Assistant Professor Clinical Ethics
Department of Education
University of North Texas Health Science Center
3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX  76107-2699
Phone:  817-735-0574 // 817-735-2623
Fax:  817-735-2545
E-mail: rmartin@hsc.unt.edu

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:

Ethical Issues in Pediatric Medicine
Ethical Issues and Obligations in Pain Management
Ethical Issues in Grief and Loss: Patients, Families and Physicians
Ethics as a Process in End-of-Life Decisions
Obligatory Skills for Ethical Practice:  Informed Consent, Truth Telling, Telling Bad News, Medical Errors, Accurate, Clear Confirmed Communication
EOL Decision/Futility
Ethical Issues re: Pediatrics/Family Medicine/Diabetes/Oncology Pain Management

CME Lectures:

Recurring Issues is Family Medicine
Mortal Lessons: the Physician's Obligation to Treat Pain
Ethical Perspectives in Grief and Loss
Ethical Dilemmas in End-of-Life Decision-Making
Ethics in Family Medicine
Ethical Obligation to Treat Pain
Ethical Skills - Communication-Truth Telling-Informed Consent/Advance Directive

Public Lectures:

Ethical Issues in Treating Pain
Helping Patients Prepare an Advance Directive
Health Planning and Policy: Who Decides and Who Decides Who Decides
Ethical Perspectives on Grief & Loss
Ethical Dilemmas in EOL Decision-Making

Other Recent Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Activities:

CME Lectures
Hospice Consultations
Ethics Didactics/Film Family Medicine Residency and Clerkships
AMDA - Practice Guidelines EOL Care
Remedial Ethics Rotation UNTHSC

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

"Cancer as a Stigmatizing Label", appears in the volume of the proceedings of the 10th Annual Mental Health Conference, UTSCC-MD Anderson

"Creating a Code of Ethics: MD Anderson Hospital" - served as a member of the Code Drafting Committee in 1983-84.  Published in the Clinical Journal of the American Cancer Society, Vol.36,No 2, March/April, 1986

Code of Ethics, Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
Served as Chair of the Drafting Committee, 1987

Article: "Can We and Will We Change" The Anatomy of Motivation". In Family and Community Health, Vol.10(3),1987

"Mortal Values: Healing Pain and Suffering", as a chapter in ADVANCES IN PAIN RESEARCH AND THERAPY, Vol. II, Edited by C.S. Hill, Jr. and W.S. Fields.  Raven Press, Ltd. New York, 1989

Article; "We Can Pay Now or Pay Later: Funding Health Care for Our Children", in FORT WORTH CHILD, February, 1993

Key Publications:

Code of Ethics for MD Anderson
Code of Ethics for Cook Children's Medical Center
Book Chapter - Mortal Lessons