
Christy Cummings, MD, HEC-C
@ccummingsmd
Neonatologist | Ethics Associate @BostonChildrens | @BIDMCneo | Assoc Professor of Pediatrics @Harvardmed | @HMSbioethics @BCHAcademy | Wife Mom of 4 | My ideas
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https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/110300 02-11-2017 20:15:09
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Great work by Matt Lin, MD, HEC-C - The Need for Advance Care Planning for Seriously Ill Infants publications.aap.org/journal-blogs/… #ethics

Also by Matt Lin, MD, HEC-C Advance Care Planning and Parent-Reported End-of-Life Outcomes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit #ethics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37116531/

And most recently Matt Lin, MD, HEC-C Parent Preferences and Experiences in ACP in the #NICU #ethics thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…



The use of racial categories in biomedical research often misattributes the cause of health inequities to genetic and inherent biological differences rather than to racism. READ more in E&HR by F. Rollin et al. Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, MACP Rebecca Rousselle Vanessa Van Doren #bioethics thehastingscenter.org/e_and_h_r/anti…


I-P-O: (Mercurio,Christy Cummings, MD, HEC-C) Any proposed Rx can categorized as ethically impermissible, permissible, or obligatory. If impermissible, the Rx should not be made available by physicians. If obligatory, the Rx should be provided to patient, even in face of parental objection.



The advent of an artificial womb raises all kinds of questions. In a MIT Technology Review piece @varditravitsky asks “What’s a fetus, what’s a baby, what’s a newborn, what’s birth, what’s viability? #ethics #bioethics #savingpreemies technologyreview.com/2023/09/29/108…




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#ASBH24 didn’t fail. What a great panel session. Thank you to all panelists Christy Cummings, MD, HEC-C Jena Miller, MD and Kalie Steele for this opportunity, and thanks to all the attendants and your great feedback!
