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bioethics02-21533	Swazo, Norman K.	Jahi McMath and the Ethics of the Brain Death Standard	2015	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2572	85	44	Accordingly, Dr. D. Alan Shewmon, Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Pediatrics (with board certifications in pediatrics, neurology, and electroencephalography and recently retired), from the David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California at Los Angeles, submitted legal testimony on 03 October 2014 in support of the petition to reverse the judgment of brain death.2 Referencing “MRI/MRA studies, records, and reports, as well as viewing two videos of Jahi McMath moving her body parts (foot and arm) following her mother’s commands,” and also accounting for “discussions with Dr. Calixto Machado, a world renowned expert on brain death” and Dr. Philip DeFina, “a neuroscientist with the International Brain Research Foundation,” Dr. Shewmon has found sufficient reason to assert “unequivocally” that Jahi “does not [in October 2014] fulfill diagnostic criteria for brain death.” The court-appointed neurologist in this case concurred with the physicians of record that Jahi indeed met the State of California’s neurological criteria for the determination of brain death.	cache/bioethics02-21533.pdf	txt/bioethics02-21533.txt