Current Events
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This section aims to include current events from across Upstate New York and beyond. If you wish to post events being held in your area, please contact us.
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2008
December
Dec 4th The "MOLST Program: A Community-wide Approach to Improving
End-of-Life": is an all day conference encompassing the full scope
of the advance care planning process. This conference is being
lead by Dr. Patricia Bomba and hosted by the Lutheran Home and
Rehabilitation Center and Univera HealthCare in Jamestown NY
> A link to soon be attached.
November
Nov 12-13 Community Empowerment Conference - Statewide Symposium
2008, Empowering Communities for Successful Aging: Housing,
Neighborhood Supports and Services, Saratoga, NY. Please
contact John Cochran at ,
or by calling (518) 474-7012.
Nov 11-18 Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education presents
The Program in Palliative Care Education & Practice with a NEW
Pediatric Track to be held at Royal Sonesta Hotel, Boston, MA.
For further information, contact Course Directors by sending an e-mail
to .
Nov 11 MOLST Presentation: Annual Directors Social Work Conference:
NYAHSA, Lake George, NY.
Nov 10 The "MOLST Program: A Community-wide Approach to Improving
End-of-Life": This conference is being lead by Dr. Patricia Bomba
and hosted by Kaleida and Univera Healthcare. The all day
conference encompassing the full scope of the advance care
planning process >Brochure & Registration
October
Oct 28 The "MOLST Program: A Community-wide Approach to Improving
End-of-Life": This conference is being lead by Dr. Patricia Bomba
and hosted by the Southern Tier End-of-Life Coalition & Excellus
BlueCross BlueShield. The all day conference encompasses
the full scope of the advance care planning process
>"Save the Date" Flyer
>Link for Brochure & Registration to be attached soon.
Oct 24 Advance Care Planning (ACP) / Community Conversations on
Compassionate Care (CCCC) Presentation is presented at
t he Episcopal Diocese Convention, Rochester, NY.
Oct 23-25 The State Society on Aging of New York (SSANY) 36th Annual
Conference: Please join your colleagues for this years meeting
entitled, "The Road to the Future: Health Aging & Mental Health".
The meeting is being held at the Gideon Putnam Hotel and
Conference Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. For further
information contact, Janna Hayman at
or (914) 367-3030.
Oct 15 &16 Save the Dates: for Visiting Professor Presentations by Thomas E.
Finucane, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine
and Gerontology, John Hopkins School of Medicine.
15th - "Tube Feeding in Severe Dementia"
16th - "Shall We Stop Your Statin? Facing An Uncertain But
Fatal Prognosis" Medical Grand Rounds, Rochester General
Hospital, Rochester, NY. From 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.,
Twig Auditorium. For further information please contact,
Carolyn Guerrera at, (585) 922-4894.
Oct 17 MOLST Medical Grand Rounds, Lunch and Learn,
St. Joseph's, Elmira, NY.
Oct 13 Senior Presentation: "Aging & Alzheimer's Across the
Health Illness Continuum. St. Louis Church, Pittsford,
NY from 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. For further information
contact, Father Kevin Murphy at (585) 586-5675.
Oct 12-16 The American Association of Homes and Services for the
Aging (AAHSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition: will provide more
than 200 educational sessions addressing today's innovations
and challenges. For registration and further information >view.
Oct 9 MOLST for Patients & Families and Professionals: One of the
educational sessions on the MOLST Program will specifically
apply to patients and families. The second to professionals.
Each will review the importants of the advance care planning
process and how MOLST fits it. Located at the Curtis Museum,
Bath, NY. A link to be attached with further information in the
near future.
Oct 5-7 2008 Distinctively Blue Conference: Located at the
Sheraton Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL.
Oct 1 The Central New York Clinical Variations in End-of-Life Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Associates, Liverpool, NY.
September
Sept 24-25 Collaboration: A Shared Response to Protect Vulnerable Adults.
The 15th Annual New York State Adult Abuse Training Institute.
Sponsored by The New York State Office of Children and
Family Services Bureau of Adult Services and supported by
Bureau of Training. Located at The Desmond Hotel &
Conference Center, Albany, NY.
Sept 19 MOLST Medical Grand Rounds, Bassett Healthcare,
Cooperstown, NY.
Sept 18 EXPLORE Pain Management Conference, Plattsburgh, NY.
For registration and further information please >view.
Sept 15 "The Role of 'Family' in Advance Care Planning," presented by
David J. Doukas, M.D. as part of the City-Wide Ethics/Palliative
Grand Rounds program in Buffalo. The conference will begin
at 8:30am in the University of Buffalo South Campus HSL
basement conference room. Please contact Dr. Jack Freer
at for further information and
details.
Sept 15 MOLST Presentation: Dr. Patricia A. Bomba and
Philip R. Fileri, Esq. will put on a program reviewing the
medical objectives and legal aspects of the MOLST forms.
Sept 10 The Rochester District of the New York Chapter American College
of Physicians: "The Patient Contered Medical Home -
The Premise, Promise and Pitfalls". For further information
please > view. To register please >view
Sept 9-10 MOLST Presentation for Professionals, Lifetime Care
Home Care and Hospice, Rochester, NY.
Sept 9-10 The National Council of Physician & Pharmacist Executives:
"MOLST & End-of-Life Presentation: Located at the
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, Atlanta, GA.
Sept 4-5 The International Federation on Ageing (IFA) World Conference:
"Shaping Tomorrow Today". For further information please
>view.
Sept 4 MOLST for Residents, AHEPA 67, Webster, NY.
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