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On October 6th & 7th of 2022, the Inaugural Statewide Palliative Care Conference was held at U Maine's Hutchinson Center in Belfast. This well attended event was a collaborative project between the Maine Hospice Council and the Palliative Care & Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council.
After conducting several 'Listening Sessions' across Maine, the Maine Hospice Council & the Palliative Care & Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council saw the benefit of this educational opportunity.
The following videos are provided to extend the information further.
In this section you can access individual conference breakout sessions. These files include presentation slides that follow along with the audio recordings of the workshop.
In this area you can access the videos of the conference keynote presentations.
This section contains several of the PowerPoint presentations for conference keynote and breakout sessions
To Open Presentation Slides, Click on Title
- “What is Palliative Care? Finding the Right Message”; Presented by Lauren Michalakes, MD, MPH and Jane Conrad, JD
- "Spirituality: Identifying and Addressing the Powerful Domain of Palliative Care"; Presented by Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, MA, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN, Professor & Director City of Hope National Medical Center Division of Nursing Research and Education, Duarte, CA
- "Palliative Care 101: Dyspnea"; Presented by Elise Reid, MD; Marie McIntee, DO; Maine Medical Center HPM Fellows
During this year's Inaugural Statewide Palliative Care Conference, it was the distinct pleasure of the conference planning committee to honor Pat Eye for her long-standing dedication to the care of Maine Families.
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