Lisa Kay Anderson-Shaw

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Ethics, Loyola University Chicago

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Health Care

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About Lisa

Anderson-Shaw is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics; Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; and Niehoff School of Nursing. She teaches graduate courses in nursing and bioethics. She has a BSN from Southern Illinois University; MSN from Indiana University (Advance Practice Nurse in Internal Medicine; Certified); MA from Loyola University Chicago (Philosophy/Bioethics); and DrPH in public health policy and administration from UIC School of Public Health. She received post-doctoral training in bioethics as a Fellow at the University of Chicago; MacLean Center Clinical Medical Ethics.

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Contributions

How to Protect Vulnerable Patients Admitted to Hospitals without Legal Guardians

Key Findings Brief, May 2018

Publications

"Ethical Issues in Liver Transplantation" (with Scott J Cotler). UpToDate (2015).

Discusses the ethics of liver transplantation and donor organs.

"The Fiction of Futility: What to Do with Policy?" (with William Meadow, Hilary S. Leeds, and John J. Lantos). HEC Forum 17, no. 4 (2005): 294-307.

Addresses the topic of medical futility as fiction in light of legislation, policy, and practice.

"Evidence-Based Practice and Policy: ACGME Resident Duty Hours — More Harm than Help" (with Fred Arthur Zar). The American Journal of Politics 16, no. 9 (2016): 20-22.

Argues that the work-hour restrictions, especially during the overnight hours, hinder critical educational needs of the resident physician due to the lack of important follow-up patient information.