Keynote Speaker: Dr. William F. Sullivan, MD, PhD, CCFP, ABFM, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Chair in Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, and Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, in Washington, D.C., USA.
His Keynote Lecture is entitled: Guidelines for Primary Care of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD): Towards Implementing Comprehensive and Inclusive Healthcare Internationally.
Abstract: To make guidelines inclusive of adults with IDD, we propose to reframe them in three ways: First, by broadening the ‘evidence’ of EBM guidelines to include experiential and contextual knowledge. Second, by proposing such guidelines as ‘tools’ to assist primary care providers and others to decide prudently with adults with IDD regarding their primary health care. When considering possible options for promoting or protecting the health and wellbeing of adults with IDD, such tools can enable deciders to approach systematically and in a more comprehensive and dynamic manner their complex interrelated psychosomatic, ecological, social, societal, and moral systems. Third, by making these guidelines ‘international’, they can include the 80% of the world’s population of people with IDD excluded from current guidelines.
Biographical information: Dr. William F. Sullivan is the Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Chair in Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He is a family physician and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine. He also has a doctorate in philosophy and teaches in the Dept. of Philosophy and Disabilities Studies Program, Georgetown University. He focuses on promoting the ethical primary and public health care of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). He is the lead author of, “Primary Care of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Canadian Consensus Guidelines” (2007, 2011, 2018).