Living with Grief Teleconference

 

 

   WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010
1:30 P.M.- 4:30 P.M. ET
Hospice Education Center
225 Como Park Blvd., Cheektowaga
For more information, contact: Amy Maxwell Phone:(716) 686-8159 Email: cfe@palliativecare.org

 

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Program Decription

 

The program provides an opportunity for a wide variety of professionals - including doctors, nurses, funeral directors, psychologists, educators, social workers and bereavement counselors - to share and exchange ideas and obtain continuing education credits.

This year HFA's 17th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference focuses on "Cancer and End-of-Life Care." The teleconference will address care options related to cancer diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families and professional care-givers. The teleconference will also examine psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management, and ethical issues related to the disease.

 

 

Learning Objectives

The program will provide an educational forum in which a multidisciplinary panel of experts will address care options related to cancer diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families and professional care-givers. The teleconference will also examine psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management, and ethical issues related to the disease.

Featured Panel

 

Moderator: Frank Sesno, Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and Special Correspondent with

Featured Panel:
Yvette Colón, Director of Education & Support at American Pain Foundation; Malene Davis, President & CEO at Capital Hospice; Kenneth J. Doka, Professor of Gerontology at The College of New Rochelle; Richard Payne, Director, Institute on Care at the End of Life, Duke University; Sherry R Schachter, Director Bereavement Services at Calvary Hospital/Hospice; and Brad Stuart, Medical Director at Sutter VNA & Hospice.