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INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN ATTENDING CAN REGISTER ON-SITE FOR THIS CONFERENCE.

Featured Guest Speaker:  Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP

Physician and Widow of the late Dr. Paul Kalanithi,

Author of the NYT #1 Bestseller

When Breath Becomes Air

Join us for the 5th Annual Palliative Care Spring Symposium!  Its goal is to improve the quality and delivery of primary palliative care to all patients and their families with serious, life-threatening illness. Practitioners from all related professions will acquire skills and strategies to help them care for these patients. Designed to include practical presentations with both large and small group formats, the course explores challenging subjects such as physical, emotional and psychosocial care for complex, seriously ill patients.

A special feature of this year's symposium is extensive time to hear and talk with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP, the widow of the late Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, for which she wrote the epilogue. At this cross-section of her career as a medical professional and her personal experience, standing alongside her husband during life, diagnosis, treatment and death, Dr. Kalanithi highlights both meaning in medicine as well as end of life care. This perspective enhances the context of discussions throughout the day, adding depth and take home pearls that participants can put into their own practices.

For the afternoon breakout sessions, participants will select two topics of their interest from a plethora of small group discussion topics, including Surrogate Decision Making & Capacity; Potentially Inappropriate Care at End of Life; Non-Pain Symptom Management; Safe and Practical Opioid Prescribing for Palliative Care Patients; How to Help Children through Illness and Loss; Understanding Hospice; Heart Failure and Palliative Care; Managing the Emotionally & Behaviorally Challenging Patient/Family; and Secondary Traumatization/Caregiver Burnout.  Facilitated by expert faculty, indepth discussions will enhance learning.  Selections will be made when you arrive at the symposium.

For more details, download a copy of the program agenda. 

ACCREDITATION INFORMATION

PHYSICIANS: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pennsylvania patient safety/risk management and New Jersey Palliative Care credits are available for this activity.

NURSES: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is an approved provider of Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) by the PA State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours: A maximum of 5.30 nursing contact hours will be awarded for this program.  (Nurses must attend all sessions in order to be awarded nursing contact hours.)

SOCIAL WORK:  CHAPTER 47. STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WORKERS. The Board finds the following entities have currently met the standards in § 47. Accordingly, the following are approved providers: (ix)   Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.

OTHER PROFESSIONALS: Continuing Education Hour verification is provided to other professionals who successfully complete this workshop. A certificate of completion of 5.50 Continuing Education Hours will be provided through the Office of CME, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS: The American Academy of Physician Assistants accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. (www.aapa.org).