Agenda

Opening Prayer (Alaska) Audrey Armstrong, Elder (Koyukon Athabascan)

Welcome 

Cancer, HIV/AIDs and Other Chronic Diseases Are Dramatically Increasing Throughout the World--We Must Make Palliative Care A World-wide Public Health Issue

Xavier Gómez-Batiste, MD, PhD, Institut Català d'Oncologia, Spain

Traditional Healing Among the Inupiaq:  Importance of Caring for the Body, Mind and Spirit

Leland Barger, Sr., Inupiaq Tribal Doctor, NANA Regional Corporation and Aqqaluk Trust, Alaska / Carl Hild, PhD, Alaska Pacific University, Alaska

Palliative Care for Dementia--Who is the Patient?

Timothy Domer, MD, Fort Defiance Hospital, Arizona

CHF Management at the End of Life:  It Takes An Interprofessional Team

Judith L. Howe, PhD; Elizabeth Clark, MD, FACP; Elizabeth Lindenberger, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine / James J. Peters VA Medical Center, New York

Closing

Wednesday, April 28 - Communicating in the Palliative Care Setting

7:30am

Test Connections

 8:00am

How Can I Be Honest with a Patient About Their Prognosis and Still Maintain Hope and Trust?

Lisa A. Marr, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine - Palliative Care Section, New Mexico

I Think It's Time to Meet with the Patient and Family:  What Do I Say?

Shannon Smiley, DO, Alaska Native Medical Center, Oncology Clinic, Alaska

I There Anyway Out of Here??? Our Teachers' Delirium

Stephen T. Rust, MD, FACP, CMD, Providence Alaska Medical Center, Palliative Care and Fellowship Program, Alaska

Who Cares?  What People Near the End of Life Say About Caring

Roderick D. MacLeod, PhD, FAChPM, Goodfellow Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland

What's Food Got to Do With It?

Desiree Simeon, BS, RD, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Wellness and Prevention, Alaska

12:00pm

Closing

Opening Prayer

Welcome

Best Practices for Palliative Pain and Symptom Management--How Can I Confidently Make the Change from Dosing for Cure to Dosing for Palliative Care?  What Can I Do When Access to a High-level of Care Is Limited?

Timothy J. Moynihan, MD, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota / Virginia (Ginger) Thompson, RPh, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota

What Is An "Emergency" with Palliative Care Patients and How Should I Handle?

Kevin Whitford, MD, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota

Are You At Peace?

Karen Steinhouser, PhD, Duke University, North Carolina 

Everyone Is Part of the Palliative Care Team--Including You!

Greg G. Marino, DO, FACP, Alaska Native Medical Center, Oncology Clinic, Alaska

Crossing Over from Cure to Care

Charlotte Ann Syme, BSN, MSN, PhDc, British Columbia Cancer Agency, British Columbia, Canada

So Many Patients Die After We Get Close to Them:  How Do We Heal Ourselves?

Bob Edwin Chaney, Jr., PhD, Southcentral Foundation, Behavioral Health, Alaska