart pumps, as well as advanced health care directives, palliative care, hospice, do-not-resuscitate orders and much more.
Zalot is the Director of Education for the National Catholic Bioethics Center a group which provides education, guidance, and resources to the Church and society with the aim of upholding the dignity of the human person in health care and biomedical research. The NCBC envisions a world in which the integral understanding of the profound dignity of the human person is better understood and more widely embraced in America and worldwide.
Zalot earned a PhD from Marquette University in 2002, an MEd from Boston College in 1997 and an MEd from Springfield College in 1991.
For more than two decades he has help students, medical professionals, clergy and families work through ethical difficulties in deciding how to care for those who are at the end of life, or facing an extraordinary health care crisis.
In particular, Zalot’s work aims to align health care practice with the Catholic Church’s moral understanding of the human person. His talks address end-of-life care, especially in difficult circumstances marked by advances in medical technology, skyrocketing medical costs and the often dehumanizing face of modern medicine.
ALASKA WATCHMAN DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX
Zalot’s April 30 presentation will take place at Alaska Pacific University in the Carr-Gottstein Hall (Room 102). The talk goes from 7-8 p.m. Sponsored by the Cardinal Newman Chair of Catholic Theology at APU, the talk is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Dr. Kevin Jones at kjones@alaskapacific.edu.
