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Palliative Medicine 2007
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Agenda

Thursday, March 15
 
7:00 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 am

Welcome
Declan Walsh

Chair: Declan Walsh
8:10 am
Keynote Speaker
Advances: Better Care Of The Dying – The Liverpool Pathway
John Ellershaw

8:40 am

Complications: When Opioids Hurt
Mellar Davis

9:00 am

Education: Can e-Learning Improve Educational Outcomes?
Bart Van den Eynden

9:20 am Symptom Management: Dyspnea – The State-Of-The-Art
Amy Abernethy

9:40 am

Assessment: Aspiration Risk – Does The Video-Assisted Barium Swallow Help?
Dona Leskuski

10:00 am

Abstract Presentations/Discussion

10:30 am

Refreshments/Posters

Chair: Bart Van den Eynden

10:40 am

Debate
Pro: Intraspinal Opioids – Not Used Enough! - Constantino Benedetti
Con: Intraspinal Opioids – Rarely Needed! - Franco De Conno

11:20 am

Challenges: Heart Failure – Is It Hospice Time?
Nancy Albert  

11:40 am

Symptom Management: Malignant Effusions – Modern Approaches
Susan LeGrand  

12:00 pm

Research: PROMIS – Better Measurement Of Symptoms & Quality Of Life
David Cella  

12:20 pm

Innovation: Prevent Cancer! – The HPV Vaccine
Jerome Belinson  

12:40 pm

Palliative Social Work - Defining the Role
Susan Blacker  

1:00 pm Adjourn

Workshops

6:00 - 7:00 pm

A.

Decision Making: Nutritional Support In Bowel Obstruction
Jerome Belinson / Susan LeGrand

B.

Pain Management: Integrating Interventional Therapies
Constantino Benedetti / Franco De Conno

C.

Hospice: The Heart Failure Patient
Nancy Albert / Mellar Davis

D.

Care Of The Dying: Develop Your Own Pathways
John Ellershaw / Bart Van den Eynden

E.

Psychosocial Care: Team And Family Conflicts
Susan Blacker / Amy Bauer

Thursday - 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Symposium Reception
Friday, March 16
 
7:00 am

Breakfast With The Professors

Chair: Mellar Davis
8:00 am

Master Class: Advanced Ovarian Cancer – Prolonging And Improving Life
Jerome Belinson

8:40 am

Symptom Management: Hiccups – What Works?
Susan LeGrand

9:00 am

Decision Making: Can “Just Old” Be A Hospice Diagnosis?
Bart Van den Eynden

9:20 am

Complications: Spinal Cord Compression – The Case For Surgery
Isador Lieberman

9:40 am

Innovation: Novel Opioid Delivery Systems
Mellar Davis

10:00 am

Abstract Presentations/Discussion

10:20 am Refreshments/Posters
Chair: John Ellershaw

10:40 am

Current Concepts: Fatigue – The Universal Symptom
David Cella

11:20 am

Administration: Palliative Social Workers Make A Difference!
Susan Blacker

11:40 am

Guidelines: The WHO Ladder – Do We Need The Second Step?
Franco De Conno

12:00 pm

Intervention: Nerve Blocks – What Role In Advanced Disease?
Constantino Benedetti

12:20 pm

Research: Designing And Doing Better Studies
Amy Abernethy

12:40 pm

Symptom Management: Delirium – What Do We Really Know?
Susan LeGrand

12:30 pm Adjourn

Workshops

6:00 - 7:00 pm

A.

Decision Making: Nutritional Support In Bowel Obstruction
Jerome Belinson / Susan LeGrand

B.

Pain Management: Integrating Interventional Therapies
Constantino Benedetti / Franco De Conno

C.

Hospice: The Heart Failure Patient
Nancy Albert / Mellar Davis

D.

Care Of The Dying: Develop Your Own Pathways
John Ellershaw / Bart Van den Eynden

E.

Psychosocial Care: Team And Family Conflicts
Susan Blacker / Amy Bauer

Saturday, March 17
 

7:00 am

Breakfast With The Professors

Chair: Amy Abernethy

8:00 am

Current Concepts: Advanced Heart Failure – Optimal Management
Nancy Albert

8:40 am

Complications: Long Bone Metastases – Surgeons Can Help
Isador Lieberman

9:00 am

Controversy: Should Morphine Still Be First?
Franco De Conno

9:20 am

Research: Qualitative Design – When You Don’t Know Enough To Ask
Bart Van den Eynden

9:40 am

Abstract Presentation/Discussion

10:00 am Refreshments / Posters
Chair: Susan LeGrand
10:20 am Pain Control: Intraspinal Delivery – The Role Of Non-Opioid Medications
Constantino Benedetti

10:40 am

Challenges: Palliative Medicine – Toward Evidence-Based Practice
Amy Abernethy

11:20 am

Complications: The Trauma Of Pelvic Disease
Jerome Belinson

11:40 am

Outcomes: Assessment Using The Liverpool Pathway
John Ellershaw

12:00 pm

Adjourn