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Agenda

Friday, November 13, 2009

 

 

7:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00

Welcome
Sriram Yennu, MD

8:15

Overview and Update on Federal Rules Regulating the Prescribing of Scheduled Medications
Ron Crossno, MD

9:30

Special Workshop Session I

 

Challenges in Cancer Pain
Kathleen Foley, MD

10:30

Break

10:45

Workshop Sessions II

 

  1. Critical Care, Palliative Care, Hospice, and Resuscitation Status
    Donna Zhukovsky, MD; Colleen Gallagher, PhD; Joanne Dalusung, RN, OCN;  and Kristie Cullum, RN
  2. Update on POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment)
    T. Hahn Trinh, MD
  3. Palliative Care – S.P.I.R.I.T. Program
    Gina Yokley, RN, LMT, MS
  4. Ethical Issues Regarding Advanced Mechanical Cardiac Life Support at the End of Life
    Keith M. Swetz, MD

Noon

Lunch

1:15 pm

Palliative Care in the ICU
Susan Gaeta, MD; and Patricia Hannon, MSN, RN

2:15

6th Annual John Mendelsohn Award - 2009 Ceremony and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Eduardo Bruera, MD

2:30

6th Annual John Mendelsohn Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Development of the Field of Palliative Care Presentation Advancing Palliative Care for Cancer Patients: Nationally and Internationally

 Kathleen Foley, MD

3:30

Break

3:45

The Art and Science of Compassion: Recent Advances in Neuroscience and their Implications for Palliative Medicine
James Duffy, MD

4:45

Day 1 Concluding Remarks
Sriram Yennu, MD

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Saturday, November 14, 2009

 

 

7:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00

Cancer Patients and Hope: Panel Discussion
David Hui, MD; Steve Thorney, MDiv, MA; Carmella Wygant, MSW; Donna Zhukovsky, MD, FACP; and Patient

9:10

Workshop Sessions III

 

  1. Symptom Clusters and Advanced Cancer
    Terri Armstrong, PhD, ANP-BC
  2. Empathy- The most powerful and least used technique in the supportive care toolbox
    Patricia Ewert Flannagan, RN, BA, MSN, APRN, BC, CNS
  3. Radiotherapy in Palliative Care
    TBA

10:20

Break

10:35

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

 M. Kay Swint, RN, MSN, CHPN

11:00

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Palliative & Hospice Care Lifetime Nursing Achievement Award PresentationThe Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing
Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN

Noon

Lunch

1:00 pm

Workshop Sessions IV

 

  1. Anticoagulation and Antibiotic Medicine in Hospice Care
    Holly Holmes, MD
  2. Helping Me Say Goodbye: Program Development & Interventions for Patients Facing End-of-Life
    Breanna Hopkins, BS, CCLS

2:00

Special Workshop Sessions V

 

Quality of Spiritual Care as an Aspect of Palliative Care
Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN

3:00

Break

3:15

How to Teach Communication Skills
Laura Morrison, MD; and Walter Baile, MD

4:15

Overview of Recent Research and Conclusion
Eduardo Bruera, MD

5:00 pm

Adjourn


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