Oct. 30, 2023
Contact Jill Miller at 608-796-3615 or jmmiller@viterbo.edu
PROMINENT PHYSICIAN AL GIWA TO PRESENT “HEALTHCARE ETHICS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” AT VITERBO UNIVERSITY NOV. 9
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Cincinnati VA Medical Center Associate Chief of Staff for Education Al Giwa, MD, will present “Healthcare Ethics During the COVID-19 Pandemic” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Nola Starling Recital Hall. The event will also be streamed on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/viterboethics.
Dr. Giwa oversees all the training programs at the Cincinnati VA and is also a volunteer professor in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD), George Washington School of Business (MBA), and the Clarkson University/Icahn School of Medicine (MBE). Initially trained in Anesthesia-Critical Care at Columbia Presbyterian, Giwa switched to Emergency Medicine at Cornell University's Lincoln Hospital program. He was previously an associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
With interests in law, healthcare ethics, combat medicine, and resuscitation/critical care, Giwa has published extensively on these and other subjects and serves as an editor and reviewer for several medical journals. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians and is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Giwa is also on the board of directors of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
Giwa is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and the command surgeon for the 9th Mission Support Command in Hawaii, which oversees all reserve units in the Pacific. He has gone on multiple combat deployments with CENTCOM and AFRICOM and several other missions around the world.
This presentation is the inaugural Jack Schwem Memorial Lecture in Healthcare Ethics, which was created in honor of the late CEO of Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse. It is part of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership fall lecture series and is being presented in partnership with Gundersen Health System, Mayo Clinic Health System, and the Viterbo Seven Rivers Undergraduate Research Symposium. It is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary, but seating is limited.
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