Physician
Pediatrics
Dr. Alexander A. Kon, MD
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Alexander works in the field of Pediatrics. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FCCM)". Alexander is a published doctor and has 51 publications published. The lastest was: 'Immunohistochemical analysis of the skin in junctional epidermolysis bullosa using laminin 5 chain specific antibodies is of limited value in predicting the underlying...'
Publications
- Shared Decision Making in ICUs: An American College of Critical Care Medicine and American Thoracic Society Policy Statement.
- Choices doctors would make if their infant had hypoplastic left heart syndrome: comparison of survey data from 1999 and 2007.
- Difficulties in judging patient preferences for shared decision-making.
- Clinical ethics consultants: advocates for both patients and clinicians.
- Content Analysis of Major Textbooks and Online Resources Used in Responsible Conduct of Research Instruction.
- The shared decision-making continuum.
- Instruction in the responsible conduct of research: an inventory of programs and materials within CTSAs.
- Palliative treatment: redefining interventions to treat suffering near the end of life.
- Neonatal euthanasia.
- Ethics of cardiac transplantation in hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- The "window of opportunity:" helping parents make the most difficult decision they will ever face using an informed non-dissent model.
- We cannot accurately predict the extent of an infant's future suffering: the Groningen Protocol is too dangerous to support.
- Healthcare providers must offer palliative treatment to parents of neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- "R-Rating" for Fast Food: A Novel Weapon in Our Fight against the Expanding Teen Obesity Epidemic.
- Real pragmatism, kids, and the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).
- The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium and the translational research model.
- Informed nondissent rather than informed assent.
- Silent decisions or veiled paternalism? Physicians are not experts in judging character.
- The risky business of assessing research risk.
- Methods and practices of investigators for determining participants' decisional capacity and comprehension of protocols.
- Answering the question: "Doctor, if this were your child, what would you do?".
- Home pediatric compassionate extubation: bridging intensive and palliative care.
- Assent in pediatric research.
- When parents refuse treatment for their child.
- Assessment of physician directiveness: using hypoplastic left heart syndrome as a model.
- How pediatricians counsel parents when no "best-choice" management exists: lessons to be learned from hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Evaluation of race and ethnicity on alcohol and drug testing of adolescents admitted with trauma.
- Choices physicians would make if they were the parents of a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Transgender children and adolescents.
- Immunohistochemical analysis of the skin in junctional epidermolysis bullosa using laminin 5 chain specific antibodies is of limited value in predicting the underlying...
- Alterations in endogenous nitric oxide production after cardiopulmonary bypass in lambs with normal and increased pulmonary blood flow.
- Using telemedicine to improve communication during paediatric resuscitations.
- The association of race and ethnicity with rates of drug and alcohol testing among US trauma patients.
- Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock: 2007 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
- It''s not palliative care, it''s palliative treatment.
- Burnout assessment in house officers: evaluation of an intervention to reduce stress.
- Resident-generated versus instructor-generated cases in ethics and professionalism training.
- Clinical practice guidelines for support of the family in the patient-centered intensive care unit: American College of Critical Care Medicine Task Force 2004-2005.
- Complex bioethics consultation in rural hospitals: using telemedicine to bring academic bioethicists into outlying communities.
- Ethical rules for human subjects research: a case where the "is" must inform the "ought".
- Prenatal testing can be advantageous even when abortion is not an option.
- The role of empirical research in bioethics.
- It is settled: the ''is'' can (and should) inform the ''ought''!
- Palliative sedation: it''s not a panacea.
- Life and death choices in neonatal care: applying shared decision-making focused on parental values.
- Genital surgery for disorders of sex development: implementing a shared decision-making approach.
- Nitric oxide-endothelin-1 interactions after acute ductal constriction in fetal lambs.
- Neonatal euthanasia is unsupportable: the Groningen protocol should be abandoned.
- Connecting hospitalized patients with their families: case series and commentary.
- Informed non-dissent: a better option than slow codes when families cannot bear to say "let her die".
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Pediatrics
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FCCM)
Education
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Stanford University -
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
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