Palliative Education Evening Presentations
Spring – March 21, 2024
Presentation:
Dr. Samantha Winemaker, MD & Dr. Hsien Seow, PhD
Helping Patients Face a Serious Illness: 7 Keys to Improve the
Patient and Provider Experience
7 Keys to make it easier to talk about serious illness, dying, and death.
Drs. Winemaker and Seow are authors of the new book ‘Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest’ and co-hosts of the podcast ‘The Waiting Room Revolution,’ which are designed to make a palliative care approach accessible to all patients and families. Based on researching and caring for thousands of patients, they will share 7 keys that can activate patients, families, and providers to have a better illness journey. They will discuss how providers can use the 7 keys to be more proactive and less crisis-driven, by working more upstream and patient-facing.
Fall – September 27, 2023
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Distinguished Professor
Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
University of Manitoba
Dignity and Intensive Caring: The Human Side of Palliative Care
This talk will provide an overview of how understanding dignity can inform person-centred palliative care. Various empirically based tools will be outlined, which have been shown to enhance end-of-life experience for patients and their families; while also improving healthcare provider job satisfaction for those employing dignity-conserving strategies. The construct of Intensive Caring will also be reviewed, offering clinicians ways of understanding, being with and responding to the enormity of human suffering.
Spring – March 21, 2023
Keynote Address:
A Strained Healthcare System: Leveraging Systems Thinking, Ownership, and Quality Improvement to Improve Palliative Care Access
Dr. José Pereira
Professor Catedratico, Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra, Spain; Professor, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University; Cofounder/Scientific Advisor, Pallium Canada
Access to palliative care across Canada is best described as a patchwork, with areas of excellence and opportunities for improvement. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted areas for improvement and an opportunity to redesign. It has emphasized the need for systems thinking and that palliative care is everyone’s responsibility. This presentation will explore these topics, drawing on examples in the Waterloo Wellington area and elsewhere.
Breakout Presentations:
- Adult Clinical Presentation – An Introduction to the Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Rachael Halligan
MD, CCFP, FCFP
This presentation will provide participants with:
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- an understanding of the need for and rationale for a systematic approach to improving conversations about patient values, priorities and goals while living with serious illness.
- a brief overview of the structure and components of the Serious Illness Guide
- an eagerness to learn more about the role each of us can play in providing “more, better and earlier conversations” with those living with serious illness.
- Adult General Presentation – The Basics of Palliative Spiritual Care
Gord Alton
Div RP Supervisor-Educator (CASC); Spiritual
Care Provider, Lisaard & Innisfree Hospice and HCCSS.
In the ministry of palliative care, many clients/patients struggle with conflicting thoughts, feelings, and longings related to their illness and the reality of dying. Spiritual care involves creating a safe place where these soul dynamics can be explored, bringing about understanding, comfort, and inner peace. This presentation will explore how we can develop a safe therapeutic relationship with the people we visit so that we can help clients find meaning and hope, hold their anxieties and fears, and explore their feelings in a non-judgemental way. As we do so, this allows for greater understanding and the dynamics of the sacred to emerge in our client’s experience.
- Paediatric Presentation – Grief and Children: Tips and Tricks for Providers
Gregorio Zúñiga
Assistant Professor, Div.Pediatric Palliative Medicine, McMaster University
This presentation will cover how children and parents grieve the loss of a child. We will explore practical approaches and how to support them before, during and after death.
Fall – September 8, 2022
Keynote Address:
Rooted in Wisdom: Bending not Breaking
Aboriginal Perspectives on the Stages of Life
Clarence Cachagee
Founder, Crow Shield Lodge
www.crowshieldlodge.com/
Music Therapy in the Transitional Space Between Life and Death
Lydia Penner
Counsellor & Music Therapist
Hospice Waterloo Region
Micro-Approaches to Self-Care
Trish Heyes
Client Services Lead
Hospice Wellington
Spring – March 24, 2020
Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19
Fall – November 20, 2019
Managing Change in Turbulent Times
Dr. Nick Bontis
Award-Winning Professor of Strategy
McMaster University
www.NickBontis.com
Spring – March 20, 2019
Safe Use of Opioids
Andrea Furlan, MD, PhD, Physiatry
Institute for Work & Health
Supporting Children Experiencing the Death of a Loved One
Dave Lysecki, MD, FRCPC
Tracy Akitt, Certified Child Life Specialist
McMaster Children’s Hospital
Palliative Care in Homeless and Vulnerable Populations: Relationship-Based Nursing Care
Karen Simpson, NP
Fall – November 22, 2018
The Power of Kindness in Palliative Care
Dr. Brian Goldman, MD
doctorbriangoldman.com
Spring – March 8, 2018
Navigating Challenging Conversations
Dr. Jeff Myers, MD, MSEd, CCFP(PC)
Sinai Health System
Paediatric Palliative Care: You can care for these patients; Project ECHO can help!
Dr. Adam Rapoport, MD, FRCP(C), MHSc
The Hospital for Sick Children
Approach to Advanced Heart Failure at End of Life
Dr. Leah Steinberg, MD, MA, CFC
Sinai Health System
Navigating Challenging Conversations: Practical Applications
Dr. Jeff Myers, MD, MSEd, CCFP(PC)
Sinai Health System
Fall – November 22, 2017
Cannabinoid Therapies: What’s all the Buzz About?
Dr. Vincent Maida
vincent.maida@utoronto.ca
http://www.vincentmaida.com; http://drvincentmaida.wordpress.com
Article: A User’s Guide to Cannabinoid Therapies in Oncology
Grief Matters
Rachelle McGuire, MA CT
Kemp Hospice
Spring – March 23, 2017
The Problem with Polysemy
Joshua Shadd, MD, MClSc, CCFP
Palliative Care Physician, Hamilton Health Sciences; Director, Division of Palliative Care; Asst. Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine
Hamilton Health Sciences
MAID and the Waterloo Wellington Response
Waterloo Wellington Regional MAID Working Group
Waterloo Wellington Response
Palliative Care for the LGBTQ Community
Cait Glasson, SPECTRUM’s Aging with Pride Committee; Barb Jones, RSW MSW, Clinical Social Worker, Hospice of Waterloo Region
Spectrum
Pediatric Palliative Care: An Inpatient Oncology Perspective
Paula MacDonald, BScPhm
Clinical Pharmacist, Paediatrics Hematology/Oncology
McMaster Children’s Hospital
November 17, 2016 – Late-Stage Dementia: Providing Comfort, Compassion and Care – New Dimensions
Dr. Michael Gordon
Geriatrician, Ethicist, Educator, Speaker, Author
https://www.drmichaelgordon.ca/
