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Dr. Daniel Friedland – 2019 Palliative Care Symposium Keynote Speaker Announced

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Dan FriedlandDr. Daniel Friedland to Deliver Opening Keynote at 2019 National Palliative Care Symposium

Annual Event Focused on Advancing Palliative Care Teaching, Research, is Set for Oct. 11-12 in San Diego

The National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research is thrilled to announce that author, physician, and leadership and resiliency expert Daniel Friedland, MD, will deliver the opening keynote at this year’s Symposium, Oct. 11-12, in San Diego.

Hosted by the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care, the Symposium draws scholars, educators, researchers, and clinicians from across the country to collaborate and share the latest evidence and strategies for improving care for patients and families experiencing serious or life-limiting illness.

The theme of the 2019 Symposium is “Advancing Palliative Care: Leading Into the Future.”

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2019 Palliative Care Symposium Announced

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Symposium Participants2019 National Palliative Care Symposium to Focus on ‘Advancing Palliative Care: Leading Into the Future’

The 2019 National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research will focus on “Advancing Palliative Care: Leading into the Future” when it convenes Oct. 11-12 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.

This year’s theme reflects the Symposium’s continuing drive to foster collaboration, highlight new research, and promote effective teaching strategies that enhance each person’s power to advance palliative care, with the goal of improving quality of life for patients and families experiencing serious, chronic or terminal illness.

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Institute Celebrates Christine Knutson, RN, MSN, and Pays Tribute to Palliative Care Pioneer Doris Howell, MD

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Knutson headshotSan Diego Nurse Educator Honored with 3rd annual Doris A. Howell, MD, Award for Advancing Palliative Care

A nurse educator whose passion for improving care for people with serious illness has made a profound impact on countless patients, families, and healthcare providers in the San Diego region has been recognized by the California State University of Palliative Care for her remarkable contributions to the field.

Christine Knutson, RN, MSN, was presented with the Institute’s 3rd annual Doris A. Howell, MD, Award for Advancing Palliative Care during a Jan. 10 ceremony that also celebrated the life and legacy of the legendary physician for whom the award is named. Dr. Howell died Nov. 23 at age 94, just shy of her 95th birthday.

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A Nurse’s Journey – Delivering Palliative Care Around the World

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Nurse holding patients' handHow Palliative Care Changed Everything for This Former Military Nurse

Carma Erickson-Hurt, DNP, ACHPN, uses education, clinical skills to ease suffering for people around the world

By Melanie Marshall

As a military nurse working on the oncology floor at Naval Medical Center San Diego, Carma Erickson-Hurt could see the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering affecting patients and families in the throes of serious illness.

She felt there had to be a better way. And when she learned about palliative care, she knew she’d found it.

Now retired from the Navy, Erickson-Hurt devotes much of her life to educating other nurses and clinicians about palliative care, and to applying and teaching its whole-person model as a volunteer in disaster-relief efforts around the world.

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Cambia at the Forefront of Transforming End of Life into a Human-Centered Experience

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Celebrating lifeExpert Says Cultural Movement Needed to Transform End of Life Experience in America

By Larry Beresford

Transforming the way our society approaches end of life will take a cultural movement comparable to the natural childbirth movement that reshaped the way we view the birth experience, says Peggy Maguire, president of Cambia Health Foundation.

“We know that how we live well at the end of life can’t be left to the medical professional to decide,” Maguire said in a talk at the recent End Well Symposium in San Francisco. “(The natural childbirth movement) was consumers putting pressure on the system, saying: ‘We want a more human experience.’”

Cambia Health Foundation has invested $30 million in advancing access to palliative care and was the largest philanthropic supporter of End Well, a full day of Ted Talk-type presentations on Dec. 6 that focused on transforming end of life into a human-centered experience.

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