Howard J. Finger, D.O (he/him/his)

Attending Physician/Clinical Ethics Consultant
Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center and Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility
Roosevelt Island, New York

Howard J. Finger, D.O., is attending physician and clinical ethics consultant at Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center and at Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility. He was co-chairperson of the NYC Health + Hospitals Bioethics Council from 2019 to 2022, and currently, he serves on the board of direction of the Empire State Bioethics Consortium (ESBC) and is a member of the AMDA Ethics Subcommittee. In conjunction with the Bioethics Council, he developed an Algorithm for the Unbefriended to assist care teams in making end-of-life treatment decisions when patients lack both decisional capacity and surrogates, which he applied at Coler. He was lead author of three articles on the subject, the latest of which, “An Interdisciplinary Ethics Panel Approach to End-of-life Decision-Making for Unbefriended Nursing Home Residents,” was published in the 2022 summer issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics. For his work, Dr. Finger received the 2020 Foundation for Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Medicine’s Quality Improvement & Health Outcome (QIHO) Award for improving the quality-of-life for persons living in nursing homes.

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Presentation(s):

• (SU11) Ethical Considerations in Applying Artificial Intelligence to Post-acute and Long-term Care

  Sunday, March 10, 2024
  1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT