CME Schedule

Upcoming Special Conferences

QMC Conference on Pain & Palliative Care – “Mission Possible II: License to Care”
November 11, 2008
(Tuesday)
The Queen's Conference Center
AMA PRA Credit:  6.50
Fee and pre-registration required.

Speakers:
Richard Payne, MD (Professor of Medicine and Divinity, and Director, Institute on Care at the End of Life, Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC), Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA (Independent Practitioner, Dementia Care and Training Specialist, Eastern North Carolina Chapter, Alzheimer Association, and Counseling Associate, Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC), Daniel J. Fischberg, MD, PhD (Medical Director, Pain & Palliative Care, The Queen’s Medical Center, and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine), Hob Osterlund, RN, C, MS, APRN (Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pain & Palliative Care, The Queen’s Medical Center) and Diane Thompson, MD (Medical Director, Women’s Center and Program Director, Caner Center, The Queen’s Medical Center; and Associate Clinical Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine)

Overall Goal:
Enhance practitioners’ knowledge in pain management and palliative care to permit reduction in both acute and chronic symptom distress for patients in the community.

Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss evidence to support currently recommended approaches to the treatment of neuropathic pain.
2. Discuss aspects of the cancer journey that can enable health professionals to come to their patients with a more grounded understanding of the roller coaster of patient emotions and issues.
3. Discuss methods to preserve hope, meaning and dignity in the face of terminal illness.
4. Review clinical strategies to optimize pain management for patients with a substance use disorder and those as risk.
5. Discuss positive approach techniques with the cognitively impaired patient.
6. Discuss pain management and common pain-related symptoms in patients with cognitive impairment.
7. Identify three (3) take-home points from the conference that can improve pain and palliative care outcomes in one’s practice.

For More Information/Registration:
Phone: 808.537.7009.  
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