AGENDA

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7-8am
Registration/Light Breakfast (Provided)

8-9:30am

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: FRANK OSTASESKI

  • Inviting the Wisdom of Death Into Life

9:30-9:45am
Refreshment Break

9:45-10:45am
Three Concurrent Presentations

  • Soul Injury: Liberating Unmourned Loss & Unforgiven Guilt

    • Katie Hennessy, LCSW, OSW-C – OHSU*

  • Increasing Advocacy for Cultural Minority Groups Needing Palliative Care

    • Kimberly Hiroto, PhD & Jennifer Ho, MA – VA Palo Alto, Hospice & Palliative Care Center

  • Palliative Care in the Safety Net

    • William Kennedy, MD – Housecall Providers

10:45-11am
Break

11am-noon
Three Concurrent Presentations

  • Parachutes for Pain: Palliative Care Pain Management in a Non-Opiate Era

    • Arian Nachat, MD – Kaiser

  • Partnering with the Interpreter Community: What Have we Been Missing?

    • Jennifer Levi, LCSW – Providence Health & Services

  • Providing Palliative Care Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

    • Julia Kasl-Godley, PhD – CHE Psychological Services

Noon-1:00pm
Lunch (provided)

1-1:15pm
Mindfulness Break

1:30-2:30pm
PLENARY SPEAKER: Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom – OHSU*

  • Transforming the End of Life: Lessons from Around the World

2:45-3:45pm
Three Concurrent Presentations

  • Brainspotting: A Powerful Approach to Bereavement

    • Mary Jane O’Rourke, MSW, LCSW

  • Journey to Inclusion: Building Equitable Access to End-of-Life Care

    • Andy Kyler, RN, BSN, MBA & Sheryl Cherian – Care Partners: Hospice & Palliative

  • An Ethical Lens with Which to Treat – Or not Treat: Leukemia Patients who Decline Blood Products

    • Jennifer Smith, MSW, LCSW – OHSU* Knight Cancer Institute

3:45-4pm
Refreshment Break

4-4:55pm
PANEL (invited) – Moderated by: Susan Hedlund, MSW, LCSW

Title TBD

  • Fernando Serna, MDiv, BCC
  • Asher Wallis, MA
  • Rev. Larry Hansen, BCC, CT
  • Rev. Tom Nolen, DMin

4:55-5pm
Closing Remarks – Louise E. Marasco, PhD – Transitions Professional Center

*Oregon Health and Science University