Erica Andrist is an attending pediatric critical care medicine physician at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor. She has a broad scholarly background and interest in biomedical ethics and holds a Master of Bioethics degree from Harvard Medical School. She has a particular area of interest in pediatric brain death/death by neurologic criteria. An active area of her work aims to fill the current gap in our collective understanding of how to best support families and clinicians when disagreements arise in the clinical setting about whether brain death is “really” death.
2023 AAN Brain Death Updates: Collaborative Approaches in Aligning Hospital & OPO Policies
Tuesday, March 04, 2025, at 2:00pm
In this webinar, we will explore how hospital partners and Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) have addressed the recent (2023) updates to AAN guidelines for determination of death by neurological criteria/brain death. We will explore the impact of variation in BD/DNC policies on hospital partners and OPOs alike – and review the importance of having standardized up-to-date brain death/death by neurological criteria policies to support hospital providers, institutions, patients and families. Participants will be encouraged to evaluate and recognize the ways OPO and hospital partners can establish respectful collaboration to promote and adhere to professionally accepted standards of BD/DNC.
