March 22-25, 2023
Palais des congress de Montréal
(Montréal Convention Centre)
Montréal, Canada
The Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care, presented by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), is a 3-day event that brings together more than 3,400 of your colleagues and peers to share research, clinical best practices, and practice-related guidance to advance the specialty and improve patient care. Use the hashtag, #hapc23 when tweeting about Annual Assembly.
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Virtual Participation
Attending the Annual Assembly virtually, attendees will have access to:
- live streamed keynote sessions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning from Montréal (see schedule for specific times).
- pre-recorded on-demand sessions. Each recording is made available on the virtual platform at the time it is presented in Montréal and will be available through April 30 for all Assembly registrants.
- virtual content-focused homeroom sessions via live webinar 4-4:45 pm ET on Thursday and Friday. Connect in real time with peers and faculty to discuss content and questions from the day’s sessions in a topic area of interest to you.
- virtual poster hall viewing available on-demand on the Assembly virtual platform.
- virtual exhibit hall and job fair through the virtual platform.
- experiences and opportunities to honor losses, celebrate our diversity and honor our shared humanity.
Calls for Proposals
Abstracts for the 2023 Annual Assembly opened June 24 - July 20, 2022, for the summer call (formerly known as the call for concurrent sessions and scientific and quality improvement (QI) papers and posters).
A second call for abstracts opened September 29-October 13, 2022. This call is open specifically to professionals in training or early career hospice and palliative care professionals (formerly known as the call for case study papers and posters and scholar e-posters).
If you have any questions about your proposal, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Annual Assembly Recordings
Share the Annual Assembly with your coworkers and reflect on the education you experienced onsite. Purchase the live audio recordings of the Annual Assembly from Fleetwood from past years. Learn more.
There will be no recording bundles available for purchase from the 2023 Annual Assembly.
Thank You!
Thank you to the countless volunteers for guiding the planning and programming of the Annual Assembly.
2023 Annual Assembly Program Planning Committee Representatives
- Olumuyiwa Adeboye, MD MBA FACP FAAHPM – AAHPM Co-Chair
- Cheryl Ann Thaxton, DNP RN CPNP FNP-BC CHPPN ACHPN FPCN – HPNA Co-Chair
- Richard (Morgan) Bain, MD FAAHPM
- Jennifer Blechman, MD HMDC FAAHPM
- Carrie Cormack, DNP CPNP CHPPN
- Shelli Feder, PhD APRN FNP-C ACHPN
- Debra Fisher, PhD PNP
- Erica L. Frechman, MSN GNP CHPN ANP
- Laura Gelfman, MD MPH FAAHPM
- Stephanie Gilbertson-White, PhD RN APRN
- Janice Linton, DNP APRN ANP-BC CCRN ACHPN
- Emily Martin, MD
- Susan McCammon, MD HMDC FAAHPM FACS
- Kyle Neale, DO
- Priya Pinto, MD FAAHPM
- Gina Piscitello, MD
- Michelle Webb, DNP RN BC-CHPCA
- Jiayun (ja-ing) Xu, PhD RN
2023 Annual Assembly Volunteer Abstract Reviewers
- Kristin Akers, ACHPN APRN
- Katherine Altahif, MD
- Robert Arnold, MD FACP FAAHPM
- C Robert Bennett, NP PNP CPNP
- Olivia Berger, PharmD
- Mollie Biewald, MD
- Kara Bischoff, MD
- Laurence Boggeln, MD FAAHPM
- Elizabeth Broden, RN PhD
- Hannah Bromberg, DO
- Akhilanand Chaurasia
- Alex Choi, MD
- Claudia Chou, MD
- Elizabeth Chuang, MD MPH FAAHPM
- Heather Dalton, MD
- Andra Davis, BSN MN PhD
- Amy Davis, DO MS MACP FAAHPM
- Danielle Decourcey, MD MPH
- Anjali Desai, MD
- Natasha Dhawan, MD
- Nancy Dias, PhD
- Asher Edwards, DO
- Olga Ehrlich, PhD RN CHPN
- Halle Ellison, MD
- Jeanna Ford, APRN SNP ACHPN ACNS FPCN
- Kimberly Frier, APRN DNP FNP ACHPN CNP
- Abby Fuoto, ANP AOCNP
- Stefanie Gingras, CCRP
- Joy Goebel, PhD RN FPCN
- Harry Han
- Susan Hickman, PhD
- Rose Anne Indelicato, ACHPN ANP OCN
- Mary Isaacson, PhD RN CHPN
- Noelle Marie Javier, MD
- Sanaz Kashan, MD FAAHPM
- Vickie Leff, MSW LCSW APHSW-C
- Laurel Lyckholm, MD
- Adam Marks, MD FAAHPM
- Catherine Mauriello, ACHPN ANP CRNP
- Rachna May, MD
- Susan McInnes, MD
- Martina Meier, MD HMDC
- Brian Mikolasko, MD HMDC
- Julie Mitchell, DO
- Terrance Murphy, MD FAAP FAAHPM
- Jason Ngo, MD
- David O'Riordan, PhD MPH
- Juan Pagan-Ferrer, MD
- Julie Palmer-Hoffman, APRN
- James Powers, MD FAAHPM
- Maggie Root, RN MSN CHPPN CPNP
- Renato Samala, MD HMDC FACP MHPE FAAHPM
- Dena Schulman-Green, PhD
- Shilpee Sinha, MBBS FACP FAAHPM
- Brett Snodgrass
- Joan Stanek, RN ANP DNP MSN CHPN
- Stephanie Stephens, DO
- Brandon Varilek, RN PhD CHPN
- Teresa Vente, DO MPH
- Danielle Wallace, BSN
- Jen Yu Wei, DO FAAFP
- Michael Zablow, MD HMDC
2023 Annual Assembly Program Planning Committee Staff
- Stephanie Adams, Education and Learning Manager/Conference Program Lead - AAHPM
- Julie Bruno, MSW LCW, Chief Learning Officer - AAHPM
- Heather Coats, PhD APRN, Director of Research - HPNA
- Leah Farfan, Education and Learning Coordinator/Conference Coordinator - AAHPM
- Theresa Nissen, Education and Learning Coordinator/Conference Coordinator - AAHPM
- Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN, Director of Education and Learning - AAHPM
- Angie Tryfonopoulos, Education and Programming Coordinator/Conference Coordinator - AAHPM
- Candi York, MSN-Ed RN, Director of Education - HPNA