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Practical Aspects in Palliative Medicine:
Integrating Palliative Care into Clinical Practice

October 10-12, 2008

SCHEDULE
N.B. Tracks: (S)=Symptom Management, (E)=Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care, (R)=Qualifies for Risk Management Credits

Friday, October 10, 2008

AM Sessions
7:30 - 8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:00 - 8:30 Welcome, Introduction and Overview of Course and of Day (Billings, Block)
8:30 - 9:45 KEYNOTE: "Practical Aspects of Healing" (Cassell)
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:15 Breakout session 1
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 Breakout session 2

For Friday AM breakouts, participants will choose two of the Meet-the-Professor sessions.
* Meet-the-Professor Sessions

Session 1:
A. Practical Management of Patients Dying At Home (Dahlin/Jackson) (S)
B. Care of Patients with Advanced Cardiac Disease (Flavell/Stevenson) (S)
C. Pharmacological Pain Therapy (Blinderman/Lynch) (S) (E)
D. Culturally Congruent Care (Smith) (R)

Session 2:
A. Palliative Care in the ICU Setting (Billings/Keeley) (R)
B. Care of Patients with Advanced Pulmonary Disease
(Chane/Lilly/Fagan/Yurkofsky) (S)
C. Challenges in the Management of Non-Pain Symptoms (Jackson/Lynch) (S)
D. Care of Patients with Neuropathic Pain (Ross) (S)

12:45-1:45 Lunch provided

1:45 - 3:00 PLENARY: Palliative Sedation for Physical, Psychological, or Existential Distress (Blinderman/Fowler) (S) (R)
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:30 Breakout session 1
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 6:00 Breakout session 2

For Friday PM breakouts, participants will choose two Meet-the-Professor Sessions.

* Meet-the-Professor Sessions

Session 1
A. Assessment and Management of Delirium in Palliative Care (Buss) (S)
B. Teaching Palliative Care to Medical Students and Residents (Szmuilowicz)
C. Methadone: Risks and Benefits (Fowler) (S) (R)
D. Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting (Yurkofsky) (S)

Session 2
A. Sexuality Issues in Palliative Care Patients and Their families (Bennett)
B. Promoting Palliative Care in Advanced Practice Nursing (Dahlin/Lynch/Kales)
C. Overview: Ethical Challenges in Patients with Advanced Disease (Forrow) (E)
D. Palliative Care Issues in the Geriatric Population (Thomas) (S) (E) (R)

Saturday, October 11, 2008

AM Sessions
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15 Overview of Day (Billings, Block)
8:15 - 9:30 PLENARY: Bereavement (Block)

8:15 - 9:00 Interview
9:00 - 9:30 Structured Debrief

9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 11:00 Breakout session 1
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 Breakout session 2

For Saturday AM breakouts, participants will choose either the Experiential Workshop or two of the Meet-the-Professor sessions.

* Experiential Workshop

A. Communication Challenges (Block) (R)

* Meet-the-Professor Sessions

Session 1
B. Breaking Bad News (Thomas/Jacobsen) (R)
C. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Palliative Care (Rosenthal)
D. "Difficult" Patients (Rosenblatt/Higgins) (R)

Session 2
B. Palliative Care Challenges in Patients with Addiction(s) (Nabati) (S)
C. Case-Based Ethical Dilemmas (Joffe/Forrow) (E) (R)
D. "Difficult" Families (Rosenblatt/Higgins) (R)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch On Your Own

PM Sessions
1:30 - 2:45 PLENARY: When Your Patient Asks: How Do I talk With My Kids? (Muriel)
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:15 Breakout session 1
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:45 Breakout session 2

For Saturday PM breakouts, participants will choose two Meet-the-Professor Sessions.

Session 1
A. Managing Patient Requests for Hastened Death (Block) (E) (R)
B. Family Goal-Setting in the ICU Setting (Billings/Rinehart) (R)
C. ABCs of Hospice (Nowak)
D. Music Therapy in Palliative Care (Hanser)

Session 2
A. Bereavement Research (Block/Prigerson)
B. Depression, Anxiety (Miovic) (S)
C. Compassion Fatigue (Kales/Mitchell/Thomas/Higgins) (E) (R)
D. Palliative Care Across the Life Cycle (Wolfe)

Sunday October 12, 2008

AM Sessions
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15 Overview of Day (Billings/Block)
8:15 - 9:15 PLENARY: Peace at the End of Life: New Understandings (Prigerson)
9:15 - 9:30 Break
9:30-10:45 Breakout session
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 CONCLUDING PLENARY

Sustaining Our Abilities to Provide End of Life Care (Giansiracusa)

Breakouts

A. The Why and How of Performing a Spiritual Assessment (Balboni)
B. Hypnosis (Cassell)
C. Growing your Palliative Care Program (Billings/Block)

N.B. Tracks:

(S) - Symptom Management
(E) - Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care
(R) - Qualifies for Risk Management Credits