Abstract Submission

Call for Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentations is now closed

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to be presented at the 2024 conference

ICEL4 seeks oral and poster presentation abstracts for the 2024 international conference. This event will be held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, from Wednesday, March 6 to Saturday March 9, 2024. Individuals are able to submit up to 4 abstracts (maximum), with up to 2 (maximum) being accepted for oral presentation.

We seek presentations that align with these ten topic categories:

Medical assistance in dying (both patient-administered and clinician-administered) – legal, ethical, clinical issues with VAD, MAID, euthanasia.
Next generation MAID issues (e.g., medical assistance in dying in prisons, organ donation and medical assistance in dying)
Withholding and withdrawing potentially life-sustaining treatment
- Medical futility / nonbeneficial treatment
- Surrogate decision making
Voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED) – legal, ethical, clinical issues.
Palliative sedation – legal, ethical, clinical issues.
Advance directives, advance care planning, and POLST
Completed Life / Tired of Life
Palliative Care, Hospice, Psychedelics
Triage, Rationing, Allocation of potentially life-sustaining treatment
Other end of life law, ethics, policy, and practice issues