Lisa Vigil Schattinger spoke to us on Dying with Dignity at our monthly meeting in September.
Our apologies for the audio issue at the beginning, it does clear up at the 5:42 mark.
Lisa Vigil Schattinger is founder and executive director of Ohio End of Life Options, a newly formed non-profit organization focused on furthering educational efforts about Physician-Assisted Dying laws in Ohio. Ohio End of Life Options was granted its 501(c)(3), non-profit status in March 2015.
Vigil Schattinger joined the board of the national organization, Death with Dignity National Center, in April.
After working as an RN at University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at Planned Parenthood, Vigil Schattinger has become an advocate for responsible conversations about end of life options following her stepfather’s, Dr. Jack Rowe, use in November 2014 of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act.
Her experience as a remote caregiver for her 96-year-old grandmother, in addition to her thoughts on the value of Physician-Assisted Dying, have led her to publish Op-Ed articles in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio as well as Oregon and Arizona.
Vigil Schattinger has been interviewed about Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act on The Sound of Ideas, 90.3 WCPN ideastream, Northeast Ohio’s NPR’s affiliate station. In addition to presenting/speaking before many community organizations, she has also been a presenter at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference (held in Cleveland) this April and the Mayo Clinic’s National Hematology/Oncology Review Course in July.
Vigil Schattinger earned her BS in Biology at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon and her MSN specializing in Women’s Health at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.
