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Health care expert Giles Scofield will speak on “The Truth about Managed Care” 7:30 p.m. today in the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium.
The free event is sponsored by the Health Care and Society minor and the religion department.
An independent scholar who is writing a book about the disabled and the American health care system, Scofield has been assistant clinical professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University; associate professor at University of Connecticut Medical School; director of the Health Law Program at Pace University; and ethics consultant for University of Colorado Medical Center.
He received the Charles N. Loeser Award for teaching excellence in the clinical sciences at the University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dentistry in 1997-98. He spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and at Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, researching medical ethics and studying philosophical hermeneutics.
He is the author of “Commentary: The Wizard of Oughts,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2000; “Exposing Some Myths about Physician-Assisted Suicide,” Seattle Law Review, 1995; and “Ethical Issues and the Care of the Elderly Disabled,”Aging with Spinal Cord Injury, 1993, among other publications.
Scofield served on a panel, “Physician-Assisted Suicide -Empowerment or Oppression?” at Conference on Physician-Assisted Suicide at Western New England College School of Law in 1996, and on the faculty of “Ethics in Rehabilitation,” a 1994 conference co-sponsored by Courage Center in Golden Valley, Minn. and the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota.