Other Conferences
The conferences listed below are a sampling of the conferences and retreats available for palliative care professionals. If you'd like to add an offering, please email peggy.berwick@providence.org. The listings are categorized by month.
THROUGHOUT 2008 __________________________________
• Palliative Care Leadership Center Training
Throughout 2008
Palliative Care Leadership CentersSM (PCLC) is a national training and mentoring initiative supported by a consortium of funders, with direction and technical assistance provided by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Exemplary palliative care programs located at six different institutions, PCLC offers training and mentoring to help start and expand hospital palliative care programs in the U.S.
www.capc.org/palliative-care-leadership-initiative/training-dates/
• Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care Retreats
Throughout 2008
IPPC educational retreats are designed for interdisciplinary teams of practitioners and bereaved family members from hospitals, hospice and home care organizations, neonatal units, community coalitions, and other groups serving children and families. Participants are given the opportunity to facilitate sessions from the IPPC curriculum in a train-the trainer format, while also learning from IPPC faculty. Faculty members are pediatric palliative care leaders specially trained in a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to professional education. Plenary sessions tailored to regional needs and issues afford participants the opportunity to network with colleagues in their region. Dates and locations slated for 2008:
-February 27-29, 2008 UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, CA
Contact: Sharon O’Neil, 831-763-3070
-April 14-16, 2008 Sanford Children’s Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD
Contact: Matthew Hocks, 605-333-7159
-May 13-15, 2008 Dallas/Fort Worth Lakes Hilton, Texas
Contact: Amanda Mrstik, 682-885-3841
-September 2008 (dates TBA) Northern California
Contact: Sharon O’Neil, 831-763-3070
JUNE 2008 ________________________________________
• The Art and Science of Palliative Care Nursing
June 5-7, 2008 / Newton, MA
Sponsored by Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
This course has been specially developed for nurses, by nurses, in palliative care and will focus on adult palliative nursing and the essential concepts in end-of-life care including communication, pain and symptom management, and ethics. The goal is to deepen clinical knowledge as well as professional skill in responding to the needs of patients, families, and colleagues. http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare/nursing.htm
• Palliative Care in the ICU: Closing the Gap between Current Knowledge and Clinical Practice
Audioconference / 1:30-2:30 pm Eastern / June 18, 2008
Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care
Judith E. Nelson, MD, JD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York will review and discuss relevant evidence and practical approaches to optimal palliative care quality for ICU patients and families. A Q & A will follow the presentation. To register, www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/06-18-08/index_html/.
• Diversity and Disparities: Parallel Challenges for 21st Century Health Care
June 19-20, 2008 / San Antonio, Texas
Sponsored by Institute for Diversity in Health Management
This conference will acknowledge the challenges that differences can create and will provide successful strategies and practices for managing diversity, cultural competence and inclusion in the health care setting. Sr. Carol Keehan, president and CEO of Catholic Health Association, will discuss the moral imperative to increase diversity and reduce disparities at the closing ceremony and recognition luncheon. For more information, please visit http://www.diversityconnection.org/diversityconnection_app/leadership-conferences/Leadership-Conferences.jsp?fll=S9
• 2008 Catholic Health Assembly – The Future of Compassion
June 22-24, 2008 / San Diego, CA
Sponsored by Catholic Health Association
Health care of the future promises astounding medical and technological advances. But it also poses fresh challenges for the Catholic ministry. This Assembly will look out over the horizon to consider the opportunities and threats that lie ahead. Participants will hear futuristic, inspiring, poignant presentations from distinguished keynote speakers and share expertise from across the ministry in the Innovation Forum. Early bird registration for CHA members continues through April 18, 2008. For more information and to register, www.chausa.org/assembly, or call 1-800-230-7823.
JULY 2008 ________________________________________
• Breast Cancer: Current Controversies and New Horizons
July 10-12, 2008 / Boston, MA
Sponsored by Harvard Medical School
Sessions include updates on risk and prevention, preoperative systemic therapy, health disparities in breast cancer and hope for the future. www.cme.hms.harvard.edu/courses/breastcancer
• Patient-Directed Dying: Ethics and Care at Life’s Ending
July 24-26, 2008 / Seattle, WA
Sponsored by Ernest Becker Foundation
The theme of this summer institute is to find ways to strengthen patient agency and direction at life’s ending. The aim is to examine medial, spiritual, and ethical practices that will strengthen patient direction and make it possible to live as fully as possible until death. The keynote address titled “Death be Not Proud: What can be Chosen of Life in Our Dying” given by Margaret Farley, RSM, PhD, Gilbert L Stark Professor of Christian Ethics Emerita at Yale Divinity School. Registration and complete program listed at http://faculty.washington.edu/nelgee.
• International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2008
July 26-31, 2008 / Chicago, IL
Sponsored by Alzheimer's Association
This international conference serves as a catalyst for generating new knowledge about dementia and fostering a vital, collegial research community. This meeting will bring together more than 5,000 researchers, physicians and care providers from 60 countries – the largest group of international leaders in Alzheimer research and care ever convened. For more information, www.alz.org/icad/premiere_conference.asp.
SEPTEMBER 2008 ________________________________________
• Quality of Life for the Children
September 12-13, 2008 / Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by District of Columbia Pediatric Palliative Care Collaboration
Save the date for this fall conference that will examine the neurophysiology of pain and symptom management in children, essentials of pharmacology and integrative medicine, and bioethical issues, as well as offer participation in case studies in Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds. For more information, www.dcppcc.org.
NOVEMBER 2008 ________________________________________
From Concept to Critical Mass: Building & Sustaining Today’s Palliative Care Program
November 13-15, 2008 / Grapevine, TX
Sponsored by Center to Advance Palliative Care
This seminar is designed with in-depth content and rich networking opportunities for programs at every stage. For more information, www.capc.org/tex |