6:30 am – 7 pm

Registration

8 am – 5 pm

VitalTalk: Intensive Small Group Training—Addressing Goals of Care (P01) 

8 am – 5:30 pm

HMD Update and Exam Prep (P02)

Let’s Play Hot Potato! Controversial Topics in the Pharmacopalliation of Serious Illness (P03)

ACHPN® Certification Review Course (P04)

8 – 11:45 am

HPM Fellowship Directors Forum: Training the Next Generation - Innovations and Multi-Generational Training in Fellowship (P05)

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite - Using StrengthsFinder Leadership Strategies to Increase the Performance of You and Your Team in Palliative Care and Hospice Settings (P06)

Preparing for Good Grief: Grief and Loss in the Hospice and Palliative Context (P07)

Building Partnerships between Spiritual Care Experts and Generalists in Integrating Spiritual Care for Seriously and Chronically Ill Patients and their Families (P08)

Advanced Treatments and Technology: Weaning and Deactivating (P09)

Ethical Competencies for Clinical Excellence (P10)

Cannabis: a New Addition to the Palliative Care Toolkit (P11)

Practical Strategies for Building and Growing an Effective, High-Functioning, Interdisciplinary Team (P12)

1:15 – 5 pm

Educators Forum: 'Getting Better All the Time' - Giving Faculty Tools for Effective Feedback and Quality Improvement (P13)

Multidisciplinary and Multimodal Approaches for Refractory Symptoms (P14)

Improving the Care of Diverse Patient Populations: Let's Advance the Dialogue for Strategies to Address and Navigate the Elephant in the Room (P15)

Getting Started (or Going Further) in Value-Based Payment Models (P16)

A Gentle Journey: Transitioning from Childhood to Adulthood with Palliative Care (P17)

Not for the Faint of Heart: Caring for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure (P18)

Psychiatrist in My Pocket: Essential Psychiatric Skills for the Palliative Care Provider (P19)

Bridging the Gap: Telehealth Applications in Palliative Care (P20)

1:15 – 5:30 pm

Morning at the Museum: Connection and Meaning at the San Diego Museum of Art (P21)

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Official Start to the Annual Assembly

Opening Reception with Exhibits

5:30 – 7:30 pm

Poster Viewing (5:30 - 7:30 pm)

CE Poster Session (6:30 - 7:30 pm)

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6:30 am–6 pm

Registration

7 – 8 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Developing Collaborations with Development Professionals: An Essential Competency for Palliative Care Teams (TH301)

'The Patient Can See You Now': Providing Interprofessional Community Based Palliative Care Using A Video-Based Telehealth Clinic Model (TH302)

Innovation in the Delivery and Payment of Serious Illness Care Through Health Plan Program Development and the Payer-Provider Relationship (TH303)

Is dopamine the golden ticket for symptom management in palliative care? Role of antipsychotics for off-label uses (TH304)

Keeping It Down: A Case-Based Approach to Managing Pediatric Nausea and Vomiting (TH305)

Closing the Gap on the Palliative Care Needs of Patients with Kidney Disease: Innovations from the Pathways Project (TH306)

'I Can't Eat, Speak, or Kiss My Wife. It's Half a Life, but at Least I'm Still Alive.' Navigating the Sequelae of Head and Neck Cancer (TH307)

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Using PhotoVoice to Promote Resilience in Trainees Who Care for Seriously Ill Patients (TH308)

Using Film as a Tool to Promote and Enhance ACP in a Faith-Based African American Community (TH309)

HM Council Session (TH310)

Paper Session (TH311)

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Physician Assistants SIG
Senior Clinicians SIG
South and East Asian Professionals, Patients, and Families in HPM Forum
Veterans SIG

8:15 – 10 am

PLENARY SESSION

Quiet: How to Harness the Strengths of Introverts to Transform How We Work, Lead and Innovate (101)

10 – 10:30 am 

Mindfulness Meditation

10:45 – 11:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Palliative Care in Rural Settings: Closing the Gap (TH312)

Panacea or Pandora's Box? Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Palliative Care (TH314)

SIMplifying Palliative Extubations: A Two Part OSCE in a Simulation Center to Assess Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in Hospice and Palliative Medicine (TH315)

Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor (TH316)

Making Measurement Matter: How Will Your Organization Engage with the New Palliative Care Quality Collaborative? (TH317)

Palliative Care for Chronic Lung Disease: It Really Does Take a Village (TH318)

Bilateral Renal Agenesis: Redefining Pediatric Palliative Care Across an Innovative Complex Chronic Care Continuum (TH319)

When Opioids Are Not the Answer: Using the 'PARTNERS' framework to Manage Chemical Coping in Cancer Patients (TH320)

When Calling 911 is the Answer: Leveraging Resources in EMS to Deliver Emergency Hospice and Palliative Care (TH321)

Paper Session (TH322)
Paper Session (TH323)
Case Session (TH324)

Noon – 1 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Black Professionals, Patients and Families Forum
Chronic Respiratory Disease Forum
ICU SIG
Kidney Forum
Latino Professionals, Patients, and Families in HPM Forum
Liver Disease Forum
Radiation Oncology Forum
Rural SIG
Safe Use of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Forum

AAHPM & HPNA SIG MEETINGS

LGBTQ SIG

HPNA SIG MEETING

Emerging Research Scholars SIG

Noon – 1:15 pm

HPCC Certification Recognition Luncheon - please register for the luncheon below on the HPNA website.

Luncheon Registration

1:30 – 2:30 pm

The Practice of Palliative Care in Developing Countries - Part 1 (TH330)

PCFACS: A Year in Review (TH331)

Advancing Palliative Nursing Leadership and Professional Development (TH332)

STAMPing Out Antimicrobial Doubt: Collaborative Decisions on End-of-life Transitions of Care (TH333)

The Billing Boys Tell All: Preparing To Succeed with Medicare and the Billers at Home (TH334)

They Said What!? Navigating Conflict with Colleagues Across Specialties (TH335)

Teaching Cross Tolerance for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Across Settings (TH336)

My Pediatric Palliative Care Patient with a DNR is Going to the Operating Room - Questions to Ask the Anesthesiologist (TH337)

When You Know Less is More But Need the Patient and Family to Buy In: Using SPIKES for Deprescribing (TH338)

Delivering Palliative Inotrope Therapy for End Stage Heart Failure in a Community Hospice (TH339) CANCELLED

Paper Session (TH340)
Paper Session (TH341)
Case Session (TH342)

3 – 4 pm

EDUCATIONAL FORUMS

New CMS Payment Models for Palliative Care and Hospice: The Future is Now (TH350)

State of the Science in Pediatric Palliative Care (TH351)

Experiences of LGBT Patients and Family Members with Hospice and Palliative Care (TH352)

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care (book club) (TH353)

Leading with Compassion (TH354)

4:30 – 5:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite - More Paths to 'Yes' in Leadership Conversations (TH360)

Launching Patient-Reported Experience Measures in the Outpatient Palliative Care Setting (TH361)

Meeting the Hospice and Palliative Care Registered Nurse Workforce Challenge: Hospice Nurse Residencies as a Case Study (TH362)

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Digital Therapeutics in Palliative Care and Hospice: The Future of Compassionate Care or Rise of the Robots? (TH363)

Breaking Access and Distance Barriers: Using Innovative Modalities of Tele-Palliative Care (TH364)

New Drugs and Drug News: The 411 and Implications for Palliative Care (TH365)

To Forgo or Not to Forgo: Nutrition and Hydration in a Child Perceived to Be Suffering Inordinately by Parents (TH366)

Lessons from a Therapist's Chair: Optimizing Palliative Communication through Psychotherapy Best Practices and Skills (TH367)

Not Lost in Translation: Ensuring LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Palliative and End-of-Life Clinical-Translational Science Spectrum (TH368)

Addressing Global Health Disparities with the Development of a Palliative Care Exchange Program (TH369)

Paper Session (TH370)
Paper Session (TH371)
Case Session (TH372)

5 – 7 pm

Exhibits and Job Fair

Scholar e-Poster Presentations

Poster Viewing (5 - 7 pm)

CE Poster Session (5:30 - 6:30 pm)

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Comprehensive Wellness Forum
Early Career Professionals SIG
Global SIG
Pediatrics SIG
Pharmacotherapy SIG
Program Chiefs SIG
Substance User Disorder and Diversion SIG
Surgical and Perioperative SIG

HPNA COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Community Based SIG
Public Relations SIG
ICU SIG
Pediatric SIG
Acute Care SIG
LTC and Geriatrics SIG
Emergency Department SIG
Education SIG
Certification SIG
Bioethics SIG
LPN/LVN SIG

7–8 pm

Film Festival

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7 am – 5 pm

Registration

7 – 8 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Improving Medical Student Training in Palliative Care: A Statewide Collaborative (FR400)

Surgical and Perioperative Palliative Care: Updates from 2019 (FR401)

Starting from Scratch: A Master Class in the Management of Refractory Systemic Pruritus (FR402)

The Perinatal Palliative Care Birth Plan as an Advance Care Planning Tool (FR403)

Palliative Care as First Responders in the Opioid Epidemic: A Toolkit for Harm Reduction and Treatment (FR404)

An Agenda of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Research in Seriously Ill Patients: Highlights from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminar (FR405)

Supporting Patients Through Their Radiation Therapy: Lung Cancer, Brain Metastases, and Bone Metastases (FR406)

Paper Session (FR407)
Paper Session (FR408)

Academic Palliative Medicine Council Session (FR409)

7:30 – 8 am

Service of Remembrance and Celebration

8:15 – 10 am

PLENARY SESSION

Dying with Laughter: The Importance of Shifting Perspective and How Laughter Changed My Life (102)

10 – 10:30 am 

Mindfulness Meditation

10 – 10:45 am

Break with Exhibits and Poster Sessions

10:45 – 11:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite - Time Famine: Best Time Management Tips (FR411)

Deeper Dive with Jeremie Saunders (FR412)

Clinical Informatics for Beginners: Understanding How Informatics Can Improve Your Practice Starting Tomorrow (FR413)

Befriending Our Own Mortality: An Innovative Curriculum to Engage with Palliative Care Clinician Countertransference (FR414)

Evaluating Diverse Methodologies and Interventions for Facilitating Advance Care Planning (ACP) Among Seriously Ill Patients: Lessons from Ongoing PCORI-funded ACP Trials (FR415)

Let's Play 'Jeopardy': And the Category is Substance Use Disorder (FR416)

Getting Pediatric Palliative Care from Mission and Vision to Sustained Success: Techniques and Tools That Help Make Your Case (FR417)

New Evidence-Based Guidelines for Dementia Palliative Care (FR418)

Hunting for Help: Can Psychosis be Terminal and is Palliative Sedation an Option? (FR419)

Paper Session (FR420)
Paper Session (FR421)
Case Session (FR422)

11:45 am – 1:30 pm

Exhibits and Poster Sessions

12:15 – 1:15 pm

AAHPM Business Meeting

HPNA Business Meeting

1:30 – 2:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Practice of Palliative Care in Developing Countries - Part 2 (FR430)

Workforce Development in Hospice and Palliative Nursing (FR431)

Digital Health for the Seriously Ill: Making Your Own Electronic Tools, Apps, and Websites (FR432)

Routinizing Goals-of-Care Conversations - A Linchpin in Pivoting from Volume to Value (FR433)

Addiction Medicine Specialists in Your Back Pocket: Building an Essential Collaboration (FR434)

Breathing, Thinking, Functioning: Controlling the Dyspnea-Anxiety Cycle (FR435)

Integration of Neuro-Oncology and Pediatric Palliative Care at Diagnosis in the Outpatient Setting. (FR436)

Loosening the Grip of the 'Double Bind': Practical Tips for Managing Moral Injury Among Palliative Care Providers (FR437)

Parkinson's Disease Personified: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Palliative Care Needs (FR438)

All in the Family: What the Palliative Care Specialist Should Know About Esketamine (FR439)

Paper Session (FR440)
Paper Session (FR441)
Case Session (FR442)

3 – 4 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Quality & Value-Based Care for the Newbie: Translation Please! (FR451)

Yesterday a Child, Today a Grown-Up: Reflections on Family and Team Experience of an Abrupt, Non-Linear Transition from Pediatric to Adult Medicine (FR452)

Palliative Care for Everyone: Insider Tips for Teaching Primary Palliative Care to RNs and APRNs (FR453)

Gaming the System: Creative, Simple, and Effectives Educational Interventions to Enhance Hospice IDT Learning on Key Clinical and Regulatory Topics (FR454)

Mapping Out Your Palliative Patients' Needs: A Triage Tool (FR455)

Healing Moral Injury of Seriously Ill Vietnam Veterans: A Veterans Affairs (VA) and National Hospice Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Collaboration (FR456)

Sojourn's Scholars Present: In the Expert's Studio (FR457)

Not Just for Addiction: The Palliative Clinician's Guide to Using Buprenorphine for Pain (FR458)

Physician Assisted Death: Last Resort Option or Out of Bounds? (FR459)

Paper Session (FR460)
Paper Session (FR461)
Case Session (FR462)

4:30 – 5:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Health Insurance 101: Opportunities for Palliative Care (FR471)

To Not Be Missing Forever...That Seems Important: Ethical, Clinical, and Practical Aspects of Reuniting Patients & Families (FR472)

Emotional Intelligence for the Interdisciplinary Team (FR473)

My Heart Will Go On: Analyzing the Heartbeat Project as a Tool in Palliative and Bereavement Care (FR474)

Reimagine End of Life - Humanities and Spirituality Help Spark a Community Movement around Dying and Living (FR475)

Telemedicine: the Pediatric Palliative Perspective (FR476)

'The worst part is not the pain; it is the loneliness': Detecting and managing the silent epidemic of loneliness (FR477)

Instituting a Life-Changing Emergency Response Plan: Because life happens to all of us (FR478)

“Learning the Ropes” – Preparing Palliative Care Clinicians for Outpatient Practice (FR479)

Turning Your Burning Clinical Question into a Research Project: A Primer for Developing Hospice and Palliative Research Collaborations (FR480)

Paper Session (FR481)

4:30 – 6 pm

INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE

Towards a Better Understanding of How We Are Seen: Identifying Indirect Feedback (FR482A)

Teaching Pain Management in the Era of the Opioid Epidemic: A Team Based Intervention (FR482B)

You Should Probably Write This Down: Effective Documentation in Communication Skills Training (FR482C)

A Novel Curriculum on Writing Simulated Patient Cases for Teaching Communication Skills (FR482D)

Delirium Whodunnit?: A Mystery-Based Group Learning Activity to Facilitate Development of Clinical Problem Solving Skills (FR482E)

5:45 – 7 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Cancer SIG
Education SIG
Emergency Medicine SIG
Fellowship Directors SIG
Grief, Bereavement, and Resiliency Forum
Safety Net SIG

AAHPM & HPNA SIG MEETING

Integrative Medicine SIG

HPNA SIG MEETING

APRN SIG
International SIG

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7 am–2 pm

Registration

7 – 8 am

Cambia Leadership Lecture Breakfast - Being Your Best Self: How to Engage Allies, Mentors and Colleagues in the Pursuit of Excellence in Leadership (CAMBIA)

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Humanities and Spirituality SIG
Long-Term Care/Geriatrics SIG
Neuropalliative SIG
Physician-Assisted Death SIG
Rehabilitation Forum

AAHPM & HPNA COMMUNITY MEETING

Research SIG

HPNA COMMUNITY MEETING

Chapters SIG

8:15 – 10 AM

PLENARY SESSION

State of the Science (103)

10:30 – 11:30 am

The Practice of Palliative Care in Developing Countries - Part 3 (SA500)

Let's Think Through This Together: Helping Learners Develop Clinical Reasoning Skills and Helping Faculty Add to Their Entrustable Professional Activities and Curricular Milestone Toolboxes (SA503)

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Viable, Lesser Known Palliative Option of Last Resort (SA504)

Balancing Democracy with Efficiency: Strategies for Leading an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team (SA505)

Beyond the SSRI: Assessment and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Pediatric Palliative Care (SA506)

Setting SEXpectations with Patients and Families: Fostering Sex Positive Palliative Care Among Interdisciplinary Team Members (SA507)

I Will Accept Your Hospice Patient into My Nursing Home if...; The Challenge of Finding Nursing Home Placement for Hospice Patients (SA508)

How Can You Harness Telemedicine's Potential? Five models of TelePalliative Care to Bridge the Access Gap (SA509)

Case Session (SA510)

11:30 am – 12:45 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Ethics SIG
Osteopathic SIG
Outpatient Palliative Care SIG
Primary Care SIG
Psychosocial and Mental Health SIG

AAHPM and HPNA COMMUNITY MEETING

Heart Failure SIG

11:30 am – 12:45 pm

TOWN HALL MEETING

Critical Conversations: Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Hospice and Palliative Care (SA511)

11:45 am – 12:15 pm

Mindfulness Meditation

1:30 – 2:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Intersection of Hematology and Palliative Medicine: Lessons Learned from Partnerships in Practice (SA522)

Brain Death in Pediatrics: The Ever-Changing Landscape and the Expanding Role of Palliative Care Professionals (SA523)

From Half Empty To Half Full: Using A Growth Mindset To Lead Your Team And Yourself (SA524)

A First Aid Kit for Supporting Children around Death and Dying (SA525)

We Don't Want Mom to Lose Hope - Please Don't Tell Her You're with Hospice! The Ethics of Truth Telling in the Setting of Serious lllness (SA526)

Caring for Terminally-Ill Incarcerated Patients: What to Say, Ask and Do Across Different Settings (SA527)

If this is Right, Why Does it Feel Wrong? Opioid Management in the Era of Epidemic Opioid Abuse, through the Lens of Provider-Experienced Moral Injury (SA528)

Case Session (SA529)

2:30 PM

Assembly Adjourns