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
Conference schedule
This schedule may be subject to changes. Please check back often.
8:30 - 8:45 |
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Welcome |
Opening prayer Matthieu Coulombe, Chaplain, Covenant Health |
8:45 - 9:45 |
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Opening plenary Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Harvey Max Chochinov |
9:45 - 9:55 |
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Health break and website/poster viewing |
9:55 - 10:55: Concurrent sessions |
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Back to basics Delirium: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management in Palliative Patients Lawrence Lee and Megan Sellick |
Challenging clinical care needs Caregiver-Centered Care Education for the Healthcare Workforce: Assessing Family Caregivers Needs to Foster Compassion and Hope Sharon Anderson and Jasneet Parmar |
Emerging issues and trends A Dose of Stories: Narrative Prescriptions for Hospice Clinicians, Staff and Volunteers Mireille de Reland and Paula Holmes-Rodman |
Back to basics Barbituates to Dexmedetomidine: Palliative Sedation Updated Serena Rix |
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Suffering and Spirituality in End of Life Care Wenda Salomons and Craig Traynor |
10:55 - 11:05 |
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Health break and website/poster viewing |
11:05 - 12:05: Concurrent sessions |
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Back to basics Pain Assessment and Management in Palliative Care Lawrence Lee and Megan Sellick |
Emerging issues and trends Developing a Model of Early Palliative Care Integration at the Cross Cancer Institute Sharon Watanabe and Linda Watson |
Challenging clinical care needs Lessons Learned in Patient Dignity in Palliative Care for People Experiencing Health and Social Inequity Janet Vandale |
Back to basics Palliative Sedation Resources for Health Care Providers Danica Hans and Sheila Killoran |
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness An Ounce of Prevention: Hope and Compassion as Protective Factors for Adverse Grief Reactions Sarah Karesa |
12:05 - 12:45 |
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Lunch and online website/poster viewing |
12:45 - 1:30 |
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Panel discussion To be announced |
1:30 - 1:40 |
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Health break and website/poster viewing |
1:40 - 2:45: Concurrent sessions |
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Back to basics Alberta Interprofessional Palliative Care (IPC) Competency- based Education Danica Hans |
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Understanding the Grief and Dreams of the Deceased within Bereavement for those Experiencing Homelessness Joshua Black and Stephanie Laing |
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Our Grief: The Disenfranchised Grief of Palliative Care Workers Meghan MacMillan |
Emerging issues and trends PalliLearn: An International Collaboration to Cultivate Compassionate Communities Mary Ann Shantz |
Psychosocial/Spiritual and wellness Self-care, Grief, and Palliative Education for Psychosocial Clinicians: Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Series Sheila Killoran |
2:40 - 2:50 |
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Health break and website/poster viewing |
2:50 - 3:50 |
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Closing plenary The Trouble with Non-Physical Suffering Maxxine Rattner |
3:50 - 4:00 |
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Closing remarks Louise Kashuba and Jennifer Furlong |
Registration now open
Register before Oct. 17 for the Palliative Care Education and Research Conference.