January 2004
January 22-25, 2004, Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, Phoenix, AZ. Co-sponsored by AAHPM and HPNA. FMI contact HPNA, One Penn Center West, Suite 229, Pittsburgh, PA 15276; tele 412-787-9301; Web http://www.hpna.org; e-mail [email protected].
January 29-30, 2004, Adapting Health Care to Serious Chronic Illness in Last Phase of Life: First Learning Session of the 2004 National January-November Medicaring Quality Improvement Collaborative, Dallas, TX. Sponsored by The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Note: Learning sessions are only part of the 10-month collaboration. FMI on the overall program, contact Ekta Chaudhry, telephone 202-895-2634; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.medicaring.org/nc2004.
February 2004
February 6-7, 2004, 6th International Conference on Pain and Chemical Dependency, New York, NY. Sponsored by Beth Israel Medical Center Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care. FMI contact the conference organizer, Lorna Gannon of MediTech Media Conferencing, Inc, 3340 Peachtree Road, Suite 550, Atlanta, GA 30326; telephone 609-275-5030; e-mail [email protected]; http://www.painandchemicaldependency.org.
March 2004
March 17-19, 2004, Fifth Palliative Care Congress, Coventry, England. Sponsored by the Association for Palliative Medicine, the Royal College of Nursing Palliative Nursing Group, and the Palliative Care Research Society. FMI contact Mrs. Heather Enticott, The Palliative Care Congress, 11 Westwood Road, Southampton Hants SO17 1DL, UK; Tel/fax +44 (0)23 8058 2549; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.pccongress.org.uk.
March 23-25, 2004, 5th Clinical Team Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Sponsored by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 625, Alexandria, VA 22314. FMI tele 703-837-1500; Web http://www.nhpco.org.
March 27, 2004, The Great Journey: Death, Dying & Bereavement, Tucson, AZ. Co-sponsored by the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement and Carondelet Hospice, 1802 W St Mary's Road, Tucson, AZ 85745. FMI or a brochure, contact Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, Coordinator for Outreach and Education, telephone 520-205-7569, e-mail [email protected].
April 2004
April 15-17, 2004, Disseminating End-of-Life Education to Cancer Centers (DELEtCC), Pasadena, CA. Sponsored by the City of Hope National Medical Center, Department of Nursing Research and Education, 1550 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010. FMI visit the Web site, http://deletcc.coh.org.
April 25-27, 2004, 14th Annual Provincial Conference on Palliative and End-of-Life Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by Humber College and the Ontario Palliative Care Association. FMI contact Teresa Sottile, Conference Manager, Humber College Corporate & Continuing Education (Rm. NB111), 205 Humber College Blvd., Toronto, ON M9W 5L7; telephone 416-675-6622 ext. 4559; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.palliativecare.humber.ca.
April 27-May 4, 2004, The Program in Palliative Care Education & Practice, Part 1, Boston, MA. Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and the HMS Center for Palliative Care. FMI contact HMS Center for Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders House 606 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114; tele 617-724-9509; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare.
April 29-May 2, 2004, Annual ONS Congress, Anaheim, CA. Sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society, 501 Holiday Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749; 412-921-7373; Web http://www.ons.org.
May 2004
May 1-6, 2004, INS 2004 Annual Meeting and Industrial Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT. Sponsored by the Infusion Nurses Society, 220 Norwood Park South, Norwood, MA 02062. FMI telephone 781-440-9408, Web http://www.ins1.org.
May 6-9, 2004, Annual Joint Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society/Canadian Pain Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Sponsored by APS/CPS. Abstract submission opens October 1; deadline November 17. FMI contact the American Pain Society, 4700 W. Lake Ave, Glenview, IL 60025; telephone 847-375-4715; e-mail info@ampainsoc. org; Web http://www.ampainsoc.org/meeting/.
May 12-15, 2004, Finding Our Voice: The Power of Oncology Social Work, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Association of Oncology Social Work, 1211 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. FMI telephone (215) 599-6093; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.aosw.org/Conference04/call_for_abstracts.html.
June 2004
June 3-6, 2004, Third Research Forum of the European Association for Palliative Care, Stressa Maggiore Lake, Italy. FMI contact EAPC Office, National Cancer Institute, Via G Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy; telephone +39 02-2390-3392; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.eapcnet.org/research2004/.
June 8-10, 2004, Incontro Internationale-Exploring Connections, Palliative Care Nursing Research Conference, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Sponsored by Monash University, Australia, and Kings College, London, UK. FMI contact Margaret O'Connor, Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Nursing, Palliative Care, School of Nursing, Monash University, Peninsula Campus; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.nursingconf.monash.org/.
June 23-27, 2004, Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115; FMI telephone (617) 384-8600; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://cme.med.harvard.edu/
August 2004
August 14-16, 2004, ELNEC Pediatric Palliative Care Training Program, Pasadena, CA. Sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036. FMI tele 202-463-6930; fax 202-785-8320.
September 2004
September 30-October 2, 2004, 19th Management and Leadership Conference, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 625, Alexandria, VA 22314. FMI tele 703-837-1500; Web http://www.nhpco.org.
November 2004
November 10-16, 2004, The Program in Palliative Care Education & Practice, Part 2, Boston, MA. Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and the HMS Center for Palliative Care. FMI contact HMS Center for Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders House 606 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114; tele 617-724-9509; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare.
2005
April 14-16, 2005, Disseminating End-of-Life Education to Cancer Centers (DELEtCC), Pasadena, CA. Sponsored by the City of Hope National Medical Center, Department of Nursing Research and Education, 1550 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010. FMI visit the Web site, http://deletcc.coh.org.
April 28-May 1, 2005, Annual ONS Congress, Orlando, FL. Sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society, 501 Holiday Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749; 412-921-7373; Web http://www.ons.org.
Your contributions to Panorama (news, calendar items, products for review) are welcome. Send them to Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
Editorial Office
10A Beach Street
Portland, ME 04101
fax 207-553-7751
e-mail: [email protected]