Pitt Med and Social Work Students Team Up on Advance Care Planning

On May 16, three professors gave a presentation about it, “The Health Care Power of Attorney: A Scalpel, Not a Sledgehammer,” at an American Bar Association event, the 2024 National Aging and Law Conference at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Fla.

Those presenting were Pitt’s Elizabeth Mulvaney, clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work, and Karl Bezak, assistant professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, along with Grace Wankiiri Orsatti, assistant professor of clinical legal education at Duquesne’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law, who started the Duquesne Kline Wills & Healthcare Decisions Clinic in 2019. Read more.