Wednesday, March 22

8am - 5:30pm
(P01) Hospice Medical Director Update and Exam Prep

8am - 12pm
(P02) ACTION: Anti-Racism Conversations and Thoughts In Our Neighborhoods

8am - 12pm
(P03) Hospice Audits

8am - 12pm
(P04) Billing and Coding Updates: Changes in Hospice and Palliative Care Practice

1 - 5:30pm
(P05)This has Become Acutely Serious: Tackling Opioid Use Disorder in Serious Illness in Acute Care Settings (SPPCP Clinical Workshop)

1 - 5:30pm
(P06) Maximizing Palliative Care Documentation through EPIC

1 - 5:30pm
(P07) Assessment in HPM Fellowship Training: Updates from the Assessment Workgroup

Thursday, March 23

8:15 - 8:45am
Introductions and HPNA Award Presentations

8:45 - 9:45am
Gregg Bell Keynote

Friday, March 24

8:15 - 8:45am
Introductions and AAHPM Award Presentations

8:45 - 9:45am
Bogetz Lectureship: Integrating Core Mental Health Competencies - A Growth Edge in Hospice and Palliative Care

Saturday, March 25

8:15 - 8:30am
Introductions & Convocation of Fellows

8:30 - 9:30am
Research Plenary: High Impact Hospice and Palliative Care Articles of 2022

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(INV107) Just in Time: Title coming soon
AAHPM Invited Session

2:30 - 3:30pm
(INV124) Nessa Coyle Leadership: The Unheard Voices of Everyday Leaders
Mansara I. Hassan, MSN, APRN, AGNP-C
HPNA Invited Session

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(INV207) Just in Time - Title coming soon
AAHPM Invited Session

2:30 - 3:30pm
(INV224) Coping with the Unexpected: Supporting Families as a Team From Pregnancy Through the Lifespan
Carrie L. Cormack, DNP, APRN, CPNP
HPNA Invited Session

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(INV307) Upstander Training: Bystander Empowerment Workshop
Lynn O'Neill, MD, MS, FAAHPM and Herrick (Cricket) Fisher, MD MPHIL
AAHPM Invited Session

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(TH104A) An Evidence-Based Approach to Ventilator Withdrawal at the End of Life

(TH104B) LiverPal: A Novel Program to Meet the Multidimensional Palliative Care Needs of Hospitalized Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease (ESLD) and Their Caregivers

(TH109A) A Journey Worth Taking Together: Our Experience Starting an Ambulatory Palliative Clinic to Care for Patients with Cancer and Substance Misuse/Use Disorders

(TH109B) Together is Better: A Combined Palliative Care and Psychiatry Substance Use Disorder Clinic for Patients with Advanced Cancer

1 - 2pm
(TH113A) We Need Help!: Reflections From an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service

(TH113B) Implementing Community-Based Supportive Oncology Through the Collaborative Care Model

(TH117A) “Person First” Care: Reducing Disparities and Promoting Quality of Life for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD)

(TH117B) Close Friends Don’t Count: Overcoming Obstacles to Provide Palliative Care to People Living with Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay

2:30 - 3:30pm
(TH121A) The Geriatrics Surgery Verification Program and The Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative: Coupling Two Programs to Improve Advanced Care Planning for Older Veterans Undergoing Surgery

(TH121B) The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges

(TH126A) Exploring Differences, Not Deficits in Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Serious Illness

(TH126B) Bridging the Gap from Caring For to Caring About: The Role of Art Therapy to Enhance Palliative Care of an Incarcerated Patient Dying in the Hospital

4 - 4:45pm
(HR130) Clinical Homeroom

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(FR204A) The Virulence of Grief: The Challenge of Bereavement Overload During and After the Pandemic

(FR204B) A Practical Framework for Serious Illness Communication Developed in a Mistrust Pressure Cooker: Lessons from a COVID Intensive Care Unit in Brazil

(FR209A) It Begins At Home —Addressing Inequity Within Palliative Care Teams

(FR209B) Of the people, by the people, for the people: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care through Community Partnership

1 - 2pm
(FR213A) Life After Death? Posthumous Reproduction: Ethical, Legal and Communication Considerations for Palliative Care Providers

(FR213B) Collaborating for Compassion: The Development of Family-Centered Communication Protocols Surrounding Potential Organ Donation

(FR217A) Speed Dating with the Pharmacy Ladies: tips and tricks s’il vous plaît

(FR217B) New Drugs and Drug News of 2022

2:30 - 3:30pm

(FR221A) Looking Within, Together: Optimizing Interdisciplinary Team Meetings with Key Psychodynamic Concepts

(FR221B) Integrating Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Into a Bereavement Program for Complicated Grief and Bereavement

(FR226A) A Case-Based Approach to Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST)

(FR226B) Intrathecal Drug Delivery System (IDDS) for Treatment of Cancer Pain

4 - 4:45pm
(HR230) Clinical Homeroom

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(SA304A) We Must Express Our Faith! The Impact of Religious Faith On Decision-making in Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care

(SA304B) Changing the Clinical Culture of Serious Illness Communication & Care

(SA309A) Buprenorphine for Pain Management in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease from Infancy to Adulthood

(SA309B) Intrathecal Targeted Drug Delivery (ITDD) in Patients with Pain Related to Advanced Cancer

11:30am - 12:30pm
(SA313A) The Power of Language; Linking Word Choice to Inequity and Outcomes

(SA313B) Growth Mindset: Implementing Palliative Care in the Phase I Clinical Trial Setting

(SA317A) Project Respect: LGBTQ+ Experiences with Healthcare Providers for Serious Illness

(SA317B) Atheism, Concealable Stigmatized Identities, and Spiritual Inclusivity

Wednesday, March 22

8am - 12pm
(P02) ACTION: Anti-Racism Conversations and Thoughts In Our Neighborhoods

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(TH103B) Equity Issues and Opportunities with Federal Advance Care Planning Policy

(TH105B) The Context, Barriers, and Facilitators of Informal Advance Care Planning (IACP) in Black People with Kidney Failure

(TH105D) Differences Between Chinese Americans (CA) and Non-Chinese Americans (NCA) in Dialysis Initiation Decision Making

1 - 2pm
(TH112B) Impact of Workforce Interprofessional Education and Telehealth Training on Care Plans and Financial Outcomes of Nevada Frail Older Adults

(TH114B) Translation and Validation of the Chichewa Patient-Reported Outcome-CECAE Tool to Measure Treatment-Related Adverse Events Among Adolescent and Young Adult Lymphoma Patients in Malawi

(TH117A) “Person First” Care: Reducing Disparities and Promoting Quality of Life for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD)

(TH117B) Close Friends Don’t Count: Overcoming Obstacles to Provide Palliative Care to People Living with Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay

2:30 - 3:30pm
(TH120B)  Partners in Healing: Fostering Dialogues Between Medical Fellows & Chaplain Residents About The Role Of Spirituality In Health Care

(TH121A) The Geriatrics Surgery Verification Program and The Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative: Coupling Two Programs to Improve Advanced Care Planning for Older Veterans Undergoing Surgery

(TH122A) The Health Care Experience of Black Patients with Serious Illness in the United States: A Scoping Review

(TH122B) Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer

(TH122C)  Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care

(TH122D) Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations at End-of-Life Among Historically Marginalized Residents in Nursing Homes Nationwide

(TH125B) Development of a “Wawokiya” Palliative Care Community Health Worker Training Program for Great Plains American Indians with Cancer

(TH126A) Exploring Differences, Not Deficits in Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Serious Illness

4 - 4:45pm
(HR133) DEI Homeroom

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(FR202A) Hospice Quality, Race, and Disenrollment in Hospice Enrollees with Dementia

(FR203A) Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves

(FR203B) Upstander (+): A Clinical Team Leader’s Guide for Responding to Discrimination

(FR204B) A Practical Framework for Serious Illness Communication Developed in a Mistrust Pressure Cooker: Lessons from a COVID Intensive Care Unit in Brazil

(FR209A) It Begins At Home —Addressing Inequity Within Palliative Care Teams

(FR209B) Of The People, By The People, For The People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership

1 - 2pm
(FR212B) Educating Clinician Researchers to Employ Community-Informed Recruitment Methods to Enhance Clinical Trial Participation by Black and Rural Patients

(FR214B) A Pilot Study of a Social Work Intervention to Provide Palliative Care for Older Adults with Cancer in Skilled Nursing Facilities

2:30 - 3:30pm
(FR225A) Bringing Fellowship Training Into the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Development and Implementation of an HPM Fellowship Antiracism Curriculum

4 - 4:45pm
(HR133) DEI Homeroom

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(SA304A) We Must Express Our Faith! The Impact of Religious Faith On Decision-making in Serious Illness and End of Life Care

(SA305A) Engaging Seriously Ill and Vulnerable Older Adults in a Nurse-Led Telephonic Intervention: The Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access Trial (EMPallA)

(SA305B) Population Diversity Correlated to Increased County-Level Access to Palliative Care Services for Rural Communities

(INV307) Upstander Training: Bystander Empowerment Workshop

(SA308A) Become an Accomplished JEDI: Secrets of Getting Your Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Journal Article Published

11:30am - 12:30pm
(SA313A) The Power of Language; Linking Word Choice to Inequity and Outcomes

(SA314B) Spousal Loneliness, Depression, and Closeness Among Older Adults Married to Persons with Dementia: A Nationally-Representative Study

(SA316A) Using Human-Centered Design to Collaboratively Develop a Hospice-Focused Educational Intervention for Black Lay Ministers

(SA317A) Project Respect: LGBTQ+ Experiences with Healthcare Providers for Serious Illness

(SA317B) Atheism, Concealable Stigmatized Identities, and Spiritual Inclusivity

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(TH102A) Successful Outcomes for High-Acuity Hospice Patients at Home

(TH102B) Houston, we have a solution! What you need to know about the VBID Benefit Hospice Component Pilot

1 - 2pm
(TH111A) US Hospice "Leave the Room" Policies: Ethical Challenge to Nursing Commitments

(TH111B) The Conundrum of High-Flow Oxygen on Hospital Discharge to Home Hospice

2:30 - 3:30pm
(TH119A) They Graduated Early!! When Graduation is A Bad Thing. Current Approaches to Hospice Revocation

(TH119B) Empowering Transplant Patients at End of Life

4 - 4:45pm
(HR128) Hospice Homeroom

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(FR202A) Hospice Quality, Race, and Disenrollment in Hospice Enrollees with Dementia

(FR202B) Clinical Applications of Hospice Music Therapy: Case Study Exploration

1 - 2pm
(FR211) Hospice Medicine Council (Invited Session)

2:30 - 3:30pm
(FR219A) The Impact of a 2-Hour End-of-Life Educational Intervention on Bedside Nurse Self-Efficacy, Knowledge, and Clinical Practice

(FR219B) Death Rattle: Intervene or Let it Be

4 - 4:45pm
(HR228) Hospice Homeroom

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(SA302A) Challenges in recruitment and processing hospice patients for research

(SA302B) Managing Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation and Venous Thromboembolism on Hospice

11:30am - 12:30pm
(SA311A) An Innovative Approach to Hospice Care for People Experiencing Homelessness.

(SA311B) Is there a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(TH103A) Leading for Wellbeing

(TH103B) Equity Issues and Opportunities with Federal Advance Care Planning Policy

(TH108A) To Create or Not To Create: How to Establish a System-Wide Proportionate Palliative Sedation Guideline Through Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Collaboration

(TH108B) Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows’ Clinical Discussions, Perceived Knowledge, and Formal Training Regarding Medical Cannabis Use: A National Survey Study

1 - 2pm
(TH112A) Advancing Palliative Care Through Medicaid

(TH112B) Impact of Workforce Interprofessional Education and Telehealth Training on Care Plans and Financial Outcomes of Nevada Frail Older Adults

(TH116A) A Part-Time, Competency-Based Fellowship for Mid-Career Physicians: Challenges, Opportunities, Lessons Learned, and Next Steps

(TH116B) When Opposites Attract: The Development and Implementation of a Hybrid ICU & Palliative Care Rotation for Internal Medicine Residents

2:30 - 3:30pm
(TH120A) Upstreaming Palliative Care: Emergency Department Opportunities

(TH120B) Partners in Healing: Fostering Dialogues Between Medical Fellows & Chaplain Residents About The Role Of Spirituality In Health Care

(TH125A) #Friendtorship: Cultivating Peer Mentor Relationships in Hospice and Palliative Medicine

(TH125B) Development of a “Wawokiya” Palliative Care Community Health Worker Training Program for Great Plains American Indians with Cancer

4 - 4:45pm
(HR129) Leadership/Education Homeroom

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(FR203A) Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves

(FR203B) Upstander (+): A Clinical Team Leader’s Guide for Responding to Discrimination

(FR208A) The HPM Billing Boys Belt Bob Dylan: 2023 Billing Rules are A-Changin’

(FR208B) Business Thinking in Palliative Care

1 - 2pm
(FR212A) Using the Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit to improve your advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice messaging

(FR212B) Educating Clinician Researchers to Employ Community-Informed Recruitment Methods to Enhance Clinical Trial Participation by Black and Rural Patients

(FR216A) The Palliative Care Education Curriculum - A Novel Collaboration Between Palliative Care Educators and Training Programs to Create Customized Palliative Care Education Curriculum Custom-Made for Individual Programs

(FR216B) Empowering Future Clinicians with Palliative Care Skills: Lessons From a Statewide Medical School Collaborative

2:30 - 3:30pm
(FR220A) Hearing Their Voice: Advance Care Planning for People Experiencing Homelessness

(FR220B) Tapping into the Wisdom Within: The Application of Coaching Skills to Optimize the Experience of Providers, Patients and Learners in Palliative Care

(FR225A) Bringing Fellowship Training Into the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Development and Implementation of an HPM Fellowship Antiracism Curriculum

(FR225B) The Case-Stimulated Review: An Innovative Tool for Assessment of Clinical and Management Reasoning

4 - 4:45pm
(HR229) Leadership/Education Homeroom

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(SA303A) Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science

(SA303B) Words Matter: Words and Phrases That Make Us Cringe

(SA308A) Become an Accomplished JEDI: Secrets of Getting Your Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Journal Article Published

(SA308B) Bringing It Home: Providing Seamless Interdisciplinary Care via an Innovative Palliative Care Delivery Model

11:30am - 12:30pm
(SA312A) Kidney SCHOLAR Teams: A Collaboration to Improve Palliative Care for New York City Patients with Kidney Disease

(SA312B) Careers in Science: A Panel of Early Career PhDs in Palliative Care Research

(SA316A) Using Human-Centered Design to Collaboratively Develop a Hospice-Focused Educational Intervention for Black Lay Ministers

(SA316B) Creation of A Clinician-Reported Experience Measure of Organizational and Team Compassion in Palliative Care

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(TH101A) Such a lovely family: How we talk about and to patient families

(TH101B) Embracing Uncertainty: The Role of Narrative in Decision-Making for Children with Medical Complexity

1 - 2pm
(TH110A) From Resistance to Resilience: Reflective Practice Strategies to Enhance Trauma-Informed Care

(TH110B) A Seat at the Table: Professional Competencies Define Roles and Value of Psychologists in Pediatric Palliative Care

2:30 - 3:30pm
(TH118A) Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Pediatric Palliative Care: New Tools for Hope and Healing

(TH118B) Pediatric Telehospice: Program Development, Implementation, and Lessons Learned

4 - 4:45pm
(HR127) Pediatrics Homeroom

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(FR201A) An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative

(FR201B) Creating a “Journey Map” for Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment: a Collaboration Between Private and Academic Pediatric Palliative Care, Non-Profit Organizations, and Parents

1 - 2pm
(FR210A) Yesterday a Child, Today a Grown-Up: Reflections on the Patient, Family and Team Experience of an Abrupt, Non-Linear Transition from Pediatric to Adult Medicine for Young Adults with Serious Illness

(FR210B) Expert Advice on Prognosis and Advanced Interventions for Children with Skeletal Dysplasias – Part 2

2:30 - 3:30pm
(FR218A) Agitation and Feeding Intolerance in Children with Medical Complexity

(FR218B) Palliative Care Pediatricians’ Perspectives on Palliative Care in Pediatric Surgical Patients

4 - 4:45pm
(HR227) Pediatrics Homeroom

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(SA301A) AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science

(SA301B) Colleague Agitation in Pediatric Palliative Sedation: A Call to Action for National Protocolization

11:30am - 12:30pm
(SA310A) The Growing Use of Ventricular Assist Devices in Children: Addressing Evolving Challenges with a Multidisciplinary Collaboration Between Palliative Care and Heart Failure

(SA310B) The Value of Perinatal Palliative Care for Infants with Trisomy 18 and Congenital Heart Disease

Poster session track will be filled with content from the Fall Call for Abstracts.

Thursday, March 23

10:30 - 11:30am
(TH105A) Family Caregiver Roles and Challenges in Supporting Patients with Cancer Treatment Decision-Making: Analysis of Data From a National Survey

(TH105B) The Context, Barriers, and Facilitators of Informal Advance Care Planning (IACP) in Black People with Kidney Failure

(TH105C) Making Advance Care Planning Routine for People with Serious Illness: The Results of a Cluster Randomized Trial in Primary Care Practices in the US and Canada

(TH105D) Differences between Chinese Americans (CA) and Non-Chinese Americans (nCA) in Dialysis Initiation Decision Making

1 - 2pm
(TH114A) The Effect of Child Maltreatment on Caregiving for a Parent at End of Life

(TH114B) Translation and Validation of the Chichewa Patient-Reported Outcome-CECAE Tool to Measure Treatment-Related Adverse Events Among Adolescent and Young Adult Lymphoma Patients in Malawi

(TH114C) The Process and Impact of a Stakeholder-Driven Serious Illness Communication Program for Advance Care Planning in AYAs and Parents of Children with Serious Illness

(TH114D) Fetal Outcomes & Continuity in Perinatal Palliative Care Patients at a Quaternary Care Pediatric Hospital

2:30 - 3:30pm
(TH122A) The Health Care Experience of Black Patients with Serious Illness in the United States: A Scoping Review

(TH122B) Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer

(TH122C) Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care(

TH122D) Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations at End-of-Life Among Historically Marginalized Residents in Nursing Homes Nationwide

4 - 4:45pm
(HR131) Scientific, QI, and Research Homeroom

Friday, March 24

10:30 - 11:30am
(FR205A) Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients

(FR205B) Prevalence and Characteristics of Substance Use Disorders Among U.S. Cancer Survivors(

FR205C) Improving Quality of Family Meetings in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

(FR205D) Demystifying Limited Code: Standardizing Resuscitation Options in a Large Healthcare System

1 - 2pm
(FR214A) Palliative Care Needs of Community-Dwelling Adults with Heart Failure and Physical Frailty

(FR214B) A Pilot Study of a Social Work Intervention to Provide Palliative Care for Older Adults with Cancer in Skilled Nursing Facilities

(FR214C) Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports

(FR214D) Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration

2:30 - 3:30pm
(FR221A) “Little Seeds of Information” – Perspectives from Home Health Aides and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC) Community Hospice Partners to Address Information Needs related to COVID-19 Vaccination

(FR221B) An Examination of Medication Utilization During Medicare Hospice Election: A National Study

(FR221C) Implementing Aliviado Dementia Care in a 25-Site Pragmatic Trial: Lessons for Performing Interventional Research in Hospice

(FR221D) Who Gets Hospice Visits at the End of Life: A Look at Medicare's Hospice Service Intensity Add-on Policy

4 - 4:45pm
(HR231) Scientific, QI, and Research Homeroom

Saturday, March 25

10 - 11am
(SA305A) Engaging Seriously Ill and Vulnerable Older Adults in a Nurse-Led Telephonic Intervention: The Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access Trial (EMPallA)

(SA305B) Population Diversity Correlated to Increased County-Level Access to Palliative Care Services for Rural Communities

(SA305C) Starting the Conversation: Early Initiation of Goals of Care (GOC) May Reduce Inpatient Mortality

(SA305D) Perceptions of Palliative Care Program Viability During the Pandemic

11:30am - 12:30pm
(SA314A) Drainage Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Advanced Cancer: Patient Expectations and Decisional Regret

(SA314B) Spousal Loneliness, Depression, and Closeness Among Older Adults Married to Persons with Dementia: a Nationally Representative Study

(SA314C) Triggered Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation (TIPCC) for Patients with Gynecologic Malignancy

(SA314D) Oncology Hospitalists: Hospice Utilization on an Inpatient Medical Oncology Service

Poster session track will be filled with content from the Fall Call for Abstracts.