Informing Informed Consent: Expectations, outcomes, and the caregiver’s role in experimental transplantation

In this colloquium we will meet the widow of a hand transplant patient and have an opportunity to learn from her illness narrative. Cindy Edwards’s husband, Rich, committed suicide in 2015 following five years as a successful double hand transplant recipient. Themes for discussion may include the role of family and caregivers in transplant candidate evaluation and informed consent, how different parties to experimental interventions conceptualize successful outcomes, and whether interventions that seek quality of life enhancement are ethically distinct from life-saving interventions.

**Space is limited; lunch will be served. A reservation is required. RSVP to pischke@pitt.edu no later than Tuesday, September 25.