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

Hospice Medical Director Update and Exam Prep (P02)

Community-Based Palliative Care: Beyond the Business Case—Operationalizing and Sustaining (P03)

ACHPN® Certification Review: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (P04)

Deprescribing by the Specialists: Best Practices in Drug Therapy in Serious Illness (P05)

8–11:45 am

HPM Fellowship Directors Forum: HPM Reporting Milestones and Combined HPM Fellowships—Partnering Among and Within Institutions (P06)

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite—Using StrengthsFinder Leadership Strategies to Increase the Performance of You and Your Team in Palliative Care and Hospice Settings (P07)

Treating Addiction with Buprenorphine: A Course for Hospice and Palliative Medicine Clinicians (P08)

Improving the Care of Culturally Diverse Patients: Strategies to Address and Navigate the Elephant in the Room (P09) D

Palliative Nursing Leadership Essentials (P10)

Succeeding with What You Wished For: Alternative Payment Models and Key Success Factors (P11)

My Life, My Story: Connecting Patients, Providers, and Student Learners with Life Stories (P12)

1:15–5 pm

HPM Educators Forum: Mentoring Trainees to Produce Scholarly Work—A Roadmap with Expert Guides (P13)

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite—Woke Up One Day to Find Out I’m in Charge—Practical Tips for Early Stage Leaders in Hospice and Palliative Care (P14)

Strategies for Detecting, Addressing, and Preventing Drug Diversion in Hospice and Palliative Care (P15)

Improving the Quality of Care—A Practical Quality Improvement Skill-Building Workshop (P16) Q

Resilience and Sustainability: Tools to Survive in a Complex Environment (P17)

Oncologist in My Pocket: What the Hospice & Palliative Clinician Needs to Know About Hematology/Oncology and Radiation Oncology (P20) H

Whoa, This Patient Is How Young? Strategies for Adult Providers Caring for Pediatric Patients (P21) H

4:30–5:30 pm

Receptions for AAHPM and HPNA new members, first-timers, and physicians-in-training

5:30–7:30 pm

Official Start to the Assembly!

Opening Reception with Exhibits

5:30–7:30 pm

Poster Session

Scholar/Fellow Poster Presentations 

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6:30 am–6 pm

REGISTRATION

6:30–7 am

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION

7–8 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Palliative APRN Fellowship Guidelines—A Strategy for Quality Specialty Practice: Report of the HPNA APRN Fellowship Council (TH300)

Moving Advance Care Planning Upstream: ACP Goes to the Community (TH301)

Symptom-Driven Antibiotic Use: A Tool to Promote Antibiotic Stewardship in End-of-Life Care (TH302)

Blueprint for a Palliative Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Fellowship (TH303)

Filling Big Needs in Big Areas: Delivering Quality Palliative Care to Underserved Rural Communities (TH304)

Guiding Families to Mindfulness Supports Decision Making for Adults and Children (TH305)

Level Up: The Utility of the ‘Advanced Comfort Kit’ at End of Life in the Pediatric Population (TH306)

Surgical and Perioperative Palliative Care: Updates from 2018 (TH307)

Introduction to a Novel Palliative Care Intervention for Family Caregivers of Children and Adolescents Living with Rare Diseases (TH308)

Tear Down the Wall and Build a Bridge: Understanding Latino Cultural and Spiritual Values to Enhance the Delivery of Palliative Care in the Latino Population (TH309)
Latino Professionals Forum endorsed

Paper Session (TH310)

8:15–10 am

Plenary Session

Getting to Results that Matter: Addressing Quality in Hospice and Palliative Care (101)

10:45–11:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Nurses as Sources in Health News—Developing Media Competencies (TH311)
2019 HPNA Clinical Lecture

Conversations with Dr. Agrawal (TH312)

What’s the Deal with Blood Cancers? Navigating a New Frontier in Palliative Cancer Care (TH313)

Interdisciplinary Team Training at the Art Museum: Breaking Down Hierarchy and Building Resilience (TH314)

Partnerships in Dialysis and Palliative Care & Hospice: ‘Innovative Models for End-of-Life Care for End-Stage Renal Disease Patients’ (TH315)

No Patient Left Behind: Integrating Addiction Treatment with Buprenorphine into Your Outpatient Palliative Care Practice (TH316)

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies—Palliative Care Clinical & Research Priorities (TH317)

Using PCRC Resources: Patient and Caregiver Assessment Tools for Quality Improvement and Research (TH318)

Quality in Pediatric Home-Based Hospice and Palliative Care: Results from the Ohio Pediatric Palliative Care and End-of-Life Network (OPPEN) Statewide Collaborative (TH319)
Pediatric SIG endorsed

A Quantifiable Spiritual Assessment Model in Palliative Care: Putting Two and Two Together for Improved Spiritual Care (TH320)
Humanities and Spirituality SIG endorsed

Paper Sessions (TH321-TH322)

Case Session (TH323)

Noon–1 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Black Professionals, Patients, and Families in HPM Forum
East and South Asian Professionals, Patients, and Families in HPM Forum
Grief and Bereavement Developing Community
Kidney Forum
Latino Professionals, Patients, and Families in HPM Forum
Physician Assistants SIG
Physician Assisted Death Forum
Rehabilitation Forum
Wellness Developing Community

HPNA SIG MEETINGS

Emerging Research Scholars SIG
ICU SIG
International SIG
LPN-LVN SIG
Public Relations SIG

Noon–1:15 pm

HPCC Certification Recognition Luncheon

1:30–2:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Practice of Palliative Medicine in Developing Countries—Part One (TH330)

PC-FACS: A Year in Review (TH331)

My Life Matters! Honoring the Voice of the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled and Other Marginalized Patients (TH332)

Walking the Tightrope: Palliative Care and Organ Donation (TH333)

Yes, and…Lessons Borrowed from Improvisational Theater to Teach Primary Palliative Medicine Skills (TH334)

The XYZs of Billing and Clinical Revenue: Going Way Beyond the ABCs (TH335)

Routinizing Goals of Care Conversations—Improving Patient Outcomes and Satisfaction (TH336)

The -ibs, -abs, and Beyond—Immunotherapies for Pediatric Cancer Treatment and What They Mean for Pain and Symptom Management and Patient Prognosis (TH337)

GeriPal Podcast Live! Podcasting in Hospice and Palliative Care (TH338)
Long-Term Care/Geriatric SIG endorsed

‘Too Good to Be True? No!’ Exploring Self, Incorporating a Quick and Easy Reflective Writing Exercise that Anyone Can Do (TH339)
Humanities and Spirituality SIG endorsed

Paper Sessions (TH340-TH341)

Case Session (TH342)

3–4 pm

EDUCATIONAL FORUMS

Public Policy Forum (TH350)

State of the Science in Pediatric Palliative Care Forum (TH351)

Diversity & Inclusion Forum (TH352)

Book Club Discussion (TH353)

Finding Your Highest and Best Use as a Palliative Nursing Leader (TH354)
2019 Nessa Coyle Palliative Nursing Leadership Lecture

4:30–5:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care: The 4th Edition of the NCP Guidelines (TH360)

Drilling It Down: Designing Workshops to Practice Generalist Palliative Care Skills (TH361)

Opportunities and Implications of Payment Reform for Serious Illness Care (TH362)

‘I Am Barely Breathing’: Experiences and Outcomes of an Integrated Palliative Care–Pulmonary Clinic Utilizing an Opioid and Benzodiazepine Review Board for Safety (TH363)

Image-Guided Palliative Care (TH364)

The Untold Story of the Opioid Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Patients with Life- Limiting Complications of Opioid Addiction (TH365)

‘It Can’t Be the Dialysis that Kills the Child...’: Partnering Pediatric Palliative Care with Care for Children with End-Stage Renal Disease (TH366)

Measuring What Matters Forum: Evaluating Quality of Pain Treatment Among Seriously Ill Populations (TH367)
An AARP Quality Measures Innovation Grant to AAHPM

Beyond the Horizon: Providing Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Undocumented Immigrants in the US (TH368)
Safety Net/East and South Asian Forum SIG endorsed

Expanding Palliative Care Accessibility: Models for Palliative Care Delivery in Primary Care and Hospital-Based Settings (TH369)
Rural SIG endorsed

Paper Sessions (TH370-TH371)

Case Session (TH372)

5:45–7 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Cancer SIG
Emergency Medicine SIG
Humanities and Spirituality SIG
Long-Term Care/Geriatrics SIG
Substance User Disorder and Diversion SIG
Surgical and Perioperative Care SIG

HPNA SIG MEETINGS

Bioethics SIG
Certification SIG

AAHPM and HPNA Heart Failure SIGs

5–7 pm

Poster Session

5:15–6:30 pm

Scholar e-Poster Presentations

7–8 pm

Film Festival

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7 am–5 pm

Registration

6:30–7 am

Mindfulness Meditation

7–8 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Embers of Hope: A Palliative Care/Burn Unit Collaboration Story (FR400)

Begin with the End in Mind: Interprofessional Primary Palliative Care (FR401)

Can You See Me Now? Exploring Telehealth in Palliative and Supportive Care (FR402)

Build It and They Will Come: Outcomes of Developing a Palliative Care Identification and Machine Learning Algorithm (FR403)

Palliative Radiation Therapy for Palliative Care Providers: What You Need to Know and How You Can Best Advocate for Your Patients (FR404)

Let All Flowers Bloom: Encouraging Innovation in Kidney Supportive Care Through Partnerships with ESCOs—The Pathways Project (FR405)

Implementing a Bereaved Family Survey to Improve Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Academic Medical Centers (FR406)

Transcending Emotional Labor in Palliative Care: How Best Practices from Organizational Psychology Can Enhance Workplace Well-Being (FR407)

Pediatric Concurrent Care: Where Are We Today? (FR408)
Pediatric SIG endorsed

Hot Topics Over Hot Coffee 2019 (FR409) 

Standing Tall: Advancing Your Career as an Academic Clinician and Educator in Hospice and Palliative Medicine(FR410)

7:30–8 am

Service of Remembrance and Celebration

8:15–10 am

PLENARY SESSION

Defining Hope: What Makes Life Worth Living? (102)
Carolyn Jones

10:45–11:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Advancing Legal and Medical Collaboration in Advance Care Planning (FR411)

Palliative Care and ACOs: Making the Case for a Match Made in Heaven (FR412)

Innovative Applications of ELNEC Curriculum: 18 Years Equipping Nurses to Deliver Palliative Care in Diverse Care Settings (FR413)

General Inpatient Payment and the Office of Inspector General...Can They Live Together in Perfect Harmony? (FR414)

Picture My Voice: Harnessing the Power of Comics in Palliative Care (FR415)

Navigating the Landscape of Increased Cancer Survivorship: When Malignant Pain Transitions from Acute to Chronic (FR416)

Substance Use as a Family Disease: Shepherding the Flock Safely Through the End of Life (FR417)

Beyond Charlie Gard: Rights, Responsibilities, and Rational Responses in the Realm of Parental Requests for Potentially Nonbeneficial Treatment (FR418)
Pediatric SIG endorsed

‘My Family Would Be Better Off Without Me’: Managing Suicidal Ideation and Risk in Palliative and Hospice Care (FR419)
Veterans SIG endorsed

Paper Sessions (FR420-FR421)

Case Sessions (FR422-FR423)

12:15–1:15 pm

AAHPM Business Meeting

HPNA Membership Meeting

1:30–2:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Practice of Palliative Medicine in Developing Countries—Part Two (FR430)

Conversations with Carolyn Jones (FR431)

Promoting Resilience and Longevity in Palliative Medicine: A Focus on Being Well While Being Productive (FR432)

Effectively Engaging the Faith-Based African- American Community in Advance Care Planning (FR433)

A Personal Exploration Through Expressive Art (FR434)

Respecting Patients’ Wishes—How an Electronic POLST Tool Can Drive Goal-Aligned Care (FR435)

If Ketamine Is So Great, Why Won’t My Institution Let Me Use It? (FR436)

Neither Pediatric nor Adult—Unique Care Considerations in the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Patient Population (FR437)

Where Do We Draw the Line? Navigating Personal and Professional Boundary Challenges in Palliative Care (FR438)
Early Career Professionals SIG endorsed

Inviting Ourselves to the Party: Cystic Fibrosis as a Model for Implementing Palliative Care Practice, Research, and Policy in ‘New Diseases’ (FR439)
Research SIG endorsed

Paper Sessions (FR440-FR441)

Case Session (FR442)

3–4 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Mapping Community-Based Palliative Care and Electronic Death Certificate (FR450)

Making Meaning of Metrics: Utilizing Data in Home and Community-Based Palliative Care in Large Healthcare Systems (FR451)

Compassionate Design: Applying Design Thinking Principles to Pediatric End-of-Life Care (FR452)

‘It’s Not Magic, It’s Intentional Communication’— Using the Primary Palliative Care Communication Toolkit to Teach Communication to Interdisciplinary Learners at Different Levels of Training (FR453)

Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Effectiveness: Building an Effective Team and Maintaining Team Health (FR454)

‘Roid Rage No More: A Review of Corticosteroid Adverse Drug Effects in Palliative Care Patients (FR455)

The Future at Your Finger Tips: How Technology Can Help Us Make Better Predictions and Decisions (FR456)

Caring for the Complex Congenital Heart—Should it Be Palliative from the Start? (FR457)

Circle of Trust: How Psychodynamic Themes Such as the ‘Holding Environment’ Optimize Coping with Serious Illness (FR458)

‘God Is Able’: Miracles and Hope in Our African-American Patients—Challenges, Historical Perspective, and the Way Forward (FR459)
Black Professionals Forum endorsed

Medical Cannabis in Outpatient Palliative Care: Evidence and Approaches for Integrating Cannabis into Clinical Practice (FR460)
Outpatient Palliative Care SIG endorsed

Paper Session (FR461)

Case Session (FR462)

4:30–5:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Bridging Troubled Waters: The Palliative Care Doula Model (FR470)

The Ripple Effect: The Lasting Impact on a Hospital System After Caring for a Juvenile with ALS at the End of Life in a Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospital (FR471)

Optimizing the Delivery of Home-Based Palliative Care: Experiences from PCORI’s Ongoing Large Multisite Clinical Trials (FR472)

Straddling Fee-for-Service and Value-Based Payment: Eight Ways to Keep Your Palliative Care Program Funded and Growing (FR473)

Sojourns Scholars Present: In the Expert’s Studio (FR474)

Calculating Conversations About Opioid Conversions: Not Your Mama’s Equianalgesic Chart! (FR475)

Managing Scarce Resources: Best Practices in Using Triggers in the Hospital and in the Community (FR476)

Lessons Learned from Engaging Latinos in a Palliative Oncology Research Program (FR477)

Integrative Pain Management for Hospice and Palliative Care (FR478)

Vigil Volunteers—The Power of Presence at the Bedside (FR479)
Humanities and Spirituality SIG endorsed

The Evolution from Futility to Nonbeneficial Treatment: Updates for the Palliative Care Clinician (FR480)
Ethics SIG endorsed

Paper Session (FR481)

4:30–6 pm 

INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE (FR482) - 10 Year Anniversary!

Using Simulation to Teach Interprofessional Communication in Palliative Care

To Poop or Not to Poop: A Multisensory Learning Experience in Constipation Management

The Use of E-Learning, Narrative, and Personal Reflection in a Medical School Ethics and Palliative Care Course

Simulation to Teach the Art of Difficult Conversations: A Curriculum Adaptable for All Learners

Practicing Communication Skills for Responding to Emotionally Charged Questions—An Effective Use of an Hour

5:45–7 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS

Early Career Professionals SIG
Ethics SIG
Osteopathic SIG
Outpatient Palliative Care SIG
Pediatrics SIG
Pharmacotherapy SIG
Safety Net SIG
Senior Clinicians SIG

HPNA SIG MEETINGS

APN SIG
Diversity SIG

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7 am–2 pm

Registration

7–7:30 am

Mindfulness Meditation

7–8 am

Cambia Leadership Lecture Breakfast

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS
Education SIG
Fellowship Directors SIG
ICU SIG
Neuro-Palliative SIG
Primary Care SIG
Psychosocial and Mental Health SIG
Radiation and Oncology Developing Community
Veterans SIG

HPNA SIG MEETINGS
Chapters SIG
Pediatrics SIG

8:15–10 am

Plenary Session

State of the Science: Celebrating 15 Years (103)

10:30–11:30 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Practice of Palliative Medicine in Developing Countries—Part Three (SA500)

Transgender Health Literacy 101: Providing Whole-Person Care Without Assumption (SA501)
LGBTQ SIG endorsed

Beyond The Device: Exploring the Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of the LVAD (SA502)

Project ECHO: A Disruptive Innovation to Expand Palliative Care (SA503)

Beyond Meditation and Deep Breathing: Programmatic Strategies for Clinician Wellness and Team Resilience (SA504)

New Drugs and Drug News: The 411 and Implications for Palliative Care (SA505)

Not Just for Neonatologists Anymore—The Blueprint for the Perinatal Palliative Care Consult (SA506)

Finding Strengths in our Differences: How Interprofessional Training Prepares Clinicians for Collaborative Practice (SA507)
Education and Fellowship Directors SIG endorsed

Analog Care in a Digital World: Telemedicine in Outpatient Palliative Care (SA508)
Rural SIG endorsed

Specialty Palliative APRN Practice Through State-of-the-Art Graduate Education: Report of the HPNA Graduate Faculty Council (SA509)

Paper Sessions (SA510-SA511)

Case Session (SA512)

11:30 am–12:45 pm

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS
Global HPM SIG
Program Chiefs SIG
Rural SIG

HPNA SIG MEETINGS
Community Based Palliative Care SIG
Education SIG
Emergency Department SIG
Geriatrics SIG
Public Policy/State Ambassador SIG

AAHPM and HPNA Integrative Medicine SIGs
AAHPM and HPNA LGBTQ SIGs
AAHPM and HPNA Research SIGs

Noon–1:15 pm

Alternatives to Opioids for Managing Pain in Hospice and Palliative Care (SA513)

1:30–2:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Using Improv to Enhance Communication Skills Practice (SA520)

In With the New: Managing Acute Malignant Pain in Patients on Opioid Replacement Therapy with Buprenorphine (SA521)

Speed Dating for Kids 2.0 (SA522)

iGrieve: Virtual Bereavement on Social Media (SA523)

Current Evidence in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review in Support of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (SA524)

Leveraging Global Partnerships to Expand Human Resources in Palliative Care: The Development of Regional Training Centers in Chile and Jamaica (SA526)
Global SIG endorsed

An Integrative Medicine Approach to the Utilization of Cannabis and Cannabinoids for Palliation in Advanced Cancer Patients: Canadian/US Perspectives and Practical Recommendations (SA527)
Integrative Medicine SIG endorsed

Paper Session (SA528)

Case Session (SA529)

2:30 PM

Assembly Adjourns