Director, Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Southern Methodist University
Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Adjunct Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine
Office: 214-768-3767
E-mail: tmayo@smu.edu
Personal web page:  http://tom.mayo.googlepages.com/

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest: 

End-of-life decision making
Reproductive rights
Genethics
Human-subject research
Health care reform
Organizational ethics
Literature & medicine

CME Lectures:

Medical futility
End-of-life decision making under the Texas Advance Directives Act"
Ethical obligations of hospital trustees
Medical decision making for minors

Public Lectures:

Medical futility
End-of-life decision making under the Texas Advance Directives Act"
Ethical obligations of hospital trustees
Medical decision making for minors

Other Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Activities:

Member, Advisory Committee, Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine, University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center, since 1998

Member, five hospital ethics committees:

• Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, since 1989; Co-Chair, since 1992
• Children's Medical Center of Dallas; member and Co-Chair since January 2001
• Baylor University Medical Center, since 1992
• RHD Memorial Medical Center, Dallas, since 1994
• Trinity Medical Center, Carrollton, since 2002

Legislative activity: Member, Texas Advance Directives Coalition (responsible for recommending changes to Texas Advance Directives Act)

Presentations (2005-2008):

"Legal Ethics and Clinical Decision Making in a Technologically Advanced World," Health and Hospital Systems Legal Institute, American Health Lawyers Association, Tucson, February 10, 2005

"Futility of Care," 37th Annual Haltalin Pediatric Seminar, UT Southwestern Medical School & Department of Pediatrics, Irving, April 22, 2005

Presenter, "They Were Never Wrong, The Old Masters," Duke University, Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities: Beyond Measure: Accounting for Suffering in the Context of Illness, April 29, 2005, Durham

"Genetics & Law: The Year in (P)Review," Clinical Genetics Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, May 5, 2005

"Medico-Legal Update," Neonatology Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, June 9, 2005

"Ethical and Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Treatment in the Institutional Setting," Annual Meeting, American Health Lawyers Association, San Diego, June 28, 2005

"Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?", University of Arkansas Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (July 7, 2005), Little Rock

"Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?", University of Arkansas Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Department of Neurology (July 8, 2005), Little Rock

"Bioethics: Ethical, Legal, and Medical Issues Implicated in End-of-Life Cases," Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys Seminar, July 27, 2005, Dallas

"Living and Dying in a Post-Shiavo World," 2005 Texas Health Law Conference, Texas Hospital Association and State Bar of Texas, Austin, October 26, 2005

"Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World," invited lecture, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, October 25, 2005

"Doing What . . . and for Whom? Navigating End-of-Life Decision-making," Ethics Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School, January 10, 2006 (with Kathleen Delaney, M.D., and John Sadler, M.D.)

"Darwin, Intelligent Design, and Mr. Jefferson's Wall," Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, "The Meaning & Value of Life: Evolutionary Biology and Intelligent Design," March 22 & 29 and April 5, 2006

Panel discussion, "Responding to a pandemic: ethical and public health challenges, " UT-Southwestern Medical School, Seventh Annual Critical Care Conference, Dallas, May 4, 2006

"The Trustee's Challenge: Mission, Money, and Medicine," Texas Healthcare Trustees, San Antonio, August 5, 2006

"End-of-Life Decision-making After the Schiavo Case," Annual Meeting, Texas Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care, Dallas, October 27, 2006

"Litigating Disputes Over Medical Treatment of Minors," Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys Seminar, Dallas, November 11, 2006

"Medical Privacy," Salado Institute for the Humanities, Salado (TX), March 18, 2007

"Ethical and Legal Responsibilities of Medical Leaders and Hospital Trustees," Inaugural William Courtney Lecture, Scott & White Clinic, Temple, March 19, 2007

"Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices," Ethics Discussion Forum, Children's Medical Center of Dallas, April 4, 2007

"Treating Eating Disorders: The Ethical and Legal Thicket," 8th Annual Professional Symposium for the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders, The Elisa Project, Dallas, April 20, 2007

“Medical Futility at End of Life,” Dallas Internists’ Club, UT-Southwestern Medical Center, May 3, 2007

“Neonatal Bioethics,” Grand Rounds, Neonatal Intensive Care Department, Parkland Memorial Hospital, June 14, 2007

Panelist, “Town Hall Meeting: Is Uncontrolled DCD An Untapped Resource for Those Waiting on the List?,” Annual Meeting, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Dallas, June 15, 2007

“Legislative and Case Law Update on Futility and Advanced Directives Law,” Annual Meeting, State Bar of Texas, San Antonio, June 22, 2007

“Medical Futility and Texas Law,” Medical Ethics and Humanities Seminar, Department of Neurology, UT-Southwestern Medical School, June 26, 2007

"End-of-Life Decision-making in Texas after the Schiavo Case," CSI Dallas: Social Workers in Health Care/Annual Social Work Conference, Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, September 21, 2007

“The Texas Advance Directives Act: Legal and Ethical Update,” 2nd Annual End of Life Care Conference, Legal Hospice of Texas, Plano, September 28, 2007

“The Future of End-of-Life Decision-making in Texas,” Department of Urology Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School, January 11, 2008

“An Introduction to End-of-Life Decisions for Probate and Estate Lawyers,” Dallas Bar Association, Probate, Estate, and Trust Section, January 22, 2008

"Medical Futility in Texas After the Schiavo Case," Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Grand Rounds, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, January 29, 2008

"Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Decision-making for Patients with Neuromuscular Disease," Carrell-Krusen Conference, UT-Southwestern Medical School, February 20, 2008

“The End-of-Life: Ethical Issues for Surgeons,” Annual Meeting, North Texas Chapter, American College of Surgeons, Dallas, February 23, 2008

“Ethical and Legal Aspects of Uncompensated Care,” 2008 Spring Orientation and Workshop: Money, Mission, & Medicine, Texas Healthcare Trustees, Dallas, February 29, 2008

“Introduction to End-of-Life Decision-making for Elder Law Attorneys,” Advanced Elder Law Course, State Bar of Texas, March 6, 2008

“Religion, Conscience & Controversial Clinical Practices,” Dallas Internists’ Club, April 24, 2008

“The Texas Advance Directive Act: A Futile Law?,”Annual Meeting, Pediatric Academic Societies & Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting, Honolulu, May 5, 2008

“The Future of ‘Medical Futility’ in Texas After the Schiavo Case,” Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Medical Center, May 14, 2008

Panelist, “Teaching Health Law Through Literature,” American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics’ 31st Annual Health Law Professors Conference, Philadelphia, June 6, 2008

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

"Active Surveillance Cultures and Contact Precautions for Control of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Ethical Considerations," 47 J. CLIN. INFECT. DIS. 110-16 (2008) (coauthored)

"Bioethics," in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH LAW (AHLA, 4th ed., 2008)

“Managing and Reporting Community Incidents: Ethical Considerations,” 25 PED. INF. DIS. J. 937 (Oct. 2006)

"Getting Political With Science," 13 SMU RESEARCH 21 (2006)

"Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World," 38 J. HEALTH L. 587 (2006)

"Medical Futility in the NICU: Hope for a Resolution," 116 PEDIATRICS 1219 (2005) (coauthored)

"Health Insurance and Cardiac Transplantation: A Call for Reform," 45 J. AM. COLL. CARDIOLOGY 1388 (2005) (coauthored)

Key Publications:

TELEMEDICINE: SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS (AHLA, March 2007)
"Bioethics," in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH CARE LAW (AHLA, 3rd ed., 2004)

"Sex, Marriage, Medicine, and Law: 'What Hope of Harmony'?," 42 WASHBURN L.J. 269 (2003)

"Resolution of Futility by Due Process: Early Experience with the Texas Advance Directives Act," 138 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 743 (May 6, 2003) (coauthored)

"Ethical Aspects of Neurosurgical Practice," in 4 TEXTBOOK OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY ch. 326, Batjer & Loftus, eds. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002) (coauthored)

"Bioethics," in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH CARE LAW (AHLA, 2nd ed., 2000)

"Determination of Death: Legal and Ethical Issues" (ch. 117), ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, Levin & Morriss, eds. (2d ed. 1997)

"Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Care: Legal Issues" (ch. 119), ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, Levin & Morriss, eds. (2d ed. 1997)

"Constitutionalizing the 'Right to Die'," 49 MD. L. REV. 103 (1990)