Presents a series of programs and discussions on
Patient Care at End-of-Life
September 2000 - May 2001
Feeling comfortable with allowing patients to die is antithetical to most
physicians and health care professionals. In dying patients, the ability
to cure becomes irrelevant; the ability to care is paramount. This series
on end-of-life care is designed for physicians, residents, fellows, nurses
and other health care professionals to provide an understanding of the
legal, ethical and cultural issues of caring for terminally ill patients,
and to provide strategies for coping with the tremendous psychological and
emotional stress brought on by caring for these patients and their
families.
Following the program, participants should be able to:
- Describe situations in which advance directives, health care proxies
and living wills are legally binding and when they are not
- Identify psychosocial and cultural issues in end-of-life care
- Better communicate with severely ill and dying patients and their
families
- Provide pain and symptom management to terminally ill patients
- Better cope with occupational stress in oncology and palliative care
Location
This series of programs will be presented from 5:00 - 6:00 PM in the
Gaylord Meeting Room on the first floor of the Research Studies Center,
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY.
Accreditation - CME, AAFP
Roswell Park Cancer Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education
for physicians.
This continuing medical education activity meets the criteria for a
maximum of 1 credit hour in Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition
Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim
only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in this activity.
This program has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to one hour of
Prescribed credit by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Program
September 25, 2000
Legal Issues: How binding are Advance Directives, Health Care Proxies and
Living Wills?
- Camille Wicher, RN, JD, Council for Risk Management/Corporate
Compliance Officer, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
- Stephen Wear, Ph.D.,Co-Director, Center for Clinical Ethics and
Humanities in Health Care, VA Medical Center, Buffalo, NY
October 23, 2000
Dealing With the Dysfunctional Family and End-of-Life Issues
- Michael Zevon, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Clinical Oncology, Roswell
Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
- Elizabeth Clark, JD, Hodgson, Russ Attorneys, Buffalo, NY
November 27, 2000
Improving Communication at the End of Life
- Robert Milch, M.D., Medical Director, Center for Hospice and
Palliative Care, Buffalo, NY
- David Nyberg, Ph.D., Professor, Educational Organization &
Administration; Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, State
University of New York at Buffalo
December 2000
No seminar
January 22, 2001
Cultural Issues Involved in End-of-Life Decisions - The African-American
Perspective
- Rev. James Josey, New Fellowship Church of God in Christ, Buffalo, NY
- Verdis Griffin, RN, BSN, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo,
NY
February 26, 2001
What Constitutes Medical Futility?
- Gerald Logue, M.D., Co-Director, Center for Clinical Ethics and
Humanities in Health Care; Chair of Ethics Committee, VA Medical Center
- Stephen Wear, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Clinical Ethics and
Humanities in Health Care, VA Medical Center, Buffalo, NY
March 26, 2001
The Physician's Role in End-of-Life Care
- Mark Lema, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, RPCI;
Professor, Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, State University of New
York at Buffalo
- Jack Freer, M.D., Associate Director, Center for Clinical Ethics and
Humanities in Health Care; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, State
University of New York at Buffalo
April 23, 2001
The Clinical and Emotional Aspects of Withholding/Withdrawing Life Support
from the Perspective of the Medical Professional
- Karen Maricle, RN, Vice President of Nursing and Chair of Ethics
Committee, Erie
County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY
- Cathy Carter, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Erie County Medical
Center; Clinical Assistant Professor, State University of New York at
Buffalo
May 21, 2001
Dealing With Our Losses: Coping With Clinician Stress and Grief
- Bonnie Kirisits, MSW, CSW, Grief Therapist, Life Transitions Center,
Center for
Hospice and Palliative Care, Buffalo, NY
- Marlon Koenigsberg, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Millard Fillmore
Hospital and
Sister's Hospital of Buffalo; Assistant Professor of Clinical Family
Medicine, State
University of New York at Buffalo
For more information, please contact the Educational Affairs Department,
Roswell Park Cancer Institute at 716-845-8686.
Planning Committee
- Joanne Bond, M.S., Director of Continuing Medical Education, RPCI
- Martin Brecher, M.D., Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, RPCI
- Margarita Coyne, R.N., Nursing Administration, RPCI
- Lawrence Leichman, M.D., Chairman, Department of Medicine, RPCI
- Mark Lema, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, RPCI
- Ellis Levine, M.D., Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine, RPCI
- Martin Mahoney, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Employee Health Clinic/Cancer
Screening Clinic, RPCI
- Nicholas Petrelli, M.D., Chairman, Department of Surgery, RPCI
- Camille Wicher, RN, JD, Council for Risk Management/Corporate
Compliance Officer, RPCI
- Jerome Yates, M.D., Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs, RPCI
For further information, contact Joanne Bond joanne.bond@roswellpark.org
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