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) H

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

Personal Resilience and Sustainability 2019: Tools for Happiness 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)

Emergency Department Admission Triggers Sustainably Generate High Value Palliative Care Consultations (TH310A)

Opioid Risk Stratification in an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic (TH310B)

Assessing End-of-life Care Quality Across Settings in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System (TH310C)

Successes and Challenges in One Organization's Process of Implementing Multiple System-wide Primary Palliative Care Quality Improvement Projects (TH310D)

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)

Integrating the ENABLE Early Palliative Care Approach in Community Cancer Centers: Results of an Implementation Trial (TH321A)

Factors Associated with Community Residence at the End of Life: A Population-Based Study (TH321B)

Community-Based Conversations about Advance Care Planning using Patient Navigators (TH321C)

Is Socioeconomic Status a Fundamental Cause of Racial Differences in End-of-Life Care Use (TH321D)

Association of timing and type of advance care planning documentation on end-of-life care for patients wit serious illness. (TH322A)

What Do Adolescents Want? Values, Goals and Beliefs of Teens with Cancer (TH322B)

Differences by Race, Religion, and Mental Health in Preferences for Life Prolonging Treatment in Adverse Health States: Results from a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries (TH322C)

A Three-Step Letter Advance Directive Procedure to Facilitate Patient-Proxy Consensus in Advance Care Planning (TH322D)

Case Session (TH323)

Green Burials: Discussion of Legal, Psychosocial, Emotional, and Spiritual Context (TH323A)

Novel Advance Care Planning Documentation Tool in the VA: Getting it Right at Last! (TH323B)

Seeing Eye to Eye: How a Palliative Virtual Clinic Can Reduce Barriers to Post-hospitalization Care for Seriously Ill Patients (TH323C) 

Utilization of After-hour Calls Service by Hospice Caregivers (TH323D) 

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, Bereavement, and Resiliency Forum
Kidney Forum
Latino Professionals, Patients, and Families in HPM Forum
Physician Assistants SIG
Physician Assisted Death Forum
Rehabilitation Forum
Comprehensive Wellness Forum

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)

Estimating Costs across Hospice Episodes (TH340A)

Comparative Study of Quality of End of Life Between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ Hospice Patients (TH340B)

More Professional Staff Visits in the Last Days of Life are Associated with Better Hospice Care Experiences (TH340C)

Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care: a State-Wide Needs Assessment (TH340D)

The Construct of Financial Toxicity and Association with Quality of Life in Poor Populations (TH341A)

Caregiver-reported Concerns and Challenges with Medications: Findings from Structured Interviews with Primary Caregivers of Patients with Cancer (TH341B)

CANCELED: The 'no dialysis' option: a qualitative analysis of the medical records of a national cohort of patients with advanced kidney disease (TH341C)

Engaging Primary Care Physicians: Lessons Learned Seeking Buy-In and Patient Referrals for a Home-Based Palliative Care Program (TH341D)

Case Session (TH342)

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: The New Frontier of Palliative Care for Children Living on ECMO (TH342A) 

Young Adults with Progressive and Degenerative Pediatric Neurologic Disease (TH342B) 

CANCELLED It's One for The History Books: Using Levorphanol for Refractory Neuropathic Pain (TH342C) 

Is This My Home? Living and Dying in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (TH342D) 

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)

The Epidemiology of Community-Based Pediatric Palliative Care: A Descriptive Study. (TH370A)

Improving Moral Distress and Provider Perceptions with an Integrated Palliative Care Conference in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). (TH370B)

Availability of Bereavement Support Services for Those Affected by a Pediatric Death: a Literature Review (TH370C)

Symptoms Children Experience in the Acute Phase of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT): Results of the HSCT-PediQUEST Study (TH370D)

Embedded Specialty Palliative Care Is Feasible, Acceptable, and Perceived To Be Effective in Cystic Fibrosis: Results of a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial (TH371A)

Early Palliative Care Consultation in the Medical Intensive Care Unit - A Clustered Randomized Crossover Trial (TH371B)

Provider Perspectives on Palliative Care in End-stage Liver Disease: A Qualitative Study (TH371C)

Effect of An Early Introduction to Palliative Care on Palliative Care Perceptions Among Hematologic Oncology Patients and Their Caregivers (TH371D)

Case Session (TH372)

The Role of Palliative Care in Patients Surviving Critical Illness: A Visit to the Interdisciplinary Critical Illness Recovery Center (TH372A) 

Interdisciplinary Cancer Survivorship Team: Complex Pain Management and More (TH372B) 

Rethinking Family Dynamics and End of Life Care in a Group Home Patient (TH372C) 

'Can We Still Have a Child After You're Gone?': Navigating the Challenges of Reproductive Planning with a Terminally-Ill Partner (TH372D) 

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)

Palliative Connect: Triggered Palliative Care Consultation Using an EHR Prediction Model (FR420A)

Specialty vs. Primary Palliative Care in Randomized Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review (FR420B)

Evaluating the Impact and Costs of Home-Based Palliative Care at the System Level (FR420C)

Same or Different? Comparing Cancer and Non-Cancer Patients Referred to Outpatient Palliative Care (FC420D)

The Evaluation of Health Literacy, Spiritual Coping and Advance Care Planning Following A Culturally Sensitive Intervention for African American Cancer Patients (FR421A)

Exploring the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Provider-Patient Communication among African-Americans with Advanced Heart Failure and their Family Caregivers (FR421B)

Partnering with African American Pastors and HealthCare Professionals to Develop Training Videos That Demonstrate Culturally-Appropriate Physician Communication Principles and Methods (FR421C)

Engaging Diverse English- and Spanish-speaking Older Adults in Advance Care Planning: The PREPARE Randomized Clinical Trial (FR421D)

Case Sessions (FR422-FR423)

From Methadone to Buprenorphine: A Complex Transition (FR422A)

Buprenorphine for Refractory Zoster Neuralgia and Chemical Coping: Hardly a Rash Choice (FR422B) 

Buprenorphine for Sickle Cell Disease--Looking Towards the Future of Pain Management (FR422C) 

Dexmedetomidine as an option for opioid refractory pain in the hospice setting (FR422D) 

High Risk, High Stakes: Identifying Child Physical Abuse and Neglect in a Pediatric Patient in Hospice (FR423A) 

Creating a Trauma-informed Culture: Strategies for Caring for Patients with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse (FR423B) 

Best Interest or Self-Interest? Palliative Care Decision Making in Cases of Suspected Abuse (FR423C) 

Facilitating Dialogue: Easing Tensions Created by Parental Discordance in Perceptions of Suffering at End of Life in the Setting of a Rare Genetic Condition (FR423D) 

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)

Defining Hope: Using Documentary Film as an Educational Tool 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)

Examining Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Inpatient End-of-Life Care in Veterans Affairs (VA) (FR440A)

The Opioid Epidemic and Opioid Prescribing Regulations: A Survey Exploring Potential Barriers to Adequate Pain Management in Adults with Cancer (FR440B)

What's the Risk? Naloxone Co-prescribing in an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic (FR440C)

Impact of Parenteral Opioid Shortage on Opioid Prescriptions among Patients seen by the Palliative Care Team of a Comprehensive Cancer Center (FR440D)

Family Caregiver Practices to Support Self-Management Among Adults with Serious, Chronic Illness (FR441A)

The Power of Human Connection (FR441B)

Social Support and Relationship Quality as Moderators in the Association between Heart Failure Patient Illness Severity and Caregiver Outcomes (FR441C)

Palliative Care Needs and Perspectives on Early Palliative Care from Individuals with COPD and their Family Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Study (FR441D)

Case Session (FR442)

When the Best Palliative Care Is an Operation-And Your Surgeon Won't Operate: Pushing Interdisciplinary Palliative Care to the Max (FR442A) 

Acupuncture for Intractable Nausea Induced by Novel Anti-Cancer Therapy (FR442B)

Considerations Surrounding Therapeutic Hypothermia and End of Life Care (FR442C) 

Old Drug, New Tricks - Nebulized Tranexamic Acid to Stop Hemorrhage from an Oropharnygeal Mass (FR442D) 

3–4 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

AAHPM Collaborations in the Field: Mapping Community-Based Palliative Care and Mdoernizing the EDRS System (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)

Decoding the Code Status: Can a Palliative Care-led Curriculum improve Communications Skills in Critical Care and Emergency Department Clinicians? (FR461A)

Implementing and Evaluating a Four-Year Integrated Palliative Care Curriculum for Medical Students (FR461B)

What's that Social Worker Doing? Results of a Nationwide Job Analysis of Hospice and Palliative Social Workers (FR461C)

Online Palliative Nursing Education: The Results of a Creative Strategy to Educate all U.S. Nursing Students in Primary Palliative Care (FR461D)

Case Session (FR462)

Pacemaker Deactivation at End of Life: Longitudinal Experience with Medical Community Collaboration and Acceptance (FR462A) 

The Role of Palliative Care in Complex-Decision Making Relating to Reversal of Advanced Cardiac Support Technology: A Case Report on Patient-Driven Permanent LVAD Decommissioning (FR462B) 

Can You Catch My Breath? Because I Sure Can't. Maybe a Low Dose Combination Diuretic Would Help (FR462C) 

High Flow Nasal Cannula and Hospice and Palliative Care (HI-HOPEs) (FR462D) 

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)

Palliative Care for Inmates in the Hospital Setting. (FR481A)

Shifts in the Adoption of Hospital-Based Palliative Care Programs (FR481B)

Development of a Social Work-Led Primary Palliative Care Model in Hospital Medicine (FR481C)

Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM): a Prevention Model for Palliative Care (FR481D)

4:30–6 pm 

INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE (FR482) - 10 Year Anniversary!

Using Simulation to Teach Interprofessional Communication in Palliative Care

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

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

 

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 - "Women in Leadership: Pathways for Empowerment, Leadership, Action and Culture Change". All are welcome.

AAHPM COMMUNITY MEETINGS
Education SIG
Fellowship Directors SIG
ICU SIG
Neuro-Palliative SIG
Primary Care SIG
Psychosocial and Mental Health SIG
Palliative Radiation Oncology Forum
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)

Setting Trends in the Preoperative Care Setting: Advance Care Planning (SA510A)

Effect of FAmily CEntered (FACE) Advance Care Planning (ACP) on Families' Appraisals of Caregiving for their Teens with Cancer. (SA510B)

From 'beat cancer' to 'apply to graduate school': How goals evolve during a 12-month period for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs) with a cancer diagnosis (SA510C)

Improving Communication with Long-stay Patients in the Pediatric ICU: A Randomized Controlled Trial (SA510D)

A Sign Off Rounds: A Workflow Innovation to Manage Census and Volume for an Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (SA511A)

The Integrated Care Service: Impact of a Multidisciplinary Supportive Care Service on Hospice Discharge Rates for Medical Oncology Patients in a NCI-Designated Cancer Center (SA511B)

Dancing the WOLST: A Quality Improvement Project on Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Therapies (WOLST) (SA511C)

Training Non-Palliative Care Clinicians in Serious Illness Communication: Results of a Train-the-Trainer Model in Three Health Systems (SA511D)

Case Session (SA512)

Clinical and Socio-demographic profile of hospice admissions: Experience from New Delhi (SA512A) 

At What Cost?: Palliative Care in an Undocumented Patient (SA512B) 

CANCELLED: Palliative Care of a Rwandan Genocide Survivor with Breast Cancer: Considering Culture and Context (SA512C) 

Metastatic Breast Cancer in a Homeless Woman, a Long Road to Treatment (SA512D) 

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)

Breaking the Mold: A Discussion of New Paradigms for Subspecialty Palliative Care Training (SA525)

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)

Shared Decision Making for Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Cancer Pain (SA528A)

Palliative Care Physician Comfort (and Discomfort) with Discussing Prognosis in Hematologic Diseases: Results of a Nationwide Survey (SA528B)

Natural Language Processing to Assess End-of-Life Quality Indicators in Breast Cancer Patients with Leptomeningeal Disease (SA528C)

Patterns of Whole Brain Radiation Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases (SA528D)

Case Session (SA529)

Ethical Challenges After Failed Suicide Attempt and Prior Accidental Spinal Cord Injury (SA529A) 

The Beloved Patient: Learning 'How Far I'll Go' and when to 'Let It Go' (SA529B) 

The Final Sortie for Lieutenant McPhee: Releasing the Demons of Fear and Shame with a Military Volunteer VALOR Ceremony Honoring Combat Veterans at the End-of-Life (SA529C) 

A Protocol for Engaging Pre-Death Dreams as an Opportunity to Address Patient and Caregiver Spiritual Concerns (SA529D) 

2:30 PM

Assembly Adjourns