Palliative Care Education and Research Conference program

Join us in sharing your clinical and research insights into how we can improve palliative care to more fully honour individuals and communities.

Topic areas include:

Back to Basics: Symptom management, direct clinical care
Emerging Issues & Trends: Innovations and research in palliative and end of life care
Challenging clinical care needs for palliative and end of life patients and their families
Psychosocial/Spiritual & Wellness

8:30 - 8:45
Welcome Patrick Dumelie, CEO, Covenant Health Opening prayer Matthieu Coulombe, Chaplain, Covenant Care Join session

8:30 - 8:45

Welcome
Patrick Dumelie, CEO, Covenant Health

Opening prayer
Matthieu Coulombe, Chaplain, Covenant Care

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8:45 - 9:45
Opening plenary Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Harvey Max Chochinov Join session

8:45 - 9:45

Opening plenary
Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine
Harvey Max Chochinov

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9:45 - 9:55
Health break and website/poster viewing

9:55 - 10:55: Concurrent sessions
Back to basics Delirium: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management in Palliative Patients Lawrence Lee and Megan Sellick Join session
Challenging clinical care needs Caregiver-Centered Care Education for the Healthcare Workforce: Assessing Family Caregivers Needs to Foster Compassion and Hope Tanya l’Heureux Join session
Emerging issues and trends A Dose of Stories: Narrative Prescriptions for Hospice Clinicians, Staff and Volunteers Mireille de Reland and Paula Holmes-Rodman Join session
Back to basics Barbiturates to Dexmedetomidine: Palliative Sedation Updated Serena Rix Join session
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Suffering and Spirituality in End of Life Care Wenda Salomons and Craig Traynor Join session

9:55 - 10:55: Concurrent sessions

Back to basics
Delirium: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management in Palliative Patients
Lawrence Lee and Megan Sellick

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Challenging clinical care needs
Caregiver-Centered Care Education for the Healthcare Workforce: Assessing Family Caregivers Needs to Foster Compassion and Hope
Tanya l’Heureux

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Emerging issues and trends
A Dose of Stories: Narrative Prescriptions for Hospice Clinicians, Staff and Volunteers
Mireille de Reland and Paula Holmes-Rodman

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Back to basics
Barbiturates to Dexmedetomidine: Palliative Sedation Updated
Serena Rix

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Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness
Suffering and Spirituality in End of Life Care
Wenda Salomons and Craig Traynor

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10:55 - 11:05
Health break

11:05 - 12:05: Concurrent sessions
Back to basics Pain Assessment and Management in Palliative Care Lawrence Lee and Megan Sellick Join session
Emerging issues and trends Developing a Model of Early Palliative Care Integration at the Cross Cancer Institute Sharon Watanabe and Linda Watson Join session
Challenging clinical care needs Lessons Learned in Patient Dignity in Palliative Care for People Experiencing Health and Social Inequity Janet Vandale Join session
Back to basics Palliative Sedation Resources for Health Care Providers Danica Hans and Sheila Killoran Join session
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness An Ounce of Prevention: Hope and Compassion as Protective Factors for Adverse Grief Reactions Sarah Karesa Join session

11:05 - 12:05: Concurrent sessions

Back to basics
Pain Assessment and Management in Palliative Care
Lawrence Lee and Megan Sellick

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Emerging issues and trends
Developing a Model of Early Palliative Care Integration at the Cross Cancer Institute
Sharon Watanabe and Linda Watson

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Challenging clinical care needs
Lessons Learned in Patient Dignity in Palliative Care for People Experiencing Health and Social Inequity
Janet Vandale

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Back to basics
Palliative Sedation Resources for Health Care Providers
Danica Hans and Sheila Killoran

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Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness
An Ounce of Prevention: Hope and Compassion as Protective Factors for Adverse Grief Reactions
Sarah Karesa

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12:05 - 12:45
Lunch

12:45 - 1:30
Panel discussion Let’s Talk About MAiD: Broadening Our Awareness and Compassion Dr. Charlie Chen (moderator), Dr. Mary Heilman, Dr. Louis Minders, Dr. Tracy Powell Join session

12:45 - 1:30

Panel discussion
Let’s Talk About MAiD: Broadening Our Awareness and Compassion
Dr. Charlie Chen (moderator), Dr. Mary Heilman, Dr. Louis Minders, Dr. Tracy Powell

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1:30 - 1:40
Health break and website/poster viewing

1:40 - 2:45: Concurrent sessions
Back to basics Alberta Interprofessional Palliative Care (IPC) Competency- based Education Danica Hans and Maril Murray Join session
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Understanding the Grief and Dreams of the Deceased within Bereavement for those Experiencing Homelessness Joshua Black and Stephanie Laing Join session
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Our Grief: The Disenfranchised Grief of Palliative Care Workers Meghan MacMillan Join session
Emerging issues and trends PalliLearn: An International Collaboration to Cultivate Compassionate Communities Mary Ann Shantz Join session
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Self-care, Grief, and Palliative Education for Psychosocial Clinicians: Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Series Sheila Killoran Join session

1:40 - 2:45: Concurrent sessions

Back to basics
Alberta Interprofessional Palliative Care (IPC) Competency- based Education
Danica Hans and Maril Murray

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Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness
Understanding the Grief and Dreams of the Deceased within Bereavement for those Experiencing Homelessness
Joshua Black and Stephanie Laing

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Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness
Our Grief: The Disenfranchised Grief of Palliative Care Workers
Meghan MacMillan

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Emerging issues and trends
PalliLearn: An International Collaboration to Cultivate Compassionate Communities
Mary Ann Shantz

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Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness
Self-care, Grief, and Palliative Education for Psychosocial Clinicians: Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Series
Sheila Killoran

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2:40 - 2:50
Health break

2:50 - 3:50
Closing plenary The Trouble with Non-Physical Suffering Maxxine Rattner Join session

2:50 - 3:50

Closing plenary
The Trouble with Non-Physical Suffering
Maxxine Rattner

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3:50 - 4:00
Closing remarks Louise Kashuba and Jennifer Furlong

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