Presentations and Publications

• "Perinatal Hosice: An Ethical Approach to Death at the Beginning of Life," Mercy Medical Center, Healthcare Ethics Conference, October 24, 2008
• "Science and Faith in Mutual Service," USCCB, Life, Justice & Family: Partners in the New Evangelization, July 25-27, 2008
• "Conscience, Health Care and Evangelization," 2008 Gemelli Lecture, Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 23, 2008
• "Medical Futility: Recent Developments and Future Directions," 7th Annual Healthcare Conference on Human Dignity and Health Science, Medical Technology, Hope and Futility . . . Ethical Decisions and Care at the End of Life, Integritas Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 26, 2008
• "The Indispensability of Hippocrates," University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, October 18, 2007
• "Conscience and the Catholic Physician," The Theology of the Body: The Dignity of Women, 76th Annual Educational Conference, Catholic Medical Association, October 6, 2007
• "Ethical Issues in Vaccine Development and Use," Atlanta Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, February 3, 2007
• "Next Generation Ethics Committees," Ethical Growth and Development," and “Future Challenges in Health Care Ethics," South Dakota Nurses Association 9th Annual Conference, Sharing Our Wisdom, September 29, 2006
• "Nontraditional Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Chapter in the Debate about Embryonic Stem Cell Research," Health Care Ethics USA 13(2) (2005)
• "Health Charities, Unethical Research and Organizational Integrity," Health Care Ethics USA 13(3) (2005)
• "Germ Line Genetic Engineering: A Case Study for Engaging American Culture," University of Portland Conference, Teaching, Faith, and Service: The Foundation of Freedom, June 2 – 4, 2005
• "The Ethics of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research," and “Crisis in the Catholic Health Care Ministry," Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, West Bend, Iowa, April 14, 2004
• Germ Line Genetic Engineering: An Analysis of Principled Argumentation in Light of a Critical Theology of the Body (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI, 2003)
• "The Human Genome Project & the Future of Catholic Health Care," St. Thomas Aquinas Annual Lecture, CentraCare Hospital, St. Cloud, Minn., Oct. 11, 2001
• Editor, Legal Impediments to Patient Safety: Changing the System to Reward Doing the Right Thing, by Bryan A. Liang (National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 2000)
• "Corporate Compliance and Organizational Integrity," Catholic Health Association (1999), available at http://www.chausa.org/MISSSVCS/ETHICS/BREHANY.ASP
• "Hospice and a Principled Response to Assisted Suicide," American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care 14(4) (July-August 1997): 178-84