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The Annual Assembly
of Hospice and Palliative Care

Educational Sessions

This meeting has been designed so you can network one on one, in small groups, and with faculty during the educational sessions via chat and Twitter. By registering for the Assembly, you can access the educational content through mid-May and earn up to 48 CE/MOC credits.

View the schedule at a glance below for the 2021 Annual Assembly and plan your education. Learn about the 2021 plenary speakers.

Schedule is subject to change. Times are listed in Central Standard Time (CT).

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Tuesday, February 16

6 – 7pm
Opening Reception: Evening Platform Tutorial and Networking Event – Virtual Table Chats

Wednesday, February 17

9:45 – 10am
Morning Music

10 – 11am
Plenary Session

The Auspicious Opportunity of Digital Innovation (101)
Wendy Sue Swanson, MD MBE FAAP

11am – 11:15pm
Break

11:15am – 12:15pm
Educational Sessions

Setting SEXpectations with Patients and Families: Fostering Sex Positive Palliative Care Among Interdisciplinary Team Members (W200A)
Mapping Out Your Palliative Patients' Needs: A Triage Tool (W200B)

Getting Pediatric Palliative Care from Mission and Vision to Sustained Success: Techniques and Tools That Help Make Your Case (W201A)
The Perinatal Palliative Care Birth Plan as an Advance Care Planning Tool (W201B)

Palliative Care in Rural Settings: Closing the Gap (W202)

How Can You Harness Telemedicine's Potential? Five models of TelePalliative Care to Bridge the Access Gap (W203)

Experiences of LGBT Patients and Family Members with Hospice and Palliative Care (W204A)
Keeping it in the family: Applying the Principles of Trauma-Informed Care to Cancer Patients in the Asian-American Population (W204B)

Paper Session

Code status blues: Do physicians order Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) less often since Texas enacted DNR law? (W205A)

A Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Advance Care Planning and the Care Received at the End-of-life among Patients with Cancer (W205B)

A Missed Opportunity: Advance Care Planning Documentation in Patients with COVID-19 (W205C)

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Advance Care Planning among Older Adults (W205D)

12:15 – 1:15pm
Visit with Exhibitors
Poster Session with Faculty
AAHPM and HPNA New Member/First Timer Event
Networking Event – Virtual Table Chats
Art Therapy Workshop

1:15 – 2:15pm
Late-breaking Session

COVID-19 Conversations: Practical Concerns - Prognostication, Communication, Public Health Advocacy (W212)

1:15 – 2:15pm
Educational Sessions

Teaching Cross Tolerance for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Across Settings (W210A)
Let's Play 'Jeopardy': And the Category is Substance Use Disorder (W210B)

'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 (W211A)
Panacea or Pandora's Box? Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Palliative Care (W211B)

'The worst part is not the pain; It is the loneliness': Detecting and managing the silent epidemic of loneliness (W213A)
What’s Killing My Patient - An Evidence-Based Approach To Understanding Multi-morbidity And Its Effect On Prognosis (W213B)

Hospice Regulatory Update (W214A)
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 Illness (W214B)

Paper Session

English and Spanish-speaking Vulnerable Older Adults Report Many Unique Barriers to Advance Care Planning (W215A)

Barriers and Facilitators to Advance Care Planning Among Seriously Ill Chinese Americans and Their Caregiver (W215B)

Empowering the People: Introducing an Advance Care Planning Conversation to Improve Cultural Sensitivity Among African American Heart Failure Patients (W215C)

The Epidemiology of Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older Adults during the Last Years of Life (W215D)

2:15 – 3pm
Visit with Exhibitors
Poster Viewing
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Event - Meaningful Object Sharing
Networking Event – Virtual Table Chats

3 – 4pm
Educational Sessions

Is dopamine the golden ticket for symptom management in palliative care? Role of antipsychotics for off-label uses (W220A)
Balancing the Double-Edged Sword: Appropriate Use of NSAIDs for Symptom Management (W220B)

Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor (W221A)
'We are Family': Understanding Latinx Family Systems and Cultural Constructs to Provide High-Quality, Culturally-Informed Palliative Care for Latinx Children, Adults, and their Families: A Multi-Center, Interdisciplinary Team Approach (W221B)

Reimagine End of Life - Humanities and Spirituality Help Spark a Community Movement around Dying and Living (W222A)
“A Constant Presence in a Sea of Change”: Care of Families During End-of-Life Vigils (W222B)

Healing Moral Injury of Seriously Ill Vietnam Veterans: A Veterans Affairs (VA) and National Hospice Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Collaboration (W223A)
Lessons from a Therapist's Chair: Optimizing Palliative Communication through Psychotherapy Best Practices and Skills (W223B)

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite - Time Famine: Best Time Management Tips (W224)

Paper Session

A Palliative Care Consult Trigger Tool for Trauma Patients (W225A)

Operational Features and Outcomes of a Distress Screening Service (FamilyStrong) for Neuro-Oncology Family Caregivers (W225B)

The Palliative Care State Policy GPS: A New Tool to Track State Policies on Palliative Care (W225C)

Novel Communication Liaison Program in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit: Impact on Liaison Participants (W225D)

7 – 8pm
Networking Event - Trivia

Thursday, February 18

9:30 – 10am
Filling the Resilience Reservoir - Yoga, Meditation, Reflection
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Event - Our Names: Our Stories
Service of Remembrance
Coffee Chats – Virtual Table Chats

10 – 10:50am
Plenary Session

It’s Time for Justice: Racial and Ethnic Equity in Hospice and Palliative Care (102)
Tammie Quest, MD FAAHPM; Ronit Elk, PhD; VJ Periyakoil, MD; Timothy E. Quill, MD MACP FAAHPM, moderator

11 – 11:30am
Educational Sessions

Plenary Panel Concurrent Discussion Sessions (102A, 102B, 102C)

It's Time for Justice Discussion: How to explore your patient's personal story with racism: Communication tips to start that conversation.

It's Time for Justice Discussion: I want to do research using the community partnership method. How do I start? What do I need to get this going?

It's Time for Justice Discussion: Professional advancement through collaborative research or educational projects focused on improving care of diverse patients and families.

The Billing Boys Tell All: Preparing to Succeed with Medicare and the Billers at Home (T300)

Sojourn's Scholars Present: In the Expert's Studio (T301)

Surgical and Perioperative Palliative Care: Updates from 2019 (T302)

Tools in the Non-opioid Armamentarium: Muscle Relaxants (T303)

11:30am – 12:30pm
Visit with Exhibitors
View Posters
Physicians-in-Training Networking Hour – Virtual Table Chats
Networking Event – Virtual Table Chats
Denver Hyatt Cooking Demonstration

12:30 – 1:15pm
AAHPM Business Meeting
HPNA Business Meeting

1:15 – 1:30pm
Break

1:30 – 2:30pm
Educational Sessions

'The Patient Can See You Now': Providing Interprofessional Community Based Palliative Care Using A Video-Based Telehealth Clinic Model (T310A)
Breaking Access and Distance Barriers: Using Innovative Modalities of Tele-Palliative Care (T310B)

From Half Empty To Half Full: Using A Growth Mindset To Lead Your Team And Yourself (T311A)
Finding Light Within the Darkness: An Overview on Legacy Leaving (T311B)

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Viable, Lesser Known Palliative Option of Last Resort (T312A)
Breathing, Thinking, Functioning: Controlling the Dyspnea-Anxiety Cycle (T312B)

Leading with Compassion (T313)

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 (T314A)
When You Know Less is More But Need the Patient and Family to Buy In: Using SPIKES for Deprescribing (T314B)

Paper Session

Relationship Between Household Material Hardship and Distress in Parents of Children with Advanced Cancer: A Report from the PediQUEST Response Trial (T315A)

Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance Between Parents of Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment and Healthcare Providers During Critical Decision-Making (T315B)

Mapping Parents' Journey Following Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease (T315C)

Palliative Care to the People: Partnering with a Patient Experience Department to Raise Awareness of Palliative Care in the Community (T315D)

2:30 – 4:30pm
Visit with Exhibitors
Poster Session with Faculty
Job Fair
Networking Event - Virtual Table Chats
Floral Design Class

2:45 – 3pm
ABIM Maintenance of Certification Update

3 – 4pm
Educational Sessions

Telemedicine: The Pediatric Palliative Perspective (T320A)
A First Aid Kit for Supporting Children around Death and Dying (T320B)
Social Media 2.0: Advanced Tips for Finding Your Voice Online (T320C)
Improving Medical Student Training in Palliative Care: A Statewide Collaborative (T320D)

Starting from Scratch: A Master Class in the Management of Refractory Systemic Pruritus (T321A)
Befriending Our Own Mortality: An Innovative Curriculum to Engage with Palliative Care Clinician Countertransference (T321B)
Instituting a Life-Changing Emergency Response Plan: Because life happens to all of us (T321C)
To Not Be Missing Forever...That Seems Important: Ethical, Clinical, and Practical Aspects of Reuniting Patients & Families (T321D)

Film Festival - Child of the Earth & R.S. (T322)

7:30 – 8 pm
Bollywood Dance Lesson

7:30 – 8:30 pm 
WFH Scavenger Hunt

Friday, February 19

9 – 9:55am
Cambia Leadership Lecture – Leadership in COVID-19: Building Workforce Resilience in Palliative Care Providers (CAMBIA)

9:30 – 10am
Filling the Resilience Reservoir
Coffee Chats – Virtual Table Chats

10 – 10:50am
Plenary Session

Everybody Matters: What Last Year Taught Us for This Year (103)
Debra Jarvis, MDiv BBC

11am – 12pm
Educational Sessions

Turning Your Burning Clinical Question Into a Research Project: A Primer for Developing Hospice and Palliative Research Collaborations (F400A)
An Agenda of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Research in Seriously Ill Patients: Highlights from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminar (F400B)

Keeping It Down: A Case-Based Approach to Managing Pediatric Nausea and Vomiting (F401A)
Beyond the SSRI: Assessment and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Pediatric Palliative Care (F401B)

Addiction Medicine Specialists in Your Back Pocket: Building an Essential Collaboration (F402A)
The Intersection of Hematology and Palliative Medicine: Lessons Learned from Partnerships in Practice (F402B)

Bilateral Renal Agenesis: Redefining Pediatric Palliative Care Across an Innovative Complex Chronic Care Continuum (F403A)
Brain Death in Pediatrics: The Ever-Changing Landscape and the Expanding Role of Palliative Care Professionals (F403B)

All in the Family: What the Palliative Care Specialist Should Know About Esketamine (F404)

Paper Session

Care for a Dying Patient: EMS Perspectives on Caring for Hospice Patients (F405A)

Innovative Hospice Education for Trainees (F405B)

The association between varying levels of palliative care involvement on costs during terminal hospitalizations in Canada from 2012-2015 (F405C)

Playing nice in the sandbox: lessons on roles, interdisciplinary collaboration, and leadership from a VA national improvement intervention (F405D)

Late-breaking Session

COVID-19 Conversations: Moral Concerns - Just Allocation of Resources, Moral Distress, Supporting Team Resilience (F406)

12 – 1pm
Visit with Exhibitors
View Posters
Networking Event – Virtual Table Chats

12:15 – 12:45pm
Magic by Randy

1 – 2pm
Educational Sessions

Speaking the Same Language: Bridging Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in Palliative Care (F410A)
Routinizing Goals-of-Care Conversations - A Linchpin in Pivoting from Volume to Value (F410B)

Palliative Care as First Responders in the Opioid Epidemic: A Toolkit for Harm Reduction and Treatment (F411A)
New Drugs and Drug News: The 411 and Implications for Palliative Care (F411B)

Digital Health for the Seriously Ill: Making Your Own Electronic Tools, Apps, and Websites (F412A)
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Digital Therapeutics in Palliative Care and Hospice: The Future of Compassionate Care or Rise of the Robots? (F412B)

Not Just for Addiction: The Palliative Clinician's Guide to Using Buprenorphine for Pain (F413A)
When Opioids Are Not the Answer: Using the “PARTNERS” framework to Manage Chemical Coping in Cancer Patients (F413B)

Launching the Future of Palliative Care: Patient-Reported Experience Measures (F414)

Paper Session

Methylnaltrexone for Refractory Opioid-induced Constipation in Hospitalized Cancer Patients - a Highly Effective Treatment (F415A)

Subcutaneous Methylnaltrexone in Cancer and Noncancer Patients for Rapid Relief of Opioid-Induced Constipation (F415B)

Patient-Reported and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Adults with Oncogene-Driven Lung Cancer in a Clinical Trial of Early Integrated Palliative Care: A Secondary Analysis (F415C)

What is Empathy: Cancer Patients' Perceptions of an Ill-defined Construct (F415D)

2 – 2:15pm
Break

2:15 – 3:15pm
Educational Sessions

Emotional Intelligence for the Interdisciplinary Team (F420A)
Loosening the Grip of the 'Double Bind': Practical Tips for Managing Moral Injury Among Palliative Care Providers (F420B)

SIMplifying Palliative Extubations: A Two Part OSCE in a Simulation Center to Assess Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in Hospice and Palliative Medicine (F421A)
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 (F421B)

Closing the Gap on the Palliative Care Needs of Patients with Kidney Disease: Innovations from the Pathways Project (F422A)
STAMPing Out Antimicrobial Doubt: Collaborative Decisions on End-of-life Transitions of Care (F422B)

Developing Collaborations with Development Professionals: An Essential Competency for Palliative Care Teams (F423A)
Clinical Informatics for Beginners: Understanding How Informatics Can Improve Your Practice Starting Tomorrow (F423B)

CANCELLED - Integrating functional assessment into serious illness care using a proposed stepped screening and assessment approach (F424)

Paper Session

Feasibility of Implementing a Standard Operating Protocol for Safe Opioid Prescribing in Outpatient Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Project (F425A)

Using the Palliative Performance Scale as a Trigger to Increase Goals of Care Conversations in Elderly Trauma Patients (F425B)

'TIMEOUT' Before PEG Placement: A Policy Approach to Align Shared Decision Making and Goals of Care through Palliative Intervention (F425C)

Increasing Access to Interventional Pain Management Therapies for Palliative Care Patients with Cancer through Referral System Improvement (F425D)

3:15 – 3:30pm
Closing Celebration

*Schedule is subject to change.

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