The Collective Soul SymposiumCreating Healing Environments for Patients with Advanced Illness and Their Caregivers

January 30, 2015, 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.January 31, 2015, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine

& Institute for Spirituality and Health present:

FourthAnnual

MD Anderson Onstead Auditorium Mitchell Building

CostPostmarked by 1/17/2015.......... $99.00Postmarked after 1/17/2015...... $149.00

Certificate will be awarded CNENursing Continuing Education credit will be provided.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

GoalThis advanced course will provide a better understanding of the palliative care team’s role in relieving biopsychosocial and spiritual suffering.

AudienceChaplains, ministers, clergy, spiritual care counselors, nurses, and social workers as well as other health care professionals delivering spiritual care in the community and in healthcare facilities.

For information: 713-794-1887 or e-mail: dcuello@mdanderson.org

Keynote Speaker:Tracy Balboni, MD, MPHDana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center

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• Registration and Breakfast• Welcome• Invocation/Blessings• The Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team (“The Collective Soul”):

Decreasing Suffering and Improving Quality of Life of Patients with Advanced Illness and their Caregivers

• Ethical Issues Dealing with Patients with Advanced and Terminal Illness and their Caregivers

• Break• Introduction of the Steve Thorney Award Lecture to Tracy Balboni MD The 2015 Steve Thorney Lecture in Spiritual Care Embracing Spirituality within Our Care of Patients with Advanced Illness • Counting Blessings Everyday ... Living the Experience of being Part

of the Palliative Care Team• Lunch and Music Performance• Walking Step by Step with our Patients and their Caregivers to

Regain Control in their Lives• The Role of Spiritual Care Providers in the Community, Helping Patients

with Advanced and Terminal Illness and Their Caregivers• G Rated ... the Care of Kids with Parents with Advanced and Terminal Illness• Break• A Touch of Compassion, Hope and Peace to the Life of Patients with

Advanced Illness and their Loved Ones• A Melody for your Soul. Music Therapy for Patients with Advanced

and Terminal Illness• Reception with Houston’s Orchestra on Call

• Registration and Breakfast

• Welcome: Remarks of the day• Invocation/Blessings: Sound Sisters• Delivering Spiritual Care to Patients with Advanced and Terminal

Dementia and their Caregivers• Cultural and Spiritual Perspectives of Death• Unspoken Stories: Healing through Art Therapy • Break• Spiritual Intimacy and Compassionate Love of Couples Living the

Experience of Advanced Illness• Self-Care and Coping Strategies of Health Teams When Treating Patients

with Advanced Diseases and their Families • Adjourn, Evaluation

Martha Aschenbrenner, MA, LPCSr. Counseling AssociateDepartment of Palliative Care and RehabilitationKaren Baumgartner APRNAdvanced Practice Registered NurseDepartment of Palliative Care and RehabilitationEduardo Bruera MDProfessor and ChairDepartment of Palliative Care and RehabilitationJose Cedillo MDivManager, Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education, Department of Chaplaincy & Pastoral Education Luke Coulson LCSW Social Worker Counselor, Department of Social WorkMaxine De la Cruz MDAssistant Professor Department of Palliative Care and RehabilitationMarvin Omar Delgado Guay MD (chair)Assistant Professor Department of Palliative Care and RehabilitationAndrea Ferguson MDiv, MAChaplain II, Department of Chaplaincy & Pastoral Education Carolyn Holmes APRNAdvanced Practice Registered NurseDepartment of Palliative Care and RehabilitationMacklyn Ivy MS, OTRSr. Occupational TherapistDepartment Rehab/Occupational TherapyLindsey Pimentel RNClinical Nurse, Outpatient, Supportive Care CenterDepartment of Palliative Care and RehabilitationLynn Randolph Artist, Department of Palliative Care and RehabilitationMichael Richardson, MT-BCMusic Therapist Integrative Medicine ProgramSteve Thorney MDiv, BCC RetiredPalliative Care Chaplain

MD Anderson Speakers:

Guest Speakers: Rev. Betty Adam, Ph.DResident Canon Theologian Christ Church CathedralRev. Carla Cheatham Ph.DChaplain, Heart to Heart Hospice, Austin TXLex GillanYoga Instructor, Institute of Spirituality and HealthJohn Graham MD, DMinInstitute of Spirituality and HealthSusan McCollomDirector of Employee Enrichment ProgramsInstitute of Spirituality and Health Cletus Udoh MDivChaplain, Spiritual Care Department, Lyndon B Johnson General Hospital

Tracy A. Balboni MD, MPH - KeynoteAssociate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School Assistant Residency Director, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program Director, Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service Department of Radiation OncologyDepartment of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative CareDana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center

To register: www.mdanderson.org/conferencesFor more information contact Deanna Cuello: 713-794-1887Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine

All statements and opinions presented are solely those of the individual speakers and may not reflect those of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Friday, January 30, 2015

Saturday, January 31, 2015