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National Congress 2008

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ABMS Subspecialty Certification in Palliative Medicine Next Year

Audio Conference Explores Utilization of Community-Based Hospice

California Assembly Judiciary Committee Okays Assisted Suicide Bill

CAPC Offers New Palliative Care Discussion Forum

CAPC Offers New Palliative Care Web Site

Circle of Life Award Applications Deadline is September 14

City of Hope Project Seeks Applicants

CMS Releases Proposal for 2008 Wage Index for Hospice

Coalition Audio Conference Draws Broad Audience

Coalition Audio Conference Opportunity March 14

Coalition Board Chair Assumes New Role at Trinity

Coalition Offers Palliative Care Audio Conference Opportunity in September

Coalition Response to AAHPM Change in Position on PAS

Family Caregivers Help Shape New Resource Tools

Growing Older in America The Health and Retirement Study

Guide to Caring for Jewish Patients and Families at the End of Life

National Advance Directives Campaign

National Healthcare Decisions Day Set for April 16, 2008

National Quality Forum Report for Palliative and Hospice Care

National Quality Forum Seeks Nominations for Culturally Competent Care Project

New Ethics Newsletter From Catholic Health Association

New Ethics Newsletter From Catholic Health Association

New Palliative Care Web Site from CAPC

Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act 2006 Annual Report Released

Pain and Policy Group Releases Updated Guide and Report Card

Palliative Care Research Grants Awarded

Pope Benedict XVIs Message for World Day of the Sick

Putting Evidence into Practice Cards Available from Oncology Nursing Society

SpeakUp for National Family Caregivers Month

Spirituality and Health Care Graduate Program Seeking Applicants

Supportive Voice Articles Referenced at Health Reform Briefing

The NQF Framework and the NCP Guidelines

Washington Post Article Examines Growing Practice of Palliative Care

March 21, 2007

Recovering Our Traditions III 
A Journey of Transformation:  Expanding the Horizons
of Compassionate Care


February 10-12, 2008

San Antonio, Texas

 
Registration will begin this Fall via our Web site and mail. 
To place your name on our mailing list to receive the full program brochure,
please email elna.stockton@providence.org.

Some of our distinguished faculty:
 
Dan Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York
Medical College; author of The Healer's Calling:  A Spirituality for Physicians
and other Health Care Professionals
and The Rebirth of the Clinic:  An
Introducton to Spirituality in Health Care

Carol Taylor, RN, PhD
Director and founding member of the Center for Clinical Bioethics and
assistant professor of Nursing at Georgetown University; senior research
scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics

Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD
Senior associaate dean, Education Program, and associate professor
of Medicine/Geriatrics at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine;
editor, Geriatric Medicine:  A Case-Based Manual

Megan Cole
Artist-in-residence at the University of Texas, actress with numerous
television guest-star appearances and originator of the leading role in the
Pultzer Prize-winning drama, Wisdom of Wit

David Moller, PhD
Director, Office of Human Values in Medicine at St. Luke's Health System
in Kansas City, MO; author of Dancing with Broken Bones:  Portraits of Dying
Among Inner-City Poor

Pat Franco, PhD
Director, Holistic Health Education, Mission Services,
Bon Secours Richmond Health System

Sr. Karin Dufault, SP, RN, PhD
Executive director of the Supportive Care Coalition

Tina Castanares, MD
Medical director, Hospice of the Gorge; family physician and coordinator of
Government Relations, La Clinica del Carino Family Health Center in Hood River, OR