Carroll W. Feist Scientific Symposium

Palliative Care: A Shifting Paradigm
Friday, August 10, 2012
LSU Health Shreveport - Main Auditorium

The headline speaker is Charles von Gunten, MD, PhD, Provost at the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Dr. Gunten will discuss implementation of palliative care into the practice of oncology in an effort to highlight the important and evolving relationship between the two disciplines. Several other topics will be presented by speakers from departments across LSU Health Shreveport.  

Earn up to 5.00 AMA PRA continuing education credits at no cost August 10 if employed at LSU Health Shreveport. Credits are available for physicians, nurses, social workers and other health care professionals. Register at the CME office with this brochure.

This program directed by Jay Marion, MD takes place in the LSU Health Shreveport Main Auditorium and is available to all health care workers at no cost.

Scientific Program

8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:40 Welcome
Glenn M. Mills, MD, FACP
Director, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center

8:40-9:25   Can Less Really Be More? The Added Value of Early Palliative Care
Jay Marion, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, LSU Health Shreveport
Palliative Care Program Director at Feist-Weiller Cancer Center

9:25-10:25   Integration of Palliative Care into the Practice of Oncology: Implementation
Charles von Gunten, MD, PhD
Provost
The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Palliative Medicine

10:25-10:40   Break

10:40-11:20   Interventional Management of Cancer Pain
Charles Roberts, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport,
Director of Interventional Pain Clinic and Pain Fellowship

11:20-12:00   Recent Advances in Palliative Radiotherapy
Federico Ampil, MD
Professor of Radiology, LSU Health Shreveport
Radiation Oncology

12:00-12:30 Lunch

12:30-1:00   The Pharmacist’s Role in a Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Service
Gary Jean, Pharm D
Hematology/Oncology Clinical Pharmacist, LSU Health Shreveport

1:00-1:30   Pain Management; The Nurse’s Perspective
Diana Schimberg, RN
Pain Service Coordinator, LSU Health Shreveport

1:30-2:00   Recognizing and Responding to Spiritual Distress
Jeremy Caudill, ThM
Hospice, and U.S. Air Force Chaplain

2:00-2:30   Panel Discussion/Closing Remarks

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