2018 AAHPM Ascend Schedule

Take a deeper look into the Ascend program and discover what will be learned over the two days of unique education. Learn more about the faculty that will be presenting at Ascend.

Day 1: October 7 - Prepare

4 - 5 pm
Learners - Prepare to Ascend
Arrival & Check-In

5 – 5:15 pm
Your Leadership Journey
Welcome and Overview
Katie Neuendorf, MD

5:15 – 6:15 pm
Tales of Twaddle
Martha Twaddle, MD DC HMDC FACP FAAHPM

As John Dewey says “we do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience”. Dr. Twaddle has had a journey full of grace, mercy, and blessings. She will share insights from her leadership journey including how to anticipate, recognize, and adapt to changes at various career stages and situations.

6:30 – 7:15 pm
Your Leadership Journey (Dinner)
Learners get acquainted, share leadership story and journey, debrief on lessons learned from Martha’s talk.

7:15 – 8:15 pm
Small Group MEETUP1
Learners engage in applied learning through evidence-based literature focused on leadership.

Day 2: October 8 - Inspire

7:15 – 8:15 am
Breakfast / Optional activity – HBR Article Review
Learners can informally connect, reflect and share insights on leadership over coffee and breakfast
OR
Learners can engage in applied learning through evidence-based literature focused on leadership

8:15 – 10:15 am
Putting Theory in to Practice: How to Effectively Engage Your Team
Katie Neuendorf, MD

As a leader, you may have heard of the theories that go into a strong team but felt as though the theories needed a “how-to” manual to put them into practice. In this session, practical tools will be offered to you as you think about enhancing safety and appreciation in your team. Along with practical tools, you will be led in exercises to think through the similarities and differences that exist in talking to patients and families in a clinical context vs talking to your team in a leadership context. Don’t let the interactive fun fool you – your ‘aha moments’ will outnumber the laughs and you'll see why this has been one of the most highly rated sessions we've had for leaders in the Ascend program.

10:15 – 10:30 am
Break

10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Putting Theory in to Practice: How to Effectively Engage Your Team continued...
Katie Neuendorf, MD

12:15– 1:15 pm
Small Group MEETUP2 (Lunch)
Navigators and learners engage in applied learning focused on effective team engagement within the hospice and palliative medicine setting.

1:15 – 3:15 pm
Learning Through Lived Experience: Ways to Navigate AAHPM Leadership Challenges
Todd R. Coté, MD HMDC FAAHPM FAAFP; Drew A. Rosielle, MD FAAHPM; Laura Shoemaker, DO MS; K. Ellissa Tiller, MD CPE FAAHPM; Rodney O. Tucker, MD MMM; Holly Yang, MD MSHPEd HMDC FACP FAAHPM

When AAHPM leadership challenges arise, there are times when it can feel that no one around us understands the demands that we are facing. Sometimes the challenge is not having the capacity to meet an organizational demand. Other times, we question how a team of individuals who skillfully lead patients and families through conflict can be mired in conflict themselves. And yet, we know that other leaders in our field have faced situations that are a kin to our own. In this session, leaders within the field of hospice and palliative medicine will share their stories of challenge as well as the concrete and practical steps they took during those challenges that you can then apply in your world. To enhance the learning, participants will break off in to smaller groups with the leaders and can chose the stories they feel are most relevant.

3:15 – 3:30 pm
Break

3:30 – 5:30 pm
Learning Through Lived Experience: Ways to Navigate AAHPM Leadership Challenges continued…
Todd R. Coté, MD HMDC FAAHPM FAAFP; Drew A. Rosielle, MD FAAHPM; Laura Shoemaker, DO MS; K. Ellissa Tiller, MD CPE FAAHPM; Rodney O. Tucker, MD MMM; Holly Yang, MD MSHPEd HMDC FACP FAAHPM

Day 3: October 9 - Navigate

8:15 – 10:15 am
Leading and Managing Through Change
Darryl Harris

This interactive session combines proven leadership behaviors with practical skills for helping leaders respond to the changes they face in today’s rapidly changing hospice and palliative medicine environment. This program is designed to provide hospice and palliative care leaders with the strategic and tactical skills not only to lead change, but also to identify at what stage their followers are emotionally in a change process. During the session, participants are encouraged to examine their own reactions to change, recognize where their followers are in the change process and develop ideas on how to skillfully lead them through this change. Participants are encouraged to analyze and then apply the strategies and skills that will help their followers develop resiliency for adapting to change as rapidly and effectively as possible.

10:15 – 10:30 am
Break

10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Leading and Managing Through Change continued…
Darryl Harris

12:15 – 12:30 pm
Wrap-Up
Katie Neuendorf, MD

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Small Group MEETUP3 (Lunch)
Navigators and learners engage in applied learning focused on leading and managing through change within the hospice and palliative medicine setting.

1:30 pm
Departure. Safe travels home!